niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
i have not and do not condone violent behavior and agree 100% that there should be punishment, but not the death penalty.
Output: Valid
But if that one doesn't wash for you, here's another argument against the deterent factor (and I must credit a bunch of wonderful schools debaters from a disadvantaged community in the third world for this):
Output: Valid
There would be executions for murderers and jail time for others.
Output: Valid
Without corroborating evidence conviction is unsafe, and execution is unthinkable in a civilised legal system
Output: Valid
However, the vast majority of the anti-death penalty crowd simply states that they want to abolish the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I am "for" capital punishment... but if a criminal shows a desire for death over a life sentence, I prefer to be sadistic.
Output: Valid
Because they love to butt-fuck and they're usually pro-capitol punishment.
Output: Valid
That victim has a family, that is a father, brother, sister, mother, cousin.
Output: Valid
However angry I am be, people completely unnattached to the case should not have to pay.
Output: Valid
If we don't stop it before we try to fix it, we will make it harder to fix and we will create more of a mess.
Output: Invalid
If one person was excecuted when he was innocent than thats hundreds too many.
Output: Valid
Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
Output: Valid
So I'm completely up front about it, I am adamently opposed to the death penalty period.
Output: Valid
In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Output: Valid
For many reasons, including DNA testing, the US death penalty, is much safer today than it has ever been.
Output: Valid
Yes I understand that bit, what I'm asking is whether you would have the same view if the mother was not a victime of rape or incest but was still certified to be at risk of suicide.
Output: Invalid
The crimes i am talking about the criminal is not innocent........
Output: Valid
I'd like to use this thread to think out loud about how stupid lethal injection is.
Output: Valid
We punish to ensure future safety by staving off future wrongdoings (again, the death penalty is no more effective than eternity in prison).
Output: Valid
if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
Output: Valid
I don't believe that they should because if you kill someone, they won't have the chance to either get rehabilitated nor will they have the chance to actually regret what they have done.
Output: Valid
Well what I said above solves the whole death row problem.
Output: Valid
Indeed, the justice system is not perfect, but it is better and more acurate than ever before.
Output: Invalid
There are, also, the famous videos displaying children going literally mad because of a failure at a video game.
Output: Invalid
Firstly, many people say that Europe does not have the death penalty so the U.S should not.
Output: Valid
First he can't even name one case when there are allegedly so man.
Output: Invalid
If there was no justifiable reason for the murder then I don't care who kills the bastard... the state or a civilian.
Output: Valid
There has seldom if ever been any occurrence in which someone has violently avenged a murderer's death.
Output: Valid
Without the trials and appeals, death penalty cases would be much cheaper than confining inmates for the rest of their lives.
Output: Valid
Keep in mind, though, that you can never fully understand the abortion issue because you've never been pregnant let alone being plauged with an unwanted pregnancy.
Output: Invalid
I was just wondering how you could have such a hateful view of those that have sinned, rather than trying to save their souls.
Output: Valid
Statistics show that capital punishment is no more of a deterrent than life without parole so I fail to see your arguement about society needing capital punishment.
Output: Valid
I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Valid
The only downside to your argument is that the death penalty is actually more expensive.
Output: Valid
The National Bureau of Economics Research, directed by Katherine Baicker, found that sixteen years of capital punishment trials have costs the nation $1.6 billion dollars.
Output: Valid
All you have to do is put them in with the general prison population and it will be taken care of - its all a matter of survival of the fittest and won't cost us a penny.
Output: Valid
It's a good argument for doing away with the death penalty and their expensive trials.
Output: Valid
Again, with the kind of technology we have now, it is very difficult to make mistakes, especially with dna evidence that has set many people free.
Output: Valid
And it seems that every time we start talking about the death penalty, that we end up talking about whether or not it deters crime.
Output: Valid
so you weigh whatever monetary savings (if any) over the life of someone found innocent after conviction (even if rare)?
Output: Valid
From the view of the overall benefit to society as far as safety and economics, is is a better solution to put violent criminals to death.
Output: Valid
I support the death penalty because I feel that their are crimes and criminals so heinous that they deserve death.
