niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Odds are we are locking up more criminals than innocent victims.
Output: Valid
You've still failed to give a single instance where someone was let out because of a "liberal" judge
Output: Valid
People who use religion as a reason to not support the activity most likely would not support it anyway.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is not about only deterrence, but also to say that life will be protected and murder will not be tolerated.
Output: Valid
One person there actually killed his entire family when he was younger, except for his sister because she got away in time.
Output: Valid
and those are tactics that have been around since the 30's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Output: Invalid
Yes many criminals revert to their previous behaviors when released.
Output: Valid
To be very frank and brutally, terribly awfully honest... we'd be better off without so many bad people, (yes, bad acts make bad people) and our population's getting kinda high...
Output: Valid
Last time I heard figures for this China was not nearly as bad and the United States was considerably worse, I wish I could remember what that source was, it was a few years ago.
Output: Invalid
That would be very cost-efficient, but it would collide with our interests in legal justice.
Output: Invalid
Funny the only times I've seen abortion and the death penalty referred to together when the right uses it to accuse the left of hypocracy.
Output: Invalid
Otherwise, if it is only a matter that you don't want to pay for them, then I should mention that the average capital punishment criminal costs more all together than does a lifer.
Output: Valid
But are there any stats available showing countries/states with the death penalty have a higher/lower crime rate?
Output: Valid
Yes, clearly it's simple enough that some random kid on the internet figures out, using simple math, a more effective way than the one our lawmakers have reached after years of professional debate.
Output: Invalid
That way the guilty party hase his/her chance to file their upteenth appeal and the tax payers wont spend millions on each case keeping the person alive and paying for their public defender.
Output: Valid
Sometimes, the only way to deal with certain criminals is to end their life, simply because they don't deserve to live.
Output: Valid
Since we Americans have lived under the protection of the Constitution, we often falsely react to situations in Britain with the same frame of mind we would use here in America.
Output: Invalid
And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If you're willing to XXXX somebody away because they dissed you in front of your homies and made you lose your street cred, that's a very poor excuse for murdering somebody, their friends, their family, etc.
Output: Valid
That is in no way right they have stripped that child of the human rights and dignity so they should have theirs taken away too.
Output: Invalid
Though I'm in agreeance with you that the Death Penalty is a better option than housing them.
Output: Valid
Only in severe cases where there isn't a doubt that the person is guilty.
Output: Valid
Acutally, long ago, the executioner was a convict also sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
Most lawyers are rich in nitrogenous compounds and provide perfect fertiliser, and allow potential bigots to ease their arbitary hatred in a way acceptable to todays society.
Output: Invalid
In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
Output: Valid
God specifically gives the government permission to punish murderers by death.
Output: Valid
The sun sure does set on the British Empire nowadays.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty should not only be legal, but used MUCH more often... (IE: Death penalty for rape and torture, and after a few 'strikes' for violent crime such as burglary)
Output: Valid
There should no be a death penalty, since by taking a human's life, we are not saving it.
Output: Valid
We COULD talk like that in every day life, except no one would understand anything and the world would be completely chaotic.
Output: Invalid
Since murder is viewed as wrong, it generally makes more sense to eliminate the death penalty because murder rates are generally lower in those states.
Output: Valid
both me and thistown have quoted Jesus to support our stance on the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The people who qualify for the death penalty are charged with committing some considerably heinous crime(s) that society has deemed unacceptable.
Output: Valid
As I said before, if they were convicted in a court of law by a jury of their peers and were given lawful access to the appellate process, yes, I would push the plunger.
Output: Valid
So it's wong when some civilian commits murder, but it's fine when an authority is doing the killing?
Output: Valid
what post-death christianity seems to misunderstand is that the death penalty is still in effect today.
Output: Valid
I am sure all those psychos who aprove of the death penalty would pay for having the privilege of killing someone.
Output: Valid
The death penalty (because of appeals) costs more than solitary confinement for life, both of which would ensure that the person would never kill again.
Output: Valid
If you chose to kill someone who wasn't endangering your life at the moment you deserve to be killed.
Output: Valid
I assume in what follows that we, the country or the state, execute only for the crime of murder, though many capital punishment adherents would use it for other crimes, such as child rape, treason, arson, robbery and even fraud.
Output: Valid
Would you agree that putting an already dangerous person into a survival situation that requires more violence might make them even less equipped to deal with society once they get out?
Output: Valid
Once again, we have example after example, whereby Dieter tells us that the DPIC standards have nothing to do with actual innocence.
Output: Valid
My sister was close to the trade center and could of died but she didnt, and i dont know anione else who was killed in it but I still hate the people who stole mothers and fathers away from children.
Output: Invalid
Christ replaced the need for animal blood to forgive our sins, cause His blood took it�۪s place.
