Who granted us the right to take human lives? Why then, do we have courts of law sentencing people to death?

Question

Are we accepting that people who have the 'qualifications' of law and the experience of heading a court, to have the power of ridding a person of his life?

Answer 1

The question is who granted the govenrment the right to waste millions of my and your tax dollars in senseless appeal process and keeping convicted murderers alive for decades? I feel sorry for myself for the that Scott Peterson is kept alive with my money -he deserves death penalty.

The logic is that once the crime is proven beyond reasonable doubt, the offender should suffer just as much as the victim. You get what you give to others.

The problem is that the American court system is not interested in finding out the truth -just going through motions.

Answer 2

There are some people in the world, fortunately a tiny minority, who are so sociopathic and disrespectful of human life that they deserve to die for their crimes.
The US legal system has plenty of built-in safeguards to avoid (in most cases) the unjust application of the death penalty. No one claims that it is perfect; but IMHO, we cannot afford to wait for perfection, because it will never be achieved.
Personally, I don't care whether or not the death penalty has a quantifiable deterrent effect. It is the only sure way to stop a murderer from killing again.

Answer 3

Nobody, I belive. Which will be why I'm against the death penalty. It's not about compassion to evil psychotic killers, really, it's just the death penalty serves no purpose.

Answer 4

i did a report about that and i got a f because my teacher did not understand. but i get wut u r talking about. if someon killed someone that is bad and the court tells them to put them to sleep. but the court people who kill the bad person would be a murder dont u think. i dont like that law because it is like a chain. and the law people how put them to sleep wouldnt they go to hell. i wonder? it is sad