Output: Valid
LWOP is, like I've said before (IMHO) "cruel and unusual".
Output: Valid
If we don't stop the death penalty now, we will put innocent people to death while we try to fix the problems.
Output: Valid
The Death Penalty is a subject i am very passionate about and i am also pursuing the study of criminal law so it has exposed me to many facts.
Output: Valid
if one cannot be rehabiliated in prison, they should be eliminated.
Output: Valid
In the case of the death penalty, the crime committed is so terrible that society is no longer concerned with teaching a lesson; they simply want to be free of these terrible criminals.
Output: Valid
Most people would agree that someone who kills someone in self defense doesn't deserve the death penalty, but there have been a couple of recent cases where someone killed someone in revenge for molesting their children.
Output: Valid
Murders, rapists, child pornographers, etc. literally should die for a better society.
Output: Valid
Morally, I do not believe in eye for an eye, because it would leave the whole world blind.
Output: Valid
Guess who often counsules and stops people from going on violent crimes?
Output: Invalid
Society doesn't have to go overboard - life without parole is sufficient.
Output: Valid
the use of the death penalty is an act of revenge which cannot be undone, so should the state be put on trial for putting to death an innocent person?
Output: Valid
I cannot compare numbers with other western countries since we are the only one with capital punishment.
Output: Valid
Since I am not related to any death-row-inmate's victims (of murder, rape, molestation), I do not classify my desire to see them dead as vengeance.
Output: Valid
Texas' system of capital punishment is less than a quarter the cost of housing a criminal for life.
Output: Valid
Should they be forced to go through the same ordeal, just so that some people can "feel better"?
Output: Valid
If capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
Output: Valid
However, the problem comes in trying to codify which people deserve the death penalty.
Output: Valid
~A 1991 study of the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of appealing capital murder at $2,316,655.
Output: Valid
Yes, because death penalty will really make people think more deeply before kill somebody or steal something.
Output: Valid
"by not killing those who deserve it"....do rape victims deserve it?
Output: Valid
I'm not suggesting that criminals cannot and do not change...of course they do.
Output: Valid
Here's my 2 cents on capital punishment and the main reason I oppose it.
Output: Valid
The comparison is no bridge to the death penalty, however, because there is nothing gained by seeing a person fried to death as opposed to seeing them fade away in a prison cell for the rest of their life.
Output: Valid
If you just shot suspects without a trial it'd be even cheaper, it'd probably have a decent deterrent effect too.
Output: Valid
I know the eye for an eye statement is wrong.
Output: Valid
However, a person convicted of a capital crime is BY OUR OWN DEFINITION NOT INNOCENT.
Output: Valid
The law recognizes the specific distinction between those legally innocent and those actually innocent, just as common sense dictates.
Output: Valid
Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
Output: Valid
Doubtfully it would get banned in a republic, sure in democracy since murder is bad.
Output: Valid
If there was another factor associated with the increase in the murder rate and not the death penalty, then the article itself would have pointed it out.
Output: Valid
No where in the world, that I know of, has the exactly the same right to life for both born and unborn persons.
Output: Invalid
The problem with capital punishment, however, is that it is permanent.
Output: Valid
the part that i forgot to mention was the part about sacrifice.
Output: Invalid
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Output: Valid
The cost of the present system with reforms recommended by the Commission to ensure a fair process would be $232.7 million per year.
Output: Valid
As you said yourself, Humans are flawed, and so the designs of humanity are no more perfect than we are.
Output: Invalid
If Europeans don't like the fact that we execute mass murderers in the US, then they'd better not come to the US to become a mass murderer.
Output: Valid
The thing is, without the death penalty there is absolutely no deterrent from committing heinous crimes.
Output: Valid
The court time is not inevitable, otherwise there wouldn't be an argument as to the death penalty being more expensive than life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
However, religious ideas are baseless, and in no way can be used in any argument effectively.
Output: Invalid
However, this may seem unfair considering how many people are exonerated by DNA every year?
Output: Valid
There is a reason that the phrase includes the term "reasonable doubt".
Output: Valid
Death penatly is not just about money, but it is morally wrong.
