Needlelady:

Do you think that Nigeria should emulate most western nations and ban death sentence? On the other hand, do you think the death sentence in place for some crimes solved any problem since armed robbers increase everyday?

If you support the death sentence, do you also support th govt to add other crimes like drug peddling under the capital punishment like Buhari did?

doyin13:

It is one method of population culling. . . . .Whats not to like?

Kobojunkie:

_{pssst** , I completely agree, I just didn't want to be the one to post it being that some already think I me a wicked racist , LMAO!!}

4 Play:

A measure is only as good as its usefulness.A punishment that fails to deter or prevent crime is clearly not working.

The US has the highest murder rate in the Western world despite retaining the death penalty.Nigeria's armed robbery rate hasn't reduced one jot since we introduced capital punishment for armed robbers.

Surely,the execution of innocents should move us to see that this draconian punishment is beyond the pale for any civilized people.

Easy to say no to capital punishment if you are not at the receiving end of some wicked man killing your whole family (God forbid) or some kind of absurd atrocity with no sign of remorse on the killer's part, I would definitely want that killer dead before daybreak. So as for me it's yes to capital punishment for gruesome acts like the things above. As for drug peddling, rotting in jail is enough punishment for me.

4 Play:

A measure is only as good as its usefulness.A punishment that fails to deter or prevent crime is clearly not working.

The US has the highest murder rate in the Western world despite retaining the death penalty.Nigeria's armed robbery rate hasn't reduced one jot since we introduced capital punishment for armed robbers.

Surely,the execution of innocents should move us to see that this draconian punishment is beyond the pale for any civilized people.

Needlelady:

Didn't Gandhi say that an eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind? It's only the US that still has capital punishment among the first worlds and their crime rate is obviously higher. I think armed robbers in Nigeria will be more subtle if the capital punishment is out of their way.

By Seun,
Capital punishment should only be an option if all of the following apply:
- In cases of first degree murder.
- If there is overwhelming physical evidence supporting the conviction.
- If the victims (more than one) were tortured before they were killed.

Even in such cases, we should be careful because the death sentence is irreversible because: in countries like Nigeria, where the police is not equipped to properly investigate crime, it's very easy for an innocent person to be wrongly convicted. Better safe than sorry.

Needlelady:

Your footnote is enough to reconsider this capital punishment thing because it's better to let a criminal go scotfree than punish an innocent person. Besides, deathrow inmates are kept for years in the US before execution to insure 90% accuracy(after several appeals) but they are easily killed in Nigeria before dusk. If people are left for years in Nigerian deathrow before execution, Ken Saro Wiwa would've been alive today.

As someone who is 100% for capital punishment and someone who is not even anti-west, I don't believe Nigeria should try to do every thing as the west does it. It may not make sense to many in the west that capital punishment remain an option, I believe we have yet to see even close to 50% benefit from such a ban in the west and so there is no information to support that being the right choice or best way to go at all.

Why bother locking them up at all when you could potentially be locking up an innocent man?? Why not let them all rome free out of fear that we may purnish the innocent?? Come on!! I mean there have been cases where innocent men have spent decades of their lives in jail only to be freed later on. Spread the fear even further and let's just not lock anyone up. Heck no punishment just cause

Capital punishment should be abolished. . . . It stinks.
No individual or group of individuals have the right to take the life of any human.
A man commits murder? Let him rot in jail for the rest of his life.

The purpose of practising capital punishment in USA/Nigeria has been defeated because it doesn't serve as a deterrent to aspiring murderers!!!
Matter of fact, it seems countries that practice capital punishment produce more serial killers/drug dealers.
So much for the Human Rights Act that America always rant about!!!!

@ Kobojunkie,

You ask why lock em up? I ask why kill em?
Killing em aint going to bring the dead victims back, will it?

Needlelady:


Do you know that capital punishment has serial consequences? Most armed robbers in Nigeria showcase their brutality because they know the severe consequences if caught and capital punishment is a way to take them out of their misery as quick as possible. Wouldn't it be better to punish someone by living him/her fiorever in jail than taking him/her out of the misery through quick death?

Jackal.:

Capital punishment should be abolished. . . . It stinks.
No individual or group of individuals have the right to take the life of any human.
A man commits murder? Let him rot in jail for the rest of his life.

The purpose of practising capital punishment in USA/Nigeria has been defeated because it doesn't serve as a deterrent to aspiring murderers!!!
Matter of fact, it seems countries that practice capital punishment produce more serial killers/drug dealers.
So much for the Human Rights Act that America always rant about!!!!
@ Kobojunkie,
You ask why lock em up? I ask why kill em?
Killing em aint going to bring the dead victims back, will it?

Jackal.:

In all honesty, i just think American Civil Liberties Union aint doing enough protecting the rights of individuals.
This is one of the reasons i can't stand USA . . . The whole system sucks.
The system sends a criminal into Prison and he comes out as an animal. . . . They are never reformed.
They release a more hardened lag into the system only to commit again in a matter of weeks.
America's re-offending rate will make the Israelites in the wilderness look like complete saints.

Needlelady:

You remain adamant in an issue that can make somebody useless over a simple mistake. I don't think you'll be singing the same song if  your relation or you falls into that loophole. It's easier for us to cast stones when we are in the clear. I have a friend who supported Bush even when he is farting in  her face but when she lost a relation in the Iraq war, her story and ideology changed.

Kobojunkie:

This is just rubbish, go back and do some research!!

Jackal.:

What a heap of applesauce!!!!

I don't need to do any research to tackle u on capital punishment.
Dont even bring Japan into this because we are talking about countries that rant about Human Rights.
If European countries and the UK can abolish capital punishment, i see no reason why America should not follow suit.

It's a shame that things normally take 5 centuries to change in the USA. . . . .It took em 300 years to abolish slavery when most countries in the western world changed their stand on it.

Keep killing lags. . . . how has it reduced the crime rate?

More violence in the prisons. . . . prison rape, assaults, thuggery, etc is what u get.
People that are supposed to be reformed go back into the system meaner than before and they re-offend in a matter of weeks.
How has your capital punishment worked for y'all?
Buncha murderers!!!

doyin13:

@4play

That is if the aim of punishment is a simply to deter aspiriing criminals.

I have come to realise that symbolism, entertainment of the macabre kind, retribution, all come into play with the death penalty.
The spectators shall not be denied and the victims must draw retributive comfort.

Jackal.:

@ Kobojunkie,

Your level of comprehension is appaling.
Where did i say criminals shouldn't be locked up? Of course they should be punished for their crimes but DON'T KILL EM.
American judges are just savages, they are animals!!!
I stand on the side that it is morally wrong to KILL.

Jackal.:


Ohhh Maaaa Daysssssssssss, You are a bigger clown than i thunk.
What's the essence of practising capital punishment if its not to serve as a deterrent? Is it a TV show?
I insist the purpose of practising it has been defeated in a country like the USA.
How is your government different from the murderers who killed in the 1st place?

Jackal.:

@ Kobojunkie,

You just don't get it, do u?

When u have a system that permits capital punishment. . . . . the prison is always going to be violent.
Prisoners will have that violent mentality. . . . what do u expect from a death row inmate? He is going to be killed anyways so why not kill a few before his number is called. . . .This is why American prison system is full of filth.
Let it be known that few innocent people are caught in the ugly schitzo as well. . . . How is that an effective measure?

Compare European prison systems to yours and u will weep for America.
Why kill a serial killer? Let him rot in jail for the rest of his life. . . . . .That is enough punishment.
Taking a man's freedom would hurt a man more than sitting him on an electric chair!!!!!!