sentencing isn’t typically done by the jury, its usually done by the judge with jury recommendations…but obviously you’d know the death penalty would be on the table with certain convictions, etc.
An eye for an eye… that’s how I see things.
If the crime warranted it, yes.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
sentencing isn’t typically done by the jury, its usually done by the judge with jury recommendations…but obviously you’d know the death penalty would be on the table with certain convictions, etc.
Posted 2/23/2007 8:03 AM by Lydrock
Keeping in mind the procedures of the court… I think at the time of jury selection I’d be sure to emphasize that I’d have serious moral questions about recommending a sentence of death. That alone may keep me out of a jury where this might be a question. But if I am then selected, then I don’t know. I hope to heaven I’m never in that situation to find out.
Never. (You can hold me to it)
Oh you betcha.
i think i could recomend it if the crime was bad enough. it would take a great prosecutor to get me that emoitional
yes…
yes
no. I can’t really imagine myself taking away human life. Not in that way. Self-defense, yes. in a courtroom…. it’s different.
It depends on the situation. If it were warranted, I could.
well, i don’t feel it’s my place to condemn another to death, however, if it were me being tried, i’d rather die then spend a significant amount of time in prison. death, to me, is more humane than a terribly long prison sentence. trust me, i know, i’ve been to prison.
Yes, but it would have to be one of those convictions that was 100% undeniable.
yup
I do not think so,but I do not know for certain.
yes,
and when are you goning to get rid of the B.S. video?
Eye for an eye….
haha,
I just saw what that really looks like. I ment Britney Spears.
If the crime warranted it, and the accused were guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. You know, guys like OJ.
No.
I don’t care how guilty they were, the idea would make me feel sick.
killing is wrong.. whether the people, the criminals, the municipal, the military or the government… killing is wrong… for whatever reason: but it’s usually vengeance, whihc is a flawed concept…
answer is: no, i could not…
I couldent.Thats why im never picked for Jury Duty.
You’re dead boy!
If they deserved it, I wouldn’t have a problem issuing that verdict.
It depends on the crime.
If the crime warranted it enough to make it a possibility I would consider it. The death penalty is so contested these days anyway, that the person would probably live another 10-15 years eating up appeals etc., before they were actually condemned.
It is interesting to me that there are so many people here who would view religion as considering themselves morally superior because they believe in right and wrong, God and sin, etc. and then condemn religion for it. But here we are, talking about the life of a person, and people are so easily able to sentence a man to death, “depending on the crime.”
Everyone thinks they are morally superior to everyone else. And y’all just admitted it.
If they were guilty.
I don’t think so.
absolutely.
Here’s the deal — if you couldn’t, and you admitted that during jury selection in a case where the death penalty was in play, you would never be placed on that jury.
By the way, in more than six years of helping to run a Common Pleas Court in Ohio, we have yet to see anyone sentenced to death out of our court. So we’re talking about something that is rare to begin with.
noooo
turn the other cheek?
An eye for an eye… that’s how I see things. Posted 2/23/2007 8:03 AM by FirecrotchGrl
Yeah, i understand the hypothetical nature of this question, in the bifurcated process it isn’t the jury that does it.
no, idk that seems like getting off to easily.
yes, only if i was convinced, i wouldnt just go with the popular vote
yep I could.
Yes, I could. But, I think the jury only has the power to decide a person’s guilt not to decide their fate.
Hell yeah, based on evidence that this inmate committed murder.
I don’t know. I think the death penalty is suitable in some instances, but it would have to be a really clear cut case. I felt overwhelmed during the dinky civil trial I sat on jury for; I can’t imagine the strain of a case that possibly merits the death penalty.
What I don’t understand is that those (the majority of those) who are against capital punishment are PRO-CHOICE. So…. it’s okay to kill babies, but not evil bad people who have viciously killed innocent people????
Babies are helpless. Evil bad people… they have power.
If the crime was severe enough, then yes.
Probably not
Yes – if I thought they were guilty – Yes.
I really don’t know, but I don’t think so. Who am I to sentence someone to death? God? Poof.
We need to get tougher on crime in this country. That is why I recommend cheaper, quicker, more painful methods of killing a person. If the pain of the punishment does not outweigh the joy of the crime then there is no reason not to commit a crime.
