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Are you for or against capital punishment?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    4 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Im against it, not for moral reasons but for pragmatic reasons. Mostly because you could potentially be executing an innocent person (look up Crippen case as a good example) and it usually takes so long for these guys to actually be executed that a number of them are commuted to life anyway. Plus probably having to share a cell with someone who has great similarity to a real life Simon Adebisi sounds far less merciful than death to me.

  • 4 years ago

    For

  • 4 years ago

    now days im for it if there is no doubt!!!!!!!

  • tonysh
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Against - being stuck in a rancid jail with a load of violent lowlifes and risking homosexual rape every night for 50-60 years sounds a lot worse than a quick and easy execution.

    And if you're one of the 2-3% who didn't actually commit the crime .....

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I am in England and we havent had hanging since the 1960s but yes I would have it back again.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    A certain breed of people definitely deserve it i.e paedophiles and child murderers.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Against

  • 4 years ago

    For it, in cases that MERIT it, with GUILT firmly 100% established by FACTS......not lying eyewitness, and planted evidence.

    Only when you KNOW you have the right guy. -------fry them.

    and apply it equally, across the board.

    White mother rolls her car into a lake with 3 kids strapped into the carseat.....she gets 30 years and is out in 10, for good behavior. .

    Black mother does the same exact thing......she gets the Death penalty.

    yeah, THAT Bullsh*t has to stop as well.

  • 4 years ago

    against

  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    I'm all for it.

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