Death penalty

**Guershom** · January 28th, 2009

Has Stephen ever expressed his stance on death penalty and if so what is it ?

**pepino** · January 28th, 2009

Maybe we could give our own opinions on this matter. I'll jump right in and say that it seems to be a necessary evil at times. This is probably not the popular view on this board, but there are people out there who are just plain bad. What do you do with those people?

**Liselle** · January 28th, 2009

I'm against it because I would want to know why people are bad, were they born bad (don't believe that myself) or is it circumstance and development blip.

I just love to try and get inside these peoples heads and yes that does make me sound ever so slightly strange........but someones gotta do it.

Also against it because if there has been a miscarriage of justice unfortunately you can't bring back people from the dead.

**Srbo** · January 28th, 2009

Absolutely AGAINST it.

By killing them, we become them.

**staropeace** · January 28th, 2009

This may seem surprising cause I am a Canadian but I do agree with the death penalty.

**poisonbat** · January 28th, 2009

ooh, one of those touchy subjects. Well I have no idea how uncle Steve feels about this, but I for one believe in it. Why do we keep mass murderers, serial killers, and child molesters alive for the rest of their lives? Life without the possibility of parole is really a death penalty dragged out over a lifetime. Whoever receives this sentence is sentenced to death in prison. Many prisoners have much more privileges than the poor. Cable TV, 3 hot meals a day, showers, a bed to sleep in, a gym to work out in etc. They also are provided with medical, dental and vision care. So many people do not have these luxuries. The homeless that have not broken the law struggle for a meal, shiver in the cold, sleep in boxes on the street and rarely ever get a hot shower. This seems odd to me. We have a large population of homeless Veterans in my area, and this tugs at my heart strings. Why does someone who viciously murdered and molested a child live out there lives with only one restriction, they can not leave, but our homeless Vets who have fought our wars live on the streets? Do you know that it is a LAW that all prisons have cable TV? I think the priorities need to change. Quit with the life without parole and start implementing the death penalty. Quit ignoring the heroes and coddling the criminals.

Please no flaming arrows, this is just my opinion.

**hipmamajen** · January 28th, 2009

Oh man, I'm all over this. It's interesting to me, and I like to hear everyone's reasons for and against.

**Sugar Marie** · January 28th, 2009

Originally Posted by poisonbat

ooh, one of those touchy subjects. Well I have no idea how uncle Steve feels about this, but I for one believe in it. Why do we keep mass murderers, serial killers, and child molesters alive for the rest of their lives? Life without the possibility of parole is really a death penalty dragged out over a lifetime. Whoever receives this sentence is sentenced to death in prison. Many prisoners have much more privileges than the poor. Cable TV, 3 hot meals a day, showers, a bed to sleep in, a gym to work out in etc. They also are provided with medical, dental and vision care. So many people do not have these luxuries. The homeless that have not broken the law struggle for a meal, shiver in the cold, sleep in boxes on the street and rarely ever get a hot shower. This seems odd to me. We have a large population of homeless Veterans in my area, and this tugs at my heart strings. Why does someone who viciously murdered and molested a child live out there lives with only one restriction, they can not leave, but our homeless Vets who have fought our wars live on the streets? Do you know that it is a LAW that all prisons have cable TV? I think the priorities need to change. Quit with the life without parole and start implementing the death penalty. Quit ignoring the heroes and coddling the criminals.

Please no flaming arrows, this is just my opinion.

I'm not exactly sure where I stand on the death penalty, but I can't argue w/your logic poisonbat.

**Ubasti** · January 28th, 2009

I am for the death penalty as long as there is proof that the person did commit the crime. I think too many crimes go unpunished or not punished harshly enough in this country. There are serial killers who've killed hundreds of people sitting on death row living off our tax money. I understand that a lot of the people who kill have ... issues that generally go un treated and I don't think that it's fair that they should have to die because they were ignored by the system, but in some cases you cannot rehabilitate a lot of these people. If they have no chance of perole and no chance of living a "normal" life then aren't they suffering more by living in prison? Isn't the punishment supposet to fit the crime?

**rjt65** · January 28th, 2009

I approve---- but with stringent definitive guilt.... intent to kill, some other definitive proofs and a better method to go from start to finish.....

And PBAT--I agree with u 150% ironic how we treat our prisoners versus others... IMO 24 hour lockdown, no TV, etc (Iam talking for the hardened criminals here not all in jail)... I had a few friends that were correction officers...the stories i have heard --egads...but that is another hot thread to start--