# Death sentence **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 14, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226 "2014-12-14T19:49:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/1 "2014-12-14T19:49:43Z")
Why isn’t it automatically used for every murder crime. And or other crimes? Doesn’t it strain the circumstance for all the other end of natural order to overly contend with the obligation towards such people? Instead of maintaining rotted wood as a ceiling. Supplement the floor to grow like marble? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/2 "2014-12-14T20:15:36Z")
what? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/3 "2014-12-14T20:17:06Z")
I bet you’ve never been wrongly accused of a crime, then. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/4 "2014-12-14T20:21:54Z")
I’m wondering how marble grows, personally. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/5 "2014-12-14T20:24:33Z")
Should we also cut the hands off of thieves? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/6 "2014-12-14T20:26:37Z")
Man, that’s a really bad haiku. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Joker_and_the_Thief)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/7 "2014-12-14T20:27:52Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I’m wondering how marble grows, personally. It has to get all its vitamins and supplements, or else it won’t grow up big and strong. ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/8 "2014-12-14T20:41:40Z")
So. 500,000 murders / manipulators of devious acts of life disruption. paid for by X money from “good society” trying to get on from the fall out. 500,000 children born into this world, or coming up through under that same condition. Why isn’t the pledge to America substantial enough, to recognize the exchange rate, of life participation over life degradation? Isn’t that the essential element, to being a civilized/successful order? Look up at the rotted ceiling, you see all that shit, coming in and ruining what you have to work with, uh whoa, watch out… all that shit is going to come crashing down on you. Now if I can grab your attention for a moment. Look at this marble flooring, gee, can you imagine, just all the promise we have to work with over here? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/9 "2014-12-14T20:43:41Z")
It’s got a nice beat, but I can’t place the melody. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/10 "2014-12-14T20:51:42Z")
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Joker_and_the_Thief)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/11 "2014-12-14T20:58:00Z")
My floor is carpet, hardwood and some tile because I don’t live in a mausoleum or courthouse. My ceiling is just fine, not rotting or dripping shit onto my house. Maybe you should look into home improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/12 "2014-12-14T21:05:31Z")
You make no sense? People are garunteed life sentneces, of being fed and clothes and tended to, off your dollars, while worse conditions are imposed on children living at the other end of the spectrum? /headscratch – the adults living those life sentences already set their perrogative. it is our responsibility and their dues, to make the necesarry exchange, on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/13 "2014-12-14T21:07:35Z")
> [@Henryunderborn](#): > > So. > > 500,000 murders / manipulators of devious acts of life disruption. > . > . > . > Look at this marble flooring, gee, can you imagine, just all the promise we have to work with over here? Would it be too much to ask for you to repost this in English? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/14 "2014-12-14T21:11:07Z")
I _think_ that the OP is saying that we expend a lot of resources in jailing people, and that we would be better off not expending these resources and executing them instead. If that’s the case, then he needs to tell us just how much a life sentence costs, and how much a death sentence does. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/15 "2014-12-14T21:14:41Z")
Because circumstances are different. Some murders deserve execution; some don’t. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/16 "2014-12-14T21:23:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I _think_ that the OP is saying that we expend a lot of resources in jailing people, and that we would be better off not expending these resources and executing them instead. If that’s the case, then he needs to tell us just how much a life sentence costs, and how much a death sentence does. Couldn’t we wait until the organ banks are up and running before going to universal execution? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/17 "2014-12-14T22:05:54Z")
> [@Henryunderborn](#): > > Why isn’t it automatically used for every murder crime. And or other crimes? > Doesn’t it strain the circumstance for all the other end of natural order to overly contend with the obligation towards such people? > > Instead of maintaining rotted wood as a ceiling. Supplement the floor to grow like marble? Your ideas confuse me and I demand to be removed from your mailing list. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/18 "2014-12-14T22:44:54Z")
Our legal system has far too many flaws in it for the death penalty to work. People are wrongly convicted all the time, and if there is even the smallest chance of an innocent man being executed, then there should not be a death penalty. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/19 "2014-12-14T22:53:52Z")
Besides the fact that we know there are innocent people who have been imprisoned, there’s also the matter of incentives. If more crimes are subject to a death sentence, there’s no longer any incentive to moderate one’s behavior. If somebody knows they’ll be killed no matter what, they no longer have a reason not to kill everybody in sight, damage as much property as possible, and generally act like an ass. I have no opinions on wood vs marble, except that you need more money and much better support, including your foundations, to support the extra weight and cost. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-sentence/707226/20 "2014-12-14T23:43:49Z")
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