Output: Valid
No, the death penalty is society as a whole voting that someone is far too dangerous to be allowed to remain in the country and deserves to be removed.
Output: Valid
In my opinion as I posted to you earlier is that death row inmates in my opinion should only be on death row 1 year, that would including all appeals.
Output: Valid
But if Capital punishment is used, it has to be used in all situations according to the precedent set, i.e. if the next person did not kill anyone and is wrongly convicted, he too must be executed.
Output: Valid
Using the same logic one might conclude that the only way to prevent libel and slander is to eliminate the freedom of speech.
Output: Invalid
But it's easy to see that a less violent environment, incuding representations of violence, would help speeding the educating process and avoiding some bad issues.
Output: Valid
Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
Output: Valid
If the system is good enough to send someone to prison for life, it should be good enough to send them to death row.
Output: Valid
It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
Output: Valid
By not giving the death penalty to a slaughtering murderer, we are telling the world that the life of this murderer is worth more than that of his victim.
Output: Valid
Death penalty does not have a clear and definite criterion.
Output: Valid
Utility must be served for the greater good of society.
Output: Invalid
As for whether it is right to kill for satisfaction of public desire for vengeance, that is a judgement call.
Output: Valid
stuck in the dilema, they could do nothing but leave the issue alone.
Output: Invalid
For the very worst offenders who are uncontroleable, there are options such as solitary confinement, etc.
Output: Valid
He is so full of wrong information as well as lies it's astounding.
Output: Invalid
The chance of being killed in prison sounds to me like a better deterrent than capital punishment.
Output: Valid
This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I think the deterent benefit of capitol punishment is far too valuable to throw away for rare instances of innocents being executed.
Output: Valid
For the record, I'm a fan of the death penalty, although I feel the laws (indeed the entire legal system) needs to be reworked to some extent before it becomes a viable option.
Output: Valid
Just because if we didn't we wouldn't have something to plea bargain with?
Output: Invalid
it is quite clear that Jesus did not support the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If an opportunity to do good (in this case increase the probability of the society's well being by eliminating harmful members) presents itself in any situation, TAKE IT!
Output: Valid
I can't believe that you just said "So what if Jesus said....?"
Output: Invalid
If these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
Output: Valid
What you're proposing is completely removing the human element, and letting God Himself hold all trials and make all the decisions.
Output: Valid
I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
Output: Valid
Even if the death penalty does not deter serial killers, it prevents them from killing again in society or in prison.
Output: Valid
We must look into why the person raped a child or murdered a father.
Output: Valid
You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Valid
The DA�۪s office cared very little about fairness or justice.
Output: Invalid
if you had a brother in the military and a muslim chopped off his head with and axe by cutting it like he would a steak......
Output: Valid
Saying the death penalty is morally equivalent to abortion because they both involve kiling is like saying rape is morally equivalent to making love because they both involve sex.
Output: Valid
If you're arguing for a general principle (eg that Capital punishment is acceptible and effective) then you have to argue in the general case:
Output: Valid
Republicans tend to think that anyone accused in a domestic court is guilty, and liberals tend to think that anyone of the military accused is guilty.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is not murder, it simply killing humanely and justifiably with a legitimate cause.
Output: Valid
I have a entirely different view as to what the goal of capital punishment should be.
Output: Valid
Well I think that if someone commits a crime worthy of the death penalty they should get a sentence for life that way they can't be a repeat offender.
Output: Valid
The death penalty provides a possible (but by no means apparent) benefit on crime rates compared to imprisonment, but a very definite loss on human happiness.
Output: Valid
The deterrent of the death penalty cannot be directed at the executed, but does put fear in the minds of other potential capital criminals.
Output: Valid
If its not right to put innocent people at risk, then why are people allowed to drive?
Output: Invalid
There are other laws that can be attributed to more murder, such as gun laws.
Output: Invalid
I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
Output: Valid
If you wanted to make a point you should have just stated it, rather than pretending you are asking a question.
Output: Invalid
I know some of you think you know more about how to do things than God does, so I fully expect a lot of ridicule over this post, and thats ok, we will see who is right in the end.
Output: Invalid
The government does not have the right to kill people.
