| Death penalty, abolished or not? | |
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| Oct 12, 2007 03:06 |   |
 | According to a source, people in Seoul imitated how to excute garrote to require the government to abolish garrote. To abolish the death penalty or not has been discussed for a long time, not only in Korea but also in some other places. Some people believe that death penalty should not be abolished because they think that people who commited serious crimes should be punished severely. Otherwise, crimes could not be stopped. While others argue that death penalty is too cruel. In their opinion, it should be abolished. What is your understanding of death penalty? Should it be abolished or not?  |
| Oct 12, 2007 07:37 | #1 |
| Well some of us in the UK would like to see it brought back for child killers etc. |
| Oct 12, 2007 12:14 | #2 |
| Sadly, the death penalty is a necessary. Societies lament this to ease the collective conscious. But what is a society to do with murderers, rapists, child molesters, the doers of other vile deeds and even lesser criminals who are what we call "career criminals?" Lock them up in prison and society must house, feed and clothe them for the rest of their lives. These evil doers then become a long term burden on the good, productive people of a society. Should these criminals escape society is in peril again. I never understood the argument that "the death penalty is too cruel." All of us will die and only the lucky among us will pass quietly without suffering. Death is not cruel; it is the result of living. One form of execution may be more cruel than another, but we would have to ask the dead to know. The guilotine or a bullet to the brain may be the most instantaneous forms of execution. An instantaneous death is much better fate than most of us must face. |
| Oct 12, 2007 12:16 | #3 |
| CORRECTION: necessary = necessity |
| Oct 13, 2007 01:08 | #4 |
| I think it all depends on what theory you hold on imprisoning people. Is it to rehabilitate them or is it to punish them? As Humans we have the gift of remembering yesterday and conceptualizing tomorrow but the time and place of our death is in most cases not known to us. Can you imagine knowing what it would be like to know exactly when that moment was? Having said that I believe that there are some crimes committed that leave us no choice but to remove the perpetrator from this World. Dodger. |
| Oct 13, 2007 10:15 | #5 |
| However, too many have been executed and then it's been later discovered that they were innocent... What do you do then? Execute the government that misjudged the innocents? |
| Oct 13, 2007 11:57 | #6 |
| >>>too many have been executed and then it's been later discovered that they were innocent Too many? I imagine that you would argue that even one is "too many." ...and in an ideal world I would agree. This is not an ideal world. In some of those cases (maybe most of those cases), the "innocent" you describe were not guilty of that one crime but were guilty of other heinous deeds. In the US, truly innocent people are rarely accused of felony crimes. There are some great movies about innocent people being imprisoned, but keep in mind that those movies are fictionalized accounts of the story. >>>Execute the government that misjudged the innocents? You could if their judgement was issued for financial or political gain. If they honestly made their best judgement then they did no wrong. |
| Oct 14, 2007 15:02 | #7 |
| I would personally welcome the death penalty in UK. As long as the person can be proven 100% so there is no mistakes. It would save a lot of wasted money housing criminals in jails and would guarantee there is no reoffending. |
| Oct 15, 2007 12:14 | #8 |
| Death penalty for national leaders who send troops into other countries when they shouldn't and the 'collateral damage' kills innocent civilains, or who use gases that strip the skin off children. Now that I could go along with |
| Oct 15, 2007 20:35 | #9 |
| Well, I think that death penalty is a necessity. It reminds me of a Chinese idom 杀鸡儆猴。 In English, it means to punish someone as a warning to others. We need others to know that you will face severe punishment if you commit unforgivable crimes. Society needs order and fairness. Those who commit crimes should be responsible for what he or she has done. |
| Oct 18, 2007 22:36 | #10 |
| The trouble is, judgement is decided by people, whether in China or any other country. If you've ever sat on a jury (as I have) you will know how easy good rhetoric and persuasion can lead people to make decisions, based not on fact, but on feelings. It's easy to 'feel' someone is guilty, after a terrible tragedy, and after a convincing lawyer/solicitor moves the jury, but unfortunately, there is very little certainty. I wonder if you would feel differently if it were your brother, sister, mother or father in the dock...? |
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