2006-08-02 06:45:08 · 27 answers · asked by lasalle_1986 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I'm honestly in favor of capital punishment. It sickens me how soft capital punishment has become.
I honeslty believe public hangings would be beneficial. 1) Prison costs would significantly decrease, 2) it would send a message to people who do murder that they will die.
2006-08-02 06:50:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The death penalty doesn't work. It's only for making people feel better in an Old Testament "Eye for an Eye" way. But it's vengeance, pure and simple. The only reason the state kills people is so that the families of the victims won't take matters into their own hands and kill the SOBs themselves. Unfortunately, it's a barbaric relic from our barbaric past that people just can't let go of. America is the least civilized civilization on the planet.
2006-08-02 13:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i do not believe in capital punishment and i do not believe in hanging people on death row.. i do not believe i would want the job of being a judge or whoever sentenced someone to death..and the men that get the stuff ready for lethal injection either...i think life in prison would be hard enogh..but it is such a shame people kill people in the first place and get thereself in that position...they killed innocent people..so it is another way to look at the situation...i am just glad that it is not me that has any part of it...i could not live with myself if i was in either of those peoples shoes..
2006-08-02 13:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by sanangel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe a government that kills is no better than criminals who kill. Violence begets more violence, and far from being a "deterrent", capital punishment just reinforces a culture of violence.
Nearly every country in the world that has abolished capital punishment has a lower crime/murder rate than the US does...doesn't say much for it being a deterrent, does it?
Public hangings? No, and for the same reasons. If a country's citizens see publicly their government killing people, it only reinforces that it's OK to kill, even if it's just for certain reasons. Killing is *never* OK. Period.
2006-08-02 13:52:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the verdicts could be guaranteed to be 100% flawless. Since that’s impossible, the Death Penalty should be banned. DNA testing not available 20 years ago is being used to overturn verdicts and free the wrongfully accused. What technologies in the future could be used to free wrongfully imprisoned men and women today? Our legal system is far too flawed to allow the finality of a death penalty.
2006-08-02 14:19:36 · answer #5 · answered by oldbutcrafty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't support it. The trials for capital punishment cases wind up costing millions of tax dollars when a fraction of it could be spent having the creep rot in jail.
As for public hangings, would you watch one? I wouldn't. I can imagine it's not an easy sight to eradicate from one's memory.
An eye for an eye. That's old school. How about a thumb for an eye.
2006-08-02 13:50:44 · answer #6 · answered by Cesco 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Against it...it's not implimented fairly and it's much too nice of a punishment the way it is now (you brutally kill someone and you get a needle in your arm?!).......public hangings are still legal in some states and I think they should be done...it would probably serve as a good deterrant since the person being hung would be embarassed before they were killed and people could see first hand what committing violent crimes would do to them...
2006-08-02 13:49:23 · answer #7 · answered by Love always, Kortnei 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those that commit capital crimes should be punished in the same manner. Public executions should not be allowed as we do not want to digress to the level of the criminals.
2006-08-02 13:50:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public hanging is primitive and I don't think you should execute people unless the legal system is infallible, which it clearly isn't. It's a dilemma because there are many criminals who I would gladly drop down that hole - but what if they were framed or the evidence was misleading? There are too many "ifs" for my conscience.
See the case of Derek Bentley in the U.K, a ghastly miscarriage of justice.
2006-08-02 13:52:26 · answer #9 · answered by cobra 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My belief in Capital Punishment - if a heinous, horrific crime is committed, then the person who committed same should be punished the same way (i.e., Scott Peterson should be castrated, mutilated and drowned. Instead of getting 3 meals a day, a cot to sleep on, reading material, and seeing sunshine one hour a day - all paid by us taxpayers).
Thank you, I feel better now.
2006-08-02 13:54:40 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