Crimes that deserve the death penalty?

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:01 pm

This is why there should still be the Death Penalty.

As that is exactly what he Deserves

https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/2994245 ... pe-murder/

5150 · Post by **5150** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:14 pm

Might need more info or link champ.

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:18 pm

5150 wrote:Might need more info or link champ.

Watch the News.

Think Everyone would know about this

mandy · Post by **mandy** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:24 pm

Might want to reword the title a bit Dave.

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:27 pm

mandy wrote:Might want to reword the title a bit Dave.

Why? and What To?

Post by **stui magpie** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:33 pm

You mean this case?

A man has appeared in court charged with the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl during a party at her Victorian home.

Mildura man Bowe Maddigan, 29, appeared before Wangaratta Magistrates Court on Thursday.

He has been charged with murder, sexual penetration of a child under 16, and an indecent act on a child under 16.

Zoe Buttigieg's body was found by her mother in the family's Inchbold Street, Wangaratta, home on Sunday morning.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/2994245 ... pe-murder/

If yes, I agree with Mandy. The title makes it sound like it was an 11 year old who killed and raped someone.

Maybe a title like "Man rapes and kills 11 year old girl" which is clearer.

Post by **David** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:32 pm

Pretty awful stuff. What can you say?

Post by **think positive** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:56 pm

Two words David

Death penalty

Post by **David** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:36 pm

Well, if you want to make this thread about that, then I have plenty to say. Let's start with the fact that any murder - any deliberate act of cutting a person's life short - is an especially heinous crime. We need to recognise that when we discuss the upper limits of punishment. By arguing against the death penalty, those of us who are against capital punishment are not downplaying the severity of crimes like these. We are asking what, as a society, is the most severe thing that we are willing to inflict on a perpetrator. I think I'm comfortable that we draw the line at life imprisonment.

A society that kills or tortures criminals, even if only the very worst perpetrators, is a barbaric society. That is the choice we make here.

Mugwump · Post by **Mugwump** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:18 am

David wrote:
A society that kills or tortures criminals, even if only the very worst perpetrators, is a barbaric society. That is the choice we make here.

I agree that the state - that lumbering thing of politics and clumsiness - should not be able to terminate the life of the individual. It is simply too error-prone. So I oppose the death penalty.

I'm less convinced by the bald statement above. It is barbaric to kill someone without cause - but in principle, when you have published a statute outlining a given penalty for a given crime, and the penalty is not rationally disproportionate to the harm of the crime, and someone has wilfully put themselves in default of the statute, I am not sure I see quite how or why it is "barbaric". It seems to me almost fairly contractual.

Post by **David** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:35 am

HAL · Post by **HAL** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:37 am

I believe in the Sixth commandment.

Mugwump · Post by **Mugwump** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 3:20 am

Post by **think positive** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:34 am

Yeah, your right David, Capitol punishment should be banned, it's too cruel and brutal, just stick him in general population, and let the jail justice system work its magic.

Post by **David** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:10 am

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Crimes that deserve the death penalty?

Crimes that deserve the death penalty?