niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
, I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
Output: Valid
Many family members who have lost love ones to murder feel that the death penalty will not heal their wounds nor will it end their pain; the extended process prior to executions can prolong the agony experienced by the family.
Output: Valid
Why is that not a completely contrived, arbitrary excuse to act just as bad as the criminal?
Output: Valid
If a criminal asks for the death penalty, give them a psychiatric evaluation to determine their mental state.
Output: Valid
And I imagine we would do it even more if we ignored the Constitutional processes involved in capital punishment - lawyers and all that mess.
Output: Valid
If we, as a society, honestly look at the issue and admit that our desire for state sanctioned vengeance overrides all other considerations, then, by all means, we should continue to have the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Surely given those premises, community justice (street law) is a better way of controlling crime?
Output: Valid
In the practice of the death penalty, vengeance seems to be part of the reason (which I am also hearing in your responses) and that is what started my entry into this debate.
Output: Valid
They want to perp to suffer in prison for the rest of his life.
Output: Valid
As far as the deterrent argument, I have said this before, and I will say it again: There is no accurate way to measure if the death penalty is deterring crime or not.
Output: Valid
Even if you take capitol punishment completely out of the realm of God and religion, specifically Christianity, it is wrong.
Output: Valid
Every legal site I have looked at has most defiantly listed the death penalty as a general deterrence, specific deterrents being those which the criminal looks back upon and knowledge of them happening again dissuades them from committing again.
Output: Valid
The case was moved from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home of the 101st, to Fort Bragg because the division still was in Iraq and Bragg is home of the 101st's higher command.
Output: Invalid
Society is brutalized by the maintenance and release of such criminals, not their execution.
Output: Valid
A ridiculous statement since there have been numerous convictions overturned on DNA evidence alone, leaving one to ponder how many bad convictions were not discovered.
Output: Valid
I am a case by case pro, Some people simply need to be put to death for the crimes they have commited so that others are protected.
Output: Valid
So, the only reason I can really see why people support the death penalty is to have simple vengeance against the perpretrator.
Output: Valid
Imprisonment deters possible crimes; there is always the risk of escape or release.
Output: Valid
The annual cost per person for incarceration of an inmate is incredibly low.
Output: Valid
I'm against captial punishment for the reasons that wjim1269 gave and also I think that just because someone murders someone it doesn't mean they should automatically forfeit their own life.
Output: Valid
Calli, much of the old testament law was put asunder when Christ died on the cross.
Output: Invalid
Scott Blonien, assistant secretary of the department, characterized Stern's objections as more individual than professional.
Output: Invalid
>_> Says the person who brought up freaking Nelson in a debate about the death penalty for murders.
Output: Valid
If we kill a few innocent lifes in the process, thats fine by me as long as the rightfuly convicted felons are killed VIA leathal injection and/or electric chair.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is an act of justice, yes justice, which while unable to supplement for the losses of others, can secure the isolation of a convicted criminal and also deliver a punishment for the crime.
Output: Valid
Let me choose an example we both agree on: animal sacrifice.
Output: Invalid
After someone is executed, it's the end of the story.
Output: Valid
of course power corrupts blah blah blah, and it makes no sense having a council to execute judgement against sinners when the judges are just as guilty as the defendants.
Output: Valid
The debate was formulated using the word America but I think it more appropriate to say should the U.S. ban the death penalty since the U.S. does not have claim to all of America--North, South etc.
Output: Valid
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last.
Output: Invalid
of course, if you refuse to call and die in your sins, then you've executed the death penalty upon yourself.
Output: Valid
If you say I'm X, and I say you're wrong, then you're wrong because I'm not X. I shouldn't have to explain that."
Output: Invalid
But life imprisonment without parole also deters the criminal from recommitting.
Output: Valid
Academic studies indicate that the single greatest predictor of whether a death sentence is given, however, is not the race of the defendant, but the race of the victim.
Output: Valid
In several of my other post I have stated that I do not seek legislation concerning abortion.
Output: Invalid
It's not just the act of murder that's bad, but also the thought process leading up to the actual murder.
Output: Valid
It is clear keeping them in prsion would be far more expensive in this case.
Output: Valid
If someone kills my child, my parent, my siblings, my love, i would want them to pay the price.
Output: Valid
There are 17 death penalty states over the national average.
Output: Valid
I think the job "executioner" would be one that few people of good conscious could hold without signifigant levels of stress.
Output: Valid
As Alphonse Karr, a 19th century journalist for Le Figaro, once said, "If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers."
Output: Valid
That would mean most of the old kingdoms from the past were uncivilized because hangings were a very popular way of executing criminals.
Output: Valid
If we had the old system back, executing someone would be very cost effective.
Output: Valid
By imposing the death penalty, we are risking ppl's life.