Our hatred of any punishment that is “cruel and unusual” has hindered our crime fighting ability. That concept originally meant things like being tarred and feathered and burnt at the stake. Now it means anything that a person might rather avoid. I think that in the next 100 years or so we will not even have prisons anymore we will only have a force of lawyers to chastise lightly anyone convicted of a crime.
I don’t think so. I like to say, maybe I’d have the heart to do it if the person was really truly cruel. But looking at it honestly, I don’t think I’d have the guts no matter how bad the person was.
I feel our justice system is too flawed to allow the death penalty. There is just too much risk of putting an innocent person to death and that’s a mistake that can never be rectified.
Yes, but only if it was clear that the person had intentionally murdered someone.
Not having been in the situation, I feel I could. I believe the government has been given the authority to punish people. I also believe that punishment’s primary purpose is not rehabilitative, and that someone who wrongfully takes another’s life has forfeited the right to his or her own.
An eye for an eye leaves eye gougers blind. If you don’t gouge out eyes, your eyes are pretty safe. If someone wants to gouge out yours, they have to think twice if losing theirs are worth it. That little saying (an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind) is unrealistic in my opinion. If every murderer were put to death, there still would be a world population (i.e. the whole world wouldn’t be “blind”). I guess justice should be abandoned by the government so we can all hold hands.
Yes.
I agree with Mr. Colorful…how many people would kill someone if the penalty was being burnt at the stake?
Yes, I could.
i’ve never thought about that… i guess not
nope
Yes . . . if I believed the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I have never had any difficulty with the concept of the state having the ability to exact the ultimate punishment in cases where it was justified. I have no moral objections to capital punishment. However, from a practical viewpoint, I have been opposed to the death penalty. In my early career as an attorney, I was a judicial clerk for the Illinois Supreme Court, back in the early 1990s. Nearly half of the court’s time was spent over the procedural wrangling in death penalty cases. It was a huge waste of time, effort, and money. It was also obvious that the system itself was rife with problems — the procudural safeguards to keep an innocent person from being convicted were insufficient. (Later, all of this was proven true when Gov. Ryan’s commission suspended the death penalty). Our society can’t deal with capital punishment — its no longer an effective deterrent to crime, and the practical reality is very few convicted murderers are put to death. If we did away with the death penalty for practical, rather than moral or even legal/constitutional reasons — just admit the system doesn’t work, I think we would be better off.
no. no i don’t think i could.
I could, but only for murder cases and only if I were there was 100% “no shadow of doubt.” Punishments should be fitting to the crime. So just as a thief should have to give up money, a murderer should forfeit his life.
In Genesis 9:6-7 (which predates the Law of Moses) God says, “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.”
Even if somebody confesses his sin and is clean before God, that doesn’t exonerate him from the consequences of his actions here on earth. If a drug addict gets AIDS, then later confesses his sin and receives forgiveness, does his forgiveness cure the AIDS? No, even though he is forgiven he must still own up to the consequences of his actions here on earth.
But just because I could do it doesn’t mean I’d ENJOY it. But I could do it.
No.
yep
Gut wretching question, as I just this week received a subpoena for jury service. Though I am sure in our small town it will not be anything so dramatic… however I belive in the death penalty… I would not necessairly have a problem if the facts of the case were BEYOND a shadow of a doubt, but if there was one twindge within me… nope.
yes, but I’d have to be damn sure that the guy was guilty
if they killed someone cold blooded then yes
Ohhhhhh so quickly.
That’s kind-of a double-edged sword…They say an “eye for an eye…” but that’s God’s place…
Yet, if someone hurts my kids… I’d have a hard time sitting back and letting them get away with it.
Whats also kind-of disturbing is the thought that MY tax dollars would be paying for their “room & board, 3 squares, education and fitness, medical care,” etc…
i don’t know. I’m a big wimp and very passive, I think…
as long as I didn’t have to look into their eyes
yeah, i could.
honestly, we all deserve to die. including me. we all deserve to be sent straight to hell. it’s only by forgiveness, grace, love, and mercy that not all of us are.
yes if that is what they deserve according to the law. i have no problem with that.
Not in the uk, no.
It would have to be something really severe and with absolutely no doubt in my mind that that person was guilty for the crime for me to consider it
Honestly, is killing the person worse than making them spend their whole life trapped in a jail?
Also, even if you killed someone, what would you do if a month later you found out that the person was innocent? You can take back a life sentence, but you can never take back a death sentence.
nope.
“Some who live deserve death. Some who die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be so quick to pass out judgement.”