Output: Invalid
but spending whole life in jail would be a better punishment
Output: Valid
The first twenty states with higher murder rates all have the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If you are going to argue for or against the death penalty, at least try to be a credit to the argument and present something that makes sense.
Output: Valid
There is not any good by taking the life of the criminal.
Output: Valid
Anybody that tries to defend a child rapist and say that they don't deserve to die needs a serious psychiatric evaluation.
Output: Valid
I repeat that anything can be used as a deadly device.
Output: Invalid
Furthermore, any assertion that the death penalty is not a deterrent is false.
Output: Valid
The arming of police in the United Kingdom is a perennial topic of debate.
Output: Invalid
If there is even a hint of ones innocences, they should NOT be locked up to begin with.
Output: Valid
The argument for the death penalty as a deterrent has been proved wrong by the implementation of it through history.
Output: Valid
I agree with you that people have not escaped but in the past, how many situations of hostage taking events have occured?
Output: Valid
If one wants a verse or scripture that will be a cure-all for societies ills, the old "Do onto others " will work.
Output: Invalid
Giving the criminals as many possibilities to get away with their crimes.
Output: Invalid
However, since the death penalty was reinstated in 1973 122 inmates have been exonerated from death row, but never has anyone come even close to proving that an innocent man was killed.
Output: Valid
People have been found out to be innocent after the death penalty ha already been carried out....
Output: Valid
If you believe in small Government you should be opposed to the state sponsored death penalty.
Output: Valid
It isn't homicide, however, that offends me as a citizen.
Output: Invalid
We just need to receive a good education, with the best guidelines possible.
Output: Invalid
I would define mass murder as either a) The person killed multiple people who had no non-geographical connection or b) The person killed people at multiple times.
Output: Valid
I was saying, if the death penalty wasn't legit, and life imprisonment was actually the righteous thing to do, the concern of escapes shouldn't keep us from doing what's right.
Output: Valid
Both cases clearly depict that the government system is very flawed...........
Output: Invalid
If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims.
Output: Valid
(Assault would not be one of them unless it caused death or was a sexual assault on a child.)
Output: Valid
If I had my way, we'd have no death penalty except for rare cases, and have time in prison be cruel and usual with regular torture.
Output: Valid
To also benefit from the killing of them, in an affordable way that brings in income.
Output: Valid
I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
Output: Valid
It actually went step by step throughout the different types of executions, and layed out the procedures and policies associated with them.
Output: Valid
I was unaware of any Old Testament passage that remotely infers that the death penalty is illegitimate.
Output: Valid
Beyler said that key testimony from a fire marshal at Willingham's trial was "hardly consistent with a scientific mind-set and is more characteristic of mystics or psychics.̢���
Output: Invalid
Exactly, this is how the government says one thing but does something different.
Output: Invalid
And not just because it offers some small relief to the family of the victim, but also one lest a-hole we all have to worry about.
Output: Valid
What I mean is, that NO punishment would be legitimate.
Output: Invalid
Most of the African Americans I know are very aware of the problem, that "driving while black" is a good enough reason for the police (in many instances) to pull over/harrass/arrest....ad infinitum.
Output: Invalid
Whether or not it's on purpose or accident, they are proned to make mistakes.
Output: Invalid
For example: Does anyone think that Bin Laden was innocent in the 9/11 World Trade Center bombings?
Output: Invalid
I also agree that the power to end its own citizens lives is not one I want the government to have.
Output: Valid
With remarkably few exceptions, neither the media nor public policy makers have required death penalty opponents to support their claims or to define their standards.
Output: Valid
We could work at making it cheaper, and not going with this 'non cruel punishment' thing... (Hangings are cheap and they work), plus the prison sentences are way too long for those that get the death penalty.
Output: Valid
It would benefit him greatly not to do it on a popular drug dealing corner at 2:00 AM.
Output: Invalid
Since no one can prove that anything other than blind fate brought a person into this world, I don't see why I can't vote to take someone out of it.
Output: Valid
or, my politicians are telling me the end justifies the means, so perhaps, like them, we could sacrifice innocents for the overall plan.
Output: Valid
Isn't the idea that if God forgave without the sacrifice then he'd be turning justice aside?
Output: Invalid
The "eye for an eye" tag doesn't quite fit.
Output: Valid
I think at least if they are innocent they would be happier as I am living without that safety net than being killed because we don't think they should have a right to fight for thier lives leagally.
Output: Valid
Morality cannot come from us, and therefore humanity cannot be unethical.
Output: Invalid
I see the death penalty primarily as a show of power and ownership by the state.
Output: Valid
in fact, the mere fact that everbody dies (including animals and plants) is proof that sin has contaminated the planet and god's system of justice works
Output: Invalid
So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
Output: Valid
And hey, if you think man is just an animal, then the death penalty shouldn't matter to you since you can't say life has any intrinsic value (remember, you believe in relativity).
