Personally, I can see why you would have a Death Penalty, some crimes are just to heinous to solve any other way. But I do believe that you should have zero doubt that the person being convicted did the crime i.e. caught in the act of committing the crime or caught with unmistakable physical evidence that is totally unshakeable. Outside of this, the worst penalty should be life in prison.

If you want a good read about the Death Penalty read this one by Gresham. If it doesn't make you wonder about how our judicial system works, you do not have a soul.

http://www.jgrisham.com/the-innocent-man/

[quote name='sois' timestamp='1294695821' post='960770']
Well, if they did not do it, the judge would probably find them not guilty.
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Really?

http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyle/Wrongly-convicted.aspx?cp-documentid=27160165&imageindex=1

Those judges need Death Penalty to apply to them.

[quote name='Jamie_B' timestamp='1294732139' post='961072']
Thou shall not murder
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I must have missed that new Bible that says Thou shall not murder.
The old Bible I was raised on said Thou shall not kill.

Anyway, the definition of murder is to kill someone unlawfully, brutually or inhumanly.

I don't think any of those apply to the Death Penalty.

And according to the Bible, God killed 1,000s of people. Sodom and Gomorrah,
the Great Flood. Plus you had David killing Goliath. Moses killing Egyptians, the plagues.


Anyway, yes I am for the Death Penalty. Ecspecially with today's forensics. And there are
a lot of instances that forensics aren't even needed to find guilt.

[quote name='oldschooler' timestamp='1295123484' post='962177']
I must have missed that new Bible that says Thou shall not murder.
The old Bible I was raised on said Thou shall not kill.

Anyway, the definition of murder is to kill someone unlawfully, brutually or inhumanly.

I don't think any of those apply to the Death Penalty.

And according to the Bible, God killed 1,000s of people. Sodom and Gomorrah,
the Great Flood. Plus you had David killing Goliath. Moses killing Egyptians, the plagues.


Anyway, yes I am for the Death Penalty. Ecspecially with today's forensics. And there are
a lot of instances that forensics aren't even needed to find guilt.
[/quote]


[url="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/what-does-thou-shall-not-kill-mean.html"]http://www.biblestud...-kill-mean.html[/url]

Let's say you have a wife, a mother and a young daughter.

Now let's say the three of them go out shopping.

Let's say someone carjacks them, or pulls a gun on them in a parking lot. He forces them to drive to some secluded area. One by one he rapes, tortures then kills them.

Let's say he's caught driving their car 10 minutes later, he's covered in blood, their bodies are in the trunk, and his sperm is inside their vaginas.



Kill him.

The death penalty should be carried out 24 hrs after the gavel falls.....that would make people think twice.....sitting on death row for years waiting is BS....it would also make room for more criminals in our overcrowded jails

[quote name='kennethmw' timestamp='1294789096' post='961300']
Personally, I can see why you would have a Death Penalty, some crimes are just to heinous to solve any other way. But I do believe that you should have zero doubt that the person being convicted did the crime i.e. caught in the act of committing the crime or caught with unmistakable physical evidence that is totally unshakeable. Outside of this, the worst penalty should be life in prison.

If you want a good read about the Death Penalty read this one by Gresham. If it doesn't make you wonder about how our judicial system works, you do not have a soul.

[url="http://www.jgrisham.com/the-innocent-man/"]http://www.jgrisham....e-innocent-man/[/url]
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