Hi Issy,

The Shooters and Hooters Party believes in the death penalty, they want to shoot everything in sight. Do you still agree with their policy of allowing five year old's to take loaded guns to school for self protection?

Yes, it stops repeat offending
Is Mise,
Any figures on how many executed re-offended ?

accurate in its decision making as to be 100% certain that every execution was justified.
mHaze,
The death penalty would definitely go quite a way towards sorting out the criminal, bureaucratic criminal & incompetent elements which would bring about a gradual improvement in competence & sense of responsibility !
A quick start guide for this is a National Service !

This appears to work;

It is now legal to kill motor bike thieves in Brazil!

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/brazilian-street-justice/

I am personally against the death penalty firstly as I don't like the idea of a state having the right to kill anyone, especially since the application seems less than consistent.

Secondly, the cost of the appeal etc often costs more than incarcerating someone for life.

Thirdly, research shows that the death penalty has little or no deterrent effect.

However, I disagree with a previous post that claims that more innocent people were executed than guilty unless you are talking about dictatorships such as China, Iran, Gaza etc.

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Dear Paul1405,

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« For or against the death penalty ? »
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That is a question of justice.

Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, neither more nor less.

For John Locke, justice derives from natural law (the law of nature). In social contract theory, justice is derived from the mutual agreement of everyone. For John Stuart Mill, justice is based on the best outcomes for the greatest number of people. For Egalitarians, justice is equality. For John Rawls, justice is fairness.

And last, but not least, for Bertrand Russell, “if a decision is sought, it is sought usually by considering whether the consequences [of the decision] are on the whole good or bad”.

For me, justice is all that and more.

“While there’s life there’s hope” observed Theocritus, the ancient Greek (3rd century BC) poet. It is difficult to imagine a more fundamental human right than the right to life. But we have to recognize that life and death are two sides of the same coin. There can be no life without death and no death without life. The two are absolutely inseparable. If life is a fundamental human right, then death is too. Both must be respected – equally.

I consider that most of us aspire to a good life and a good death, the former defined as the freedom to do as we please limited only by the freedom of all others and whatever other restrictions we voluntarily consent to in the common interest, and the latter as a peaceful and painless death, preferably in a warm, cosy environment.

The state alone, exercising the will of the sovereign people, should be empowered to prevent us from living or dying, against our will, in the common interest, if such is the decision of a democratically constituted court of justice and only after full exhaustion of all means of recourse available to defendants within the judicial process.

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