When is capital punishment ever justifiable?

[Brett]

This cunt who (allegedly) killed Blessie sounds like a good conteder for a dose of lead poisoning. Oh...and these sick animals that keep beating children to death or subjecting them to depraved abuse and/or torture. Line all of them up together to see who many can be taken from one good caliber round to save on ammunition costs.

[madbikeboy]

You'd think you could spell the shit correctly, huh?

Mac's and auto-correct.

[SPman]

Put a few fucking Wall St financiers and bankers up against the wall - they've caused as much misery as small time drug dealers. US senators and congressmen - no loss to the world either - might be a bit more peaceful......

Armaments manufacturers - needed like a hole in the head...

[mada]

Capital punishment after a trial certainly seems more civilised than "potential risk" indiscriminate killing by these beasts...

[Akzle]

Wow, did you strain anything while performing that massive leap of flawed thinking? If it were up to me, the death penalty would be applied to drunk drivers, anyone who thinks that country music is a good idea, and the bitch I took to my high school prom. You'd be up against the wall in about the third tranche simply because you're making plants work overtime to produce oxygen, and one day those plants might be running near full throttle and I'd hate to think intelligent good people may be robbed of the air they deserve while you're still sucking oxygen.

Now, if you want to keep twisting arguments to prove what a moron you are, suggest you join Cassina in her personal hell.

so 4. For no better reason than you said so.

[Akzle]

These guys were shipping heroine. Have you ever seen someone you care about shoot up heroine through their eyeballs? I have. Take a wander through some back streets in most cities in the world, and see the young women who fuck and suck for small change to support the next hit. The amount of misery that the poor drug dealers bring is massive, they destroy families, lives - and we're supposed to give a damn about the consequence for them?

Poor drug dealers, suffering for two minutes.

PB, sorry to rant, this isn't directed at you.

youre right. Big pharma are the only ones who should be allowed to import it.

i fuken love heroin.

[WNJ]

What crimes do you feel are bad enough to deserve execution?[/QUOTE]

Triple RSA killer comes to mind as a top candidate,

[unstuck]

Yep, seems like the general consensus is that death is a bad thing. You poor misguided fools, must suck to be you lot.

[awa355]

Line dancing, At least knee capping if not shooting.

Door knocking to flog off religion. ?

Telemarketers?

[wottdogg]

But as you say, they knew the consequence and they tried anyway. So they cant really complain. Laws the law after all. If you dont like the consequence dont do the crime. they have bought all this upon themselves and they are thr only ones to blame for it. The fact their families are now torn apart is their own fault.

[PrincessBandit]

These guys were shipping heroine. Have you ever seen someone you care about shoot up heroine through their eyeballs? I have. Take a wander through some back streets in most cities in the world, and see the young women who fuck and suck for small change to support the next hit. The amount of misery that the poor drug dealers bring is massive, they destroy families, lives - and we're supposed to give a damn about the consequence for them?

Poor drug dealers, suffering for two minutes.

PB, sorry to rant, this isn't directed at you.

No probs MBB - I totally get what you're saying. It does come down to greed, although I also suspect there are mules who are coerced or threatened into doing the dirty work of those higher up the chain (who are seldom the ones caught and brought to justice). I feel a bit sorry for the Wanganui guy currently facing a grim future; again, it's those who set these people up playing on their insecurity/misguided love/trusting personalities who I want to see taken out of the equation...

Worse than the 2 minutes would be the knowing its coming a long time out from when it does.

Kind of like waiting on death row when there have just been a few executions for the same crimes you are accused of?

Line dancing, At least knee capping if not shooting.

Now that's a bit harsh! (I hear fiddles and harmonicas playing in the background )

[PrincessBandit]

These guys were shipping Pure Heroine.

Oh Lorde isn't that bad!



(See what I did there? Deliberate omission of commas etc. to see how many interpretations of that sentence there could be)

[Grubber]

I heard on the news tonight that it was the Australian police that tipped of the Indonesians that these guys were smuggling the drugs out of Indonesia.

Makes me wonder why they didn't just arrest them once they landed in back Australia.

In a sense, it was the Australian police that signed their death warrants.

So it's thier fault is it???
Really?? Think it was themselves that were doing the drug run, not the Aussie cops.

Yep, seems like the general consensus is that death is a bad thing. You poor misguided fools, must suck to be you lot.

Agreed. Last thing you will ever do is die. The ones that are left may have some emotional issues with it but generally when ya dead ya dead.

[p.dath]

I just thought of a good scientific test we can do to answer this question once and for all, about whether executions curb crime or not.

Lets setup two groups of 100 criminals, execute everyone in the first group, and then measure the re-offending rate between the two groups.

[awa355]

I just thought of a good scientific test we can do to answer this question once and for all, about whether executions curb crime or not..

I dont think executions are about curbing crime, more about justice for a crime committed.