niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Do you disagree, though, that it is mainly retribution that you are looking for in supporting the death penalty?
Output: Valid
But, you say, what about the women taken in the very act of adultery.
Output: Invalid
Prior to the A-bombs, Japanese citizens began preparing for a massive Allied invasion.
Output: Invalid
But the statistics don't support the idea that the death penalty is any more effective as a detterent than is a life sentence.
Output: Valid
Exactly the sort of person that we might want put to death by the justice system.
Output: Valid
You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
Output: Valid
One of the reasons i support the death penalty is because in many situations when prisoners are placed in the court system, they end up murdering other inmates and corrections staff.
Output: Valid
Many a law regarding slavery was ethically wrong because the REASONS underlying that law were wrong.
Output: Invalid
This study has been so distorted in the media and within anti death penalty literature that it really should be mandatory teaching in journalism schools as a fact checking disaster.
Output: Valid
If somebody is completely innocent and they are executed for a crime they didn't commit (which, with forensics these days, probably will never happen again), that is a problem.
Output: Valid
Okay sure tell society that attempted suicide is bad but do it for them great job emoticonXCensored
Output: Invalid
Whenever the death penalty is performed instead of life in prison, the American is paying more tax then he needs to.
Output: Valid
I am tired of seeing people on death row for 20 or 30 years before they are put to death.
Output: Valid
I see no point in letting someone live who does not want to live, or letting someone die who does not want to die.
Output: Valid
If there was only one flavor of "pro-life", then every one of them would have to be a pacifist and never engage in any war.
Output: Invalid
If it must be, then we shall find a way to improve these peoples habits, not kill them because they aren't 'like us'.
Output: Valid
That case that you presented me with is from 10 years ago.
Output: Invalid
When it gets personal, I have the patience of that cartoon vulture that proclaims " Patience my arse, I'm gonna kill something."
Output: Invalid
Show said criminal that their actions were unnacceptable to society, and therefore they must pay a penalty for their actions.
Output: Valid
What does this have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Valid
Prosecutors say Akbar told investigators he launched the attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims in Iraq.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is deterrance for the rest of society, both criminals, potential crimanals, and average citizens.
Output: Valid
Today in Australia, the NSW government released a report stating that not enough is being done about rehabilitating prisoners, hence the jail population has increased dramatically.
Output: Valid
But why not put him in a 6x6 cell, no tv, no outside contact, no magazines: just him and 4 walls, a meal a day and a grate in the floor for bodily needs.
Output: Valid
Are you telling me that brutally violent repeat offenders who get off on causing human misery deserve the comforts of home as punishment for commiting these heinous crimes ?
Output: Valid
I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Valid
Historically, the death penalty has not had any effect on crime.
Output: Valid
And because Christ forgave the men that unjustly killed him does not conclusivly show that He was against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
It's only expensive due to the idiots who think keeping a truly twisted criminal alive is a "humane" thing to do.
Output: Valid
But I would stand up in Court and ask for the harshest punishment allowed by Law in order to protect other innocents from his violent tendancies.
Output: Valid
Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Not to mention hunting around the internet for facts improves research skills quite greatly.
Output: Invalid
Not to mention that the death penalty is more costly than simple life in prison in both money and time.
Output: Valid
After all, absence of brain activity is considered legally dead in the medical field, so the start of brain activity should be the requirement for them to be legally alive.
Output: Invalid
There are many attempts to mitigate this risk, including revisions of the death penalty: but it is not, as you stated, eliminated.
Output: Valid
The death penalty again, in giving punishing the offender sends out a message to others that no one should kill or hurt another person which will thus serve to deter other potential killers.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is a lethal lottery: of the 22,000 homicides committed every year approximately 150 people are sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
(Almost) nothing is heinous enough to warrant the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I do cherish the process with which the life of an innocent comes to be.
Output: Invalid
So the Creons, Torquemadas and Jauverts of the world have always believed, much to their, and our, detriment.
Output: Invalid
Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Valid
Louisiana meanwhile has many factors which lead to its place on the list.
Output: Invalid
I think instead of a death penalty, they should just stay in prison until they die because putting someone to death is just harsh, No matter who it is.
Output: Valid
The non-repeat offenders are typically people who committed much smaller crimes that would never be worthy of the death penalty in the first place.
Output: Valid
- but because of changed laws, there have been people who have been set free even though they were supposed to be in jail for life."
Output: Valid
Without fear of punishment, some people cannot be controlled.
Output: Valid
Statistics also show that in a lot of places where the death penalty is forbidden, the percentage of the crime is decreasing in relative to the places, where its legal.
Output: Valid
You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
Output: Valid
So should we be able to impose the sentence of life without parole, all the while understanding that we may have put an innocent man in prison for life?
