Bring Back The Death Penalty!!

[PostmanPot]

OMG !

Not another one of these threads.
There are people for it (Like me) and people against it.

The fact is it will never come back, wish this bloody topic would just die in SA as it's becoming and annoyance more than anything

Exactly!

 

[mercurial]

Old trait of him. Always doing just that! Same with rwenzori it must be a mental thing!

thanks for the heads up

 

[chiskop]

Sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit: the men who lived to tell the tale

Three men, three extraordinary stories. One spent 18 years in prison in Uganda for having murdered a neighbour later found to be alive. Another survived 34 years facing execution in Japan. The third became the 100th prisoner on death row to be found innocent and freed in the US.

Amnesty International brought the men together in New York before a hearing of the human rights committee of the UN tomorrow that will call for a moratorium on executions around the world as a first step towards abolishing the death penalty. It is the ultimate argument, the campaign believes - the testimony of individuals who managed to survive the system, but who came close to being killed despite their innocence.

Last year at least 1,591 people were put to death in 25 nations, but 91% of those were executed in six countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the US.

Oh look, the leading lights of Human Rights around the world.

 

[Gothan]

But the strange thing, you always here the argument:"What about the innocent folk that gets the death penalty?"

Well there are a lot more murderers that do their time, get out, and go straight back to murdering, believe me, the numbers pale between those that kill again, and those that are executed while being innocent.

Dont blame the death penalty for innocent people getting thrown in jail, blame the justice system.

 

[mercurial]

But the strange thing, you always here the argument:"What about the innocent folk that gets the death penalty?"

Well there are a lot more murderers that do their time, get out, and go straight back to murdering, believe me, the numbers pale between those that kill again, and those that are executed while being innocent.

Dont blame the death penalty for innocent people getting thrown in jail, blame the justice system.

yes

 

[chiskop]

Dont blame the death penalty for innocent people getting thrown in jail, blame the justice system.

Agreed, which is why we can't allow the death penalty with the justice system that we have*.

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*Or with any judicial system, until it is proved to be infallible.

 

[Gothan]

Agreed, which is why we can't allow the death penalty with the justice system that we have*.

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*Or with any judicial system, until it is proved to be infallible.

Dang!! Walk straight into that one!