RAF: Actually, it did happen that representatives of the German government (policemen) offensively threatened the lives of members of the RAF. One of these 'terrorists' was hunted down and executed in the early 90s in Bad Kleinen for example.

Exiling criminals: Reading just your first paragraph, I was going to ask 'where to', since sending criminals to another country hardly seems fair Then I read further - this is indeed the stuff bad, bad movies are made of. Seriously: forcing all kinds of criminals together in one place (prison) is already the worst thing to do right now, your idea would take this to even higher extremes.

Rehabilitation: That's, again, the same as mentioned before: Why should the money of lawful, good people be spent on chaotic, evil people? Why should people who broke rules (laws) get extra attention/care while normal people are screwed? That hardly seems fair to me.

In fact, several "RAF members" were killed by the German police. The threat was not only a feeling, it was real. --> http://www.rafinfo.de/opfer.php

There is a police law in most German states that allows the killing of people by a so called "final rescue shot" ("finaler Rettungsschuss").


Actually the money is spent for egoistic and not for humanistic reasons. If the society did nothing (spend no money), the personal danger would be even higher. It's in the "lawful people's" interest to minimize their danger. In the end, spending money on criminals is cheaper than doing nothing.

Not if you just kill them.

Just for the record: Everything I said in this thread of course isn't my opinion. I just figured that there wouldn't be anyone arguing in favour of death penalty, so I decided to spice the discussion up a little

I had no clue.

Just wanted to make sure this thread doesn't stand out as an epitome of my stupidity - there's enough evidence of that already

Death Penalty is ok as long as Beckham is going to shoot Ok that was terrible!

Edited by Burseg at 04:45 on July, 09th 2004

No way! Innocent bystanders would be harmed!