Output: Valid
BUT it is not apparent that death penalty lower crime rate.
Output: Valid
I was replying to your one point that implied that people who have abortions and people who murder are pretty much the same.
Output: Invalid
The first one says that judges are elected and want to appear tough on crime.
Output: Valid
According to The Innocence Project, a U.S. DOJ & Columbia Law School study estimates a 5% failure rate in the U.S. justice system, which suggests as many as 100,000 falsely convicted prisoners.
Output: Valid
So if someone cared more about money then the life of the prisoner (as I do), they'd be aganist the current form of the penalty in America.
Output: Valid
Christ taught us in the beatitudes that we should not "take an eye for an eye".
Output: Valid
If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
Output: Valid
But to say that we shouldn't punish someone because of what the family would think is impractical.
Output: Valid
Do you get that there was no crime that he could have repeated, because he didn't commit one in the first place?emoticonXAngry
Output: Invalid
We don't spend all of our tax money on people in death row.
Output: Valid
Child Killing Pedophiles don't really deserve the right to live.
Output: Valid
I support the death penalty, but feel there needs to be a better system of checks and balances to ensure each individual gets a fair trial using all evidentiary methods available.
Output: Valid
Stanford Law Students took on their cases independently without charge and through DNA and other means proved their innocence unequivocally.
Output: Valid
No matter how well the justice system works, we will always risk convicting innocent people.
Output: Valid
They might not be sociologists but they know the difference between accuracy and non accuracy because they might have had experience dealing with reports like these.
Output: Invalid
A life sentence can be reversed if th convicted individual is later found innocent by new evidence.
Output: Valid
Morality aside, no evidence of deterrence aside, the death penalty costs more than life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is not an action that should be viewed in the spirit of "what is gained".
Output: Valid
Change will be slow in coming, but I believe that it will eventually happen even in this thumbs down country.
Output: Invalid
Percisely why you shouldn't be using all of those pieces of emoticonXCensored.
Output: Invalid
this is due to not only to multiple people killed by one person, but also the numerous unsolved cases each year.
Output: Valid
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
Output: Invalid
They shouldn't want to send an innocent person to prison for life either so it should have been pretty clear they were guilty already.
Output: Valid
If there ever was a deterrent to crime I'd hope being in genpop would be it.
Output: Valid
However, I do not see any moral difference in locking up an innocent person for 60 year or executing an innocent person.
Output: Valid
I say kill 'em, they're a waste of the federal budget.
Output: Valid
We need to halt the death penalty before anyone else gets unjustly sentenced, then fix the problems (if that is even possible), and then, when we have safeguards in place, reinstitute it.
Output: Valid
the death penalty is the consequence for sinning AND not accepting forgiveness.
Output: Valid
What we need are harsher sentences including the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The dealth penalty is not as simple as it seems.
Output: Valid
Moreover, death penalty is just deprivation of life of offender, consequently, not right decision to overcome a real existing problem, it's just eradication of a person.
Output: Valid
If softies like me ran things, None of those folks would go to jail, as jail would be reserved for actual bad guys.
Output: Invalid
There is a way to stop people from going on that path in the first place.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty provides an even sentencing opportunity for women!
Output: Valid
If death penalty were the solution for such criminal actions, then people who are "good" and have contributed to society deserve to live forever.
Output: Valid
Because there's nothing to say that life imprisonment is a less harsh punishment.
Output: Valid
If we slap a guarantueed death penalty on murder then any following murderer commits the crime on pain of death which is a much better detterent.
Output: Valid
People holding guns rarely kill by accident, but even when they didn't intend to kill but just do bad things to someone they don't like much, then they're in trouble for murder if the guy eventually dies.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is a punishment for barbaric outlets of hate.
Output: Valid
After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
Output: Valid
The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
Output: Valid
The race of someone who killed someone is not a good arguement ever for or against a punishment, regardless of what one makes the numbers say.
Output: Valid
LOL...why am I not surprised that you are undaunted by actual facts??
Output: Invalid
Both sides of the death penalty debate are equally concerned about the moral implication of executing an innocent.
Output: Valid
If the death penalty were simply abolished, there would be no endless chain of appeals and therefore cost would decrease.
Output: Valid
So, when someone gets the death penalty, they chose their own fate by committing the crime.
Output: Valid
So, if someone doesn't think the unborn is living and is chemically imbalanced (such things happen with pregnancies), it's plausabile to think one would abort a fetus for really any fricking reason imaginable.
Output: Invalid
Due process of law is something this country is built on, it seperates us from the dictators who run their courts as extensions of their own will.
