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UpsideDownFlag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-15-04 11:55 PM Original message |
Poll question: what are your feelings about the death penalty? |
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LDS Jock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-15-04 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Completely against the death penalty |
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maveric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. If your son or daughter was raped and mutilated to death by a |
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mark414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. COMPLETELY against |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I would hope that those around me who weren't feeling the same grief |
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LDS Jock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. well, I am completely against it |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 01:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. Yes some people deserve to die |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
55. I agree with KT2000 |
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phylny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 05:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
25. I am "completely" against the death penalty. |
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Mandate My Ass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 09:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
27. Yes I would still be against it |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
36. You know, I hear this argument all the time |
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Mandate My Ass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:17 AM Response to Reply #36 |
45. That kind of emotional manipulation is the reason |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
39. Your question demonstrates exactly why a "civilized" society should NEVER |
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Th1onein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
52. That particular emotional argument has been used for years on this topic. |
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athena (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
56. Juries make mistakes. |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. Did Beria deserve death? Did Heydrich? . . . |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. against, 100% |
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maveric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. You dont feel that life imprisonment is too good for some. |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. what satisfaction would we derive |
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maveric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. It would make me feel damn good to see monsters like this |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 06:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
51. it would make you feel good, perhaps, |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Frankly... |
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maveric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Watch the Richard Speck video sometime. |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I have... |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
33. LWOP should be the "penultimate" punishment |
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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 09:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
28. Why would the solution to that mess be the death penalty |
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athena (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
58. It's not about punishment. |
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Infomaniac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
14. I don't have any moral opposition to the death penalty. |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
15. I am completely against |
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AntiCoup2K4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
16. Nobody should answer this until they read the Stanley Hilton interview... |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
17. when justice truly is blind |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. Only if incarceration fails badly. |
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Mechatanketra (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
20. Perfect justice can only be wielded by perfect people. |
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TaleWgnDg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 03:37 AM Response to Original message |
21. take out the religious connotations !! |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:00 AM Response to Reply #21 |
30. yeah, the "thou shalt not.." crap made me wince...n/t |
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TaleWgnDg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 04:01 AM Response to Original message |
22. and FYI . . . some of us will not be polled as |
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Piperay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
23. Opposed on principle but |
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Jack_DeLeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 05:00 AM Response to Original message |
24. I mix of 2,3, and 4. |
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MostlyLurks (738 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
26. Only in extremely rare cases. |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
29. I am opposed to it in all cases, but I understand why people support it |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
31. Read Mike Gray's "The Death Game" if you support the death penalty |
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:10 AM Response to Reply #31 |
41. Or An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 04:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
48. "Cell 2455, Death Row" by Caryl Chessman. . . |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
32. 112 inmates |
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truthspeaker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
34. I'm against it, but not for the reason given. |
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Beer Snob-50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
35. I get frustrated with the pro-life groups |
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
37. Only for public figures |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
38. No Death Penalty. God will sort them out when it's time.. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
40. The state as murderer. |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 12:21 PM Response to Reply #40 |
47. "It is barbarism under the thin veneer of the law." |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
42. Not only am I against it, I am against the litmus test for application |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
43. 100% opposed, no exceptions. (Except ...) |
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okieinpain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
44. Sorry, but some people deserve the death penalty. |
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TX-RAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
46. A necessary evil. I'm for it. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
49. I support the Death Penalty. |
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Catholic Sensation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
50. I believe certain people deserve to be executed |
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DubyaSux (366 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
53. No way... |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
54. Until the legal system is fair and just for all... |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
57. I'd vote for the first, but how about "The State doesn't have the right to |
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artv28 (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
59. Death penalty |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
60. "Killing people is wrong. And to show you exactly how wrong it is..." |
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johnnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
61. Against |
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Psst_Im_Not_Here (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-04 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
62. Made it an even 100 completely against |
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