Do you believe in the death penalty?

Question

I believe that if you kill someone then you should be killed.

Answer 1

Yes, I feel like it should be handed out to more criminals. Such as child molesters and rapists. Not just murderers.

Answer 2

If you kill someone that killed someone, aren't you being exactly like them? And anyway, I believe that you're probably hurting yourself more than you are them, coz well...they dead, you still have to live with it. Maybe the family of the victim will get consolation...but their loved one still won't come back so exactly how "happy" can they get?
People seem to believe that yes, a serial killer or a psychopath do deserve to be killed... I believe they "deserve" it less than probably most people that kill ( like that Peterson guy) because well, they are just sick, mentally sick. How can I hold that against them? It doesnt feel right to do so, but also I cant be letting them run wild so either treat them , or lock 'em up.
If at least we could say that the death penalty is used as a deterrent, but it isnt, coz people still kill, still commit crimes. And most countries that don't have the death penalty don't have higher crime rate than the US so.... there's gotta be a better way to "punish" criminals than stoop down to their level.

Answer 3

I believe there is a death penalty and that it is wrong for the 'State' to take the life of it's citizens. In the US Declaration of Independence it says that "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created with certain unalienable rights among these being Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness."
We as a people can enact laws which may curtail my pursuit of happiness if I really like starting fires.
If I continue to start fires the people have a right to protect themselves from my pyrotechnic ways by taking my liberty.
Once I have been placed in a cell where I can no longer harm others why are the people allowed to take my life.
When the State acts it acts in the name of the people. I happen to be one of those people just as you are one of those people, and we are responsible for what the state does in our name. Our justice system is not perfect it makes mistakes. When that mistake happens to put an innocent person to death then we as a people become murders. Even if the person is guilty I do not wish to be responsible for his death for I do not wish to become like him or worse.
The Death penalty does not make us any safer than some of the alternatives. For punishment to be a real deterrent the perpetrator must think about that punishment and weigh it against his desire to commit his crime. In most cases of murder there was very little thought between conception and action hence the punishment was not a deterrent. Keeping the death penalty only slakes our desire for revenge. In light of mans inperfection that revenge is bought at the cost of innocent people who get caught up in our Justice System.

Answer 4

I don't think Jesus would have agreed with the death penalty, and that's enough reason for me to think it's wrong. I'm not sure if I believe Jesus was the Son of God or not, but I think his earthly teachings make all the sense in the world.

We should imprison dangerous people to keep them from society, and we should take away the basic rights of folks who violate the rights of others. But killing a killer makes us no better than the killer. It makes us killers too. Should people kill us for executing a murderer? It creates an endless cycle. Killing is wrong. Period. One murder does not justify another.

Answer 5

I don't believe in the death penalty. No matter how heinous the crime, killing someone who has killed another is still considered taking someone else’s life. In the simplest terms, premeditated murder is defined as a murder characterized by fully conscious, willful intent and a measure of forethought and planning. Those involved in the juries of cases in which someone else’s fate lies in their hands are fully conscious and have gone through much deliberation in the jury room. Capital punishment is legalized murder.

Answer 6

How many wrongly convicted people have been executed? If the answer is more than one, you must concede that the death penalty is a criminal act in itself!

I know... it's insane to spend more than my annual salary to keep a repeat offender in jail for a year, but every time I'm asked that question, I place myself in a cell awaiting death while knowing, with my God, that I am innocent.

Answer 7

I do in the worst cases such as serial murder, or a murder that was needlessly sadistic, vicious and cruel. Someone who commits those types of crimes does not deserve to walk this earth. However, I sometimes think that the death penalty is the easy way out because a lot of murderers will see it as an act of martyrdom, and many are too messed up in the head to even care if they die. I'd rather see them kept alive and physically and mentally tortured for the rest of their lives. We're talking PHYSICAL TORTURE. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Answer 8

I believe in the death penalty being just and called for in such cases as murder, child rape, etc., but our government does not have a good history of implementing it fairly. Quite a number of people have been found "not guilty" after they were executed. So, believe that it's right, yes; believe we are capable of carrying it out justly, questionable.

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Answer 9

No, what makes it right for us to judge another? There is no such thing as HUMAN justice, we are guilty and responsible for killing that person.

There has also been many people that died off the death penalty that havent committed anything. Our goverment and legal system is not clean but just as dirty.

It is messed up for those that are child molesters and rapists, but wanting them to die is the same hate they have. We arent being better than them bu being just the same.

Answer 10

No. Couple reasons: 1) The person killing the killer is, well..a killer. 2) What's worse, a painless death or life in a cell thinking about what you did? 3) What if they are innocent? 4) By killing someone guilty of a sin, are we limiting their chances to repent and be forgiven? What gives us the right to do that?

Answer 11

Only evil gets the death penalty.