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Discussion Started: 10-22-2002, 1:34 PM

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What are your thoughts on the death penalty?

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Nikki08

10-26-2002, 4:13 AM

I beleive the death penalty is justice served. I think an eye for an eye;atooth for a tooth; a life for a life.

Kindest Regards Pam

obill9

10-26-2002, 12:07 PM

People have truly devalued human life so badly

There has to be a deterrant to heinous crimes, and if the legal system wouldnt keep convicted people on death row for decades while they exhaust their appeals trying to save their guilty hides, we wouldnt have nearly the problem we do

Kevin915

10-28-2002, 7:44 PM

I believe in capitol punishment. And I also feel that it should be made public. The problem is now that criminals feel they do not have to pay for their crimes. Public execution would be a very effective deterrant.

Sincerely, Kevin

sunflower1

11-01-2002, 12:40 PM

In 1776, 56 men risked their lives to bring us the Declaration of Independence, the document that created America and guarantees our rights and freedoms. Its time for a drastic change. Those who knowingly take your freedoms or your rights to life must sacrifice their own. Why should they have ANY rights when they knowingly take yours...

Kindest Regards,

colorful

11-05-2002, 8:22 PM

I believe in the death penaity, but the guilty has more rights than the common person who goes to work every day, pays his taxes ect.The criminal gets a free lawyer if they cannot get thier family to hire the best. They sit around working out and getting most everything they want, thanks to other dishonest public servants.While your and my taxes are supporting them. I believe my taxes could go better use. Get on with it. If guilty and are given the death penality-then dont hold out on them, give it to them. They deserve it.

TDSH

11-07-2002, 3:09 PM

The biggest problem that we have here in the USA is that no matter what crime is committed there is really no punishment to be served.

Think about this. Our prisons have the most updated gym equipment, the best Medical & Dental care. Three meals a day, plus you get paid to be there.

How much punishment is that really?

You can canceivably murder someone or more thatn one, rape &/or sodimize anyone, sell drugs to children, use children for pornographic means, or just beat them to death, and the most you're going to get is maybe 20 years which by the time you get to prison and with time off you might serve 5.

What reason is there for people to have any respect for the fellow human beings.

Why not go out for a shooting free-for-all, or why not beat your 2 week old child to death, or how about going out and robbing a few banks or grocery stores, it's not like you will have to pay for the crime.

It's much more likely that there will be an activist out there just waiting to take on your cause. Who will help you find a way to blame your parents, the police officers, the way you were raised, or how about the now famous "because of the color of my skin" line.

Come on people, we sit around and talk about how horrible some of these crimes are but, when it comes to making people face up to what they have done we as a society are a joke.

I'm sure that there are people in prison or on death row that may not belong there, but, if they have gone thru 2 or even 3 appeals and have not proven it in todays time then I'm sorry for there sake but it is time to move on.

We have the death penalty for a reason and yet we are afraid to use it!!!!!

Sick to death of being held hostage by criminals!

Simply Amazed

dcorb

11-08-2002, 9:44 AM

Thank You TDSH!!!!!! It's about time someone said it! I agree 100%! If you are convicted of a crime, prison should not be a place where WE the taxpayers provide YOU the criminal with clothing, an education, work out equipment, television, libraries, and a wage to boot. Prison should be a place where criminals go to PAY for their crimes, NOT be REWARDED for the crime.

jlperk0115

11-10-2002, 12:31 PM

I believe that Capital Punishment needs to be used more frequently in Kentucky. It makes no difference whether you are a juvenile, as their actions are indicative of viciousness and they should be dealt with accordingly. Trials should be speedy, and there should be no unusual delays. Insofar as mental illness/ mental retardation is concerned, a defendant is not mentally incapacitated if he can pull a trigger or stab someone. It is time for Kentucky Death Row to start "moving." Judy La Rone Perkins

JUDY LA RONE PERKINS

annie48

11-10-2002, 6:27 PM

I do believe in capital punishment, someone who goes out and brutalizes and kills someone should not be able to live, there should be no appeals, set a date and stick to it.Why put them in prison and feed them and let them lift there weights, play ball,work on the computers,etc.,etc. Has anyone ever watched the HBO shoe "OZ" thats pretty much what the prison system is like, so if you have killed someone are most of all a child killer should be punish. [EYE FOR AN EYE].

tdb921

11-12-2002, 4:04 PM

I disagree with the death penalty as it stands now. As I understand, if a person is convicted and his time comes up it can be delayed if the prisoner is sick, yet all organs are destroyed.

I believe that a death row inmate, once thru the appeal process should be entered on some sort of national database for organ donors. When a predetirmined percentage of this persons life saving organs are a match, thanks pal, its time to go and save a life or two for the crime you committed. There would also be a few life enhancing organs to reap as well. Thats an eye for an eye, and believe me in order to stick around and watch my grand-children grow old I'd take the most heinous criminals heart. Tommy B.

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