Output: Valid
Firstly, life in prison is a worse punishment.Death penalty it is the simplest punishment for the person who e.g. killed, raped, committed act of terrorism and etc.
Output: Valid
I'm afraid that you're just going to have to accept that if you want to save the many, you may have to sacrifice the few.
Output: Invalid
The government doesn't have the right to take away someone's life, even in the case of murder.
Output: Valid
yet you say you want to fry someone who's conviction has a large amount of doubt.
Output: Valid
Please, don't forget what all the great Religions, irrespective of where they are spreading, base on the same, deep, ideal: love anyone, even your worst enemy.
Output: Invalid
Your chart clearly states that life sentences are for emotional appeasement.
Output: Valid
Maybe people get spooked by the word kinda like on the abortion forum I say some of you discriminate against humans.
Output: Invalid
Statistics show that people who floss daily and visit a dentist and dental hygienist every six months live almost six and a half years longer than the Unflossed."
Output: Invalid
Any deterent value that the death penalty brings to the table is simply a nice side effect.
Output: Valid
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I do agree with the death penalty, but why should a child's life be worth more than any adult?
Output: Valid
There is more evidence in the "belief" of a human spirit than has ever been provided in opposition to the possibility.
Output: Invalid
Relaxed in that prisoners are allowed tvs, magazines and other 'luxuries' they shouldn't have.
Output: Valid
I see I was right to highly doubt your ability to prove anything.
Output: Invalid
Some poll numbers showing most Americans opinions about captial punishment:
Output: Valid
The bottom line is that reduction of crime (which still has yet to be fully proven for the death penalty) is not enough - the punishment has to be judged on its own merits and morality.
Output: Valid
If I acquire illegal evidence it is thrown out and you could be set free even though I have absolute proof of your guilt.
Output: Valid
I would fear the death penalty very little in my home state due to the fact that it has only been used 3 times since 1976, and 228 inmates currently reside on death row.
Output: Valid
There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
Output: Valid
At one time the death penalty made sense and was in that respect moral.
Output: Valid
This is the kind of fear mongering that keeps the people in a state of paranoia, holding their guns in shaking hands, just waiting to shoot whoever comes through their door.
Output: Invalid
If the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
Output: Valid
The two are worlds apart and can not be compared by reasonable people.
Output: Invalid
However, in that case, we are giving the flawed system the greatest chance to find the flaw.
Output: Invalid
The crimes meriting the death penalty are by-and-large not commited by those considering the consequences, no matter what those consequences may be.
Output: Valid
It's ok for government to force people acting in self defence behind bars.
Output: Valid
It's pathetic, really, since at the same time you will attempt to take some imaginary moral high road as you argue against the death penalty for legally convicted murderers who acted with malice and premeditation.
Output: Valid
If i am correct, the point that you are trying to make, is that the death penalty is very expensive which will cause pressure on the government and taxpayers.
Output: Valid
If he was innocent there is nothing to be done and nobody is interested in rocking the boat.
Output: Valid
The National Institute of Drug Abuse estimated that while 12 percent of drug
Output: Invalid
Life imprisonment without parole is more effective than execution, and it is cheaper.
Output: Valid
Since I started the thread, I permit this slight perversion to learn these guys beliefs.
Output: Invalid
Third, you keep forgetting but i am for a death penalty, just not ours
Output: Valid
Every western democracy except the USA has abolished the death penalty.
Output: Valid
you might want to think twice before you suggest such a thing again.
Output: Invalid
There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
Output: Valid
Execution makes more financial sense if it's done correctly.
Output: Valid
I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
Output: Valid
Some human beings have proven they have forfeited the right to continue to breathe the same air as civilized people, PERIOD!!!
Output: Valid
Some people totally deserve the death penalty and I would hate it if they were released.
Output: Valid
People seem to be trying to evade the issue, there's one person, who says Durr raped and murdered Angel Vincent and no other evidence.
Output: Invalid
and in a modern democratic society everyone have the right to live.
Output: Valid
So between 336 to 672 innocent people  have staistically been excecuted since Gregg Vs Georgia took place.
Output: Valid
God gave to government the legitimate authority to use capital punishment to restrain murder and to punish murderers.
Output: Valid
There is no biblical prohibition against the government imposition of the death penalty in deserving cases.
Output: Valid
Our judicial system has come a long way in the last 200 years, let alone 2000 years.
Output: Invalid
In any case, while I believe some criminals should just be carried into the street and shot, I don't think the death penalty is worth it in today's society.
Output: Valid
With trials and appeals, one execution can end up costing more than a life sentence by the time the execution is actually carried out.
Output: Valid
The death penalty as a deterrent, our murder rate loudly speaks to that.
