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BillieTheBot
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6707865.stmItaly inmates seek death penalty
Hundreds of prisoners serving life sentences in Italy have called on President Giorgio Napolitano to bring back the death penalty.
Their request was published as a letter in the daily newspaper La Repubblica.
The letter they sent to President Napolitano came from a convicted mobster, Carmelo Musumeci, a 52-year-old who has been in prison for 17 years.
It was co-signed by 310 of his fellow lifers.
Musumeci said he was tired of dying a little bit every day.
We want to die just once, he said, and "we are asking for our life sentence to be changed to a death sentence".
Enough said.
I look forward to death penalty supporters' views on this.
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I definitely think the death penalty is kinder than a true life sentance.
1) Is one innocent person's life worth the expediency?
2) That which the state grants it has a right to take away. Life is not one of those.
3) If these people, who are obviously not having a good time of it, are so sick of existence that they would rather die, surely this reverses to some degree the arguement from deterrence.
The death penalty has never been a deterrent. And it provides no justice either- the only purpose it serves is revenge. That is why it's wrong at every level.
Unfortunately were the ones paying for it not them!
Plus what happened to a life for a life, i don't really care what happens to them, if it means taxes are lowered then I'm all for it. Although i do believe that killing them is the easy way out and those prisoners have stated that, they deserve to suffer for what they have done, killing them avoids that.
Plus knowing you may be killed for a crime that you commit could deter people from doing such things.
Though I find it a tad nauseating that some people should think financial costs should be considered when deciding whether to kill a human being.
Judging by what happens in the US that is not the case at all.
I wouldn't say it is nauseating i don't care what happens to such people, if they think they can do horrific things to innocent people etc then they should get the same treatment back.
You got a link for this?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Prison is a form of punishment though so should they not be sent to prison for committing crimes because two wrongs don't make a right?
In deserate times everything goes out the window anyway and if we were in a warzone or there was a mass panic because of nuclear attack / pandemic illness then the death penalty would return with full force.
Don't know who it was but someone said something to the effect that you should not judge a nation by it's most priveledged individiuals but by the least priveledged - meaning those below the poverty line and criminals (who are mostly below poor anyway). How we treat them is the most telling indicator of our humanity to others.
Those (not accusing anyone, it's a general sense) who would take away any form of human rights from convicts, and place them in detention blocks without space or food or anything, are the worst type of human beings, not the criminals (in my opinion).
I think you'll find this is only ever true in twisted Mum logic when trying to get their kids to behave, the real world is much different.
Its nothing to do with how they execute, its more to do with the fact people wait on death row or whatever for years, make so many appeals that the length of time they are kept inside then combined with the death penalty is greater financially.
Edit: Ok, I do have some random facts:
From http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=cost
That said the costs are irrelevant. There's no real evidence it works and plenty of evidence that people who turn out to be innocent can't be brought back to life....
Some of us woke up and started thinking for ourselves
This issue is more closely associated to the debate about euthanasia than the death penalty if you ask me.
not really an old testament kind of person, even if i dont like eating shellfish
Prison protects society from dangerous criminals though.
If that's what it's supposed to do, it's not working very well. I'd be interested in seeing stats of what crimes our current prisioners are incarcerated for.
Another nail in the coffin of the death penalty as far as I am concerned...
It might not deter future acts of mindless violence e.t.c. but if it stops one sick bastard from doing it again then so what?
Someone was half asleep this morning
Wrong thread?
i would be broadly in favour of the death penalty for murderers and rapists, except a) most lifers want to die and its crueller to keep them alive, b) its more expensive to kill and c) courts make some horrible mistakes and its hard to undo an execution.