Output: Invalid
If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
Output: Valid
What is the REASON behind "an eye for an eye" justice?
Output: Valid
2) Punishment to rehabilitate the prisoner to be capable of reentering society safely.
Output: Valid
While tragic that we killed so many civilians, women, and children, the end result was probable saving of many lives, both American and Japanese.
Output: Invalid
Once again, the false dichotomy fallacy raises its ugly head.
Output: Invalid
Because justice operates to protect society by deterring future crime, one would have to show that the death penalty prevents more crime than life in prison, thus fulfilling the function of justice better than that of life in prison.
Output: Valid
Anyway, the risk of killing an innocent is one arguement against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The problem is that the judge is human and there are no black and white answers but instead a million shades of gray.
Output: Invalid
we should have death penalty only for the most severe criminally insane serial killers.
Output: Valid
Societal punishment ought to be adjudicated by members of that society who have been offended or done violence to.
Output: Valid
No one asks a murderer if killing a person for wearing pink feels like killing a person that has killed another... It may be equally as justified.
Output: Valid
I don't think preventing the death of more humans is idiocy.
Output: Valid
As I say this case does not fit the bill completely, but I'm sure similar cases must arise and they should be an exception.
Output: Invalid
to put animal bashing in context with the original arguement, murderers and serial killers are profiled in their early years by animal crulety, thats how they start!
Output: Invalid
You do realize that if they do murder somebody while they are in prison, it will most likely be another prisoner, since the guards are armed?
Output: Valid
The final argument against the death penalty is that it is inhumane.
Output: Valid
For sheer purposes of punishing a criminal, I don't support the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Texas has the most executions and the most murders as well.
Output: Valid
Now as far as Scott Peterson goes if it was me I would fry him after 2 years of appeals because even though they only have circumstantial evidence against him it is overwhelming......
Output: Valid
Traffic tickets are not issued out of vengeance anymore than the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Turns out they're a lot more reliable than wherever the hell you're pulling your information out of.
Output: Invalid
This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be completely eliminated."
Output: Valid
Some have and do in fact follow the guidelines as they are written.
Output: Invalid
He cited the exonerations of more than 100 people on death row based on DNA and other evidence."
Output: Valid
It makes anybody that believes in the DP a cold blooded killer.
Output: Valid
...anything we can, in short, to keep them alive and...., well and what actually?
Output: Invalid
In that case I would rather give in and grant his wish.
Output: Invalid
Even in this case, I find random factors quite acceptable, because if you don't get this job, you can try to get another one.
Output: Invalid
And no, I do not claim that there are trials that can determine innocence after execution...we hold those while they are alive, and before they are sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
Or are you just saying that ALL blacks are discriminated against no matter what, even if the judge is black.
Output: Invalid
Whatever the offender did should have the same done to him/her.
Output: Valid
If you subtract the number of deaths resulting from the legal and proper use of a firearm in self defense you are left with a smaller number.
Output: Invalid
We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
Output: Valid
Most other first-world countries don't have the death penalty, but have lower rates of crime, just pointing that out.
Output: Valid
The only way to prove that rehabilitation has occurred is to parole a murderer.
Output: Valid
I am not a big proponent of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
Output: Valid
And if it doesn't... the people who have killed the most under the death penalty will end up strapped to that bed too if they make it a capital offense to accidentally kill an innocent person.
Output: Valid
US prison inmates live better than over half the world population and their only drawback (albeit a significant one) is their confinement.
Output: Valid
You could just as easily argue that he was unjustly put to death and therefore it is a statement against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If they had agreed to him getting the death penalty, they wouldn't have to worry every two years about him possibly getting out.
Output: Valid
That could be considered Cruel and Unusual Punishment, it could mess with the persons mind.
Output: Valid
The death penalty was established so families would not fued for generations.
Output: Valid
I think that if the murderer wants the death penalty, they should be allowed it if the victim's family agrees- but for crimes of passion and misunderstanding, no death penalty.
Output: Valid
Jesus did NOT make it clear the death penalty was wrong, he made it clear that personal revenge is wrong.
Output: Valid
how can a man or woman who has adjusted to the prison system just all of a sudden become a useful member of society?
Output: Valid
You say that I am a very immoral person and yet you say you are not being judgmental.
Output: Invalid
If you really think it's okay for convicts to be raped, I honestly feel bad for your lack of humanity.
Output: Invalid
Interestingly, I found a good page explaining why the Constitution supports the Death Penalty (even with "Capital" meaning "serious").
Output: Valid
I am sure the justice system is doing such a thing with good intentions.
Output: Invalid
I am glad that you, and now gman, admit that vengeance is the underlying influence.
Output: Valid
One of those things would be to donate money to the poor girls who cannot support children financially, because if they recieve money, they most likely will not abort, and care for the child.