Output: Valid
The person who said that the death penalty should be used for people who are convicted of multiple-burglaries sounds like a complete knucklehead.
Output: Valid
Getting rid of the expensive appeals basically ensures that more innocent people will die.
Output: Valid
I dont think staying in prison for life is more punishment.
Output: Valid
Therefore, people will think twice before they choose to commit a crime and also, the death penalty has been proven to deter the crime rate.
Output: Valid
Rehabilitation is one goal that one has for punishment but other goals might include:
Output: Valid
Since the majority of violent crimes are committed by career criminals, the death penalty surely puts a damper on their career.
Output: Valid
If that is what you believe, I am compelled to disagree, because people are not by nature benevolent.
Output: Invalid
The majority of those we incarcerate are not violent offenders.
Output: Valid
I've followed this debate for years (I work in a prison), and i have never heard it suggested by anyone other than those who oppose the Penalty, that the Penalty is a deterrent.
Output: Valid
You are ignoring the fact that the murder rate were in thousands whilst the rate of death penalty was in the tens.
Output: Valid
There was a big public outcry about how cruel that was.
Output: Invalid
As for the death penalty's ineffectiveness in the United States, I would attribute it to the fact that it is not done enough, and it's always carried out away from the public eye.
Output: Valid
Indeed, on average, states with the death penalty have more murders per capita - probably because local economy is a higher differentiating influence.
Output: Valid
Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
Output: Valid
Fortunately most citizens never face the pain, allowing them to be self righteous in disregarding the victims of crime in favor of scum that would murder even those who defend them for a pittance.
Output: Valid
Unless you believe that a parent has the right to stone their child because he's lazy and has premarital sex then you can't use Old Testament verse as an argument.
Output: Valid
The severity of that punishment is determined based on the facts of the individual case.
Output: Valid
The lawyer the state provided bragged about how he never took more papers than could fit in his pocket.
Output: Invalid
In the case where the intent and means to kill are present and no alternative presents itself, no.
Output: Invalid
Every convicted person, will contribute back to society through labor.
Output: Valid
I mean, what's you're arguement going to be?
Output: Invalid
...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
Output: Valid
Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
Output: Valid
If I put a gun in your hand right now would you suddenly be more likely to become a murderer?
Output: Invalid
Society today allows the criminal more rights than the victims.
Output: Valid
Seems like you just made a pretty good biblical argument against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
In the time that the death penalty was performed on a regular basis, the crime rate in society was at a lower level.
Output: Valid
It's cheap, I'd say as effective as preventing crime as the death penalty (would you want to spend the rest of your life doing labor in Alaska?
Output: Valid
abortion does not qualify as state murder like the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Prison records would be sealed upon release, so once they serve their time they can become productive members of society again.
Output: Valid
There is a higher quality of prosecution and defense in these cases and new death penalty law, which began after Furman v Georgia (1972), is more settled than it had been from 1973-1987.
Output: Valid
The way I see it people who murder shouldn't be sentenced to death or spend life in the jails we have here there to nice.
Output: Valid
The point is not to make things worse, or better.
Output: Invalid
That structure being prison with the most dangerous of criminals where survival of the strongest determines social status, inviting and perpetuating violence.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is good for this country because it puts bad people out of their misery.
Output: Valid
If you rape a kid then you shouldn't be allowed to live.
Output: Valid
And how many murderers have got away with it because they lured their victim to their home?
Output: Invalid
The difference is one has to commit a seriously heinous crime to receive the death penalty and with abortion the victim is an innocent unborn child.
Output: Invalid
I have no problem with taking the life of someone that will harm people in the future.
Output: Valid
If I were charged to do something that forced me to spend the rest of my life in jail, I would rather die right now - I think they're doing the criminal a favor by putting him down.
Output: Valid
I'm okay with it as long as the evidence is fool proof .
Output: Invalid
Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Valid
By killing a person who murdered someone, you are just doing the same thing you are punishing him/her for.
Output: Valid
I do feel that those who murder in cold blood would be more than deserving of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
IF YOU THINK THEM DOING THEIR TIME HAS PAID FOR THE CRIME , THEN I THINK THAT YOU DONT THINK MUCH AT ALL.
Output: Valid
And if you show me where the bible say's to let the murderer go free to kill again, or to treat them with respect and dignity, I'll quickly change my stance.
Output: Valid
Killing criminals would cause fear in free-of-custody criminals, so yes, in theory the death penalty does have a deterrence element.
Output: Valid
The necessity of becomming a hardcore prisoner to survive decreases.
Output: Valid
If we focused on the death penalty in the trial, we wouldn't have those costs.
Output: Valid
I believe it takes an average of nearly twenty years from the time a scumbag is sentenced to death until the time the sentence is carried out with all the various legal appeals in most states.