Output: Valid
So, if you value the life of the foeutus the same as that of the mother, why is it ok to kill the foetus because of rape or incest?
Output: Invalid
I'm wondering how long it will take all the numbnuts of the world to realize two important facts of human nature:
Output: Invalid
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
I had asked for 5 examples of innocent people who were executed.
Output: Valid
Punishment as a concept DOES encompass killing as a possible form of punishment.
Output: Valid
For every time the state wrongfully punishes someone with impunity, it leaves the rest of us equally susceptible to the scourge of error-bound agents of the state.
Output: Valid
When a person commits a crime, the Judicial system is responsible for determining a proportional response or penalty for the crime.
Output: Valid
Are you going to keep offering them opportunities for change, when they've proven 13 times that they don't want to change?
Output: Valid
For decades we have practice a quiet racism and put up glass ceilings,
Output: Invalid
People use the argument that we should not execute people based on the possibility that they may be innocent, but they could care less if we lock someone up for life who may be innocent.
Output: Valid
If later exculpatory evidence comes out... there is no reversing the punishment.
Output: Valid
In fact, the rule is that the media repeats exactly what anti death penalty sources tell them, without question and passes it along to their audience.
Output: Valid
We are going to assume for the purpose of this that the person the guy saw was NOT Jim.
Output: Invalid
if two eyes were put out by the criminal, then the equation would be
Output: Invalid
But you're assuming there can be no experience of God at the level of a direct impression, that it has to be a (necessarily compound) idea.
Output: Invalid
Recidivism rate for homicide is about 1.2% within three years.
Output: Valid
The statistics about the effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring crimes are very mixed and seem inconclusive.
Output: Valid
And no, society is not better served by life imprisonment than the death penalty because society then learns that consequences aren't very severe for committing an act of murder.
Output: Valid
The death penalty should be bought back in ALL major cities as a punishment but the capital's highest courts should be the only court which gives the sentence.
Output: Valid
No the death penalty in not hateful because it is performed due to the fact that he killed someone.
Output: Valid
Yeah, so since you are so full of hatred and sadism yourself, I think you would love to just let him walk away, free as a bird.
Output: Invalid
Yet I'm still for the death penalty if the process was cheaper and quicker.
Output: Valid
I reject execution on moral grounds, but that is a case where the likelihood of legal mistakes is unlikely.
Output: Valid
There would be no mistake as to who took out the person responsible for messing with my family.
Output: Valid
I say jesus was for the deaht penalty anddddddd he was guilty.
Output: Valid
IMO the death penalty is about justice for the loved ones of the victims.
Output: Valid
I'm of the opinion that abortion is killing a human, which (killing a human) is wrong.
Output: Invalid
I'm not advocating getting rid of all punishment, just the most extreme form.
Output: Valid
If justice was about reform, no-one would have to be punished as God could reform and then wipe the slate clean.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
Output: Valid
What about all their future potential victims, don't they deserve some consideration?
Output: Valid
Although in practice it would be counter-productive and in a sense be unfair to all those you just listed (except possibly the victim, he's dead anyway)
Output: Invalid
Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
Output: Valid
It is people like you that let violent criminals walk free, because you evidently feel sorrow for them.
Output: Valid
Also, please explain how the Supreme Court can logically back up a claim that capital punishment is not a deterrent to capital crime.
Output: Valid
What if they don't kill anyone in their escape attempt?
Output: Valid
On blurtit.com, their is a survey that shows 55% of people would prefer the death penalty to life in jail.
Output: Valid
Jim, before posting all this garbage on why innocent people are not sentenced to death, maybe you should read this thread first.
Output: Valid
Saying the death penalty is a justified method of punishment for a crime just because the criminal is a killer himself is a completely contrived reason.
Output: Valid
Before I post in full, i'd like citations to:
Output: Invalid
If you are willing to sacrifice justice for efficiency, why not take it to its logical conclusion?
Output: Valid
Given the scrutiny of death penalty cases, it seems that we would be more likely to lock someone up for life in prison and never uncover their innocence than we are to execute an innocent person.
Output: Valid
If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
Output: Valid
As far as someone killing while in prison, or escaping and killing innocents, I have addressed this too, and have stated that this is part of the reason I support the death penalty.
Output: Valid
But Jesus Christ told us point blank that capitol punishment was downright evil.
Output: Valid
Abortion has always been available and utilized by most all societies, underground for the US until legalization, but still utilized.
Output: Invalid
I'd have to do more research into the death penalty website before believing the facts they present.
Output: Valid
Violent agressions still happen, but do not lead to death as often as they do in, say, your state of California.
Output: Invalid
When the criminal is in a well controlled prison, self-defense is no longer relevant - he is not capable of harming anyone.
