"The death penalty has no place in the 21st century"

[Loki]

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking in July, said the death penalty has no place in the 21st century and urged all countries to work toward its abolition.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/25/wo...html?hpt=hp_t2

I agree with him. What are your views?

[Dictator]

I don't see why we should keep the worst of them alive, yet they say that death penalty is too expensive. All it takes is a knife or something. Guillotines are very old-school and the hipster movement would support its reintroduction into prisons, hanging is also a good choice.

[blogen]

The death penalty is the only real punishment. A society does not need lawbreakers and this is the best solution for them. And the opportunity of the mistake is not counter-argument, since adult men and women with full responsibility formed the society and not childs. They live with their mistakes, but they cannot be avoided the responsibility of the decision. The responsibility is their duty, since they had political rights and they not silent servants.

[Hadouken]

disagree strongly (didnt read the text about the iranian woman ...I just mean that I see the death penalty as appropriate when it comes to some crimes)

[Jackson]

Unless you are massacring people by the thousands and lots are innocent then i don't see the issue. Or unless the death penalty is for silly things like theft.

[Oneeye]

I say, "Hang them high."

[Unome]

Only the illuminati should reserve judgment over matters of life & death

[Aviator]

Disagree. If anything, it has a bigger place in the 21st century.

[Ars Moriendi]

Indifferent mostly, but disagree with him.

[Unome]

Does death penalty apply to unborn (abortion)?