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Do you support the death penalty?

Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime. Since the year 2000 71 of 1,617 prisoners sentenced to death have been executed.

77%
Yes
23%
No
55%
Yes
20%
No
20%
Yes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence
2%
No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence
1%
Yes, but the victim’s family should decide the punishment
1%
No, too many people are innocently convicted

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 @9MCYFY2answered…4 days4D

I think they should get mental or psychological treatment in jail and educate them for the betterment of the society as mostly uneducated people become serious criminals. Criminals who have committed financial frauds should be enforced to do some mild labour so that they would be employed in some way and their salary to contribute the recovery from the fraud

 @9JW7J48answered…3mos3MO

I dont support death penalty as i think is an easy way out and it gives too much power to the judiciary to set a standard for death penalty. How do they get to decide which convict deserved death penalty and which doesnt.

 @9FYF5BKanswered…7mos7MO

Used as a deterrent but never actually carried out. Terminally ill prisoners are allowed to choose euthanasia and it is published as a death penalty to scare people into abiding the law.

 @9D33VX8answered…10mos10MO

No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence.

 @9CQH6WJanswered…10mos10MO

Death penalty should be applied in the rarest of the rate case only when collective conscience of society is so shocked that life imprisonment appears to be inadequate

 @9CPNQZCanswered…10mos10MO

No. Death penalty is State sanctioned murder

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Uganda Upholds Ant-LGBT Law. Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law tha…

Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but voided some provisions it said are inconsistent with certain fundamental human rights.The legislation, adopted in May last year, is among the world's harshest anti-gay laws and has drawn condemnation from rights campaigners and sanctions from Western nations.Activists say the law has unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, including torture, rape, arrest and eviction."We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," said lead judge Richard Buteera, reading the judgment on behalf of his four colleagues.However, the court struck down certain sections it said were "inconsistent with right to health, privacy and freedom of religion".The portions of the act that were voided criminalised the letting of premises for use for homosexual acts and failure to report homosexual acts.Under the Anti-Homosexuality Act, citizens had an obligation to report anyone they suspected of engaging in homosexuality. This requirement violated individual rights, the court found.The government will now have to remove these sections from the law, Edward Ssemambo, a human rights lawyer representing the petitioners, told Reuters.

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