Output: Valid
I've just sent one full article to the printer (it appears to be well over a hundred pages).
Output: Invalid
While criminal trials not involving the death penalty can also involve mistakes, there is at least the opportunity for those mistakes to be corrected.
Output: Valid
Even the people who did the study saying that innocents had been executed admitted that they cannot prove same.
Output: Valid
Life is a precious thing (after all, you're proposing the death penalty because of killing) and even ONE incorrect execution is one too many.
Output: Valid
I don't care if it is in the name of justice or if someone just wants to avenge a death, murder is murder, no matter how it is done.
Output: Valid
The Texas case of Lionel Herrera, like others, nationally, has been labeled, by many death penalty opponents, as an innocent executed.
Output: Valid
Is it worth the death that an extra policeman could prevent so that we can get our revenge?
Output: Valid
He used "all usable" as an adjective, so the "a" could be used for "term", not "all usable".
Output: Invalid
In addition, capital punishment affects plenty of people and ,obviously, their psychology, which can lead to following offenses.
Output: Valid
No, in 99.999of; the time there are other options, states still allow the death penalty because its not cheap to keep people in jail.
Output: Valid
The problem is when dirty cops, and prosecutors play with the evidence to get convictions.
Output: Valid
These are people who enjoy murdering people because it feels good to them, yet you feel they deserve defending, while totally innocent unborn babies who have wronged no one at all are worthy of being victims of infanticide to you.
Output: Invalid
Yes we should waste our tax money because there is no better alternative.
Output: Invalid
...which is why I and many others favor life without parole, period.
Output: Valid
Over here it's unlikely that the man would ever find himself in a courtroom except for the purpose of testifying against the guy with the missing ear.
Output: Invalid
The flawed sense in the Death Penalty may be the lack of ethical principals, but it has improved over time.
Output: Valid
It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
Output: Valid
Omega, Chester is talking about spending more money on the education system in the first place.
Output: Invalid
First of all, your command of English is appallingly poor.
Output: Invalid
I refuse to accept that you have to save the many and sacrifice the few.
Output: Invalid
Given the strong reasons for imposition of life without parole for certain cases, the risk of an innocent suffering that would have to be acceptable.
Output: Valid
In both cases you spend the rest of your life in jail and die there.
Output: Valid
Be that as it may, I still believe the DP is wrong for three main reasons:
Output: Valid
If we continue to allow the death penalty, we are no better than the murderers and rapists that we punish with the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is useless deterrent of crime because in the states that have them, they are not any more inclined to commit a crime because the threat of death penalty particularly if it is murder.
Output: Valid
That's true, but I think the natural response to that would be that knowing the death penalty might be applied jurors would be much more careful about the burden of proof.
Output: Valid
Why would the government have the right to force someone to stay alive against their will?
Output: Invalid
No, it says that they will die by the sword, that's not the same thing.
Output: Invalid
Revenge and punishment I see as rather pointless; they impose suffering but give very few, if any, benefits.
Output: Valid
But the killing of innocent lives is a crime of almost every nation and by the way, this has gone to the point of needing another thread.
Output: Valid
I realize they both achieve a similiar result but punishment is a part of justice and sometimes the removable of the most valued right (in my opinion) is justified.
Output: Valid
In fact I'll go a step further and state that we're too lax with the death penalty, we need to make it more severe.
Output: Valid
Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
Output: Valid
There are only 54 countries and territories that retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes.
Output: Valid
You send somebody to the chair and a few years later evidence surfaces, and guess what you killed the wrong guy.
Output: Valid
Eyewitnesses are frequently unreliable, DNA evidence has been overturned, and even personal confessions are unreliable: several people confessed to being the Yorkshire Ripper here in the UK who were found to have nothing to do with it.
Output: Valid
Even more space could be freed up by simply eliminating the classification of crime, thus rendering prisons empty shells.
Output: Valid
Seventy-five countries and territories, including Australia, Germany, and Spain, refuse to impose the death penalty for any crime.
Output: Valid
Duo_Maxwell, there have been no cases of a criminal that has had the death penalty carred out committed a crime.
Output: Valid
Tony Martin, who was convicted of murder for shooting in the back someone who was running away.
Output: Invalid
Implementing the death penalty will send a message to others that no one should have the right to kill another person.
Output: Valid
Rather their execution is enforced as a safeguard against society and even other inmates.
Output: Valid
If you judge someone to die because of your moral standards, how does that make you better than them?
Output: Valid
The movie had an even more interesting take on the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Using the same logic I could claim that robbery is robbery whether it is state sanctioned or not to avoid paying taxes.
Output: Invalid
Death penalty should be abolished because i think this method is irreversible.
Output: Valid
Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted in March of 1985 for the brutal killing and sexual assault of a nine year old girl.
