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Originally Posted by willravel
There are rarely trained psychologists on the juries that sentence people to death. Without very specific and intense training, how can one really know beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone cannot be reintegrated after years of therepy? Your answer to that would probably be dollars and cents, which I find facinating. Yes, it is cheap to kill people. It's also cheaper to simply drop biological weapons on the Middle East and then take their oil free of charge, so why don't we do that? Simple: morality. It's immoral to kill, espically in a system that is imperfect. Would you want to live in a country that has executed innocent people? Are you really able to excuse that with a simple, "mistakes are made, so be it" type of statement?
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Morals are all relative, you believe that it is wrong to kill people like this but my morals are not the same. Maybe this is because I was raised without a religion but I would like to think not. Thus I don't believe that you can use morals as an arguement here, seeing as everyone's are different. It seems to me that years of research has said that psychopaths and sociopaths can rarely be "cured" but I understand that the research into this is growing and maybe it will change. Maybe the rules should be tightened on who can be sentanced to death and who cannot, I'm not against that. I'm not against changing the methods either because some of them are not as humane as others (by the way, I've been electrocuted many times in my life, doesn't really scare me anymore but I haven't gotten hurt by it either). Also, I don't think morality is what is keeping us from bombing the Middle East to take all their oil anyways, I'd say that is more political than anything else.
I haven't done any research on this in more than four years so if the money thing is wrong then I'm sorry but I find that kind of hard to believe.
As far as the method, doesn't electrocution just stop the heart? I believe it's usually one charge and not something that builds up so technically the person should not even feel it. Hanging is the same, there is rarely physical pain because it simply breaks the neck. Gassing I don't know about. Then there's lethal injection which is actually a series of injections, first killing the nervous system, stopping the breathing and then stopping the heart (don't quote me, this may be wrong). I don't think this would cause any pain do you?