Output: Invalid
I find it rather odd that many of the countries that ban the death penalty allow abortion as if killing a killer is worse than killing an innocent life.
Output: Valid
Could it be that people are going to commit the crimes anyway no matter what the punishment is, so the sentence we pass should be sufficient to prevent reoffending only.
Output: Valid
How bout this, we get rid of the Death penalty alltogether.
Output: Valid
Bedau & Radelet, both opponents, "consistently presented incomplete and misleading accounts of the evidence."
Output: Invalid
I would rather have justice be done than to give a rapist the chance to grab another little girl or a murderer to have the chance to kill an innocent person I might know or care about.
Output: Valid
It is not a good one because you are assuming the wrong pieces.
Output: Invalid
So, since 1976, we have had possibly ONE innocent person executed out of 1000?
Output: Valid
Unless some solid benifit can be shown for killing them, it is simply a childish act of revenge.
Output: Valid
The point is, when a crime is committed that warrants the death penalty and there is irrefutable evidence to suggest that the personal being held responsible is guilty, than they should be sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
But with our compassionate ACLU and bleeding hearts constantly fighting for the rights of these "poor" criminals, life in prison is a piece of cake, not a punishment.
Output: Valid
If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
Output: Valid
Texas put to death Cameron Todd Willingham for example who was innocent and has had 41 exonerations since 1989.
Output: Valid
The fact that the death penalty is considered makes the government inherently illogical in this aspect.
Output: Valid
If we revisit your notion of intent you must needs consider that the firearm is just as capable of defense as it is offense.
Output: Invalid
In a case like this, we can assume that the alternative is life in prison.
Output: Valid
If you want to read more about these studies which DON'T assume blatantly false things like "60 year average life sentence", visit the web-site.
Output: Valid
There have been many of my fellow citizens' life blood spilled onto the ground after taking a solemn oath to defend this "jingoistic bluster".
Output: Invalid
Bloodsworth was released from prison in June 1993 and pardoned in December 1993.
Output: Invalid
Well, the death penalty fails as a restraint mainly for the following reason:
Output: Valid
DNA samples are easily contaminted by a number of various things, one being other people's DNA.
Output: Valid
Where do we draw the line, afterall we could forego any trial by jury and just go with the police report.
Output: Valid
Maximum security, death row, administrative segregation...all have had incidents of violent assault, murder, etc.
Output: Valid
Consequences are there to deter people from doing wrong."
Output: Valid
Execution is quick, relatively simple, and very inexpensive regardless of the method used.
Output: Valid
I can assure you that I have no elephant repellant and that I do not duel.
Output: Invalid
Only .06% of people who have killed kill again when they escape, are released, etc.
Output: Valid
First of all, nothing is convenient about pregnancy, I don't know where you got that, and that word carries no weight coming out of your mouth because you haven't been pregnant before.
Output: Invalid
While I am not against execution, I would rather see tax dollars go to something a bit more useful than trying to execute one person.
Output: Valid
You should also note that the one scenario I think the death penalty is acceptable for is if they try to escape using violence or if they attack another prisoner.
Output: Valid
The law often finds such criminal accomplices legally guilty for their involvement in murders, even if they, themselves, didn't "pull the trigger".
Output: Invalid
If law is flawed you don't ban death penalty, you fix the law.
Output: Valid
Usually it's public defenders who are doing the job and they don't get anywhere near half of the salaries private attorneys get.
Output: Valid
People sentenced to life in prison shouldn't languish in cells, they should be doing something to aid the society they injured.
Output: Valid
Millions of dollars a year keeping murderers alive....kill them use it on something else.
Output: Valid
First it is more expensive to kill a person, then letting him stay for a life long imprisonment.
Output: Valid
that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
Output: Valid
Capitol punishment is not just the execution of murderers, but the execution of anyone by the state.
Output: Valid
No one will convince me that there are as many crazy drivers as there are shooters.
Output: Invalid
With all this talk about innocent people being put to death, I was wondering.
Output: Valid
The parent doesn't do this out of a desire to have revenge against their child; they simply wish to alter the child's behavior in the future.
Output: Invalid
There's no evidence that it actually prevents any crime (I assume you can, after all, get out of it if you admit guilt immediately and do a lot of butt-kissing, so fear of death wouldn�۪t be a factor?)
Output: Valid
If the founding fathers were the ones in control of the country when it was first started, then everything that they wanted to occur in terms of legislation changes would have occurred.
Output: Invalid
Louisiana, a state with the death penalty and the highest murder rate in the country, has almost no gun control.