Output: Valid
Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
Output: Valid
With the implementation of DNA, many of the innocent have been freeed from the death penalty.
Output: Valid
And some elected officials are debating a moratorium on executions.
Output: Valid
Just because I thought that California is using the chamber as only state.
Output: Valid
I didn't say the recession was caused by that I said the recession is made worse by that.
Output: Invalid
The only question is whether or not any risk of executing an innocent is acceptable.
Output: Valid
I'd like to see you try discredit some of the most prestigeous universities in the nation.
Output: Invalid
Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
Output: Valid
When the point that someone on death row was saved by DNA is brought up, it shows that system works because it has saved their life.
Output: Valid
(and getting it from a site called prodeathpenalty.com might not be the best idea;))
Output: Invalid
Now I'm not unreasonable, I think those that get a life sentence converted to a death sentence should get a choice of method of destruction, including heroin overdose, or any preferred method of death.
Output: Valid
Prof. Cook, one of the authors, has a new study out, which claims an $11 million savings for NC, by ending the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Which means that the execution rate may be low and still act as even more of a deterrent if publicity is increased.
Output: Valid
Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
Output: Valid
Some criminals never change, and via your testimony, only live to do it again.
Output: Valid
The moral law, speaking through my conscience has no problem with the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Whatever you might think of the liability of my quotes, you can see I cite my sources, something you did not do concerning your 9,9995 percents of people refraining from murder.
Output: Invalid
But they do have a law forcing post-conviction DNA testing.
Output: Valid
And in an atheist's perspective, from our own morals, we should know that causing another death of a human being is highly unnecessary, considering that we all ready have them behind bars.
Output: Valid
So I have a solution, how would you feel about a convicted rapist being casterated along with his prison sentence, then upon release he is not likely to repeat the crime.
Output: Valid
Dsa posted some figures on the old forum saying that less people end up dying if the death penalty is kept in place.
Output: Valid
There is written law going 2500+ years back and death penalty was not the most common punishment used.
Output: Valid
Hawkins was shot 13 times ��� including six bullets in his head ��� and was run over by the escapees' car as they fled the scene.
Output: Invalid
The case is indeed more involved than your typical court case, and for good reason.
Output: Invalid
Capitol punishment is not o.k., no matter how you try to justify it, and if you are using Jesus Christ as justification, then you are definitely never going to find that justification.
Output: Valid
Everyone on death row gets the same level of representation.
Output: Valid
Politicians contemplating moratoriums may wish to consider the possibility that a seemingly innocuous moratorium on executions could very well come at a heavy cost."
Output: Valid
Life without parole lets you fix that mistake since they can be released if they are found innocent - not so with the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Because people like you feel the need to lock away non-violent drug users.
Output: Invalid
Big difference between having a small living space and being in constant agony, however you make a good point.
Output: Invalid
So, if you had to kill 1 person to save 2 people's lives...you wouldn't????
Output: Valid
The problem is that prison is not designed as a rehabilitation tool but only as a punishment.
Output: Valid
Consideration of error, be it the actually innocent convicted or procedural, is why we have appeals and the commutation/clemency process.
Output: Valid
It is not meant as a punishment, it should be used when the courts have decided that the person is too dangerous to allow back into society.
Output: Valid
My final point is, whether you believe in the afterlife or whether you think once we're dead this is it, do you not think death is the least punishing form of punishment?
Output: Valid
The death penalty doesn't reverse the death of the victim.
Output: Valid
Were the murdered prisoners and guards guilty of anything deserving death?
Output: Valid
Essentially, you believe a fetus should be allowed to be killed simply for existing, while you protect the lives of people who have murdered other innocent people (as murder is generally what a person will get the death penalty for).
Output: Valid
Let's try to get an effective police, for instance.
Output: Invalid
The fact that you do not want to donate to these poor, needy people only shows me that you really do not care about the embryos.
Output: Invalid
Any time there is any loss of innocent life it is evil.
Output: Valid
What does them being released have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Valid
I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
Output: Valid
A car from an in park position is most likely not going to kill or even really injure you unless you stand and looked stunned at it.
Output: Invalid
The "Central Park Jogger" case involved a person who confessed who probably was guilty.
Output: Valid
I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
Output: Valid
It seems that none of them were snatched out of their homes by police while reading the evening paper, or arrested while taking the kids to soccer practice.
Output: Invalid
i think most people here are arguing that our justice system does not require absolute certainty in order to sentence someone to the death penalty, and we can almost never have absolute certainty.
Output: Valid
However, one advantage with the Death Penalty is you can use it as leverage in plea bargains.
Output: Valid
punishment in America, have proven the lack of relationship between the
Output: Invalid
I'm pretty sure that the states with the death penalty do NOT have better crime rates or even better capital crime rates.
