i agree completely except for killing them i think i would make them live with it for areally long time reminding them of what thay did. and people can already get away with muder. if i was to go out right now and shoot someone on the street i would stay in a jail for maybe 5 years and be out if i was good. that is rediculous.

What makes you think you'd get out in 5 years?

because you hear about the people who are sentenced to jail for doing something wrong and end up getting out way earilier then what they were suposed to because they caught someone more "important" or someone who did something that was considered worse then them and they have been good so let them out. or you hear about the people that are drunk driving and run into a family and kill half of them and they are working on getting there 23 DUI. i was just using it to make a point and i was playing around alittle. i am sorry if i didn't make that clear enough.

Since the death penalty has been reinstated in 1976, not one person put to death has been proven innocent.

Though I do admit that one or two innocent people have probably been put to death since then, but their cases haven't been investigated any more or something like that.

Better that 1000 of the guilty walk free than that we should kill one innocent.

I am completely for killing people who commit the worst of crimes, but humans aren't perfect. We've probably killed innocent people before, and we'll do it again. I don't believe in the death penalty for that reason.

There are some exceptions. I would have supported killing Saddam after an actually fair trial. The Nuremberg Trials were awesome. Killing bin Laden would be fine if we could find him.

Basically, terrorist masterminds and the perpetrators of genocide should be executed.

I'm not sure if I agree with your statement, since those 1,000 guilty could go on to kill more than one innocent person, but the rest of your post sounds fair. We do make mistakes, many of which we'll have to live with for the rest of our lives, its the people that do the killings over and over again for thousands and millions of people that really deserve to be put to death.

In Texas many of us advocate a "Fast Lane" for the worst of the worst. When overwhelming evidence convicts people of horendous crimes, they shouldn't sit in jails and drain the treasury.
Kill 'em.
I had a friend shot 3 times in her back by her ex-fiance, and then he burned her body to try to destroy the evidence. He got life, largely because it was considered a circumstantial evidence trial and going for capitol murder required a higher level of evidence. THE DA didn't want this nut job to get away, so they went for manslauguhter. The earliest he can get parole is 30 years and at the age of 60, he'lll die in prison...soon I hope. He had a PhD in psychology...spooky, huh ?
I could have killed him myself....no sweat.

I don't know what to think of the death penalty. Sometimes I'm for it because some of the worst criminal acts need that type of justice and sometimes it's just wrong and un-doable one it's done.

The "Fast Lane" for murdering creeps sounds good to me!

I'm so sorry about your friend. That's horrible. Her killer deserved the death penalty IMO.

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I love Texas stance on this.. you guilty you fry :D

I am sick of all the appeals.. especailly when the evidence points to them as the killer...in RARE cases this is wrong but you think after 3 appeals they would have found this out!