Output: Valid
If one innocent life was killed by the DP, then that means everyone who supports the death penalty deserves death, and thats the paradox of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
But as per usual you have just demonstrated that you are filled with hate for another (perhaps more deserving) segment of humanity.
Output: Invalid
What would a government gain by not punishing as a means of rehabillitating?
Output: Valid
In any case, he didn't say that the penalty for sin is death, he said the penalty for one particular action which Adam couldn't even know was wrong, being unaware of good and evil, was death.
Output: Valid
There is no way of proving the level of deterrent that any given action is worth.
Output: Valid
Life in jail or in isolation already seems worse from my perspective, especially isolation.
Output: Valid
jesus immediately agreed to them enforcing the death penalty, since the penalty for sin is death.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is an absolute judiciary measure that succeeds in rectifying the grievances of the murder victim's family and peers, yet fails to undo an inevitable flaw of any judiciary system; human error.
Output: Valid
If inflicting serious punishment on the person will prevent future crimes, then i see no negative effects.
Output: Valid
I am willing to accept that some innocent people will fall victim, even potentially a family member.
Output: Valid
So you hurry home, and upon your arrival the police inform you that your daughter, the one who was raped, was found raped and murdered and we have the rapist/killer in custody.
Output: Valid
Of those reasons which you gave, which ones do you think cannot be accomodated by lesser senteces and NEED the death penalty?
Output: Valid
So what does he have to do with a debate like this about murderers and the death penalty?
Output: Valid
But this warped society would rather fight for the right to kill the most dependent beings on the planet and make excuses for the killers.
Output: Valid
He doesn't know what good technique and form are because he doesn't care about boxing as much as the other guy.
Output: Invalid
First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Valid
Sorry, but laws are there for a reason; and no matter what the criminal has done, it is the LAW that is to take care of them, not US.
Output: Valid
I agree with most of your post, but what other purpose does the death penatly serve other than to make victims familys "feel better".
Output: Valid
I said an embryo is "a human life."
Output: Invalid
Only someone who can justify killing a baby for the irresponsible acts of a woman can compare killing one to weeding a garden.
Output: Invalid
If you read my arguments clearly you would understand that i said capital punishment if used more often will deter crime.
Output: Valid
Although there is much controversy about him, I agree that prisons, especially for those for whom the death penalty could be considered, should be punishment.
Output: Valid
They don't have to be sentenced to death until the evidence and conclusion is completely inescapable.
Output: Valid
Additionally I believe the stats for recidivism of paroled murderers is actually one of if not the lowest rate for all felonies.
Output: Valid
This cost is unusually low since Jamil did not go through the multiple appeals that most convicts do when originally given the death sentence.
Output: Valid
Yes, we should have a speedier route to the needle.
Output: Valid
Mandela became leader of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated Spear of the Nation, and also abbreviated MK), which he co-founded.
Output: Invalid
When we can perfect the American Justice System more, then I would lend more support to the death penalty.
Output: Valid
You say I prattle and ramble, but its just because you don't understand that I am using technique that you don't even know about.
Output: Invalid
Until then, I remain unmoved by their cries of "innocent people" being put to death.
Output: Valid
DNA technology could be required for the death penalty making it far less likely that an innocent is sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
Also, I wonder if a criminal thinks of the punishment when he commits the crime - if he were counting on being punished, he wouldn't have done it.
Output: Valid
I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
Output: Valid
Apparently, the death penalty increases the number of innocents killed.
Output: Valid
As for the convicted innocent, no matter how rigid the court procedures are, there are bound to be some cases that are judged incorrectly.
Output: Valid
There is a hug difference between legal innocence and factual innocence.
Output: Valid
For some people death penalty is better than life in prison, who are respect their freedom and who are consider that it is better to die than someone to judge them.
Output: Valid
The Death penalty does not work because the kind of people that murder will not stop and think of the consequences before their actions.
Output: Valid
The fact that this exists does not preclude a more substantial realm.
Output: Invalid
Under the current system, people mostly get put in prison and have nothing to do.
Output: Valid
it has been proven time and again prisons don't rehabilitate, keeping someone in prision for their entire life in prision is less human than the death penalty.
Output: Valid
So as long as only some innocent people are killed for crimes they didn't commit then the system must be sound.
Output: Valid
Chopping off somebody's ear is probably going to be illegal unless proven otherwise.
Output: Invalid
The murder rate for the state of New York, a state without the death penalty has increased this year with a higher rate of murder than it was in 2009.
Output: Valid
Furthermore, the Judge in that Quinones case, Rakoff, has since stated that the innocence number might be 30, not the 40 he stated during the case, indicating the combined numbers are, now, most certainly, lower than 17.
Output: Valid
In reality, prison population is a zero sum game because nobody wants a new prison in their back yard (NIMBY principle).