Output: Valid
i am not saying my approach is perfect nor should be the only way to go forward.
Output: Invalid
Also, there is a theory, that people tend to be angry if the group of people their anger is directed towards had once done something to them, such as rape or sexual assualt.
Output: Invalid
In Matthew 12 the pharisees caught the disciples of Jesus breaking the Sabbath Day.
Output: Invalid
Prision isnt a walk in the park, so learn to comprehend and understand reasonings past your simple minded conservative thoughts.
Output: Valid
And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Valid
It's been determined the death penalty is economically inefficient and I have yet to see any solid statistics displaying a defined deterrent factor.
Output: Valid
Falling, at least thistown admits he doesn�۪t understand it all!
Output: Invalid
The academic debate, and the larger national argument about the death penalty itself ��� with questions about racial and economic disparities in its implementation ��� shows no signs of fading away.
Output: Valid
The death penalty does not faze sociopaths, suicide bombers, and indoctrinated fundamentalists.
Output: Valid
The part of the world and the timeperiod I live in hasn't seen real war.
Output: Invalid
But with your prefered " non lethal" means of self defense, a repeat is highly likely, as our judicial system believes in just giving a criminal a slap on the wrist.
Output: Valid
But think how many people would suddenly start confessing if they knew that doing so would save their lives
Output: Valid
OF THE VICTIM would be able to visit or at least know they're family members are alive if the criminal hadn't KILLED THEM!!
Output: Valid
Punishment and retribution is a right of the family after there loved ones were taken away from them and no one should tell them that they do not have the right to.
Output: Valid
The proper way to do it is to make sure that you are above the point where the noose is tied and then push the person.
Output: Invalid
I would say that we need to keep cold-blooded barbarism out of our justice system at all levels.
Output: Valid
Notice, both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Output: Invalid
Having catastrophic emotional and physical effects, long and short term.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is cruel & unusual punishment, and it has been (and will continue to be) applied unfairly to different racial & ethnic groups.
Output: Valid
IMHO, if we have the confidence in our system to throw someone in a cage for the rest of their natural life we should have the same confidence to put someone to death.
Output: Valid
New evidence of innocence is one thing, but the majority of the appeals that are presented in death cases are rediculous delay tactics.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is in place to prevent further crimes, not to please the victim's family.
Output: Valid
Any criminal in the world would just love to have you on his jury.
Output: Invalid
In fact, many of his stances are very anti-christan all while he proclaims his faith.
Output: Invalid
The money to pay usually comes from crime preventing actitivies, such as after school, outreach programs, and local police.
Output: Invalid
With all that it has been a very trying time for me and I have had to struggle with how I really felt about the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The death penalty can be viewed as legalized murder, which is ironic considering that such a punishment is only imposed because of the cruelty of the crime - murder.
Output: Valid
It is for the very reason that i mentioned those mechanisms that were implemented to ensure that the innocent are not executed.
Output: Valid
ALSO HAVE MANY IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF THERE LIVES.
Output: Valid
I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
Output: Valid
No one said we are perfect, but neither should be lenient towards people who commit horrible crimes.
Output: Valid
Even if you think about it a second before you do it, you thought about it, and, then, it classifies it as murder.
Output: Valid
I have been a victim of rape and if I were a victim of murder I would not desire the death penalty for the perpetrator.
Output: Valid
killing someone who has raped them or hurt a family member, while some of these reasons would definitely require being locked up the death penalty does not seem right for alot of situations
Output: Valid
(E.G. For example, we should tax the pants off the rich because they have too much money, but apparently there is no such thing as the middle class having too much money.)
Output: Invalid
There are more black men in prison then white men.
Output: Valid
If revenge is comparable to justice, doesn't it make more sense (at least in economic terms) to allow communities to kill the people who've committed murder in any way they choose?
Output: Valid
You think about the unfortunate soul who is truly innocent of murder and executed anyway.
Output: Valid
Jess was executed for two murders with Donald Henry Gaskins, a serial killer.
Output: Valid
then again, is it reasonable to pay the cost of feeding, clothing, and sheltering this person so as to prevent them from interfering with society?
Output: Valid
The DP serves no purpose except for a barbaric outlet for hate.