Output: Valid
That mood being TOTALLY wrong for him, I got him in private and asked if he had problems with me , or anything else going on at work.
Output: Invalid
Of the 11 scheduled for the needle in Texas the first part of this year 1 has been on death row for 31 years.
Output: Valid
And if prevention fails the woman should be obligated to carry an undesired pregnancy to term?
Output: Invalid
Since some of you seem to oppose the death penalty for one reason or another, and since I support it, we stand at an impass on this situation.
Output: Valid
I believe in order to handed the death penalty you would have to be caught on tape, no doubts about it, red frickin' handed.
Output: Valid
In this case I wouldn't have "voted" for the death penalty (lack of physical evidence, etc).
Output: Valid
An argument regarding the death penalty should be confined to discussions regarding those who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
Agreed, I just don't share their beliefs as to why the penalty should be stopped.
Output: Valid
If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I think the death penalty should only be used when there is undeniable proof against the suspect.
Output: Valid
I'm not against the notion that the worst criminals deserve the worst punishment, but No for 2 reasons.
Output: Valid
Elections aren't supposed to be proof beyond reasonable doubt that the person on suited to the job, just the opinion of the electors.
Output: Invalid
Wow, if that ain't the biggest contradiction in terms I've ever heard.
Output: Invalid
Only psychopaths will deterrence not work because most people value their life over others first so the deterrence of the death penalty is inherent.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is no more revnege than is any other sanction, meaning not at all.
Output: Valid
fit at all within the principles of the civilized society those who believe in
Output: Invalid
There is no crime which justifies others to kill as a form of punishment, and it is ineffective as a deterrent to prevent crime.
Output: Valid
As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
Output: Valid
The first reason of abolishing the death penalty is human rights perspectives and the danger of executing innocent people .
Output: Valid
Your government shouldn't proceed to end a person's life without adequate investigation because it simply didn't fit into the budget, or thought your life was expendable anyway.
Output: Valid
I certainly wouldn't count you as a friend, but I consider myself "liberal" in the way Americans use the term and yes I would oppose the death penalty in this case.
Output: Valid
The defense lawyer scoffed at an Army psychiatrist's testimony that Akbar suffered merely from "the blues" -- not any serious mental problems.
Output: Invalid
Besides, if cost is all you care about, why not kill off all wellfare recipients, street bums, ALL criminals, etc?
Output: Valid
The only reason the death penalty is more expensive is because all the liberals want it banned so they make it as expensive as possible.
Output: Valid
Life and death decisions should NOT be based on money.
Output: Valid
I guess you're referring to an american fundamental right.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is the only acceptable answer in this case.
Output: Valid
I am not disagreeing with punishing criminals for crimes they have committed.
Output: Valid
There is a better than average chance that your wife has left you.
Output: Invalid
Should prisoners be stripped off their rights is another debate, but then isn't death penalty a solution to get rid of some prisoners in the most productive way, after all they do live off our taxes, including victims?
Output: Valid
Death penalty is lawful (in some states) because a majority of the people has agreed to give the justice system the power to kill with our permission.
Output: Valid
That right to life was taken away, I agree, but we will not accomplish anything if we kill someone else.
Output: Valid
How was he to know that the person who broke into his home didn't fully intend to carry out the threat against his family?
Output: Invalid
Some have claimed that the death penalty is culturally biased towards black people.
Output: Valid
On the religious scale their are NO positive gains to be made by executing anyone.
Output: Valid
No person has ever escaped a maximum security prison in the history of maximum security prisons.
Output: Valid
In accordance with his conviction's sentence, Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island.
Output: Invalid
But, I am glad you didn't let it (revenge) effect you to the point of taking his life yourself.
Output: Valid
Though I think a lot less people would willingly commit crimes if you were brutally beaten on a regular basis in prison, too, though, so, think about that one.
Output: Valid
I had no idea that your ideas were so barbaric.
Output: Invalid
correct, but all sin lead to "spiritual death" even if a physical death penalty is not attached to it
Output: Valid
I'd rather be put to death than sit in a jail cell and rot for the rest of my life.
Output: Valid
Oh I'm not saying that the govenrment should do away with the death penalty on these grounds, I'm saying that Christian people should oppose it, you said it yourself.
Output: Valid
DNA is exonerateing about 1-2 death row inmates every month.
Output: Valid
not only should the death penalty be retained but also televised so that we can all see the terror on their faces as they are locked into position.this is where the "real" deterrent lies.
Output: Valid
As events of the 20th century aptly demonstrated a deranged man with a podium is far more dangerous than a deranged man with a firearm.
Output: Invalid
It was used only for specific crimes, while the most common practice was eye for an eye doctrine.
Output: Valid
Also, Texas has executed persons who were, in fact, innocent.
