Do you support the Death Penalty?

[jimmy olsen]

I voted number 7, what say you Languish?

[katmai]

apporve?

[The Brain]

apporve?

You know what he means.

[jimmy olsen]

apporve?

ap·prove  (-prv)
v. ap·proved, ap·prov·ing, ap·proves
v.tr.
1. To consider right or good; think or speak favorably of.
2. To consent to officially or formally; confirm or sanction: The Senate approved the treaty.

EDIT: Whoops. That's what I get for cutting and pasting on a Korean computer. 

[Eddie Teach]

I'm against.

[garbon]

EDIT: Whoops. That's what I get for cutting and pasting on a Korean computer. 

I don't think you can blame the keyboard for this bit though.

"incapable of reliably judging innocent and guilt"

[Tonitrus]

Why no option for murder/rape but not treason? 

[jimmy olsen]

EDIT: Whoops. That's what I get for cutting and pasting on a Korean computer. 

I don't think you can blame the keyboard for this bit though.

"incapable of reliably judging innocent and guilt"

I originally wrote that sentence as "discerning between the innocent and guilty" and then pared it down. Obviously, I was too hasty.

[Eddie Teach]

Prediction: Seedy, Ed and PDH approve the death penalty applied to Tim, preferably in some vivid fashion such as being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock or stuffed in a woodchipper.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Against because exculpatory evidence might appear after the sentence has been carried out, and, moreover, whenever the state can easily indefinitely remove the person from the general population, it's simply unnecessary. Research on its deterrent effect has been inconclusive, and all things being equal a society in which the state is expected to never kill anyone unless it's absolutely necessary (e.g. war) is probably a slightly safer society.

[jimmy olsen]

Prediction: Seedy, Ed and PDH approve the death penalty applied to Tim, preferably in some vivid fashion such as being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock or stuffed in a woodchipper.

Ooh! Classy!

[Siege]

IUff, big question.

I support the death penalty for murder and rape, no question asked after culpability have been proven beyond doubt.

Now treason, you would have to define treason.

If treason can be proven to lead to the death of service members or civilian citizens, definitively yes. If not...


Death is a serious matter. I don't think the State should take it lightly, and I mistrust the "State".

[Iormlund]

Last option.

[Valmy]

For SMU?  Yes.

[Sheilbh]

No.