Output: Valid
One does not have to witness an execution to be aware one took place.
Output: Valid
However, as you are not going to answer it (as usual) I see little point.
Output: Invalid
You think that just because an innocent man is set free after having had to go through the gauntlet the system works?
Output: Valid
Courts take the position that, it is not their's to punish, our laws are there to protect individuals or groups, and to rehabilitate perpetrators when possible (not in the case of murder obviously though).
Output: Valid
The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
Output: Valid
When someone kills a bunch of people and rapes a buch of women, that's when their life is no longer sacred.
Output: Valid
But as long as they are only options, I support the criminals right to choose that particular method.
Output: Valid
If you didn't execute them in the first place you'd save money on the execution, save money in any compesation claims and not actually increase the danger the public faces.
Output: Valid
Ok, good start, I'm proud that you know that to cut off the penis is to castrate.
Output: Invalid
Criminals need to be punished for what they have done.
Output: Valid
This is to all you bleeding heart liberals who think poor old Scott should be spared the death penalty........
Output: Valid
If you know anything about how these trials are paid for, you would know that counties, counties that are usually in the RED, have to pay for them.
Output: Invalid
If we kill our criminals, we see no opertunity for them to right their ways.
Output: Valid
The question is should the death penalty be allowed as a form of punishment.
Output: Valid
If someone were to torture and kill one of my kids, I don�۪t think killing them would be punishment enough.
Output: Valid
I would have to say that I support that they should live.
Output: Invalid
People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
Output: Valid
I am educated about what types of attacks are more likely to occur in what scenarios and how to act accordingly.
Output: Invalid
there is no evidence of people intentionally visiting another in a dream, though claims have been made.
Output: Invalid
The trial for the murder who killed 40+ women is currently over $20 million without appeals.
Output: Valid
A life seems to be a good price for a serious enough crime.
Output: Valid
Since there are many people sentenced for murder that are actually innocent (~10% who were sentenced to death who were proved innocent in appeal), you would be causing a lot more innocent deaths than you would be saving.
Output: Valid
Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
Output: Valid
I understand that the system is flawed, I think everyone knows that the system is flawed.
Output: Invalid
The reason why I'm for death penalty is because some people can be so dangerous fir the society, like serial murderer or maniac, so that they must be punished by this method.
Output: Valid
However, as I know many disagree, I think there should be understandings for justifiable murders.
Output: Valid
Darknight, This is a good point that I agree with and another Pro for capital punishment.
Output: Valid
From what I have read, there has been no conclusive evidence of an innocent person killed by the death penalty since 1900.
Output: Valid
The most evidence the prosecution had was that on that day he had been with those people.
Output: Invalid
Most countries do not have the death penalty because they do not have these tools or mechanisms which makes them a less civilized society.
Output: Valid
We shouldn't just kill someone if they commit a crime.
Output: Valid
I believe that we should attempt to prevent suicide in the general population.
Output: Invalid
Some murders are done spare of the moment, it doesn't make it right, but people can change.
Output: Valid
if you execute a pickpocket or give him life imprisonment, then you would have one less thief to worry about but I think we agree that that would be excessive).
Output: Valid
I can see how people in general, and more importantly the children get used to violence through its representation.
Output: Invalid
Yeah, including the human judgment that says that the death penalty is wrong.
Output: Valid
the prisons are overcrowded as it and why prolong someones life who took someone elses i mean they don't deserve to live out there life.
Output: Valid
So, in your opinon, a person who rapes little kids is just as valuable a member of society as somebody who feeds hungry people in a soup kitchen?
Output: Valid
The only difference between the death penalty and murder is that the government says it's okay to kill the criminal.
Output: Valid
Since there is no clear evidence indicating that there is any deterrent value to the death penalty, I have trouble rationalizing it as a punishment.
Output: Valid
If x-y= 2 eyes, one from each person, then you can logically conclude that
Output: Invalid
Another myth is that the death penalty is handed out like candy.
Output: Valid
Are we talking about what crimes are justifiably punished by death, or merely the validity of capital punishment as a Biblical measure?