Output: Valid
If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
Output: Valid
i think that life without opportunity of parole is the more humane and just punishment instead of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
You can't undo the death penalty if it turns out evidence was fabricated or what have you.
Output: Valid
The death penalty costs the tax payers more and benefits neither the dead, nor society, in any way, and society doesn�۪t punish in order to ���get revenge.�۝
Output: Valid
Often the people who stop would be violent criminals from going on that path are social workers.
Output: Valid
Not even having to put aside your conviction that innocents should not be killed, how can you justify not saving 3 to 18 lives of innocent people by killing 1 guilty one.
Output: Valid
I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
Output: Valid
Hypothetically, fear of the death penalty could help prevent future crimes.
Output: Valid
A little faith in the system, after all, it is good enough to sentence someone to LWOP.
Output: Valid
that is just as harsh as justifying the death penalty because prisons are too overcrowded.
Output: Valid
not all are serial killers, and it costs more money to kill these people then keep them in prison for 50 years
Output: Valid
D you really want more bullshit to corrupt the future?
Output: Invalid
are you crazy, maybe if you use top secret unknowing area 51 stuff for every death sentence to kill them.
Output: Invalid
Well what is your decision on whether to support the death penalty?
Output: Valid
it seems as though your concept of ideal justice necessitates punishment immediately.
Output: Valid
We Americans are allowed to defend this sanctity by DIVINE RIGHT.
Output: Invalid
Many people contend - and prove - that it's more costly to execute a man or to keep a man on deathrow than it would be to keep him in prison for life.
Output: Valid
If you rape a child then you deserve more than anybody to be put down and eliminated forever.
Output: Valid
Although, personally, I would rather be executed if I was innocent than sit in a cell for life.
Output: Valid
If as a nation, we argue that life is sacred and that it must be treated with respect, then that applies to all categories of people regardless of their actions.
Output: Valid
Well if you set a time period like 2 years instead of the 20 years it is now you would sure cut doen the costs......
Output: Valid
In order to protect the many, a few innocent victims should have to pay the price.
Output: Valid
I think death penalties should be allowed for harsh offenses.
Output: Valid
I am not sure, which also begs the question on my support for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Why do people even question whether death is an acceptable form of punishment in the first place?
Output: Valid
In order to argue that the death penalty should be used, you have to prove that there is a very good reason to limit the most fundamental of rights, the right to life.
Output: Valid
Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Valid
Japan also has heavy handed police measures that have been condemned by the United Nations.
Output: Invalid
If you apply that cost to the rest of the nation�۪s executions, the nation has spent over $1 billion on capital punishment since the reinstatement of the penalty via Gregg vs. Georgia in 1976.
Output: Valid
The value of life doesn't depend on what the person does?
Output: Valid
Do you expect 12 executions per year to deter a murder rate of the above mentioned amount?
Output: Valid
To tell you the truth, I do not know what action should be taken at the moment.
Output: Invalid
Even though you deny it, your statements show you have no problem executing innocent people.
Output: Valid
So tell me, why do you consider it punishment to lock someone in a cage for the rest of their life (sometimes 60+ years), yet it is automatically revenge to execute them?
Output: Valid
Those are the only relevant ones, seeing as my argument is that the death penalty should be changed to life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
In reality I wouldn't care if the death penalty were gone.
Output: Valid
States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I have not been able to find data supporting your claim that the murder rate has risen in 2010.
Output: Valid
And had the death penalty been in effect, those kids might have died.
Output: Valid
Putting more resources into education will have an even greater affect in the future.
Output: Invalid
IIRC, the first appeal is automatic for a death sentence.
Output: Valid
Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
Output: Valid
The Wyoming thing only means that if lethal injetion is ever held to be unconstitutional for some reason, the gas chamber will be available for executions.
Output: Valid
In fact, I think if Jesus did not believe in the death penalty, it would make his sacrifice that much greater, because he would be being unjustly put to death.
Output: Valid
There are a lot of people in jail for cold blooded murder, who did not get the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Lastly, the death penalty is the ultimate scapegoat because it is letting the criminal off the hook without allowing them to think what they did as truly wrong.
Output: Valid
Some prisons are actually prisons instead of criminal resorts, and those are the best to put scum like them in.
Output: Valid
That was just put upon women by catholic bigots and hypocrytes.
Output: Invalid
what I am talking about is not a death penalty trial as we have today, but after the person has received a 100 year or more sentence.
Output: Valid
This is the kind of XXXX that we need to eliminate from the appeals process.
Output: Invalid
My argument makes it clear that innocent people need not be sentenced to death in order for the death penalty to be unjust.
Output: Valid
capitol punishment works,no convicted fellon ever exsecuted by the state of texas has ever gone on yo kill again.