Output: Valid
If I die, I want to go out by firing squad.
Output: Valid
I have heard that there are false verdicts and that some innocent people are killed accidentally, but that number is decreasing year by year.
Output: Valid
I disagree with all three of your points, but the most telling point is the one you ignored, accuracy.
Output: Invalid
Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Yes, death penalty is not a qualified punishment for a crime.
Output: Valid
How many rapes done by females have you heard about?
Output: Invalid
Even though i agree with part of the argument you are proposing, i also believe that deterrence and incapacitation are forms or products of punishment itself whilst the product of rehabilitation is reformation.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is an effective deterrent when used properly.
Output: Valid
The people dying from the death penalty are guilty people who have taken the lives of others.
Output: Valid
just pointing out that you argue to eliminate the death penalty, but your argument is tagged as 'Hang 'em high'
Output: Valid
Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
Output: Valid
There cannot be a "no" answer since the death penalty is already legal.
Output: Valid
1: Punishment: The end all be all sure-fire way to prevent recidivism.
Output: Valid
Religion is a individuals personal belief in a faith unseen and unprovable by science.
Output: Invalid
Yeah, he's a human life and it is kind of sad that we have to execute someone, but it's not exactly like we're losing a good guy.
Output: Valid
Like I said I would just want them to actually have to deal with the consequences and not get an easy out, which is what executing them does.
Output: Valid
perhaps prison reform would do better than the electric chair, after all, murder is murder.
Output: Valid
There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
Output: Valid
Let's turn this around, why VOR do you have more compassion for the innocent then the guilty?
Output: Valid
in other words, by jesus forgiving the woman, he voluntarily and innocently took her sin upon himself, in advance.
Output: Invalid
By your definition, the death penalty is hateful, spiteful, etc.
Output: Valid
Even for rape, eyewitness testimony from the victim isn't enough to convict in this country, I doubt it is in the US, at least in most cases.
Output: Invalid
I like the idea that every day I live free they get to stare at the wall.
Output: Valid
If a death penalty was put in place or my being deported to Siberia for say.....Graffiti no one would EVER do it.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is a moral issue I̢���ve struggled to come to terms with personally.
Output: Valid
In one case it took them 21 years before the murderer was finally killed.
Output: Valid
If both acheive the same goal of keeping society away from harm, then why go overboard in reducing the criminals rights by killing him?
Output: Valid
I am personally against the death penalty but would like to know in this particular scenario how just giving him life in prison would have been any different.
Output: Valid
China is apparently doing such things already with its ~10,000 executions a year.
Output: Valid
Why not just work to reform the justice system, instead of working to stop the death penalty, then working to reform the justice system, and THEN working to reinstitute the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Neither actually, merely a casual inference that just because one doctor questions his own ethics does not mean all do, nor does it represent anything more than an isolated incident.
Output: Invalid
If we were 100% sure of guilt I may be more inclined to support the death penalty, although it still costs more.
Output: Valid
If that was the case, then books speaking about the history and highlighting the corruption of the 18th century would have never even been published in 2010.
Output: Invalid
We must to have nouns to ends when mal to nouns are get in very serious.
Output: Invalid
By the same token, if we keep administering the death penalty while the system is broken, we will have a much greater risk of putting someone innocent to death.
Output: Valid
The point made by alec is that society has a legitimate responsibility in preventing those who would destroy innocent lives from doing so [more than once?]
Output: Valid
I believe that societies should punish criminals to the degree that they have to based on sound rational reasons.
Output: Valid
just because someone is believed to have done something wrong doesnt mean that they are bad people who deserve to die...what if that happened to you?
Output: Valid
The same way somebody decides that they're too hammered to drive home from the bar; good old fashioned common sense.
Output: Invalid
If we have a death penalty statute on the books, a person is convicted under that statute, his ONE appeal fails...he should die.
Output: Valid
They speculated that if a deterrent effect were to exist, it would be found in Texas because of the high number of death sentences and executions within the state.
Output: Valid
From that point of view, I also do feel some sense of embarrassment about this aspect of our society when confronted with challenges from Europeans and others who, from this point of view, seem more "civilized".
Output: Invalid
There have been about 111 people sentenced to death who were found guilty while waiting.
Output: Valid
Yes certain people have a tendancy to do certain things.
Output: Invalid
My mind will not change, when a person is found guilty and given the death penalty it should be carried out promptly, like within six months.
Output: Valid
Some people facing the death penalty have been exonerated, sometimes only minutes before their scheduled execution.
Output: Valid
The bulk of the increased cost goes to the lawyers, investigators, the court and the jail.
