my husband and i do not see eye to eye on this. i see killing as murder and it is ALWAYS wrong and that is only me.
am i wrong to feel this
2006-07-27 10:09:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It's been shown that the cost to taxpayers to execute someone is MORE than to put them in jail for the rest of their life.
That, combined with the fact that you can't reverse it if the conviction was discovered to be wrong (and it's happened), and the fact that I think that a lot of henious criminals would actually suffer more by locking them up. (Let 'em rot! Why put them out of their misery?)
I'm against it.
And murder is murder when it's not self-defense.
2006-07-27 10:15:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I support the death penalty in extreme cases. I believed that Timoty McVeigh deserved the death penalty because of all the people he killed and I believe that serial murders deserve the death penalty. If it is a crime of passion I am against it and if it is one murder I believe in life in prison. The problem with this is that different people have different imterpretations of what an extremely violent crime is. Some might say how would define an extreme case? I have my own version, three murders or more, but that might be too low for some people and not high enough for others.
2006-07-27 17:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a big fan of the death penalty, I think it's wrong and maybe inhuman, in some of the ways it is practice, the injection thing, kind of makes me sick to my stomach.
And probably the biggest reason, I'm not a fan is, because I heard this story from a teacher of mine back in Junior high, that told us a story about this guy, who was convicted and sentenced the death. Well when the time came, the electric chair, power kept dying. Well by the time they got it working, ended the guys life, turns out the guy was innocent.
Yeah, I know there are some nut cases sickos out there, that probably deserve it, but I would think there would be better ways to handle them. But what do I know.
2006-07-27 22:36:41 · answer #3 · answered by Linds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As some one who BA is in Sociology, I can tell you more Hispanics and Blacks are sent to death row for the same crime where as a white man is incarcerated for life which generally means 25 years. The current system is broken. It has no effect on dropping the murder rate in the State of Texas who executes more people per year than any other state. It is cheaper to put a convicted murderer in jail for his life than it cost to execute a man, when you consider that he will sit on death row for at least 10 years in a maximum security isolated cell all the while the tax payers are paying in millions of dollars on him trying to beat the rap. The death penalty is a no win proposition for any one. It doesn't do any thing for the murder rate. It cost tax payers millions of dollars. There in ram pet discrimination.
2006-07-27 17:20:45 · answer #4 · answered by James L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all entitled to our own opinions.
Now I don't agree with you I want the death penalty. it would save the tax payers here in uk a lot of money A life for a life I say.People like beasts that rape and murder little children you would like to keep these alive?? I would torture them before killing them I am an old lady and will never understand do gooders who want to reform these snakes so Im sorry but I cannot agree with you.
2006-07-27 17:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by puzzled 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the death penalty should not be considered a penalty, in order for something to be a penalty the person being punished has to learn from it, instead it should be a consequence, and yes i do believe in the death penalty, it should be for those violent criminals who cannot be rehabilitated, you would not want to release someone that you know is going out to murder again, and so it is beat for society to remove him altogether
2006-07-28 00:19:23 · answer #6 · answered by thelogicalferret 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is another way os a crime legally commited. We are given life by God and only He can take it, now in cases of viloent killings by sick people in the civil world , there has to be some punishment and I think life in prison on premeditaded killing is just punishment, then again we have war ,where occurs lots of killings, we are a dilemma unto ourselfs. Blessings and always do what you think make you feel honest and just.
2006-07-27 18:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I support the death penalty. If someone takes a life they don't have the right to continue with their own.
2006-07-27 17:15:02 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not a deterrent, it's punishment, it's revenge and it's a way of removing of an evil element from society. Life without parole does the same thing and it is in alignment with what our creator has directed us to do. The only one that should be entitled to take a life is the one that can create one from scratch.
2006-07-27 17:26:48 · answer #9 · answered by Alan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death penalty is not a punishment. It is put in place to make sure without any doubt that the violent offender cannot repeat his or her crime.
2006-07-28 11:38:13 · answer #10 · answered by m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