we dont have capital punishment here in germany... it's not right to do things like that i guess...
in my country they don't give capital punishment's. but i think it's the best for murderers, rapist's and other scum. but death by hanging is a bitch.
I think capital punishment should be enforced by everyone for first degree murderers. If you are sick and twisted in a way that makes you to take another human life, you don't deserve to keep on living.
Capital punishment still exists here in Singapore, though most of the cases where capital punishment was meted out were rather highly publicized media affairs...no chance of anonymity for the condemned criminal...
Doesn't happen here in Brazil, but we shure needed it. Catholic country, never gonna happen. But not only capital punishment... we plain need more effective laws against criminals. People who needs to be arrested here aren't, and poor people that ends up commiting crimes because there's no other option left (apart from dying from hunger), will not rarely get unfair prison times, and harsh treatment. Problem is, I can't see this getting any better. Politicians gives the example. It's not an unreal estimate that over 50% of our politicians are involved somehow on corruption related crimes, or crimes against the brazilian people. Not only that, but most of these criminals are never punished, even after being caught. I'd love to have capital punishment to those.
ooh singapore is heavy on laws !! they got alot of capital punishment ... like murdering 1 person, trafficing drugs both can lead to death
afaik, capital punishment is still being used here through lethal injection. condemned prisoners are strapped to the "death bed" and a lethal dose of a deadly chemical is injected to the blood stream. it's a slow and less painful death. there are some human rights group who are working to abolish capital punishment @XSportSeeker the philippines is a catholic country and yet we still practice capital punishment
Capital punishment may be just in some cases, but the cost of applying it to someone who is innocent is incredibly high. I don't think there's a justice system in the world accurate / cautious enough to support it.
We do have death sentences, though thats only in a few states. The method generally used now is through toxins. Interesting how Japan still uses hanging as a form of death.
Capital punishment is fine with me. However, the world has become so overly wrapped in the human condition and namby-pamby that we will baby ourselves to death eventually.
A lot of countries in Asia still practice capital punishment while many western countries have abolished it.
yes capital punishment is legal in singapore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_singapore well that is assuming kira doesn't get him first.
I've known that Japan has capital punishment, but it isn't widely practiced over there. In fact, I read that the previous chief Judge in japan was against it so very very few death sentences were handed out for a while because of that belief. The UK doesn't have the death sentence, but then we're having problems with overcrowding in prisons, more lenient sentences for crimes and a slowly increasing crime rate! I don't know if I'm for capital punishment, but I do understand the arguments for, moreso that the arguments against.
capital punishment is indeed legal in malaysia. it applies to serious crimes such as drug smuggling and murder. IMO capital punishment is needed for some of the more severe crimes. a murderer certainly deserves death and i dont understand how a jail term would be enough to punish a person who has committed such a terrible crime. but thats just me.
Here in Singapore, quite a number of crime will lead to hanging: possession(usage?) of firearms, kidnapping(whoever attempt this in Singapore is downright insane) or even possession of 15 g of heroin.
here in the us alot of states still do have capital punishment.. although some states just haven't done so in awhile.. while texas has put in a fast lane :D usually lethal injection here.. but in some states you have a choice.. and in utah.. you have 4.. hanging, electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.. you pick.. i belive in it since the most violent offender won't be rehabilitated so.. go ahead..
In USA some states have it and some don't The DC sniper was sentences to death, but for the most part its lethal injection. In Belarus (where I was born and lived for 14 years) we had capital punishment for series crimes that are extremely evil. I personally believe in capital punishment because "life is a gift, and those that take it away! why should they keep this gift?"
I approve wholeheartedly of capital punishment. In fact, I would go on to say it isn't used enough. Far too much money is waste keeping people in jail. There are two solutions for this - decreasing prison time for victimless crimes - like drug possession etc, and increasing the amount of capital punishment. Why do we let child abusers live? Just another reason I hate England, the only capital punishment we have is for treason!! What a joke! Increasing capital punishment in Japan would have the added bonus of decreasing the severe overpopulation. Wouldnt we all like an apartment thats a little bit bigger?!?! (=semi serious)
Capital punishment is legal in Malaysia too.
You know what i think would be a better overall punishment? Getting what you did to others unto yourself. Like, if you commit murder and dismembered the corpse, you'll be dismembered alive. Rapist will have their "ahem" cut off. Drivers who did hit-and-run will be run over by a car. Robbers, thief will have one of their limbs broken. I believe such rules would be very effective in curbing crimes, even though they're extreme. >_
wow, Japan hangs people? Did not know that... In America you can choose! a.) lethal injection b.) hanging c.) electrecution d.) gas e.) firing squad (yes, in some state it still is) and to my opinion, I say, whatever. Punishment is needed, but what is the proper punishment for taking someone's life? I think that peple who commited violent offenses should just be deployed by the military's frontline soldiers, who are the first to die (like, mortality rate of 90% or more type situations).
