With the news story that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death it got me wondering about whether the death sentence is right to be carried out, or not.

http://talk-thailand.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1159

I`ll kick this one off by saying that life is of course precious. For people like Hussein though I have no sympathy with him, and he deserves to forfeit his own life for what he`s done to many thousands of victims.

I also think that there are others who wilfully commit murder without regard for life, and those who live by the sword......!

I think it should be depend on

who was murdered
why they were murdered
how did the murderer murder the person
the amount of times the murderer murdered


So basically if a 42 year old man with no kiids or family was killed by accident (still considered murder) when someone pushed him and he fell, and hit is head on a table, and the person who killed him never killed anyone before. Then they shouldn't be put to death.

Quote:So basically if a 42 year old man with no kiids or family was killed by accident (still considered murder) when someone pushed him and he fell, and hit is head on a table, and the person who killed him never killed anyone before. Then they shouldn't be put to death.

But isn`t that really saying that because that man who was killed had no family, his life is of less value than the man who does?