Is it okay to kill people if they deserve it?

Question

Or are you against the death penalty?

Answer 1

no one deserves to die and no one has the right to kill

Answer 2

When someone takes a life, the balance of justice is disturbed. Unless that balance is restored, society succumbs to a rule of violence. Only the taking of the murderer's life restores the balance and allows society to show convincingly that murder is an intolerable crime which will be punished in kind.
Retribution has its basis in religious values, which have historically maintained that it is proper to take an "eye for an eye" and a life for a life.

Although the victim and the victim's family cannot be restored to the status which preceded the murder, at least an execution brings closure to the murderer's crime (and closure to the ordeal for the victim's family) and ensures that the murderer will create no more victims.

For the most cruel and heinous crimes, the ones for which the death penalty is applied, offenders deserve the worst punishment under our system of law, and that is the death penalty. Any lesser punishment would undermine the value society places on protecting lives.

Answer 3

Penalties exist for reasons. If you speed, you get fined. If you rob a bank, you go to jail. If you commit a crime that society has judged deserving of the death penalty, you die.

If you commit in a crime, you have to be prepared to pay the price. I speed all the time, I pay about $1000/year in speeding tickets. Do I get mad or upset when I'm caught? No. Heck, I've had the same officer give me 4 tickets and I'm thinking of asking her out next time ;p

If you murder someone, don't be surprised if the justice system, family and friends of the decease want your sorry *** electricuted. People who commit crimes, especially the heinous crimes, are repeat offenders. They've chosen the life they wish to die by.

I'll even volunteer to be the person the pulls the switch, fires the shot or give the injection.

Answer 4

Yes, it's okay. I support the death penalty, but only when there is concrete evidence. For example (and I'm just throwing this out there): Those guys who were on tape robbing the Bank of America in California and then shooting up the city while trying to make their escape? THEY deserved the dealth penalty because there was absolutely NO reason for that and they couldn't honestly deny they did it.

Answer 5

I'm against the death penalty. No system can guarantee absolute certainty in deciding guilt. Because of that even one innocent person dying under the death penalty is too many. Besides, if the US gave harsher penalties for criminals and made parole harder to receive, then perhaps prison would truly deter crime.

Answer 6

i dont think it is right to kill people because i believe there is only one judge. Especially since you hear how racially prejudice the death penalty is. I think there should be lock for people who harm other s or who do wrong but after there is a complete search to make sure the system has capture the right person not just the first person who appears guilty.

Answer 7

No, because then you are simply operating out of fear. Anger is a derivative of fear. Living a fear-based life will not serve you in the end, even if killing feels good now. Live a love-based life, filled with compassion for even the most vile of people. God loves us all and we should strive for more Godliness.

The death penalty has not even come close to putting an end to murder, or even deterred many people from murder. It obviously does not work, because it works on the basis of fear, which is a low vibration.

Answer 8

I have been against the death penalty for years; however I have never been in the position where I had to choose. I don't know if that would change, say someone in my family was murdered, molested....It's hard to say at this time.

Answer 9

The death penalty is the easy way out for killers.

Answer 10

Look, you're getting people involved, which means we're gonna bone up. Yes, if I had the power, I'd have order Moussaui exicuted, along with Tim McVeigh and Saddam Hussain. Every rapist and layabout dad, too, especially the abusive ones. And, of course, Duke fans. (Just kidding about that last one...Go Heels!) That's why I don't have control over this kind of thing, and if you put your faith in an omnipotant state, then aren't you going against the Bible?

Just thought I'd expand that argument.

Seek Peace, Fly High, Find Love,
Poncho.

Answer 11

The only problem with the death penalty is that it isnt just guilty people that get killed. There are mistakes where innocent people are killed, thats why its banned in Europe. When will the US civilize and ban it too?