Output: Valid
I do, and I know that through studying things that we learn more about how & why they occur, period.
Output: Invalid
This is why I said the punishment should be decided by the victim or the victims family, and to my knowledge there is nothing in the bible that says that only the state can administer punishment.
Output: Valid
The evidence i can bring to you is of cases that were recently discovered to have been errors.
Output: Valid
god has the authority and ability to voluntarily pardon a wrong, as a banker could write-off a debt.
Output: Invalid
No more pain, no more suffering, no more hardship, no more earthly demands, no more constantly uncertaintly, no more worrying, no more problems.
Output: Invalid
You can't limit appeals because people have been redeemed in their 3rd and 4th appeals.
Output: Valid
We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
Output: Valid
Jail is NOT a place to SOCIALIZE, and not a place to receive "LUXURIES".
Output: Valid
There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
Output: Valid
If their breadwinner was the one murdered, the state should ideally provide financial support until they get back on their feet.
Output: Invalid
You're right about the first part (which only further proves my point), and you're horribly WRONG about the second.
Output: Invalid
I trust the jury, and the trial / appeals process that we use prior to execution (although the appeals process needs some streamlining).
Output: Valid
I don't think anyone has been put the death for third degree murder either.
Output: Valid
This alone is all you need to invalidate any argument in favor of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
However, if I were ever required to own a gun, I would keep it locked in a vault in a basement and never touch it.
Output: Invalid
by committing to the idea that someone deserves to die, you are committing to the revenge side of human nature, not the idea of punishment for crimes committed.
Output: Valid
And especially why would one do that if it means death penalty would become possible?
Output: Valid
therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills innocent people.
Output: Valid
The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
Output: Valid
as for the innocent people who have been murdered by criminals, of course the statistics show more people having been the victim.
Output: Valid
its just like the old animal sacrifice way, where the very sin wsa transferred to the animal to be sacrificed.
Output: Invalid
On the other hand, I might also agree to a program whereby questionable cases could be reviewed or maybe even excluded from the death-row purging process, leaving only those who clearly did commit the crime to be killed.
Output: Valid
Well, I'd rather my money go towards a bullet for a child-rapist than his food, water, and room for the rest of his life.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is a outdated, expensive, immoral, form of punishment.
Output: Valid
Now I want you Liberal to focus like a laser beam........Jesus Christ was a perfect human being.........I am not.....I am a person of faith but not a devout one.
Output: Invalid
As to whether that's constitutional, I have no idea.
Output: Invalid
Unless its a 100% assurance, I'm not buying it.
Output: Invalid
You need to find lots more for the death penalty to save more lives than innocents that have been executed by it.
Output: Valid
Very true, yet as the debate asks, should it be outlawed, I support no because it has it's benefits if fixed.
Output: Valid
There is, in fact, no proof that an innocent has been executed since 1900.
Output: Valid
Because of this, often times people simply don't care who they harm because they have no fear of the justice system.
Output: Valid
And if the plan failed, has anyone dared to restart the execution?
Output: Valid
Not to mention that your argument first assumes that jesus, god, and the bible are all real and documented accurately (this seems unlikely).
Output: Invalid
it wouldnt even exist if it werent for the human mind.
Output: Invalid
Hitler killed a whole race, you are basically saying you don't mind if we kill a bunch of innocent people as long as we get guilty people as well.
Output: Valid
Especially because the most damning evidence which convicts individuals has always been eye witnesses, and eye witnesses have always been one of the least accurate of all of the tools we have to gauge guilt and innocents.
Output: Valid
If the same murderer had been given the death penalty, and never released in the first place, he would not be able to kill again.
Output: Valid
Part of the problem we have in America is people feel sympathy for criminals, even the violent ones.
Output: Valid
The non-violent drug users are another issue, this thread and our discussion have been focused on the DP...try to keep up.
Output: Invalid
I would support the death penalty IF there was a way to ensure that it would not put innocent people to death.
Output: Valid
Secondly, my textbooks that i use in the pursuit of criminal law, i can google them up and find articles in those books cited from my textbooks.
Output: Invalid
If one commits more than one, hell has been specially reserved for them.
Output: Invalid
The killer is not going to take away innocent lives anymore because the killer is dead.
Output: Valid
Also, the dates of these crimes point to another point supporting capitol punishment.
Output: Valid
Personally I am more interested in the deterrent effect of capital punishment over the punishment aspect.
Output: Valid
We could get the person who may kill in the future.
Output: Valid
As for the life, I disagree, we don't uncover LWOP as much because fewer people are working on it.
Output: Valid
There are some who need to be put to death.
Output: Valid
Ignore facts, ignoring points, ignoring history, restorting to fallacies, and ignoring everything you don't like, as well as fabricating argunents rarely wins a arguemnt past 3rd grade.