-Gandalf (although that probably isn’t the exact quote)
Only if they did something horrible like breast fed their baby in public. Or if they were proved beyond a shadow of doubt to be Britney Spears.
yes
Yes… if the crime merits death.
No. I couldn’t do it.
As a matter of fact, that’s come up in North Dakota recently, where there is no death penalty. A known sex offender was convicted by a federal grand jury of kidnapping and murdering a college student from the town I’m living in (he took her across state lines; otherwise it would have been a trial in state court). The jury sentenced him to death after the prosecution wouldn’t take a plea bargain which would have sent him to prison for life. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t take this deal — it would have been a lot less hoopla and the whole affair could have been settled much more quickly. And what good does it do to kill him? A life is a life; it just rends his family apart, too.
Sometimes it feels like justice just doesn’t exist.
-Guru on the Hill
Depends on the crime and the evidence presented.
Plus it’s a lot cheaper to sentence life in prison without parole. Taxpayers bear the brunt of the costs of appeals.
Unconditional ‘mercy’ to murderers grants value to the life of the murderer, while at the same time, it invalidates the life of the innocent victims. This ‘mercy’ is inconsiderate and inconsistent in its ‘unconditionality’ because by virtue of this position it ranks the life of the murder more valuable, more important and more sacred than the life of the murder victim. Therefore it is a trade, good cast away and evil embraced. To resist capital punishment for murderers and grant them mercy and hospitality as guests of the state or release via parole is the victory of death over life.
Yes.
depending on the crime, in a heartbeat !
it would depend on what the were in for in the first place…but capital punishment needs reinforcement in my opinion. Isn’t it Texas that still hangs people or gives them the electric chair or something? Lethal injection is too nice for some.
Does the jury do the sentencing? I thought they just choose the verdict…
Without batting an eye!!! We’ve got 100+ on death row in Oklahoma…let’s start there!
I really don’t think I could. Isn’t sentencing done by a judge?
yes!
If the crime warranted it, and the accused were guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. You know, guys like OJ. Posted 2/23/2007 8:33 AM by Soultender
LOL! I second that.
You betcha. I can’t stand jaywalkers.
Hell to the no.
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” Posted 2/23/2007 8:07 AM by jenimm
Guess that’s why Justice is blind, eh? Eye-for-an-eye refers to personal retaliation, while justice is an objective and impersonal thing granted by one’s peers.
Some crimes deserve death. And if you commit them, and I am on the jury that convicts you, it is not me killing you, but the Law.
no way!
No
Absolutely, and I would not give it a second thought.
I could return a guilty verdict knowing full well the sentence would be death. You see, I would think about the victim. The victim is the person everyone seems to forget in their “great compassion” for the guilty party. I would not forget the victim.
No I could not. Thankfully at this time I would not have to consider it, as there is not a death penalty in my state.
No.
I am against the death penalty…
Depending on the laws & the nature of the crime, yes.
Yes.
“An eye for an eye makes everyone blind”- Gandhi
I don’t believe in death. All hippy all the time!
absolutly not. I would never sentence a person to death, so hope I am never on a jury with you, if you plan on going home, you wont.
Derek
no. i don’t understand why its even legal.
NO way.
I would never sentence anyone on a jury.
You’ll be forgiven by God in the same way that you forgive. . .I’m not going to hell since I had someone killed and THEY went to hell.
no way ..ew
I could sentence someone to die if I were doing the execution.
After doing something like that, I would either never ever wish death on anyone again, or become desinsitized beyond comprehension, leading to many more.
No, because I don’t believe death is punishment compared to a life in prison.
Gladly.
Yeah, if they deserved it. o-o
If they deserved it.
Absolutely, if they did something bad enough.
Definitely.
Yes
I have no clue. It would be pretty difficult to be in that position.
I hope I am never on a jury with a case like that.
no
Depends on the situation.
never
No. That would go completely against anything I have ever believed.
No. I do not think the death penalty is necessary for the US. I think it trivializes life.
I wouldn’t know until it happened.
No.
Only if they were serial killers…Haha ya know..Not that silly string chick from texas
If they deserved it I wouldnt hesitate
i like to think not.
never say never, but I doubt it…
yes
Easily, if they deserved it.
Hell yes.
Well, if they were guilty. Otherwise, maybe not.
That last part was a joke. I think.
Depends what they did.
Yes, if they deserved it.