Output: Valid
Implementing the death penalty will not eliminate it but help to reduce the rate of crime.
Output: Valid
It shows how little they really have to say, instead of actually talking about the subject, they resort to nit picking the very grammer of a post.
Output: Invalid
This site has many cost studies from various states, including Florida and Texas.
Output: Valid
There are multiple possible reasons for having a criminal justice system: deterring potential offenders, punishing actual offenders, rehabilitating offenders, removing offenders from the general population to prevent further criminality, avenging the victims of crime.
Output: Valid
DNA testing capabilities allowed them to determine that the executed men were, in fact, innocent.
Output: Valid
The requirements for life are vastly lower then the requirments for death.
Output: Valid
The death penalty has been found to be a more effective deterrent to crimes against children.
Output: Valid
Dennis Fritz was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder after a swift trail.
Output: Valid
In 26 years the death penalty has been in effect in my home state of Illinois, there have been more people exonerated due to irrefutable evidence than have been put to death.
Output: Valid
There are other, much stronger arguements against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If you're attacked, you're guilty if you fight back and cause either harm or fear to the person attacking you.
Output: Invalid
Here is what I am saying, Jesus is the ultimate authority, he not only strongly condemned capitol punishment, but he took an active role to do away with the evil.
Output: Valid
But the electric chair the time your on it depends on voltage and would be very painful
Output: Valid
If a person is deterred from commiting a crime it is because fear in that person's mind has prevented him from commiting the crime.
Output: Valid
So, no, it doesn't prevent criminals from continuing their crimes -- they wouldn't continue anyway.
Output: Valid
Why is it then that this right to kill our aggressors in self defense should end with our lives?
Output: Valid
Whereas, if we choose not to use executions and there is a general deterrent effect, we would be sacrificing innocent lives.
Output: Valid
On the topic of the innocent - The Innocence Project lists 80 people who were wrongfully convicted from 1990-2008, and were luckily exonerated later.
Output: Valid
So if we can assume that innocent people are convicted in capital punishment cases, shouldn't we be free to assume that innocent people are being convicted in non-capital punishment cases as well?
Output: Valid
Ill give you a car with scissors all around it that sprays bleech and ill take a gun.
Output: Invalid
Haha, yeah I am agnostic, but it was a little joke I made ;)
Output: Invalid
Until majority opinion changes, I suspect the death penalty will continue to exist.
Output: Valid
The reasons given most often for supporting the death penalty are emotional reasons of retribution for the heinous acts of the criminal.
Output: Valid
There is  no  social need for the Death Penality, so it ought not be used, since it only leads to more pain and suffereing.
Output: Valid
One might claim that the death penalty in some ways pays back the victim's family for the suffering of the victim, but that is exactly the public vengeance reason that I am arguing is the only real one presented.
Output: Valid
we'll move that debate over there, because ghetto will probably get really XXXXXX if we discuss it here.
Output: Invalid
This was one of his most important messages, yet now we learn that you are wishing death upon these people, not just the extreme suffering that you previously wished upon them.
Output: Valid
Jesus was all man but also God, so i dont get what you are saying here.
Output: Invalid
If we sentence someone to life in prison, we can always free them at a later time if they are found to be innocent.
Output: Valid
You are concentrating on the negative impact caused by punishing accused but emotions are not worth the amount of innocent lives that will be taken by the actions of these very criminals?
Output: Valid
Now, we must define juvenille, one who is not of the age of majority.
Output: Invalid
Today, the military firing squads issue one blank shell so that nobody knows who really killed the convicted person.
Output: Valid
In public opinion polls, there is a clear upward trend in support for life-without-parole sentences as a substitute for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Therefore, they should have as many appeals as they want, and should only be convicted of a captial crime if there is a blood trail with DNA all over it and eyewitness accounts etc.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is gives the ability to off killers and murderers, as, if they were given life in parole, they have the ability to escape and continue their crimes.
Output: Valid
The most comprehensive death penalty study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million more per execution than the a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of life imprisonment (Duke University, May 1993).
Output: Valid
Florida with the death penalty has a higher crime rate than New York who doesn̢���t have the death penalty (New York has actually declared it unconstitutional)
Output: Valid
The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
Output: Valid
Therefore, unless Jesus says something to the contrary, we may assume that the rules of government still apply.
Output: Invalid
If not, then reparations should be made rather than the current situation that appears to think that one or too unnecessary deaths or beatings is just something that happens.
Output: Invalid
America should be streamlining it's justice system, not allowing the liberals to complicate it more.
Output: Invalid
The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
Output: Valid
This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be completely eliminated.
Output: Valid
But do you both not realize that you are no diffrent than them only on the other side of the coin?
