I am not talking about a child or someone with mental limitations. I am talking about someone with no morals that takes a life and in the process destroys families and friends.
2006-07-11 13:11:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Yes it is and it should be the hardest question a person has to consider in court.
2006-07-11 13:15:54 · answer #1 · answered by Norm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. No person, has no morals, rather different morals. Murderers have an opinion on the sanctity of life, it just happens to be different from the norm(thankfully). Is justice served when imposing the death sentence or have we just given up on our own species, our ability to reason and develop higher meaning for things. Those that have lost that ability would probably fit into the "mental limitation" category, excluding them.
People and their practices in some way shape or form are a reflection of the society they belong to. That being said, society created this problem, culling the herd doesn't solve the root of the issue and doesn't result in justice.
2006-07-11 13:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by jeremy b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been defending murder cases for more than 20 years - including 8 that have gone through penalty phase (and have one client on death row in California). I assure you from very long experience and observation, that the application of the death penalty is erratic, inconsistent, arbitrary and frankly, stupid....simply because it takes 20 years (which isn't going to change) from the time of judgment until the date of execution, assuming there is no reversible error. LWOP (life without possibility of parole) performs the same function and the cost is enormously cheaper than trying to carry out capital punishment.
Finally, you assume incorrectly that people charged with death punishable crimes axiomatically are "animals". Some are. Most are not. There are many circumstances under which murder is committed. To assume that the killers are not human is very inaccurate.
2006-07-11 13:23:51 · answer #3 · answered by Chuck L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i do not think it is being served. Because if they kill the murderer he/she does not have to live with what they have done. Secondly if they kill the murderer they give him/her the easy way out. I think that the murderer should rot in jail with the rest of the prisionsors making his/her life a living nightmare and make that person suffer just like they made the victims family suffer.
2006-07-11 13:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by nikkig813 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not about justice. It's about stopping the behavior. That ****** Tookie Williams is a prime example. He managed to have several people murdered from behind bars (they were witnesses). For years, he ran one of the countries most powerful gangs from prison and regularly ordered the death of people.
His execution has, at last, put an end to his murdering.
This is very important to understand. Many murderers continue to murder after they are caught and put in prison. Executions STOPS them.
2006-07-11 13:18:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Justice = law fulfilled, and when an admitted murderer is sentenced to death, I'd say that fulfills the law. Healing, revenge, forgiveness, appeals, etc. are other issues entirely.
2006-07-11 13:43:39 · answer #6 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in the death sentence no matter what the offense. No matter how heinous the crime, they should rot in prision not be sent to the afterlife. Even when convicted of murder, they should be sent to prision w/o any chance of bail. What are we teaching the future generations? It's okay to kill as long as the person is bad? No! We should let them suffer the consequences of their actions!
2006-07-11 13:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 02:27:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that they should put all murderers in a stadium size room with no way out and let them kill each other. That might make some people think twice about what they have waiting for them if they do commit murder.
2006-07-11 13:20:23 · answer #9 · answered by unicornfarie1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Justice may or may not be served, however after the sentence is carried out you can be assured he/she will commit another crime.
2006-07-11 15:25:01 · answer #10 · answered by Nick R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