YES
Yes… If the crime warranted it.
i guess no matter what someone has done, they are still human, they have feelings, they have people who care about them (unless its someone like hitler or saddam hussein..no)….so i wouldnt take jury, not because i would feel guilty, but because i know that i’ve done bad things too even if its not murder or things like that…..its all bad.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Posted 2/23/2007 8:07 AM by jenimm
Couldn’t have said it any better.
’nuff said…
Before 9/11 I would have said no, but now I am not so sure. Especially if it would be someone like bin Laden
If I were sitting on a jury, the jurors would be squashed to death by my immense ass.
It depends on the crime. Interestingly enough, many people on here who say no & that they do not believe in the death penalty most likely think nothing of abortion being legal. Who is the guilty one here? The criminal who killed in cold blood or a baby who has never had a voice?
Yes, but the better question would be “Could you pull or push the button?” A correct view of evil would require a yes to both questions. When the God who creats us tells us to do something shouldn’t we obey? “By man shall his blood be spilt”. For instance, if Israel had completely done what God had wanted them to do 3500 years ago, in some instances, they (Israelies) would be dealing with the problems they have today. Interesting huh?
wouldn’t
BTW “an eye for an eye” leaves you still with one eye………
Fortunately we don’t have capital punishment in the UK as I don’t agree with it. I also think jury duty in the UK is compulsory if selected, so hypothetically if I was on jury duty in a case with capital punishment it would be very difficult either way. Finding someone not guilty if I thought they were guilty or finding someone guilty knowing it would end in death by whatever means.
yes
No, I could not.
If the conditions were right….
Like, if it was a sunny day out….
If I had to, I guess. But I don’t like the death penalty.
It would definetly depend on who it is on the jury because it might be an innocent person.
I have prayed and thought this out. I am against the death penalty, but I am not against giving someone life in prison.
yes
no. not a chance.
I don’t agree with the death penalty.
I think so.
If I was convinced that they were guilty of a crime that deserves the death penalty, yes, I could.
I could now that I’ve made up my mind on the issue.
Most likely no.
Yes
That’s a good question. I want to say that I could, if I was sure (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that they’d done it.
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No
sure
No – and that’s why they wouldn’t put me on one…
Depending on what they did, yes I could.
sentencing isn’t typically done by the jury, its usually done by the judge with jury recommendations…but obviously you’d know the death penalty would be on the table with certain convictions, etc.
An eye for an eye… that’s how I see things.
If the crime warranted it, yes.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
sentencing isn’t typically done by the jury, its usually done by the judge with jury recommendations…but obviously you’d know the death penalty would be on the table with certain convictions, etc.
Posted 2/23/2007 8:03 AM by Lydrock
Keeping in mind the procedures of the court… I think at the time of jury selection I’d be sure to emphasize that I’d have serious moral questions about recommending a sentence of death. That alone may keep me out of a jury where this might be a question. But if I am then selected, then I don’t know. I hope to heaven I’m never in that situation to find out.
Never. (You can hold me to it)
Oh you betcha.
i think i could recomend it if the crime was bad enough. it would take a great prosecutor to get me that emoitional
yes…
yes
no. I can’t really imagine myself taking away human life. Not in that way. Self-defense, yes. in a courtroom…. it’s different.
It depends on the situation. If it were warranted, I could.
well, i don’t feel it’s my place to condemn another to death,
however, if it were me being tried,
i’d rather die then spend a significant amount of time in prison.
death, to me, is more humane than a terribly long prison sentence.
trust me, i know, i’ve been to prison.
Yes, but it would have to be one of those convictions that was 100% undeniable.
yup
I do not think so,but I do not know for certain.
yes,
and when are you goning to get rid of the B.S. video?
Eye for an eye….
haha,
I just saw what that really looks like. I ment Britney Spears.
If the crime warranted it, and the accused were guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. You know, guys like OJ.
No.
I don’t care how guilty they were, the idea would make me feel sick.
killing is wrong.. whether the people, the criminals, the municipal, the military or the government… killing is wrong… for whatever reason: but it’s usually vengeance, whihc is a flawed concept…
answer is: no, i could not…
I couldent.Thats why im never picked for Jury Duty.
You’re dead boy!
If they deserved it, I wouldn’t have a problem issuing that verdict.
It depends on the crime.
If the crime warranted it enough to make it a possibility I would consider it. The death penalty is so contested these days anyway, that the person would probably live another 10-15 years eating up appeals etc., before they were actually condemned.
