Capital Punishment --- For or Against?

I rewatched The Green Mile recently and was really stricken with the execution scenes and some comments.

The little Cajun was horribly murdered on purpose--for those who may not have seen it or forgotten--the execution is intentionally botched and he dies a horrific, drawn out death.

For reasons to forward the plot, the Tom Hanks character says "It was a successful execution. Edward Delacroix is dead." Although the people who gathered in the room to witness the execution had thrown up all over the place and were banging on the door to get out.

He was right. What did they want to see? Why weren't they pleased?

The scenes really resonated moreso this time than before.

Who wants to see an execution? I don't understand. Even if someone you love has been murdered--who does it help to see that? Who would want to make it happen? I wonder if people really think seriously about it when they support CP.

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Are you for or against the traditional method of capital punishment?

[Caveat: This thread is only about CP; not proof of guilt/innocence - which should be a separate topic. In other words: Said person has been found guilty of a crime such as murder, rape, etc. by our judicial system and no more appeals are available...] You are deciding if guilty person should be killed - or not...

If for CP - why?

If against CP - why?

If against CP - what (if anything) should happen to those convicted?

Let me try this another way:

You're a member of the the jury on a murder-trial and guilt/innocence has already been established. (You and all other jurors are in complete agreement that this person heinously murdered another person.) Now comes the time for the jury to recommend the sentence. How do you vote???

For those of you who argue against CP based upon the possibility of executing an innocent person. What than is your argument when guilt is beyond a shadow of a doubt?

For those of you who argue against CP based upon the possibility of executing an innocent person. What than is your argument when guilt is beyond a shadow of a doubt?

What than is your argument when guilt is beyond a shadow of a doubt?

RL--

Stop approving killing. K?

real life wrote:

echi wrote:

real life:
"The innocent shouldn't suffer the death penalty."


Do you accept that innocent people are sometimes put to death?
(I'm referring to CP, of course.)

Yes, and the innocent are sometimes imprisoned as well. But we don't argue for the abolition of prison on the basis of such mistakes.

What's your point? We're not discussing the abolition of prison.

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Innocent people are shot and killed by police accidentally when a warrant is served on the wrong address, or the wrong car is pulled over and the driver panics.

But we don't argue for the abolition of warrants, or the abolition of police stops on the basis of these mistakes.

What is the relavence? We are not discussing the abolition of warrants or the abolition of police stops.

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We demand , rightly so, that correct procedures be followed and proper safeguards in place.

God damn, that's an evil sounding sentence.

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As long as you rely on humans to work in law enforcement, human errors will be made, however.

That's cold, man.

We have no capital punishment in my country, and our crime rates are waaaay lower than the USA.