are you in favor of death penalty? why? and why not? if not, what are your alternatives to deter crimes?

Answer 1

I am in favour of a death penalty. If you want to believe that a life sentence is going to teach a murderer anything, then YOU pay for it. If you want to pay room and board for a prisoner for the rest of his/her life, you're welcome to try, but you have no right to ask someone else to do it.
Imprisonment means you and I are forced to take care of criminals, and for those in the habit of taking by force, what better life can you imagine? Abolishment of the death penalty is every dishonest person's dream. It's the path to a life of coercion with impunity. It's become far too easy to forget about the victims. What about their rights? The issue of victim's rights also reveals the fact that many crimes have no victims... ask yourself why victimless crimes are illegal (after all, cops and judges need to look busy, don't they?)
To those who claim prisons are cheaper-- what planet are you on? Keeping murderers and rapists in prisons is only cheaper than, what, keeping them in mansions? Thanks to the INjustice system, we have a ridiculous number of innocent people doing time. In a horribly misguided attempt to regulate business and morality, prisons are full of people guilty of illegal, but not immoral, acts: smoking pot, trading stocks at the wrong moment, selling sex, gambling, etc.
The real problem is confusing legality with morality. If you kill someone, and it was NOT self-defence, you have forfeited your right to be alive. That fact doesn't change from place to place, but laws do, obviously. In some countries, you could be put to death for being gay or an atheist, but in those cases the executioners are the murderers. Blaming wrongful executions on the death penalty is like blaming a shooting on the gun. If we're going to save innocent lives, we have to fight the religions and governments that destroy those lives.
Ultimately, the real issue is not the concept of execution, but rather the abuse of law by the corrupt and the persecution of innocents by those who make -and enforce- laws.

Answer 2

The death penalty does not deter crime, any more than life in prison does. The scary part of the death penalty is that some Innocent person can be put to death. Until we have a perfect system for determining guilt it is not something I can support. The alternative is obvious prisons, and it's cheaper too.

Answer 3

The death penalty is not a deterrence - jail is not rehabilitation. It is punishment pure and simple. If you understand and accept this fact, then you can look at the death penalty as the ultimate payment for any crime.

I for one think that we need certain protections to prevent mistakes. These protections might include.

1. All police interrogations have to be video tapped in their entirety. No video tape, no evidence. Sorry -- with the amount of police corruption (and cops lie to for the most common reason -- ego), we cannot just accept your word.

2. DNA by at least two separate parties.

If the crime was proved to have been committed, and the penalty is death - then I support the punishment. I think that child rapists should receive the death penalty.

Answer 4

Im in favor, but the death penalty dose not deter crimes. There are more people on death role now then ever before. What lesson can you learn from it, you will be dead? You dont get the chance to learn from it. You are loocked up for a long time so are people that get life.

Answer 5

I am definitely in favor of the death penalty. Why should people that murder and rape get to live the rest of their lives getting everything (cable, gym, food, clothes, medical/dental care, etc) that others have to work for? The only way that I would say "OK" to life in prison instead would be if the rapists and murderers and child molesters were used for product and medical testing instead of the innocent animals.

For the lesser offenses, the free Internet, free cable and free gyms should be taken away. The prisoners should have to work to pay for their meals and clothing (the law-abiding have to do this, why shouldn't the criminals?) and they should have to take job training and reading/writing lessons. That way, when they get out, they cannot say they "had to" commit another crime because it is "all they know". Social time should be kept to a minimum. They are there to be punished for what they did, not to socialize.

Answer 6

Yes, I am in favor, but the older I get, the less I am in favor of it. DNA has proven that there are people on death row who are innocent.

I do think that ANY sexual crime against a child should be punishable by death.

Answer 7

I am against death crimes!!! If you do, you aren't better than the criminal itself and even worse. What you should do is put then beyond bars. But beware seven years should be an absolute maximum. Any longer an you loose AL change of making the criminal any better. Lock then up a few years and re-educate them. That's the best

Answer 8

Totally if favour of the death penalty,,I wish we had it here in Oz,,the crime rate is soaring here and its the most horrendous things that these deviates are getting away ,,our judicial system does nothing.

Answer 9

No i dont think you learn anything from a painful death which lasts a few mins. I think life time imprisonment teaches alot more. Knowing ur never gonna see the outside world again. Its kinda scary dont u think?
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Answer 10

no i am not in favor of DR never have been never will Ive seen to many innocent people die
i think no one has a right to take a life
respect
shaz