It is interesting to me that there are so many people here who would view religion as considering themselves morally superior because they believe in right and wrong, God and sin, etc. and then condemn religion for it. But here we are, talking about the life of a person, and people are so easily able to sentence a man to death, “depending on the crime.”
Everyone thinks they are morally superior to everyone else. And y’all just admitted it.
If they were guilty.
I don’t think so.
absolutely.
Here’s the deal — if you couldn’t, and you admitted that during jury selection in a case where the death penalty was in play, you would never be placed on that jury.
By the way, in more than six years of helping to run a Common Pleas Court in Ohio, we have yet to see anyone sentenced to death out of our court. So we’re talking about something that is rare to begin with.
noooo
turn the other cheek?
An eye for an eye… that’s how I see things.
Posted 2/23/2007 8:03 AM by FirecrotchGrl
Yeah, i understand the hypothetical nature of this question, in the bifurcated process it isn’t the jury that does it.
no, idk that seems like getting off to easily.
yes, only if i was convinced, i wouldnt just go with the popular vote
yep I could.
Yes, I could. But, I think the jury only has the power to decide a person’s guilt not to decide their fate.
Hell yeah, based on evidence that this inmate committed murder.
I don’t know. I think the death penalty is suitable in some instances, but it would have to be a really clear cut case. I felt overwhelmed during the dinky civil trial I sat on jury for; I can’t imagine the strain of a case that possibly merits the death penalty.
What I don’t understand is that those (the majority of those) who are against capital punishment are PRO-CHOICE. So…. it’s okay to kill babies, but not evil bad people who have viciously killed innocent people????
Babies are helpless. Evil bad people… they have power.
If the crime was severe enough, then yes.
Probably not
Yes – if I thought they were guilty – Yes.
I really don’t know, but I don’t think so. Who am I to sentence someone to death? God? Poof.
We need to get tougher on crime in this country. That is why I recommend cheaper, quicker, more painful methods of killing a person. If the pain of the punishment does not outweigh the joy of the crime then there is no reason not to commit a crime.
Our hatred of any punishment that is “cruel and unusual” has hindered our crime fighting ability. That concept originally meant things like being tarred and feathered and burnt at the stake. Now it means anything that a person might rather avoid. I think that in the next 100 years or so we will not even have prisons anymore we will only have a force of lawyers to chastise lightly anyone convicted of a crime.
I don’t think so. I like to say, maybe I’d have the heart to do it if the person was really truly cruel. But looking at it honestly, I don’t think I’d have the guts no matter how bad the person was.
I feel our justice system is too flawed to allow the death penalty. There is just too much risk of putting an innocent person to death and that’s a mistake that can never be rectified.
Yes, but only if it was clear that the person had intentionally murdered someone.
Not having been in the situation, I feel I could. I believe the government has been given the authority to punish people. I also believe that punishment’s primary purpose is not rehabilitative, and that someone who wrongfully takes another’s life has forfeited the right to his or her own.
An eye for an eye leaves eye gougers blind. If you don’t gouge out eyes, your eyes are pretty safe. If someone wants to gouge out yours, they have to think twice if losing theirs are worth it. That little saying (an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind) is unrealistic in my opinion. If every murderer were put to death, there still would be a world population (i.e. the whole world wouldn’t be “blind”). I guess justice should be abandoned by the government so we can all hold hands.
Yes.
I agree with Mr. Colorful…how many people would kill someone if the penalty was being burnt at the stake?
Yes, I could.
i’ve never thought about that…
i guess not
nope
Yes . . . if I believed the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I have never had any difficulty with the concept of the state having the ability to exact the ultimate punishment in cases where it was justified. I have no moral objections to capital punishment. However, from a practical viewpoint, I have been opposed to the death penalty. In my early career as an attorney, I was a judicial clerk for the Illinois Supreme Court, back in the early 1990s. Nearly half of the court’s time was spent over the procedural wrangling in death penalty cases. It was a huge waste of time, effort, and money. It was also obvious that the system itself was rife with problems — the procudural safeguards to keep an innocent person from being convicted were insufficient. (Later, all of this was proven true when Gov. Ryan’s commission suspended the death penalty). Our society can’t deal with capital punishment — its no longer an effective deterrent to crime, and the practical reality is very few convicted murderers are put to death. If we did away with the death penalty for practical, rather than moral or even legal/constitutional reasons — just admit the system doesn’t work, I think we would be better off.
no. no i don’t think i could.