Output: Invalid
Punishment for an action against someone is different then a decision concerning personal health (or privacy)
Output: Valid
These two statistics show that the justice system is too imperfect for capital punishment to be used effectively.
Output: Valid
Does it make anyone safer, rather than the guilty one spending life in prison?
Output: Valid
I do support a penalty, just not the current one
Output: Invalid
Of course it is physically capable but, it needs to be mentally capable as well.
Output: Invalid
I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
Output: Valid
Yes I think it is fine to use taxes to keep pedophiles in jail.
Output: Invalid
State run executions are done in the interest of political gain (usually occurs in dictatorships) or emotional fulfillment (such is the case in America).
Output: Valid
Just as many people died in the world trade center attack on September 11th, thats how many babies die from abortion everyday in America....
Output: Invalid
so the animal isnt sinful, but in a sense it is, in that the sins of the individual are placed upon it.
Output: Invalid
Furthermore, for many years, the United States' courts have repeatedly enforced the obvious, common sense, important distinction between the actually innocent and the legally innocent (5).
Output: Valid
Those with violent tendencies, including children, aren't open to reason.
Output: Invalid
If anything, the death penalty is a easy way out for most of the criminals instead of living and suffering in a small cell with crappy food.
Output: Valid
Getting rid of the death penalty would ultimately not be more cost effective.
Output: Valid
Generally, the guards are equipped with mace, pepper spray, and/or nightsticks.
Output: Invalid
He will get twenty years, and be out in as little as five years, only to repeat his crime or retaliate against my family.
Output: Valid
The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
Output: Valid
People who commit bad crimes shouldn't be allowed to suffer in prison for the rest of their life.
Output: Valid
variables that we in the U.S. don't have and therefore have to use the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I mean the death penalty is giving them a passage out of trouble, they wouldn't have to deal with the effects they had on the world.
Output: Valid
I don't feel as strongly about the death penalty as I feel about the abortion rights debate since I can relate to the desire for vengeance that people feel.
Output: Valid
You're far more likely to be killed in a car crash than be falsely executed.
Output: Valid
Thus, it seems to be that your logic is flawed because it doesn't answer the question of what sort of crime or what persons deserve to be sentenced to death.
Output: Valid
Like everyone, I morn Laci Peterson's passing, but I am opposed to the death penalty for many reasons.
Output: Valid
What Old Testament part from your last post did I ignore?
Output: Invalid
I am not a pacifist, so I am not opposed to all state-sanctioned killing.
Output: Valid
I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
Output: Valid
1-2 released per month since 1970s is not a FEW.
Output: Valid
But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
Output: Valid
For if in fact all doctors share his point of view, then perhaps we have no death penalty.
Output: Valid
Truth is, the number of innocents that get locked up is a lot higher percentage than 1%.
Output: Valid
... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty."
Output: Valid
Instead, the prison systems should do a better job of identifying the worse inner-prison troublemakers to begin with and isolating them or controling them more.
Output: Valid
I give no thought to the circumstances of how a woman becomes pregnant.
Output: Invalid
the only thing the individual is required to do is accept the sacrifice and believe in the transfer and elimination of the sin.
Output: Invalid
Stanford did an experiment on prison rehabilitation and psychology, and had an extremely interesting outcome.
Output: Valid
So check up on things a little more next time before you start throwing around blind accusations.�۝
Output: Invalid
If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
Output: Valid
To take an example: the tax-code contains numerous loopholes that allow unscrupulous folks to take advantage of it and keep money that many argue they should be paying into the system.
Output: Invalid
We need to be consistent with ourselves in order to survive.
Output: Invalid
Resources that largely come from taxes, taxes from the people who suffered in the hands of the criminals.
Output: Valid
If it has nothing to do with the death penalty, how could it have anything to do with lives saved by the death penalty in the first place?
Output: Valid
Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: Valid
People needs to be constantly reminded of punishment and when the deathe penalty is not imposed often, it sends a message of tolerance to criminals that society is not serious about punishment.
Output: Valid
I FEEL THE DP AND LIFE IN JAIL CAN BOTH WORK IF THE PEOPLE ARE TRULY GUILTY.
Output: Valid
The jury came back with a recommendation of life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
Good thing for the British government that they get to require him to act in an appropriate manner that they choose.
Output: Invalid
Some crimes are so heinous that the person who committed the crime deserves to die: I would only agree to this if the execution erased the crime that was committed in the first place.
Output: Valid
So, seems to me that when you make death a quick (as in timely) and certain punishment, there is most definitely a deterent effect.
Output: Valid
I aint going to feel a bit of sympathy for him when I pull the trigger, because if he would have obeyed the law in the first place, he would not be in that position.