Output: Valid
Life incarceration will never let him kill again, and its cheaper.
Output: Valid
I have heard of two instances of innocent men who were executed back in the seventies.
Output: Valid
I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
Output: Valid
There is no way to determine how many murders would have been committed.
Output: Valid
These rights were forged by our Founders who realized that the only means of defense against tyranny was the ability to speak out against it and the means with which to resist it.
Output: Invalid
Death penalty cases cost way more because they usual go through a series of costly appeals.
Output: Valid
Do you think that the judicial system is so weak in its nature that all it takes is for DNA evidence to convict someone?
Output: Valid
The French feel the death penalty is no longer necessary.
Output: Valid
I don't have a problem with the military finances as JAG already has a budget for fit.
Output: Invalid
The state Department of Corrections' top medical officer has resigned, saying that the use of staff members to prepare for an execution is unethical.
Output: Valid
In some courts, you will find families and friends of the victims holding hands tightly, crying, and praying for justice whilst the accused in sentenced.
Output: Valid
its a eye for an eye, you might go to their level but you kill someone you should face the death penalty unless they kill in self defence.
Output: Valid
This world is a gift from God (if you believe in God) and we as humas therefore don't have the RIGHT to put somebody's life on the line.
Output: Valid
Nobody has ever said it was a privilege for those who want to have babies.
Output: Invalid
A definite argument could be made that if a woman is inpregnated by rape or incest her state of mind would be affected and that would endanger her life..........
Output: Invalid
I'm sure he's guilty, but I am against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
And an absolute pardon may have nothing to do with actual innocence.
Output: Valid
The right to take away another man's life is not in our hands and therefore, I think that the death penalty is morally incorrect.
Output: Valid
The DPIC is also a strongly biased anti-death penalty site.
Output: Valid
Most people deranged enough to commit crimes worthy of the death penalty feel no remorse for what they have done.
Output: Valid
Defense attorneys acknowledged that Akbar carried out the attack but argued he was too mentally ill to have premeditated it and was fueled by emotion.
Output: Invalid
Those are all arguments for fixing the system, not adjusting the punishment.
Output: Valid
There is an even smaller chance of an innocent person being sent to prison for the rest of their life, let alone to be convicted of a crime and sent to death.
Output: Valid
I believe that the final decision should be given to the bereaved; those affected by the murder.
Output: Valid
Whether a criminal gets one appeal or two hundred appeals has little to do with guilt or innocence.
Output: Valid
The legal system is profoundly called into question as a guideline for what is truly the best way of assess another person's character or need for their improvement.
Output: Invalid
Also, the death penalty in the US isn't a painful, public spectacle.
Output: Valid
what you are saying is that we should murder people because the prisons are overcrowded.
Output: Valid
I feel better putting them down, however, because an execution is a fitting response to the crime of murder.
Output: Valid
If someone killed my relative, I wouldn't want them killed, I would want them to spend the rest of their lives in hard, back breaking labor.
Output: Valid
No doubt there are other options besides the death penalty.
Output: Valid
How do you compare killing a little child who has never had the chance to live to the execution of a criminal who has been raping and killing little children?
Output: Valid
Personally, I've a big problem with the death penalty, namely that it has been applied to entirely innocent people.
Output: Valid
If these bleak prospects aren't enough to deter someone from committing a serious crime, what will ramping it up to the death penalty do?
Output: Valid
so why let those 'evil' on the street to let them do the same mistake over again or putting them into a jail their whole life-long that will takes a large number of the government's tax?
Output: Valid
In the last three weeks we have had three police officers shot (two died).
Output: Invalid
I say let's empty all death rows in all prisons on a monthly basis.
Output: Valid
More than three countries a year on average have abolished the death penalty in law since 1976 or have gone from abolishing it for ordinary crimes to abolishing it for all crimes.
Output: Valid
We seem to have more compassion for the victims and potential victims of murderers than we do for the murderers.
Output: Valid
Bloodsworth also became the first person to be exonerated from death row through postconviction DNA testing.
Output: Valid
The Talmud and its hundreds of rules for interpretation, printed in 499 CE, compiled over a period of hundreds of years before due to the fear of dispersion of the Jews, is the basic tool for all Jewish Law education.
Output: Invalid
You don't need to go to more than 3 court appeals or retrials to ensure justice.
Output: Valid
As I mentioned, I feel that two witnesses to the crime(s) or a confession in court is sufficient.
Output: Valid
Basic necessities, like cable TV, vending machines, movies, exercise equipment, educational abilities, libraries, computer access, free medical care, perhaps a job to occupy time.
Output: Invalid
Nonsense, the issue of people being put to death for crimes that they likely NEVER committed is only one issue with the death penalty.
Output: Valid
There was a case recently where this guy and his friends had been over at a house.
Output: Invalid