Output: Valid
Then when I demonstrated that the word was, in fact, used accurately, you changed strategy and attempted to argue thye concept of the death penalty as a deterrent to others.
Output: Valid
That in itself is a clear indication that people are scared of the death penalty which is a form of extreme punishment.
Output: Valid
Depending on that state's laws, if you're going to apply the death penalty, I find the death penalty appropriately applied to this case.
Output: Valid
Prison guards, other inmates, etc., are all potential victims of lifers behind bars.
Output: Valid
The human nervous system is not fully developed until adulthood, therefore the ability to appreciate right from wrong, understand consequences of actions and mediate impulse control (among other things) differs between children and adults.
Output: Invalid
Honestly its people like you that are the reason that so many murders happen to begin with.
Output: Invalid
I'm not saying that a child's life is worth more than an adults, I'm saying if they killed any one they forfeit their life, because they in return lose what they took from someone else.
Output: Valid
BTW if someone shoots two the man will still suffer but not death that was what I meant with my old statement its not what you think.
Output: Invalid
One must be subject to requirements of "appropriateness" when defending against rapists and murderers forcing themselves into one's own dwelling.
Output: Invalid
If the victim lives through the ordeal, then the victim decides the criminals fate.
Output: Valid
But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
Output: Valid
All of the death penalty oppontents are for life in jail as opposed to the death penalty.I am sure that if some are found innocent,there are at least that many that are innocent and never set free.
Output: Valid
The question comes up becuase arguing for the deterrent effect is really the only way to justify the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The point is that it is obvious that each error mentioned happens (and quite often), and it should be obvious that they can, and do, combine and happen together.
Output: Invalid
so jesus, being both the ultimate animal sacrifice, and the sinless guilty criminal, solves the problem, but only for those who accept it and believe in it
Output: Invalid
No letting the family or friends of the victim kill the convicted person might be childish revenge.
Output: Valid
In the US at least, we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as long as it doesn't infringe upon the rights of others.
Output: Valid
Oh, and by the way, the criteria that I mentioned earlier was enough to kill someone for treason, so why shouldn't it be enough to kill someone for another crime?
Output: Valid
It's very dangerous precedent to suggest that in cases where there's only one witness/victim that a conviction isn't fair, just, or whatever choice of wording one might use.
Output: Invalid
We shudder at the thought of the UN imposing its will on our sovereignty.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
Output: Valid
As Dieter and other death penalty opponents make no distinction between the actually innocent and the legally innocent, why don't they claim that over 2500 innocents have been "exonerated" from death row?
Output: Valid
why should we be keeping people like them alive forever?
Output: Valid
So long as the chance of being caught is not considered to be 100% then the death penalty is not a guarantee and thus not a successful deterrent.
Output: Valid
16: For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.
Output: Invalid
Lastly, there are no advantages to the death penalty expect for apparent save the many at the expense of the few because of the greater good.
Output: Valid
They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
Output: Valid
Again I want to reiterate that I am not in favor of an anarchist society where there is no consequences for committing crimes, my point is that society is better served by life imprisonment than the death penalty.
Output: Valid
There's absolutely ZERO evidence that having a death penalty statute causes a lower crime rate, period.
Output: Valid
The death penalty demeans the moral order and execution does something
Output: Valid
The primary reason against is that there is always the possibility for wrongful conviction.
Output: Valid
Justice system is not infallable - as has been mentioned, people make mistakes.
Output: Valid
The guy who is a boxer who is watching was not looking for the knockout.
Output: Invalid
I'm against abortion and nominally for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
If there was a justice system that was equally fair to all accused, made no mistakes and only executed the guilty, proponents of the death penalty could rightly cry, "Fry 'um up".
Output: Valid
I am not sure what you are referring to when you mentioned executed.
Output: Invalid
The way he was teaching me about atheism made it seem like solipsism and atheism go hand in hand.
Output: Invalid
~A survey of the former and present presidents of the country's top academic criminological societies found that 84% of these experts rejected the notion that research had demonstrated any deterrent effect from the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Videlicet, one cannot simply state that all homosexuals are nice people.
Output: Invalid
A serial killer/rapist will have the death penalty just like the men who committed crimes against humanity.
