wouldn't that depend on the circumstances?

I'm for certainty. It has to be certain. Also, I believe that it must fit the crime. Planned, cold blooded or multiple. Less than that would not fit. Also agree to pedophiles, but definitely must fit the crime and be a defined type and be much worse than just having the materials. Not saying that isn't a crime but not capital punishment worthy. Also, I don't want to think too much about what that means.

I do think that confession does mean something. It can bring closure to families and lower court costs. I think there should be some leniency for that.

I would leave that up to the immediate family. The captured videos of Police Brutality and Military Crimes against humanity have never been addressed. Will the American Indiian or the Blacks of the South ever be given justice. Every convict receives medical attention and innocent people die everyday from lack of medicine or proper medical attention. Your talking a muted argument that has been raging for centuries.

You have to take into account that most "confessions" have been shown to have been coerced and, few if any guilty murderers actually confess.

I have a lot of very mixed feelings about the Death Penalty.
Too many to express here.

I'm against the death penalty under all circumstances.

Individual cases vary as far as rehabilitation but I don't believe in killing for killings sake.

Depends entirely on the nature of the killer. If the murder is a one-time crime of passion or revenge then rehab is justified, if it's the work of a sexual sadist, thrill killer or any other form of psychopathy, then execution or lifetime confinement is the only justifiable recourse because psychopaths can't be rehabilitated.

Not a fan of the death penalty...Due process needs to play out every time. We cannot make mistakes.

I think that rehabilitation is the necessary choice.

No government should be in the business of killing people, much less it's own citizens.

I’m against it.

1 - It’s irreversible. You can’t unexecute the innocent.

2 - Life in prison is a worse punishment than death.

Even without commenting on the death penalty; confessions are not reliable in proving guilt.

Random psychopath or cheating lover? Laying in wait in the dark or crime of passion? Blanket "killing" isn't going to cut it for discussion......

why are those the two choices? presenting those two choices implies that if someone cannot be deemed rehabilitatable that person should be immediately put to death. is that why we kill people? because they cannot be rehabilitated? and how are we supposed to judge ALL confessed murderers the same way? maybe some can be redeemed and others cannot. is the confession what makes the difference? people DO make false confessions sometimes. i am against the death penalty altogether and it certainly has nothing to do with confessions or rehabilitation. it has to do with us, the ones who did not murder. i do not see why getting together in a group makes it okay for us to kill someone when otherwise it would not be okay. oh, s/he deserves it. well, the murderer obviously thought so about the victim, too! oh, s/he can't be rehabilitated. well, how wonderful that we can figure that out at a glance and apply that to every single murderer. you know, in my heart i wanted manson dead. my dad joined the army because he wanted to go personally strangle hitler. those are not unnatural feelings, but murderers have them too -- about people we don't think they should kill. we're not different from murderers because we choose worse people to want to kill. we're different because we control our impulses and don't DO it. so how it is justifiable for us to get together as a group and decide to give in to those impulses?

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Death sentence is wrong unless in a case of civil war or a situation where the state can't handle the number of prisoners without collapsing.
Explaining:
Human rights exists, and it is for all humans, in our out of jail
Jail exists to protect the society, the state is not an avenger, is a protector.
So the state should limit the minimum possible of natural rights to make society work. So it limits your right to take what you want or use force to create a stable society. It limits your freedom if you are a danger to society etc.
A person that is already subjugated and isolated on a prison don't pose any threat to society, so take the last right that is life won't make society better, still just avenge, and the state cannot have this kind of feeling.
And remember, the state IS the society. So death penalty is society telling that we will kill a person that has no way of defending itself and pose no more threat to us. I will always be against it.