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| Topic | Under what circumstances would you support the death penalty? |
| DarkTransient 10/11/18 3:28:27 PM #37: | In any case where someone has, through a fair trial, been proven guilty of any non-victimless crime. (Which should be the only crimes.) Not entirely sure what the minimum age before it applies should be - 18 feels too high, but I also don't think we should be sentencing 10 year olds in the same way we sentence adults. Perhaps a maturity test is better than an age test there. Different crimes can be distinguished by how the death penalty is applied - lesser crimes get a quick and painless one, harsher crimes... not so much. Dash_Harber posted... Otherwise, I think life imprisonment is actually more of a punishment, as time has the best chance to make the person reflect on their crimes, and having them realize their crime means they will punish themselves worse than any of us could. Maybe, but that's also far more expensive to execute than... well, executing them, would be. --- Proud to be part of the 1% of society that's smart enough to realise Australia is not real. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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