Do you support the return of the death penalty?

[transitguy1]

Only for drug dealers/traffickers.

[neutral]

A life sentence we have now is 25 year max right? I suppose a true life sentence would minimize that, so yeah I suppose that could work. You have to take into consideration of economical impact, prisons are overcrowded, I like the fact I get paid to design them but it's the taxpayers who pays the bills and that money could be used to help good citizens.

No life is life. There is consideration for parole after 25 years though.

[MrKap]

Only if it is for the high profile crimes, like serial murders, rapists, ect... People who admit they cannot help themselves from killing and raping, will do it again, ect... Show no remorse, or have no concept of what the rest of the world asks as a bare minimum to walk free.

And only if it is televised on Pay Per View.


For example, here is Jeffrey Dahmer.

Jeffrey Dahmer was indicted on 17 murder charges, later reduced to 15. Dahmer was not charged in the attempted murder of Edwards.[citation needed] His trial began on January 30, 1992.[42] With evidence overwhelmingly against him, Dahmer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.[43] The trial lasted two weeks.[32] The court found Dahmer sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms,[44] totaling 957 years in prison.[45] At his sentencing hearing, Dahmer expressed remorse for his actions, and said that he wished for his own death. In May of that year, Dahmer was extradited to Ohio, where he entered a plea of guilty for the murder of his first victim, Stephen Hicks.[46]

By my criteria, he would probably escape the death penalty.

But this Canadian murderer who only got 25 years, would probably get the death penalty. Especially if he is still bragging to this day.

Robert William "Willie" Pickton (born October 24, 1949)[2] of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer[3] and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women.[4][5] He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women,[6] many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years —the longest sentence available under Canadian law for murder.[7]


During the trial's first day of jury evidence, January 22, 2007, the Crown stated he confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate. The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".[8]

[Ojam]

RFDs posters scare me.

I wasn't going to comment on this thread, but I have to agree with this... I mean wow, scary POV being spread in here.

[deltone]

Would criminals who die under a police pursuit be considered as "death penalty"? e.g. a shoot-out?

I think CP should only be handed out to criminals who are caught red-handed with a heinous crime, i.e. there is no need for evidences such as DNA or fingerprints to convict you, EVERYBODY saw you doing it. E.g. Anders Behring Breivik. (When the defense lawyer has nothing but a made-up "insanity plea", that's a tell-tale sign as well)

If it was a conviction based on witness reports, DNA, fingerprint, or even confession, then, no, I would not support CP be handed out to those convicted, no matter how atrocious the nature of the crime is. This is simply because those evidences CAN be manipulated.

This is pretty much my train of thought on this issue. My opinion on this issue has changed many times over the years and right now it's still a bit wishy washy but leans more towards what you just wrote.

Several years ago, when Guy Paul Morin was convicted of killing little Christine Jessop, I was all for "hang the b*$#ard" and then it turned out he didn't do it. I felt sick about how I had been so quick to find the guy guilty and wish him dead and so I changed my opinion. I realized that if we had the death penalty and if others had been so quick to condemn him, an innocent man would have been killed.

For now, I feel that in the case where it's 100% positive, caught on tape sort of thing, then yes, I agree with the death penalty, in extreme cases of pure out and out evil. Even with OJ, who I believe will all my heart killed those two people, if it were up to me I would not give him the death penalty as there is always that slim chance that he didn't do it (even though I believe he did do it). I wouldn't give the death penalty in a case such as this.

There were these two guys, in the US who killed a woman and her two daughters, after beating up the father, and sending the mom to the bank to get money for them while they held the daughters hostage. When the mom got home they killed her. They had also raped the kids and then killed them. The dad was able to get away and the neighbour called 911 and by the time the cops got there, the house was on fire. They caught the two guys running from the house. There is zero chance that these two guys didn't do it so for those two SOB's, I'd gladly pull the switch myself. They are pure evil.

[Dilton]

No, I oppose it. I'm rather confused by why so many Canadians support the death penalty, yet at the same time they oppose gun ownership for law abiding citizens.

If you have a firearm licence and own a handgun legally, and a burglar breaks into your house and points his gun at you, but you manage to fire yours first and kill him, you would be charged with murder, and if Canada had the death penalty you would be put to death. Do we really want the death penalty in a country like this?

[mysticalinfluence]

I say let the punishment fit the crime whatever the criminal did to the victim should be done to them in return. I support the death penalty some people deserve to die for there crimes and this it's not the states right to choose whom lives is totally BS. It's not the muderers right to choose who lives or dies either but did that stop them from murdering.

[Joshray]

I wasn't going to comment on this thread, but I have to agree with this... I mean wow, scary POV being spread in here.

Maybe you should enlighten us with your POV rather than criticize without reason.

[Ojam]

Maybe you should enlighten us with your POV rather than criticize without reason.

I voted "no" in the poll.

[cheapmeister]

Sorry about the wording in the poll, I didn't mean to voice my opinion. My opinion is the death penalty is for those cases where there is 0% room for the defendant to be innocent in any possible way. The death penalty should be for serial killers, serial rapists etc. A defendant cannot be put to death based solely on eye witnesses, or dna evidence. Dna is a powerful identification method, but the data can be manipulated to make someone appear guilty when in fact they are innocent. Sometimes when a crime occurs, the police are under pressure to make an arrest, then this is where an innocent person gets charged with doing a criminal act. Sometimes the innocent go to prison, and having an innocent person be put to death would be wrong.

[hagbard]

[saint2e]

I think the reason for this resurgence is our ever-growing immigrant population. People are coming from countries where this is acceptable, and thus incorporating those beliefs into our national mosaic.

One of the downsides to our mosaic approach as opposed to the US's Melting Pot approach.

[FrogPrince]

I think the reason for this resurgence is our ever-growing immigrant population. People are coming from countries where this is acceptable, and thus incorporating those beliefs into our national mosaic.

One of the downsides to our mosaic approach as opposed to the US's Melting Pot approach.

You mean getting the death penalty for dating someone your dad doesnt like?

[neutral]

I think the reason for this resurgence is our ever-growing immigrant population. People are coming from countries where this is acceptable, and thus incorporating those beliefs into our national mosaic.

One of the downsides to our mosaic approach as opposed to the US's Melting Pot approach.

Perhaps, but there is also a large faction of so called Canadians, who hold steadfast to this sort of viewpoint as well. They are our radicals and extremists.

[DrXenon]

I would pull the trigger on Shafia, Picton, Williams, Bernardo, Olsen (may the devil sh*t on his grave) etc. myself, and sleep soundly that night. There are some problems in the world that can be solved with a gun of large enough calibre, and this is one of them.

I would also like it if my wife could carry a small .380 pistol, but Canada seems to prefer a dead, raped woman to a dead rapist.

One of the universities I attended admitted Karla Homolka while she was in jail, and ultimately granted her a taxpayer-subsidized degree in psychology. I always tell this to the advancement people who call for money, and then I tell them (in a round about way) to take a long hard suck on my arse because they won't see a dime from me.