Euthanize rapists and pedophiles?

[Spiderman]

Just wondering what the consensus is here.

I've seen the suffering pedophiles and rapists go through harassed and beat up in prison. They are unhappy, miserable, lonesome, despised, depraved creatures. Why pay all the tax payers dollars to pro long their agony if they could be comfortably put out of their misery?

It could also protect the innocent.

 

[LionLooking]

No one has the right to take a life, in my book (with the possible exception of warfare, and even then, only under extreme circumstances).

 

[Spiderman]

No one has the right to take a life, in my book (with the possible exception of warfare, and even then, only under extreme circumstances).

Is that a Christian conviction?

 

[LionLooking]

Is that a Christian conviction?

Not at all - I'm no Christian.
it comes from my conscience

 

[Spiderman]

Not at all - I'm no Christian.
it comes from my conscience

That's encouraging to see such conviction coming from conscience rather than Dogma . It shows people have a moral compass even without Religion

 

[ImmortalFlame]

Just wondering what the consensus is here.

I've seen the suffering pedophiles and rapists go through harassed and beat up in prison. They are unhappy, miserable, lonesome, despised, depraved creatures. Why pay all the tax payers dollars to pro long their agony if they could be comfortably put out of their misery?

It could also protect the innocent.

Actually, the death penalty is, on average, considerably more expensive to the taxpayer than a life sentence.

SOURCE: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

 

[Derek500]

None of the above.

Why do you only give 2 options in voting?

 

[England my lionheart]

I voted yes but I think it should be offered as an option rather than enforced to anyone given a long sentence.

 

[Spiderman]

Actually, the death penalty is, on average, considerably more expensive to the taxpayer than a life sentence.

SOURCE: Costs of the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

It doesn't have to be...North Carolina’s annual cost for each inmate is $29,965. A lethal injection could be far cheaper

 

[Spiderman]

None of the above.

Why do you only give 2 options in voting?

What was the other option?

 

[dfnj]

Just wondering what the consensus is here.

I've seen the suffering pedophiles and rapists go through harassed and beat up in prison. They are unhappy, miserable, lonesome, despised, depraved creatures. Why pay all the tax payers dollars to pro long their agony if they could be comfortably put out of their misery?

It could also protect the innocent.

I don't believe in cruel an unusual punishment. Prison is enough. Although I am not a big fan of privately owned corporate prisons and the outsourcing of prison labor. But that is for a different thread.

 

[dfnj]

It doesn't have to be...North Carolina’s annual cost for each inmate is $29,965. A lethal injection could be far cheaper

There is no way to tell how many of the more than 1,450 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved. Some cases with strong evidence of innocence include:

Carlos DeLuna: Texas — Conviction: 1983, Executed: 1989
Ruben Cantu: Texas — Conviction: 1985, Executed: 1993
Larry Griffin: Missouri — Conviction: 1981, Executed: 1995
Joseph O'Dell: Virginia — Conviction: 1986, Executed: 1997
David Spence: Texas — Conviction: 1984, Executed: 1997
Leo Jones: Florida — Conviction: 1981, Executed: 1998
Gary Graham: Texas — Conviction: 1981, Executed: 2000
Claude Jones: Texas — Conviction: 1989, Executed: 2000
Cameron Willingham: Texas — Conviction: 1992, Executed: 2004
Troy Davis: Georgia — Conviction: 1991, Executed: 2011
Lester Bower: Texas — Conviction: 1984, Executed: 2015
Brian Terrell: Georgia — Conviction: 1995, Executed: 2015
Richard Masterson: Texas — Conviction: 2002, Executed: 2016
Robert Pruett: Texas — Conviction: 2002, Executed: 2017

Executed But Possibly Innocent | Death Penalty Information Center

 

[dfnj]

It doesn't have to be...North Carolina’s annual cost for each inmate is $29,965. A lethal injection could be far cheaper

One in 25 Sentenced to Death in the U.S. Is Innocent

 

[Derek500]

What was the other option?

Oh, lots of them. Do you really want me to make a list? I'll start with:

1. Euthanisation is not an option. It is barbaric.
2. The death penalty is not an option. It is barbaric.

Do you need more?

 

[ImmortalFlame]

It doesn't have to be...North Carolina’s annual cost for each inmate is $29,965. A lethal injection could be far cheaper

But that doesn't take into account the extra defense, juror, retrial and post-conviction costs.

STUDIES: Death Penalty Costs North Carolina Nearly $11 Million a Year | Death Penalty Information Center

 

[Spiderman]

Oh, lots of them. Do you really want me to make a list? I'll start with:

1. Euthanisation is not an option. It is barbaric.
2. The death penalty is not an option. It is barbaric.

Do you need more?

Those would fall into the no category

 

[Spiderman]

But that doesn't take into account the extra defense, juror, retrial and post-conviction costs.

STUDIES: Death Penalty Costs North Carolina Nearly $11 Million a Year | Death Penalty Information Center

There must be a cheaper way... I don't get it

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Just wondering what the consensus is here.

I've seen the suffering pedophiles and rapists go through harassed and beat up in prison. They are unhappy, miserable, lonesome, despised, depraved creatures. Why pay all the tax payers dollars to pro long their agony if they could be comfortably put out of their misery?

It could also protect the innocent.

Good thing innocent people never get wrongly convicted.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

It doesn't have to be...North Carolina’s annual cost for each inmate is $29,965. A lethal injection could be far cheaper

How much is a human life worth?

 

[Revoltingest]

It doesn't have to be...North Carolina’s annual cost for each inmate is $29,965. A lethal injection could be far cheaper

Given the legal costs of execution, no.
It's our system, & it won't be getting cheaper.
Ref....
Considering The Death Penalty: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Also, I oppose it because our court system is not
reliable enuf to impose irreversible sentences.