I could, but only for murder cases and only if I were there was 100% “no shadow of doubt.” Punishments should be fitting to the crime. So just as a thief should have to give up money, a murderer should forfeit his life.
In Genesis 9:6-7 (which predates the Law of Moses) God says, “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.”
Even if somebody confesses his sin and is clean before God, that doesn’t exonerate him from the consequences of his actions here on earth. If a drug addict gets AIDS, then later confesses his sin and receives forgiveness, does his forgiveness cure the AIDS? No, even though he is forgiven he must still own up to the consequences of his actions here on earth.
But just because I could do it doesn’t mean I’d ENJOY it. But I could do it.
No.
yep
Gut wretching question, as I just this week received a subpoena for jury service. Though I am sure in our small town it will not be anything so dramatic… however I belive in the death penalty… I would not necessairly have a problem if the facts of the case were BEYOND a shadow of a doubt, but if there was one twindge within me… nope.
yes, but I’d have to be damn sure that the guy was guilty
if they killed someone cold blooded then yes
Ohhhhhh so quickly.
That’s kind-of a double-edged sword…They say an “eye for an eye…” but that’s God’s place…
Yet, if someone hurts my kids… I’d have a hard time sitting back and letting them get away with it.
Whats also kind-of disturbing is the thought that MY tax dollars would be paying for their “room & board, 3 squares, education and fitness, medical care,” etc…
i don’t know. I’m a big wimp and very passive, I think…
as long as I didn’t have to look into their eyes
yeah, i could.
honestly, we all deserve to die. including me. we all deserve to be sent straight to hell. it’s only by forgiveness, grace, love, and mercy that not all of us are.
yes if that is what they deserve according to the law. i have no problem with that.
Not in the uk, no.
It would have to be something really severe and with absolutely no doubt in my mind that that person was guilty for the crime for me to consider it
Honestly, is killing the person worse than making them spend their whole life trapped in a jail?
Also, even if you killed someone, what would you do if a month later you found out that the person was innocent? You can take back a life sentence, but you can never take back a death sentence.
nope.
“Some who live deserve death. Some who die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be so quick to pass out judgement.”
-Gandalf (although that probably isn’t the exact quote)
Only if they did something horrible like breast fed their baby in public. Or if they were proved beyond a shadow of doubt to be Britney Spears.
yes
Yes… if the crime merits death.
No. I couldn’t do it.
As a matter of fact, that’s come up in North Dakota recently, where there is no death penalty. A known sex offender was convicted by a federal grand jury of kidnapping and murdering a college student from the town I’m living in (he took her across state lines; otherwise it would have been a trial in state court). The jury sentenced him to death after the prosecution wouldn’t take a plea bargain which would have sent him to prison for life. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t take this deal — it would have been a lot less hoopla and the whole affair could have been settled much more quickly. And what good does it do to kill him? A life is a life; it just rends his family apart, too.
Sometimes it feels like justice just doesn’t exist.
-Guru on the Hill
Depends on the crime and the evidence presented.
Plus it’s a lot cheaper to sentence life in prison without parole. Taxpayers bear the brunt of the costs of appeals.
-Guru on the Hill
Yep..and I wrote about on my blog.
The Case for Capital Punishment
Unconditional ‘mercy’ to murderers grants value to the life of the murderer, while at the same time, it invalidates the life of the innocent victims. This ‘mercy’ is inconsiderate and inconsistent in its ‘unconditionality’ because by virtue of this position it ranks the life of the murder more valuable, more important and more sacred than the life of the murder victim. Therefore it is a trade, good cast away and evil embraced. To resist capital punishment for murderers and grant them mercy and hospitality as guests of the state or release via parole is the victory of death over life.
Yes.
depending on the crime, in a heartbeat !
it would depend on what the were in for in the first place…but capital punishment needs reinforcement in my opinion. Isn’t it Texas that still hangs people or gives them the electric chair or something? Lethal injection is too nice for some.
Does the jury do the sentencing? I thought they just choose the verdict…
Without batting an eye!!! We’ve got 100+ on death row in Oklahoma…let’s start there!
I really don’t think I could. Isn’t sentencing done by a judge?
yes!
If the crime warranted it, and the accused were guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. You know, guys like OJ.
Posted 2/23/2007 8:33 AM by Soultender
LOL! I second that.