I had no idea cap punishment was still goin on in so many places. On a (much) lighter note, that picture of elmo is crackin me up ^^;
I'm not against Capital Punishment--rather I'm against the misuse of it. It should only be used when a criminal is beyond help. Many criminals are capable of recorvery, but some are just too far gone to even try.
Yeap.. Singpaore is the same as Japan. But one thing special about Singapore is that we impose caning too. More info here ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore If you don't want your butt to bleed, Don't commit crimes in Singapore.
still hang in malaysia
Death is already cheap for A-list criminals...
As you know Danny, capital punishment in Europe is forbidden.
i don't see much of a seriouness if they were to really recevie the capital punishment.. it's really too cheap for them..
I'm from Spain (which got accepted in the European Union in the 1980's) and one of the requirements for a country to become a member of the EU is to respect all human rights (no torture, no death penalty, etc...) I personally believe that death penalty is fair in some situations... but since there is always a margin for mistakes (In the US, 1 in every 3 prisioners condemned to death penalty is found innocent afterwards) I think that the ultimate punishment should be be held in uncommunicated jail for life (come on, this is really even worst than death) What I really hate from the Spanish Law System is that a prisioner cannot be in jail for more than 30 years!!! So no matter what you did and how many years they give you (a murder is 100 years, a terrorist can get 1000 or 2000 years in Spain) you will be free after 30 years...
私は死刑賛成な人、まぁ「全ての人が更正できるとは思えない｣とか「死ぬまで牢屋の中に入れるとか意味が有るとは思えない」とか「社会が受け入れられ無い人は死ぬしかない」とかその辺りが理由。(日本の)死刑反対派の人がよく言う「先進国で死刑制度が残っている国は殆ど無い」って主張が受け容れられないのもありますけど。(だから何？って感じです。ハイ) 余談だけど、ハリウッド版「ドラゴンボール」の役者募集は解り易いB級狙いで笑えました。
Capital punishment is evil. If you favour capital punishment, you are implying that there is at least one reason for which killing someone is "just". And those reasons are opinions, and opinions are NEVER objective. If you say "is just to kill a murderer", then you don't have any argument against someone who sais "is just to kill an adulteress", because your reason is only better than his from your own point of view. Experience has demostrated that capital punishment doesn't reduce crime rates (e.g. USA) and even the opossite has ben experienced (e.g. Canada). No one should have the authority to kill one person, not even the state. I'm happy that is forbidden in all Europe.
what wendigo said. totally against it.
We don´t have capital punishiment in Brazil, but I aprove it, here there is a lot of muderers that go to jail and when get free do the same thing again and again, killing a lot of innocent people, if there was a capital punishiment the crime would not be lowered but at least the guy would no be able to do it again
aaaaa! capital punishment= evilness! kinda seems like a slow way to die... well, i'm not gonna do any crimes in the first place so i guess if i ever move to japan i won't need to worry about it!
Actually, hanging is a very quick method of executing someone as long as its done properly. Hanging is interpreted as choking the person to death when it is really meant to snap there neck. If the neck doesn't break it means they didn't do it right. The most common reason is because they didn't fall far enough to create enough force on the neck to break. If anyone has seen the leaked video of Saddam being executed should see that is a proper hanging.
I just couldn't vote in this poll because I am "completely" on the fence about it. My belief and my desire to show some mercy fight with each other on whether criminals should be executed or forgiven. Of course someone will have to serve their time for life: that is their punishment for whatever hanous crimes they committed. Unfortunatly the big guy upstairs in this case does not disapprove of capital punishment, so despite what I think it has to continue. I am a big supporter of human rights, but compared to the big hombre my opinion means nothing. Hanging isn't as bad as most people say it is. I hate to sound sick with this, but depending on the quality of the noose and the proper counter weights and balances, the neck will break quicker, thus the condemned will die a quicker death. The USA uses a couple of methods but prefers to use lethal injection to stop the heart and breathing of the condemned. Sometimes this process has gone horribly wrong and the condemned have been in intense pain, human rights activists will say that is totally wrong but again the guy (or girl) is about to die... I think we got rid of the electric chair quite a few years ago but the "gas chamber" I believe is still in use. I am not sure on this one either but I think that the firing squad has also been discontinued. So yeah, I am on the fence on that one. In my opinion that saying that taxpayers claim is from a source of greed and hate. Perhaps capital punishment should be reserved for the most haneous of criminals.
