Lithuania is thinking of re-introducing death penalty to the country

[Kostas]

Norway is way more civilized than the baltics in particular, because you never were touched by communism...

Norway can be more civilized .
But what about Greece? We got murderers here too . And talking about communism ... We got out of a 400 years slavery just 200 years ago . Should we also add death-penalty?

[Dean.]

Murderers, rapists and terrorists have a choice. They choose to commit their crimes, therefor they are not safe to be out on the street any longer. Solution, putting them in jail for the rest of their lives so they can give orders from there? No thank you.

[Huntsman]

Murderers, rapists and terrorists have a choice. They choose to commit their crimes, therefor they are not safe to be out on the street any longer. Solution, putting them in jail for the rest of their lives so they can give orders from there? No thank you.

Exactly. Murderers CHOOSE to do what they do.

[Kostas]

And by killing them you think you become a better person? Or do you think that you will clean the place from them?

[[WS]Jacob]

Murderers, rapists and terrorists have a choice. They choose to commit their crimes, therefor they are not safe to be out on the street any longer. Solution, putting them in jail for the rest of their lives so they can give orders from there? No thank you.

If you have these problems you need to re-look at your justice system not just solve everything by the simplest means - killing people off.

[Aksel]

Then I suppose Lithuania might aswell withdraw their EU-membership and retreat their rather big approach towards a western lifestyle.

[xu1gua]

Guys you are starting to scare me . First of all I am nto against death penalty only because of my religion . And yes you got a point saying that in the past many deaths were occured by them , though I think that infact it wasn't because of the religion , but because of people who thought that it was (talking about Christians always).

To get to the point . There are countries with death Penalty and I believe that the USA is one of them . What is the actual difference? Because I don't see any . And I do believe that spending 50 years in prison is worse than death at some points . The only difference is that with 50 years in prison , you can try to escape from it .

The thing is that while we say that nobody has the right to kill someone , you are actually thinking about giving that right to your own country . So you make killing a lawfull thing .

Let me explain you some things.

First of all I don't care about your religion and religions has nothing to do with this.

Second, beholding a prisoner in prison costs more than 30 000 American Dollars per YEAR.

And third of all, why don't you ask your god why there are nature disasters happening all over the world, that in fact kill more innocent people than criminals?

and Fourth, I'm sorry to say this to you, obviously you don't know - Religion killed more people than any other war in the history of earth.

In other words, I support Death Penalty with torture.

[Jason_Bridges]

Let me explain you some things.

First of all I don't care about your religion and religions has nothing to do with this.

Second, beholding a prisoner in prison costs more than 30 000 American Dollars per YEAR.

And third of all, why don't you ask your god why there are nature disasters happening all over the world, that in fact kill more innocent people than criminals?

and Fourth, I'm sorry to say this to you, obviously you don't know - Religion killed more people than any other war in the history of earth.

In other words, I support Death Penalty with torture.

I am an athiest but I have to say, religion is just an opinion, you cannot stop people from having an opinion and expressing it.

Putting someone on death row is more expensive than keeping them in prison, so it being "cheaper" isn't a reason to use the death penalty (feel free to search this up to verify it). It also isn't a detterent (it doesn't scare people into obeying the law) and it certainly doesn't 'solve' an issue.

More importantly though, if you support torturing people, I'm presuming this is for 'the greater good'? Allowing people to be tortured for justice, punishment and to extract information from them because they are the bad people and not you? You saying this should happen to murderers, rapists and people who commit unforgivable and inhumane crimes right? Let me ask you, when you decide to punish people with equally inhumane and disgusting acts, what separates you from them? Don't tell me its the fact that you are doing it for 'good' because that means nothing.

Torturing someone is the most barbaric and disgusting thing you can do to another person, its sick and serves no place in society at all. The death penalty should really be reserved for the most serious of murders and crimes against humanity and rarely used.

[Mikal]

I am an athiest but I have to say, religion is just an opinion, you cannot stop people from having an opinion and expressing it.

