is death penalty a humane punishment?

Answer 1

iam for it

Answer 2

Interesting location for this question, it could go many places. Is the death penalty humane? Just? Constitutional? Moral?

OK,I'll stick with humane, first I am against the death penalty, the state should not be in the business of putting it's citizens to death. Second the history of the use of the death penalty in the US has been racist, the poor and minorities are put to death at a much greater rate than whites or those with money. It has been used as a political wepon against unpopular beliefs. Recient evidence has shown that the government knew that Mr Rosenburg was guilty of spying. Not in the episode with which he and his wife (who was innocent) were charged but with other occurances. However the government happily put them to death on the false charges upon which they were convicted. Does the death penalty save money? No, it costs more in legal appeals of the death sentance than to support someone in life improisonment. My own greatest personal stand against the death penalty is religious. "Simply thou shalt not kill". Those words are clear unto my heart and as a pacifist I live by them. As a believer,I think no human being is beyond redemption. As a professional no mind beyond reaching, that however may take time. In a life sentance you have the time to save that mind and life.

Is the death penalty humane? How do we put people to death in this country? Utah within living memory used the firing squad. New York the electric chair, most other states use lethal injection. The recent episode where the man lived through the first round of medication and had to be medicated a second time before the injection was "lethal".Clearly demonstrates we are kidding ourselves, all methods are about as humane as the other, in not causing a painless or instant death, but some degree of suffering to the one so sentanced. So let's end the idea that the death penalty can be considered "humane" in any way. We might as well be honest as a society about this go back to hanging or drawing and quarting. The other alternative is to end the notion death penalty is humane in any way.

Answer 3

I guess not. If a person has commited a heinous crime he should be made to do tough work in prison. By that every day the person can feel the mistake been commited.
Giving a death penalty provides a criminal an opportunity to escape from the reality of facing the consequences.

Answer 4

Depends on the country that's administering it-Saudi Arabia with their public decapitations is a little on the rough side (especially if the sword isn't sharp) while American style lethal injection seems almost pleasant when you watch the inmate slip into a sleep prior to his earthly departure. My thing is those that administer the punishment should ensure they are putting down the correct person 'cause that's a hell of an error to make.

Answer 5

No.

We are supposed to deter murder by murdering people?

By using the death penalty what we are saying is that it is wrong to kill someone...unless you are the government. Too many people have been sentenced to death only to have evidence uncovered at a later date exonerating them. For many of those people, it was too late. In most of those cases, the State involved basically said "Ooops."

It is morally wrong to kill someone. Check your Bible. Check your Quran. Check any religion's scripture and you'll see the same thing. Thou shalt not kill. It doesn't say 'except when somebody does something that really ticks you off."

For those that talk about the cost of keeping someone in prison for life...check the facts. It is more expensive for us to go through the multiple appeals process (which all capital cases must do) than it is to keep that same prisoner in a cell for life.

Besides, who cares about the cost? is your morality for sale?

Answer 6

is it humane, no. But if a person is going to do something to deserve it then let them die. I would rather that then pay for them to sit in prison. Personally I think we need to get back to the Hamirabis Code. If you steal you lose a hand, if you kill you die. If you commit minor crimes you are whipped and then sent to prison. Prisons also need to get back to prisons and not hotels. I am all for people being able to do something with their lives, but some choose not to. Those people need to get put into the old chain gains and actually be punished. They could pay their debt to society better by working for it that just sitting around lifting weights.

Answer 7

Absolutely. In the Bible days they used to stone them. With murderers and child molesters and people like that, I would cast the first stone easy. There are people who do not belong on this planet. Why should I pay to keep them behind bars for the rest of their life? Sadly the child molesters get out and do it again and again. They steal the childhood of the people they do this to. They are affected for life over these things. I say kill them all.

Answer 8

You betcha. At least in some cases like some sicko shouldn't be allowed to live if he kidnaps children rapes then kills them. But in todays politically correct world there are some who give him more rights then the victum or the victums family. If we keep going like this the sicko's will all be nominated for the nobel peace prize.

Answer 9

No, it's cruel. There is nothing humane about it. But it seems to be a necessary punishment for some serious crimes. No choice.

Answer 10

I thinks its too humane for some of the crimes those awful people have committed. What easier than going to sleep give me a break. Did they humanely kill there victims. No they did not.

Answer 11

It is and it isnt.

I think a person who is known unequivically to be guilty of a crime deserving the death sentence should get it.

Period. The easiest way is probably by firing squad. Why?

Is it more humane to put that person in a cell for the rest of his life or put him and us out of his/our misery?

He is dead. no more appeals. no more anguished family members...no more spending 50K a year for this person.

works for me