Output: Valid
By skimming my first link it seems like more states without a death penalty statute have less murders then others.
Output: Valid
The point was you assuming all women with unwanted pregnancies are irresponsible.
Output: Invalid
save the money...feed starving children and free this "bad guy"...let the families find them...kill him for us for free!
Output: Valid
in your basic question you are bringing up basic human survival instincts, no one wants to die and one will do whatever is necessary to survive.
Output: Valid
I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
Output: Valid
It says that you may write as many books and make as many speaches as you want, but you still must pay for the crimes you are found guilty of.
Output: Valid
I remember several years ago there was a big deal about some American kids who had vandalised a bunch of vehicles in Thailand.
Output: Invalid
Do you want a innocent person to pay with their life for your vengence which doesn't erase the crime?
Output: Valid
One escapee committing murder or killing a guard while incarcerated is one too many, IMO.
Output: Valid
The death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
Output: Valid
You have conceded that a difference in neurophysiologic fitness makes sense, but we should decide on a case by case basis.
Output: Invalid
Point is that the hormones or whatever make them rape others are no longer produced.
Output: Invalid
The question of the death penalty is a tricky issue.
Output: Valid
There have been numerous people who were presumed innocent after execution because the evidence showed that they were not guilty.
Output: Valid
the only way you can really support capitol punishment is you would be willing to do it yourself.
Output: Valid
People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
Output: Valid
As for the OP I have already commented on it by disagreeing with your suggestions (from which you now seem to be shying away).
Output: Invalid
No, I called you a blowhard because you listed all of your courses in a attempt to prove that you are smarter, and therefore right, another fallacy, what is that?
Output: Invalid
I keep hearign this argument for the death penalty, namely that the damn dirty liberals are doing everythign in their power to put murderers back on the street.
Output: Valid
I do not think this is harsh as the person who had done it deserves it.
Output: Valid
I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
Output: Valid
Knowing they are the dirt of our society and not worthy of life amoungst the rest of us.
Output: Valid
No one will ever be able to convice me that 10 times more blacks deserved the death penalty.
Output: Valid
They need to be deprived of an enjoyable life, not pampered like innocent wayward children who were simply reacting to a bad environment.
Output: Valid
All you have to do is make it illegal to get an appeal and be done with it.
Output: Valid
It is cheaper to build a game room than to build every prison out of blast proof reinforced concrete walls.
Output: Valid
It does not represent murders by firearms as you suggest.
Output: Invalid
Are you trying to suggest that the reason the global economy is in turmoil is because not enough people are given the death penalty?
Output: Valid
and it also falls into a point i forgot to mention earlier.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Valid
Since this is allowed, it can therefore be subject to NOT being allowed.
Output: Invalid
By the way, please point out in any post of mine religion or God mentioned as a reason for anything.
Output: Invalid
Anyway, with that I would actually favor allowing criminals to choose death as long as they choose death with no appeals.
Output: Valid
Although I see your point, I don''t really agree, because there are (rarely, indeed) stories with surprising endings.
Output: Invalid
A death penalty case is likely to be appealed as high as it will be taken.
Output: Valid
It seems that those that would be deterred by fear of punishment are already dettered by the threat of a life sentence.
Output: Valid
There are currently over 3,300 people in California who have received this alternative sentence, which also has a more limited appeals process last approximately 3 years.
Output: Valid
Would you like to be killed for the accidental oopsies when people turn out to be innocent?
Output: Valid
SO in turn, there is no clear evidence indicating that there is not a detterent value to the death penalty.
Output: Valid
MANY people confess during the early questioning hoping to end the situation, but very few will actually go forward and confess in court unless they actually did it.
Output: Valid
If you are ready to take somebody elses life, you'd better be prepared to give your life as well.
Output: Valid
It is proved that death penalty for such kind people is the simplest punishment.
Output: Valid
i think the death penalty should be abolished because some people are sentenced to deathfor a crime they might have not committed.
Output: Valid
At least I, unlike you, am not living in some fantasy world.
Output: Invalid
̢���The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate.
Output: Valid
Currently, the death penalty is lawful in the US, therefore it cannot be defined as murder.