Putting someone on death row is more expensive than keeping them in prison, so it being "cheaper" isn't a reason to use the death penalty (feel free to search this up to verify it). It also isn't a detterent (it doesn't scare people into obeying the law) and it certainly doesn't 'solve' an issue.

More importantly though, if you support torturing people, I'm presuming this is for 'the greater good'? Allowing people to be tortured for justice, punishment and to extract information from them because they are the bad people and not you? You saying this should happen to murderers, rapists and people who commit unforgivable and inhumane crimes right? Let me ask you, when you decide to punish people with equally inhumane and disgusting acts, what separates you from them? Don't tell me its the fact that you are doing it for 'good' because that means nothing.

Torturing someone is the most barbaric and disgusting thing you can do to another person, its sick and serves no place in society at all. The death penalty should really be reserved for the most serious of murders and crimes against humanity and rarely used.

More expensive than putting them in prison? Are you implying killing someone costs an average of £30,000 per year?

[Jason_Bridges]

More expensive than putting them in prison? Are you implying killing someone costs an average of £30,000 per year?

Yes... putting someone on death row cost significantly more than keeping them in prison for life. Did you not just read what I wrote?

feel free to search this up to verify it

Here you go, 2 minutes on google:

http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=42
http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001000
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost
http://www.english-online.at/society/capital-punishment/death-penalty-inmates.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f042009_Death

[xu1gua]

I am an athiest but I have to say, religion is just an opinion, you cannot stop people from having an opinion and expressing it.

Putting someone on death row is more expensive than keeping them in prison, so it being "cheaper" isn't a reason to use the death penalty (feel free to search this up to verify it). It also isn't a detterent (it doesn't scare people into obeying the law) and it certainly doesn't 'solve' an issue.

More importantly though, if you support torturing people, I'm presuming this is for 'the greater good'? Allowing people to be tortured for justice, punishment and to extract information from them because they are the bad people and not you? You saying this should happen to murderers, rapists and people who commit unforgivable and inhumane crimes right? Let me ask you, when you decide to punish people with equally inhumane and disgusting acts, what separates you from them? Don't tell me its the fact that you are doing it for 'good' because that means nothing.

Torturing someone is the most barbaric and disgusting thing you can do to another person, its sick and serves no place in society at all. The death penalty should really be reserved for the most serious of murders and crimes against humanity and rarely used.

That is just my opinion. Back to the topic where two men kidnapped, raped and burned a 18 years old student alive, in the car, they deserve most terrifying torture that could be.

Once against that is just my opinion.

[Jason_Bridges]

That is just my opinion. Back to the topic where two men kidnapped, raped and burned a 18 years old student alive, in the car, they deserve most terrifying torture that could be. I guess going back to World War 2 executions would increase our budget?
Once against that is just my opinion.

You are clearly missing my point, why do you think these people should be tortured? To get rid of evil? For justice? it does not make sense, if you lower yourself to that level where you think its okay to commit acts that are equally as bad as those they did, then there is nothing that separates you from them. Life imprisonment with no chance of parole, until they die a natural death is a suitable enough punishment - that's just a logical opinion.

[Jubin]

Norway is way more civilized than the baltics in particular, because you never were touched by communism...

Don't bring other baltic countries into this, thank you.

[Mikal]

Yes... putting someone on death row cost significantly more than keeping them in prison for life. Did you not just read what I wrote?

I doubt it.

Norway is way more civilized than the baltics in particular, because you never were touched by communism...

Why do you always use Baltic? Why not just stick to your own country? I'm pretty sure other baltic countries don't give a shit about what goes on in Lithuania, just like Celtic countries such as Ireland, Scotland and Wales don't, you just share some history, nothing else.

[Jason_Bridges]

I doubt it.

Search it up yourself then, and if you don't want to do that, that's just you being ignorant and in denial, its a fact, so you can doubt it as much as you want but that doesn't change anything. Putting someone on death row is more expensive than life imprisonment. It is not a deterrent and it also make the victims any less victimised than they were before, executing the men that committed this crime isn't going to bring back the murdered teenager so what exactly would killing them do that life imprisonment wouldn't? Apart from waste money and time, that could be spent on much more important things of course.