Output: Valid
The death penalty in our country serves no purpose but to remind the people that their lives, indeed their very survival, is at the pleasure of your government.
Output: Valid
I will not have my vengence paid for in the lives of innocent people
Output: Valid
It is somewhat surprising to me but the statistics show that having the death penalty does not detter more criminals than life-without-parole itself.
Output: Valid
The cost comments from Texas, king of execution states, state an execution is three times the cost of incarceration.
Output: Valid
And perhaps you have overlooked the issue of abortion relating to crime.
Output: Invalid
Jesus had used the occasion to point out the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees while at the same time showing His love to the unloved.
Output: Invalid
DNA testing may become useless soon because there is a new practice going on where prisoners sell a sample of their DNA which is placed at the scene of the crime to confuse the investigation.
Output: Valid
If the person in question is in prison, they are removed from society.
Output: Valid
DNA evidence can be evaluated thoroughly in a few days.
Output: Valid
Overall, I'd say, we'd spare ourselves a lot if we just went with locking some people up and throwing away the key.
Output: Valid
Wrongly convicted death penalty victims would be collateral damage...a small price to pay for more bed space in the prisons.
Output: Valid
Many people who support the death penalty are not willing to admit that vengeance plays a role - probably because they would be uncomfortable admiting that.
Output: Valid
The death penalty may have been an effective scare tactic when the legal system was less convoluted and lynch friendly, or when executions were public, but as of now it is nothing more than an anachronism.
Output: Valid
Were I to argue in front of the Supreme Court (and I confess I have no idea what I'd wear) I would take the position that Life Imprisonment without the possibility of parole is Cruel and Unusual.
Output: Valid
Freedoms right:if the jury knows the death penalty is in effect perhaps they will be more careful.
Output: Valid
30 years of studies suggest that the death penalty is a general, or systemic, deterrent.
Output: Valid
Is the victim going to come back that the criminal is dead?
Output: Valid
Many, many people have already been exonerated AFTER being convicted of a capital crime.
Output: Valid
But standing outside court with great big signs isn't gonna help, protesting won't help, we have rights and if we don't want to die, then we shouldn't have to.
Output: Valid
If you intended to "implicate a no" then you need to realize that saying "no" follows a premise that says that the death penalty is illegal.
Output: Valid
And his family has my entire support if they call the death penalty themselves.
Output: Valid
Almost every study I've seen on the deterrent effect of the death penalty has suggested that it's no more effective than life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
The Bible doesn't go against the death penalty, it supports it.
Output: Valid
By definition we do not know, but it would be rather naive to believe that every single wrongful conviction gets discovered and corrected.
Output: Valid
Maybe I misread what you said above, but it appears you favor torture.
Output: Invalid
If there was another factor, then there would have already been arguments against this study using other studies produced by the opponents of the death penalty to proved this theory wrong.
Output: Valid
Putting themselves in the position to have to choose an action that will kill or make themselves feel worse about themselves is wrong.
Output: Valid
Peterson was found guilty of first and second degree murders.
Output: Invalid
The other factors as far as i am aware that affects the proper functioning of the criminal justice system is abuse of power and issues of budgeting.
Output: Valid
How can you justify teaching a generation of children that to stop killers from killing because killing is wrong, we should kill them?
Output: Valid
That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
Output: Valid
If the justice system is organized and operated correctly, then I believe the death penalty should be used, but it should only be used in very severe cases.
Output: Valid
The death penalty doesn't benefit humanity -- it doesn't improve deterrence or make the world safer, and sometimes it doesn't even make the victim's family feel better.
Output: Valid
(Hint: you won't be able to prove either point).
Output: Invalid
I think America should ban the death penalty because no man/woman has the right to kill anyone even if the have done something wrong, because i believe that only God should have the power to take people's lives.
Output: Valid
The costs of imprisonment, as well as providing food, clothing, space and appropriate living materials is essential.
Output: Valid
Death is a much kinder sentence than life in prison, if you are sentenced to life, you should get to suffer for the whole bit.
Output: Valid
Sound's pretty retributive to me, is that the kind of mentality that we should be having?
Output: Invalid
Well, since I believe in that there are crimes and criminals deserving of the death penalty, "tookies" execution served justice in my book.
Output: Valid
If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
Output: Valid
You've blindly followed the misguidings of the smug, know-it-all, been-there-done-that, cyber genius daewoo who knows nothing more about me than I've printed on 4forums.
Output: Invalid
I do believe in the death Penalty, eye for and eye.
Output: Valid
However, if we're going to die tomorrow and God lives and promises us life forever.
Output: Invalid
I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Valid
pretty logical... I mean, the killer is not going to take away innocent lives anymore because the killer is dead.
Output: Valid
Any parent who "beats the shit" out of their kid, is too far gone to wonder why the kid is violent.