You betcha. I can’t stand jaywalkers.
Hell to the no.
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”
Posted 2/23/2007 8:07 AM by jenimm
Guess that’s why Justice is blind, eh? Eye-for-an-eye refers to personal retaliation, while justice is an objective and impersonal thing granted by one’s peers.
Some crimes deserve death. And if you commit them, and I am on the jury that convicts you, it is not me killing you, but the Law.
no way!
No
Absolutely, and I would not give it a second thought.
I could return a guilty verdict knowing full well the sentence would be death. You see, I would think about the victim. The victim is the person everyone seems to forget in their “great compassion” for the guilty party. I would not forget the victim.
No I could not. Thankfully at this time I would not have to consider it, as there is not a death penalty in my state.
No.
I am against the death penalty…
Depending on the laws & the nature of the crime, yes.
Yes.
“An eye for an eye makes everyone blind”- Gandhi
I don’t believe in death. All hippy all the time!
absolutly not. I would never sentence a person to death, so hope I am never on a jury with you, if you plan on going home, you wont.
Derek
no. i don’t understand why its even legal.
NO way.
I would never sentence anyone on a jury.
You’ll be forgiven by God in the same way that you forgive. . .I’m not going to hell since I had someone killed and THEY went to hell.
no way ..ew
I could sentence someone to die if I were doing the execution.
After doing something like that, I would either never ever wish death on anyone again, or become desinsitized beyond comprehension, leading to many more.
No, because I don’t believe death is punishment compared to a life in prison.
Gladly.
Yeah, if they deserved it. o-o
If they deserved it.
Absolutely, if they did something bad enough.
Definitely.
Yes
I have no clue. It would be pretty difficult to be in that position.
I hope I am never on a jury with a case like that.
no
Depends on the situation.
never
No. That would go completely against anything I have ever believed.
No. I do not think the death penalty is necessary for the US. I think it trivializes life.
I wouldn’t know until it happened.
No.
Only if they were serial killers…Haha ya know..Not that silly string chick from texas
If they deserved it I wouldnt hesitate
i like to think not.
never say never, but I doubt it…
yes
Easily, if they deserved it.
Hell yes.
Well, if they were guilty. Otherwise, maybe not.
That last part was a joke. I think.
Depends what they did.
Yes, if they deserved it.
YES
Yes… If the crime warranted it.
i guess no matter what someone has done, they are still human, they have feelings, they have people who care about them (unless its someone like hitler or saddam hussein..no)….so i wouldnt take jury, not because i would feel guilty, but because i know that i’ve done bad things too even if its not murder or things like that…..its all bad.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Posted 2/23/2007 8:07 AM by jenimm
Couldn’t have said it any better.
’nuff said…
Before 9/11 I would have said no, but now I am not so sure. Especially if it would be someone like bin Laden
If I were sitting on a jury, the jurors would be squashed to death by my immense ass.
It depends on the crime. Interestingly enough, many people on here who say no & that they do not believe in the death penalty most likely think nothing of abortion being legal. Who is the guilty one here? The criminal who killed in cold blood or a baby who has never had a voice?
Yes, but the better question would be “Could you pull or push the button?” A correct view of evil would require a yes to both questions. When the God who creats us tells us to do something shouldn’t we obey? “By man shall his blood be spilt”. For instance, if Israel had completely done what God had wanted them to do 3500 years ago, in some instances, they (Israelies) would be dealing with the problems they have today. Interesting huh?
wouldn’t
BTW “an eye for an eye” leaves you still with one eye………
Fortunately we don’t have capital punishment in the UK as I don’t agree with it. I also think jury duty in the UK is compulsory if selected, so hypothetically if I was on jury duty in a case with capital punishment it would be very difficult either way. Finding someone not guilty if I thought they were guilty or finding someone guilty knowing it would end in death by whatever means.
yes
No, I could not.
If the conditions were right….
Like, if it was a sunny day out….
If I had to, I guess. But I don’t like the death penalty.
It would definetly depend on who it is on the jury because it might be an innocent person.
I have prayed and thought this out. I am against the death penalty, but I am not against giving someone life in prison.
yes
no. not a chance.
I don’t agree with the death penalty.
I think so.
If I was convinced that they were guilty of a crime that deserves the death penalty, yes, I could.
I could now that I’ve made up my mind on the issue.
Most likely no.
Yes
That’s a good question. I want to say that I could, if I was sure (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that they’d done it.