Output: Valid
Why am I not surprised that someone who is anti-choice person would also support the death penalty, even though there is no evidence that the DP deters any crime.
Output: Valid
Surely them being able to stop those that would senselessly butcher them is an acceptable standard of practice.
Output: Invalid
Just because they ran out of time on the 5 years is pretty brutal.
Output: Invalid
Government has no problem with killing criminals, but terrified if I want to protect myself from criminals.
Output: Valid
It was not at all a response to me, even indirectly, as Ooaman and I aren't even talking about the same things.
Output: Invalid
Additionally, the implementation of state moratoria is associated with the increased incidence of murders.
Output: Valid
In all honesty im glad i am not someone who has to decide murder as punishment for someone who has committed crimes.
Output: Valid
It serves both his own interests AND the State's.
Output: Invalid
Studies have actually shown that people regret having the kid much more than they do having an abortion.
Output: Invalid
I do not believe that the supreme court adressed the the problem of convicted fellons having the death penelty reduced to life in prison and going on to kill in prison.
Output: Valid
The false innocence claims by anti death penalty activists are legendary.
Output: Valid
However, I don't agree that ending a human life should be a valid "emergency safety net" in this case.
Output: Invalid
It's cheaper to shoot them on site like Judge Dredd would...It's cheaper to let them go and let the victims' families take care of the problem.
Output: Valid
If that is the case, then the trial itself is nothing but a technicality that should be done away with, right?
Output: Invalid
Most gun owners have no violent history - criminals are incarcerated because they did something illegal - murder, rape, robbery, etc.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is scam because it assuages the self perception of vengeance in the victims eyes.
Output: Valid
I have to either believe the whole Bible, or not believe it at all.
Output: Invalid
I think that the state are charged with the sole of responsibility of protecting the innocent and fighting crime, therefore the crime control model of criminal justice comes into effect.
Output: Valid
there are a whole slew of laws in the old testament that are ridiculous and are not applicable any more.
Output: Invalid
(4)Death penalty does not intimidate people from committing a crime.
Output: Valid
It deals with the death penalty...really the court is one vote away from getting rid of it because some liberal judges don't like it.
Output: Valid
It appears that the fetus takes a "breath" for about 60 seconds every 30 minutes or so.
Output: Invalid
not only that, when he died for the sins he was bearing, he immediately redeemed himself by paying the penalty for bearing sins.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is just such a sanction when considering the worste of all crimes.
Output: Valid
After we get through that, if he still retains the death penalty, it's a lot cheaper to kill him than to keep him up 'til he dies in prison.
Output: Valid
Someone who has severed someone else's ear isn't "obviously innocent".
Output: Invalid
And I do not believe that the Supreme Court has tried to eliminate crime.
Output: Invalid
One of the many grievances I have is that child rapists don't qualify for the death penalty unless the child that gets raped is also killed.
Output: Valid
Arnie the CA celebrity Governor is a Republican in a state majority of Democrats.
Output: Invalid
Numbers 35 I�۪m sorry, I read all of Numbers 35, and was unable to find anything to do with ���striking someone and receiving the death penalty.�۝
Output: Valid
The death penalty is not deterrance for the person executed.
Output: Valid
The rwandan massacre is also a very well known exemple of how machetes, stick, etc, can be used at a very large scale, in a short time.
Output: Invalid
What the death penalty is, is more than relinquishing their right to freedom, it's relinquishing their right to life for taking another's.
Output: Valid
They should be in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day with access only to the religious book of their choice if they want one.
Output: Valid
So in reality, pushing the death penalty only ensures that more innocent people will be murdered.
Output: Valid
The definitions of terms I used were a simplistic formulation of those found in texts, with differing points enhanced.
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is ultimately a rare and carefully chosen sentence reserved for only the worst crimes.
Output: Valid
If it hasn't already been dropped from that list.
Output: Invalid
There's no such thing as legal murder, since murder is illegal by nature.
Output: Valid
Many states also have adopted Castle Laws which give the victim (that's the one that's not trying to commit a crime, Jo) the right to stand and fight vs fleeing and worrying about being shot in the back.
Output: Invalid