Output: Invalid
You are probably going to murder somebody; hopefully it will b in a place with the death penalty and then you will get what you deserve.
Output: Valid
Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Valid
3 - Inequities in representation (meaning if you have the money you can afford a team of good lawyers so it's generally only the poor who see the chair)
Output: Valid
The death penalty is much more expensive than life without parole because...blah.blah.blah...*
Output: Valid
Actually, the idea that the death penalty costs more than lifetime imprisonment has been disproved many times.
Output: Valid
Well lets see - we have had about 70 executions in the last few years, people held on death row.
Output: Valid
In some communities (especially in the third world) vigil-anti justice is very common.
Output: Valid
And 83% seems to be the common error rate for "innocents" claims by death penalty opponents.
Output: Valid
God, I hope you end up one of those people convicted for a rape they didn't commit.
Output: Invalid
Please.... there's a reason they're not called Penitentiaries any longer.
Output: Valid
Mandela wasn't a convicted murderer or a violent man at all.
Output: Invalid
When they are about to be shot just think what would be happening, some unlucky person would be dealing with the fact that they were going to have to take someone's life.
Output: Valid
I'm not saying that I wouldn't want the murderer to suffer, but there has to be a way to get over that phase of revenge, since it does nothing but tarnish the human race.
Output: Valid
The need to keep society safe from a criminal via encarceration balanced with the rights of the criminal against excessive punishment (ex.
Output: Valid
The truth is that the Death Penalty punishes those who have convicted a crime of extreme severity, not any criminal who commits a crime.
Output: Valid
A murderer is chosen to deliver the highest moral laws.
Output: Valid
You said something to the effect of "should we really be giving this man the death penalty?"
Output: Valid
The extremely violent are sociopaths, in love with themselves, and hold themselves to be above the law.
Output: Valid
Some simple maths gives a grand total of 84 murders per year.
Output: Valid
I dont know, really not either way as of this moment.
Output: Invalid
You cannot kill somebody just because they've broken into your house, you have to have a well founded fear of harm.
Output: Valid
I am surprised at people who oppose the death penalty but are quite content to lock a human being up like an unwanted pet rat, for a lifetime.
Output: Valid
I find it quite strange that no one bothered to ask why you why are against killing people...
Output: Valid
I would guess that most murders are done out of passion, when a person is not acting rationally and thus attempts to model murder as a rational decision are inherently flawed.
Output: Valid
This "innocent" you are referring to can cause catastrophic psychological and physical effects to a woman, not to mention the ruining of the rest of your life.
Output: Invalid
Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
Output: Valid
I would like to see somebody try to address these points.
Output: Invalid
OK Jim, how can you disagree with my use of the word deterrent and turn around and say "I think the death penalty is a detergent.
Output: Valid
Hell, he might even be the one raping people in prison.
Output: Invalid
the guillotine is a method to scare the person and also scare them so it is a method of a corresponding activity to execute better and it also kills faster and revativly funnier.
Output: Valid
Also, like Obvious child said, not all sins require death.
Output: Valid
I have gotten about a dozen people to take my "try it before you shoot off your mouth" challenge, and every single one of them changed their tune by the end of their little adventure.
Output: Invalid
In fact, with the death penalty you get more due process than someone with a life sentence...there aren't many advocates for helping those guys out.
Output: Valid
I think that criminals view the death penalty as worse than life imprisonment and worse than temporary solitary confinement within life imprisonment - at least given the conditions in American prisons.
Output: Valid
Unless there can be solid uncontestable evidence shown that the death penalty is significant in deterring crime, this cannot be used as an argument for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
What I'm supporting is the death of people the justice system has ruled as being bad enough that they're worth killing.
Output: Valid
Justice, while we have the hold of it, should be democratic and swift in these manners.
Output: Invalid
Innocents are expendable while those who disregard the right to stay alive of "their" victims deserve consideration.
Output: Valid
Under the ethical norms of Western culture, the death penalty is wrong.
Output: Valid
Life imprisonment still give them light at the end of the tunnel, where after a few years, if concrete evidence is found, they can be released back.
Output: Valid
If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Valid
I can't say a benevolent government produces benevolent people.
Output: Invalid
In this day it would mean being charged with murder or more murders with undeniable evidences.
Output: Valid
In this way instead of stopping sufferings, it prolongs them.
Output: Valid
The men were accusing her of adultery, which could have meant that she was either accused of having slept with another woman's husband, or that she had been sexually active with a partner outside of marriage.
Output: Invalid
I say if they try to kill/escape from life w/o parole in prison that's all we should need for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Like I said, if the person isn't convicted, then they will not be murdered in the electric chair, or by lethal injection.
Output: Valid
For the right amount of money, you can find people to say anything that you want them to say, just look at the Terri Schiavo case.
