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Is it right to kill a killer? Doesn't that lower the state to the killers level? Penn and Teller examine the death penalty.

  • Jonas22
  • posted by Jonas22
  • Date 7/6/2007 11:36:23 PM
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I EAT SAND : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

I EAT SAND

0 votes NegativePositive

502 days 7 hours ago...

5/5 Penn and Teller Rule!

LeighCedar : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

LeighCedar

2 votes NegativePositive

502 days 6 hours ago...

THanks for the upload. One I've never seen before.
Gives me more to think about on this complicated issue.

Scarecrow : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Scarecrow

5 votes NegativePositive

502 days 1 hour ago...

I think they should introduce the suicide penalty to avoid this issue.

InsayneJayne (Admin) : LVL 60: VP 5: said:

InsayneJayne

2 votes NegativePositive

501 days 16 hours ago...

Jayne disagree's w/Penn!?!
There's a first time for everything, I suppose.

otter_ : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

otter_

0 votes NegativePositive

500 days 16 hours ago...

I'm pretty damn liberal and I still disagree with this video. I really have a hard time feeling bad because someone is killed for atrocious crimes.

redlightdistrict : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

redlightdistrict

2 votes NegativePositive

500 days 8 hours ago...

well if someboday brutally murdered 4 people and sexually assulted a 9 year old girl and got her pregnat id have to no problem if he died and felt a little pain while he did

Rboy : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

Rboy

4 votes NegativePositive

500 days 8 hours ago...

death penalty is right
would you like to pay money to the government to keep mass murderous,pedophiles,war criminals alive for their entire live give them food and shelter
plus someone who kills someone else intentionally without reason is not a human being.
And the museum was fuckin scary I would not step 1 foot in it, probably haunted

Zatch : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

Zatch

1 votes NegativePositive

500 days 8 hours ago...

This is the first episode of Bullshit I've really disagreed with. All I ask is that we're careful in deciding who to execute.

importrx7 : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

importrx7

0 votes NegativePositive

500 days 8 hours ago...

i've always had one stand on this subject, and that is fuck em. they lost their chance at life by making those horrible decisions and to die is the best for the society.

Bad_Karma : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

Bad_Karma

1 votes NegativePositive

500 days 8 hours ago...

The death penalty now is too humane. Those people deserve that physical and psychological terror before they die, their victims likely experienced the same thing.

They should let the family of the victim shoot the criminal themselves, I know I would want to.

Privatizing the death penalty is really a pretty good idea, the way it is now is far too expensive. I don't know why lethal injection is considered more humane than a bullet to the head, their both painless but the bullet is 1000x cheaper.

klavlav : LVL 8: VP 1.7: said:

klavlav

3 votes NegativePositive

500 days 7 hours ago...

Please upload their episode on circumcision, and why the procedure is Bullshit. I definitely think that show needs to be seen, especially after the Turkish butcher shop circumcision video that was uploaded recently.

Circumcising unconsenting kids should be illegal, plain and simple. The fact that it's accepted at all is pure Bullshit.

mattytheory : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

mattytheory

0 votes NegativePositive

500 days 7 hours ago...

my view of the death penalty is such:

we as tax payers pay money to keep these people alive, something which they have taken away from someone else. in my view, incarcerating someone for the rest of their lives is the same as taking their life away. why do we have to pay for it? its welfare for criminals.

oh yeah, and to answer penn's question about "is it ever okay to kill?" yes.. especially in terms of self defense. the thing about the death penalty, is that people who become victims of murder probably would have killed their attackers in self-defense. would anyone be up in arms over that if business had been taken care of at the time of the crime?.. or in that case.. the attempted crime?

knexus : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

knexus

1 votes NegativePositive

500 days 6 hours ago...

repost

http://spikedhumor.com/articles/27677/Penn_Teller_Bullsh_t_The_De
ath_Penalty.html

WaSSaBi06 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

WaSSaBi06

1 votes NegativePositive

500 days 6 hours ago...


is part 2 up yet? I couldn't find it
EDIT:
^
nevermind, i found it, thanks...

and they do bring up a good point about innocent people who get executed too...

**Luv_to_laugh** : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

**Luv_to_laugh**

0 votes NegativePositive

500 days 5 hours ago...

^ couldnt find it either..

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