Like -XYZPDQ, I'm riding the fence on this one. I don't disapprove of capital punishment. I disapprove of certain capital punishment such as the firing squad, the electric chair, and hangings. In my personal opinion, that's unhumane whereas I consider lethal injection humane.
Capital punishment is no longer practised in the UK but oddly enough, there are still some laws in the country for capital punishment which haven't rightly been officially abolished yet. I know assassination of the monarchy will by English law lead to a death sentence. Damn those lazy politicians... =P
First of all, please forgive my choice of words here. I agree with japantech.info and Guarayakha in that some criminals have an easy life compared to the permanent scars they caused to their victims. Some of them even have golden cells with TV and stuff like that... Where is Blind Justice when we truly need her? Yes, the best way to calm a rapist down is to cut his (beep!) and a scammer to pay people back until he runs out of energy. I am not for death penalty, since it is not proportionate to the damage that was done. I would prefer to see those outlaws working and working until they understand how life can be hard and cruel (no physical or moral torture though)... Then they may learn something. "Death is too good for you" I would say as a conclusion. Really.
Absolutely I dont approve capital punishment, the State beings a murder doing that
Use the 'equivalent exchange' as punishment. If you took an eye, you lose an eye. If you kill some one, you serve life in prison. If you kill more than one, you get genetically manipulated to serve out several life time in prison.
alright heres a video about capital punishment in singapore. We have the highest per capita rate of death punishment in the world. They have killed total of 400 in the last 13 year .. compaired to your 3 million locals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ltn4_cSHk
Capital Punishment imo isn't very "cool." Also...I find it a bit odd how the Japanese government still uses hanging as a method for killing someone. I never really thought of it, but I sorta expected something like lethal injection? Also...for the last meal...you can have ANYTHING???
I wish we had capital punishment. Dutch law is to soft. If you kill someone, you just get a few years and rehab. Thats it. Then you are free to kill again.
I am firmly against capital punishment, which is probably due to my education as well as the arguments I have heard for and against it. Pro-DP arguments seem to be based on Hammurabi-style morality and appeals to emotion, the former outdated, the latter a falacy. In secondary school, when I was 14, we had a Constitutional Law class, which has served me well (indeed, I think all secondary school should teach that subject early on). We had one two-hour class one day, about why the Death Penalty was not legal in Argentina (granted, many military governments have executed dissenters, but they had to act outside the law for that). Basically, after the 1810 revolution, the Assembly of 1813 declared a number of punishments used by the former Spanish rulers to be inhuman. Among these were torture and the death penalty, which were considered equally unjust (they also made slavery illegal). Later on, this was enshrined in our Penal Code. The arguments against the Death Penalty are manifold, and they were presented to me all those years ago. For instance, in many many cases, people are executed unfairly, which is only discovered later on, when it is too late. This happens way more often than people think, and I don't believe in the theory that some innocents must die so that the guilty can be punished. All that said, I find some of what you posted interesting, Danny. Mainly, the bit about the execution system: to avoid the policemen to feel like executioners, they never know who actually killed the prisoner.
I'm for it as long as the defendant is 100% proven of guilt, has no remorse, and is extremely dangerous and can re-offend. The more heinous it is, the more they deserve it. I don't consider heinous criminals to be humans anymore. Sounds harsh, but where is the justice for the victims?
mad n1nja and JaydenM... true indeed. Like I said before, some are relatively unpunished for their crimes and that is one of the reasons why violence and criminality still plague our world without rest.
I don't care how bad the person is. It's really not our place to decide who lives or died. Period.
oh... kind of like how Timothy Leary got 30 years for possession of half a joint.
we got capital punishmnet in malaysia in the form of hanging..till death..there's a special squad that executes all the hanging at all the prisons in Malaysia..
I can't really answer the question, coz' I'm dumb and don't really know much... But I think capital punishment should only be for those who commits serious crimes, like murder... Here in Singapore, people who are senteced to be hanged will be granted to eat any dish they want, sounds weird? Yea, I don't even know if this is real...
I against the capital punishment In a Nutshell. The capital punishment has been used more against poor, religious, ethnic minorities, and politics opponents. The capital punishment did not reduce the criminality as supporters said The capital punishment is more expensive than keep the prisoners alive. There are always a possibility to kill a innocent. The message is lets kill to show killing is bad. More info http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT500012000?open&of=ENG-392 http://www.amnesty.ca/deathpenalty/canada.php http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=cost&menu=1%22 http://www-tech.mit.edu/V113/N53/morrison.53o.html http://www.religioustolerance.org/execut4.htm
Part of me his for and against capital punishment. There are instances when it had been used improperly here in the US. There are some istances where crimals deserve it such as: War Criminal Mass (Seriel) Killers Terrorist Traitors