Output: Invalid
My point there is that if we are looking for a solution to isolate convicted criminals who have been charged with severe crimes, the death penalty clearly acts as a more secure solution than imprisonment.
Output: Valid
We make ourselves less by doing the same as the murder convict - that is, not valuing a human life.
Output: Valid
If we can't be absolutely sure, there are options besides the death penalty.
Output: Valid
In other words: The Death Penalty is not only the opposite of a crime, but is in fact beneficial to the legal system in a sense of justice as well as finance.
Output: Valid
VOC isn't a good debator since his points are meandering and generic.
Output: Invalid
It seems that there is still a majority in this country who is for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
First, i'm curious to know why you call having sex "indulging", as I really don't see how sex has to do with "indulging".
Output: Invalid
Because as far as i am aware, i have not heard of any wrongful executions between last year to this year.
Output: Valid
As far as I know, you may as well ACTUALLY believe any number of things, if you actually believe in the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I would not be acting as an agent of God as you so put it, but rather a deliverer of justice, since the judicial system does not serve justice any more.
Output: Invalid
If you see him before i do , get a good one in for me , ok.
Output: Invalid
I thought that we should of hanged Sadam Husein high in the court yard of the white house then let the Middle East have him to drag his head thru the streets on a pole!!!
Output: Invalid
If inmates in for life actually got life in 100% of the cases, I'd be more inclined to support a ban on capital punishment.
Output: Valid
They are carried out in a fit of rage, or fear (such as in the case of a thief shooting a police officer or citizen during a robbery).
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is a legal option for use against the worst, most unforgivable scum of society.
Output: Valid
Did you study when these people were exonerated and in what year were they placed on the death penalty?
Output: Valid
I can see that could be incidental rather than the purpose.
Output: Invalid
Even in a court system with 100 levels of appeal, it seems almost inevitable that someone, somewhere, will have been wrongly convicted because there was overwhelming evidence against them even though they were actually innocent.
Output: Valid
At any rate, 95% isn't good enough when a potentially innocent life hangs in the balance.
Output: Valid
Again, although I understand your view, I cannot agree.
Output: Invalid
I personally would never wish death penalty on someone no matter what they did to me/family/friends I would just want them in jail for a life sentence because then the threat is pretty much over.
Output: Valid
The life sentence really needs to be for a life time not only 30 years or what ever it is, but the death penalty is no morally or ethically correct.
Output: Valid
Fear of punishment for making mistakes is a good thing.
Output: Valid
(Green) By this all inclusive (and ridiculous) standard, Dieter would call Hitler and Stalin innocent.
Output: Invalid
How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Valid
Why exactly is it that people want to see him live anyway?
Output: Valid
While opponents of capital punishment allege that it is unfairly used against African-Americans, each additional execution deters the murder of 1.5 African-Americans.
Output: Valid
When someone mentions a criminal deterrence factor with death sentences, it sounds like a bad joke or total ignorance.
Output: Valid
Well, if the prisoner lived, he might put others out of their misery.
Output: Valid
Campaigners who cite research showing improved survival rates for very premature babies, combined with evidence suggesting young foetuses can feel pain, are putting pressure on MPs ahead of a crucial debate on the issue next month.
Output: Invalid
After all, if you are using a particular punishment for the wrong reason, then perhaps you shouldn't make that type of punishment.
Output: Invalid
I think it is philosophically and morally justified to execute anyone who has murdered another human being.
Output: Valid
But on another note, I wonder whether he wouldn't rather be sentenced to death than put with the general prison population.
Output: Valid
no there shouldn't be a death penalty aren't we essentially playing god we do not have the right to take someone Else's life no matter the crime thats just what i think
Output: Valid
Capital punishment frees up jail cells: Considering how few people we execute and how many new people enter the prison system each year, I do not see this as being a very good argument.
Output: Valid
My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
Output: Valid
The crimes for which it should be administered are (IMHO) child molestation, rape, murder, being at war against my country or my country's allies and others as may be added to this list upon further consideration.
Output: Valid
If money were truly a determining factor, we could save a lot (execution = $1.2 million, life without parole = $750,0000) by joining all the rest of the western industrialized nations in eliminating the death penalty.
Output: Valid
We don't have 100% certainty in 100% of the cases so there forever remains a risk that an innocent person will be killed for anothers crime.
Output: Valid
Citizens lives are far more important than the lives of criminals.
Output: Valid
It preserves the society from other attacks, we do not need to play GOD
Output: Valid
The death penalty has not been shown to be more effective than life imprisonment in deterring murder, hence we should choose life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
The fact is that as long as we have a death penalty (the only Western nation to have it), we will execute innocents with the guilty.
Output: Valid
This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
Output: Valid