Do you support the death penalty?

[Ifreann]

Basic human decency, maybe?

Oh, I'm sorry, you clearly aren't familiar with the concept of basic human decency.

This isn't an alternative to Live imprisonment, but one to death penalty.

Ah, I see.

And why is executing someone more "decent" than giving him the choice between a bullet and selling war bonds over phone?

Executing someone by starvation is rather less decent than the means of execution employed today that are generally less drawn out and painful.

[Ostroeuropa]

This isn't an alternative to Live imprisonment, but one to death penalty.

Ah, I see.

And why is executing someone more "decent" than giving him the choice between a bullet and selling war bonds over phone?

Executing someone by starvation is rather less decent than the means of execution employed today that are generally less drawn out and painful.

More dangerous too when you get down to it.
A long, drawn out process with a human getting more and more weak and having their immune system compromised.
Hundreds of them.
All in the same building.
That's just asking for the zombie apocalypse.

[Arkolon]

Some crimes might deserve the death penalty. I'm not categorically ruling out the possibility.

[Draakonite]

Ah, I see.

Executing someone by starvation is rather less decent than the means of execution employed today that are generally less drawn out and painful.

More dangerous too when you get down to it.
A long, drawn out process with a human getting more and more weak and having their immune system compromised.
Hundreds of them.
All in the same building.
That's just asking for the zombie apocalypse.

Implying that the majority of convicted would rather starve than work.

[Ostroeuropa]

More dangerous too when you get down to it.
A long, drawn out process with a human getting more and more weak and having their immune system compromised.
Hundreds of them.
All in the same building.
That's just asking for the zombie apocalypse.

Implying that the majority of convicted would rather starve than work.

Ohh.
You want to make food a luxury good.
In prison.
Where working for "The Man" gets you access to this luxury good, and where not having it is not only an inconvenience, but a death sentence.
That'll end well.
Should we just cut right to the chase and have most of the work be digging their own graves?

[Atlanticatia]

No. I think that there is too much room for error and I don't agree with it as a punishment in general. Life imprisonment without parole is much better.

[Socialist Tera]

Yes, only for mass murderers, rapists or terrorist. It is only used on the most serious of crimes.

[Draakonite]

Implying that the majority of convicted would rather starve than work.

Ohh.
You want to make food a luxury good.
In prison.
Where working for "The Man" gets you access to this luxury good, and where not having it is not only an inconvenience, but a death sentence.
That'll end well.
Should we just cut right to the chase and have most of the work be digging their own graves?

Many people live in a nation where not working means starving. Why should it be any different in jail, especially since it will be applied to people who whoud have died otherwise (sentenced to death).

[Ifreann]

Yes, only for mass murderers, rapists or terrorist. It is only used on the most serious of crimes.

If you make rape a capital offence then you are providing rapists with a powerful incentive to murder their victims. Like, they would be in a life or death situation and murdering their victim to better cover up their crime would be the means to acquire "life". That's probably not going to be a good thing.

[Sosi]

I don't support the death penalty. Though, I wouldn't mind were it quick & painless.

[Sun Wukong]

Ohh.
You want to make food a luxury good.
In prison.
Where working for "The Man" gets you access to this luxury good, and where not having it is not only an inconvenience, but a death sentence.
That'll end well.
Should we just cut right to the chase and have most of the work be digging their own graves?

Many people live in a nation where not working means starving. Why should it be any different in jail, especially since it will be applied to people who whoud have died otherwise (sentenced to death).

Huzzah for slavery!

[Greater Mackonia]

I think it is the most humane form of justice.

[Sosi]

Yes, only for mass murderers, rapists or terrorist. It is only used on the most serious of crimes.

I'd prefer all crimes, assuming a quick & painless process. It's a relief that way.

[Kalifati Arab shqiptar]

On special circumstances, yes.

[New Werpland]

I think it is the most humane form of justice.

If your not being sarcastic I agree with you, saying that people don't deserve the death penalty would be saying that we aren't responsible for what we do.

[Ifreann]

Yes, only for mass murderers, rapists or terrorist. It is only used on the most serious of crimes.

I'd prefer all crimes, assuming a quick & painless process. It's a relief that way.

...what?

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

I think it is the most humane form of justice.

Ehm, what would be less humane than killing someone?

[Insaeldor]

I kind of support it. I hate how common it is used here in the states but a feel things like mass murder, treason, and any other capital offenses can lead to a death penalty so long as you can prove it was the said person beyond a reasonable doubt.

[Greater Mackonia]

I think it is the most humane form of justice.

If your not being sarcastic I agree with you, saying that people don't deserve the death penalty would be saying that we aren't responsible for what we do.

No I was not being sarcastic. However I hold this for rather different reasons than you do, I find the death penalty simply a far more honest and amoral way of maintaining a necessary level of social discipline, far better than a "rehabilitation" which merely murders the spirit to replace it with one man's vision of humanity.

[Greater Mackonia]

I think it is the most humane form of justice.

Ehm, what would be less humane than killing someone?

A great many things.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Ehm, what would be less humane than killing someone?

A great many things.

That's not an answer. What would be a less humane form of justice? Please make the answer at least a bit relevant.

[Kalifati Arab shqiptar]

Yes, only for mass murderers, rapists or terrorist. It is only used on the most serious of crimes.

I'd prefer all crimes, assuming a quick & painless process. It's a relief that way.

Are you suggesting overdose with Marijuana, which is not possible?

[Sosi]

I'd prefer all crimes, assuming a quick & painless process. It's a relief that way.

...what?

Suicide by crime; if it were possible it would teach people a simple lesson. You needn't hang onto life & can leave the world, don't cling to a life of pain (assuming one in in the circumstances without the choice to commit crime & must).

[The Princes of the Universe]

Yes, only for mass murderers, rapists or terrorist. It is only used on the most serious of crimes.

I'd prefer all crimes, assuming a quick & painless process. It's a relief that way.

Run a red light; get executed. Charming.

[Frenline Delpha]

As long as the crime is befitting of capital punishment, I support it. Murder being the only crime I believe deserves capital punishment.