First time in over 40 years a conservative state abolishes death penalty I'm against capital punishment. I view death as a form of liberation not punishment I propose murderers be tortured for an hour every week for a year (or more depending on severity of crime) What r your opinions on the matter? And how should murderers be punished?
Prison is enough punishment for anyone, in particular the slave labor camps in the US. Losing your freedom is nothing to be sneezed at. That all said if i had a family member murdered i am sure i would want an IS style execution carried out. As for torture, no it's sick.
If I had my way.. I'd recreate gladiators. I'd approach deathrow inmates or even inmates facing a life sentence and see if they would want to volunteer to die for our entertainment. Sounds fucked up.. but I think we need a real outlet for blood and guts entertainment. All these fake ass movies with blood and gore just desensitize us.. but watching the real deal firsthand would be healthier for society. We would build arenas.. house the gladiators below.. and even though they did wrong, treat them with respect that they're willing to fight to the death for our entertainment. Feed them well.. let them train and workout, then put some swords and axes in their hands and let the duke it out. It would generate a profit for the state.. take care of those we don't want living in our society, and provide us some real world entertainment. I wouldn't want them to be forced into it.. and knowing me, I know there would be some out there who would do it knowing they will be dead either way.
Maybe if I knew that everyone involved volunteered for it and didn't involve innocents, especially children.. but that is rarely the case. With inmate gladiators, we'd know they were poop people.
Good now the degenerates up there can live in a cell until there die. Killing one is easy. Breaking a persons spirit and soul well thats just about forever. Everyday until they die of natural causes, suicide, inmate violence they will get to pace a concrete cell, minimal things, minimal contact. In Federal ADX prisons they get 1 hour of walking in a cell that has natural sunlight, concrete bed in a cell the size of a bathroom, no verbal contact with anyone even the guards, and fed though a hole in the door like a animal. Usually most of those guys loose there minds after a period of time. A fitting end when death would of simply be a release. As for costs well Nebraska voted the people in that made that decision that is there issue.
And people question me when I make comparisons between America and the Roman Empire. Well, there ^ it is, another facet of the "Bread and Circuses."
Humans have this pesky thing called human rights.. and someone somewhere will somehow make a case that it would violate them. Even if they volunteered, there will be enough people against it that it wouldn't happen. Maybe when our people become even more sociopathic it will fly.. but for now it lives in movies. We're all humans.. and you can find comparisons between any culture with any other culture. That's probably not where the questioning part comes in.. it probably comes in when you make those comparisons just to support a personal point while ignoring all the other comparisons that would go against your point. That's just a guess though, I never saw you compare the two.
Put them in prison.The cost could very well go to other better causes,but thats the price we pay to live in a society with sone kind order and protection. Wouldn't need to if all humans didn't commit henious acts on each other,but they will and we will continue locking them up. To put them to death, guess its the easy option.however i do not think its a detterent nor do i think it even comes close to justice,and more importantly i do not trust the justice system IN ANY COUNTRY to get it right 100% of the time, and we only need to look@the miscarriages of justice. Just imagine the scene, standing there with a rope round your neck getting killed by the state for a crime you are totally innocent of. Horrible!
This debate has been here a million times. Cases like the Boston Marathon Bomber, which are clear cut guilty, should carry the death penalty, which it did but it may take many years to carry it out. He should have been executed by now.
Put a rope around their necks and flip a coin heads you live - tails you die both sides are heads tho, but the inmate doesn't know tht