Output: Invalid
Comming from the person who has praised and called for the Saudi version of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
And what message would your widow deliver to your daughter when she explains how the family of the rapist you killed took THEIR revenge by killing you?emoticonXBanghead
Output: Valid
Still a hard choice for me, but I am too close to it, therefore I fear I will never have a solid opinion either way.
Output: Invalid
DUDE, I would LOVE to get raped by a hot girl LOL.
Output: Invalid
My only issue with the death penalty is the case of innocence, however there has been no innocent put to death in the united states since 1976, there has been claims but these have all been dismissed.
Output: Valid
My point was that there are ways of dealing with violent criminals, murderers even, without executing them.
Output: Valid
The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives.
Output: Valid
But life in prison is going to cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Output: Valid
The biggest problem I have with the death penalty is the cost.
Output: Valid
Now that we've got this point established, what exactly is your answer to them being in the general public?
Output: Invalid
Recommending the death penalty for homosexuality is a speech of ignorance and childishness.
Output: Invalid
There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
Output: Valid
Dr. Marc Stern, who lives in Olympia, said the American Medical Association and Society of Correctional Physicians oppose physician involvement in executions, "and they say physicians should not supervise somebody who is involved in executions."
Output: Valid
Not to put too fine a point on it, but all southern states.
Output: Invalid
One way that would make me happy with the death penalty is if the person was killed in the same way as the person that they murdered.
Output: Valid
Not only that, but the person who was accused of the assault (the only evidence they had against this person with a court-appointed lawyer) was found not guilty.
Output: Invalid
So your argument is that if the death penalty was cheaper than life in prison it would have the advantage of being cheaper than life in prison.
Output: Valid
the death penalty also is premediated murder,it demeans the state and makes society more violent!
Output: Valid
The difference is your criminal friends have murdered and raped and committed other barbaric crimes against other human beings..........That baby that you want to butcher in the womb committed no crime against anyone......
Output: Invalid
disclaimer; the views in this tongue-in-cheek post are not necessarily the views of unkerpaulie, but unkerpaulie endorses everything that was said here, for the sake of the discussion, if that makes sense...
Output: Invalid
Just because the Chicago Tribune finds some "expert" in the field of arson investigation who examines paper evidence and says their may be cause for doubt does not mean that the man was innocent.
Output: Invalid
Anti-gunners often mistakenly describe Castle Doctrine as "a licence to kill".
Output: Invalid
I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
Output: Valid
Just go to Google Directory, Society / Issues / Death penalty, and you'll find plenty of info.
Output: Valid
The death penalty doesn't need to become more equalized.
Output: Valid
So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
Output: Valid
At least 11 of the cases were not even on death row at the time of their "innocence" discovery.
Output: Valid
But, of course, we really can't try all suspects with the same vigilance we do in murder cases so, we really have an impass.
Output: Invalid
Think of the torment in the families minds,knowing that that killer is doing everything he can to get out.And that killer has help,he has the people that want to ban the death penalty!!!!!
Output: Valid
You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
Output: Valid
if you believe in the sacrifice of jesus and repent, you have "earned" your happiness
Output: Invalid
Why would you prefer people to be killed rather than jailed away from society so that their harm is neutralised?
Output: Valid
First, the Bill of Rights was written by people who supported the death penalty, therefore it cannot be contradictory to the views of those who are in favor of imposing capital punishment.
Output: Valid
As for the death penalty...it has its pluses and minuses like a lot of things.
Output: Valid
And some people should be thrown away without being executed.
Output: Valid
New Jersey's commission on the death penalty this year dismissed the body of knowledge on deterrence as "inconclusive."
Output: Valid
Someone who commits a crime that serious should at least be behind bars for the rest of their life, no parole at all.
Output: Valid
You're assuming (a) convicted murderers regret killing their victims (b) that they think of their victims as innocent and (c) that I care what murderers feel or think.
Output: Valid
It appears that some 12 innocents have been murdered by those Furman releasees, through 1987, in addition to other horrendous crimes committed by that same group.
Output: Valid
Long prison time only costs us money and is a huge waste... I suppose we can do a involuntary servitude thing for first time offenders or something if you have a real problem with killing them though...
Output: Valid
I think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
Output: Valid
It seems that you're assuming the correlation between crime rate and countries with capital punishment is that the death penalty encourages crime.
Output: Valid
If we take your arguments to their logical extreme, we must then say that ANY FORM of ANY punishment is immoral.
Output: Invalid
So, in summary, you aren't against the death penalty on principle.
Output: Valid
The death penalty again has not only shown but proved to deter murder so therefore i wpuld suggest you reconsider your closing arguments.
Output: Valid
maybe we should start with what crimes warrant the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
Output: Valid