capital punishment?

Question

capital punisment has not worked in any country as a deterent of crime .
and how can any country talk human rights when they murder people .
when the poms got rid of it police murders went down not up.
asia has it for drugs but the drugs still move freely.
apart from feeling good about getting rid of some lowlife killer
what do you get from it as far as i can see nothing.

bounds hubby this is for you.
if i kill one person and i havent been caught
hhmmm looks like i will have to kill more
coz when they put to death it might as well be worth it.

Answer 1

I know I will make a lot of people mad with my answer,but that's OK to.I don't agree with capital punishment.first of all there has been quiet a few Innocent people who have been put to death for crimes they haven't done. Plus I thought our system was set up to teach a lesson,if you kill a person what does he learn? And I have had two people in my family,both of whom I was very close to that was killed by some one else,And I still don't feel they should be put to death.I know that they will have to live the rest of their lives with what they have done.Also I know they will have to answer to God one day,and the punishment that they will receive from God will be more than what he could have got here on earth.

Answer 2

Capital punishment is a excellent deterrent to crime. No one hung for a crime has ever disturbed the public peace again. In point of fact no punishment deters others from committing crimes. Jail them , flog them. or hang them it doesn't stop others from thinking that they can do the same thing the same way and get different results. This is also called madness. Come to think about in the Sudan you can see hand less men. Cutting off a hand for theft is not the first move of the court so you must be awfully persistent and dumb to have both hands cut off for theft. You would think that after the first hand was lopped of you might make a career change. In Canada there are two people( if you use the term loosely) Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olsen. These people are guilty of horrendous crimes . Murder of the most innocent in our society. In the case of Olsen rape, torture and murder of children. They didn't call him the Carpenter because of his joinery. His actions after incarceration were unbelievable. He was given a computer as a right with which he tormented the families of his victims by e-mail. These men will have to be locked up for the rest of their lives on the tax payer dime. It would be better for these men just be dead. I'll pull the lever, the trigger or wield the knife just so long as they go.

Answer 3

It is not called Capital Deterence.

Punishment allows closure for victims' families and the threat of consequences for the would be murderer.

There may well be such a thing as justifiable homicide, but you better be certain enough to pay the ultimate price yourself, otherwise, you are just acting like an uncivilized subhuman.

As far as innocent people killed by the state, they obviously were guilty by association. The cops don't kick in the doors of average suburbanites (regardless of color) looking for capital offenders.

Those executed "by accident" tend to be known associates of the killers, or set up by their own "friends", again the killer/wrong doers.

Bottom line, be accountable for your actions and who you you call friend. Your associations may well be your undoing.

Answer 4

Bound's Hubby here:

Capital punishment can work, and usually does. When was the last time you did something that you knew, if you were caught, you would pay an extreme price for?

Let's stop worrying about the rights of the poor, innocent, misunderstood criminal. Where is legal aid and the public defender standing up for the rights of the victim?

Answer 5

Let's take a repeat offender child molester as an example.

It can be legitimately argued that the death penalty may or may not be an effective deterrent.

It cannot, however, be argued that if the death penalty is carried out, the dirt bag won't get another chance to destroy another child's life.

Human rights are an argument FOR the death penalty - not AGAINST it.
Human rights belong to the law abiding victim - not the criminal.

Answer 6

I liked your non-question. I think if you had worked harder at this you could have come up with a question but I disagree with your premise. There are some crimes that beg for capital punishment. Crimes against children for example. What about the rights of those who are murdered? Way too complicated a question for a venue such as this one.

Answer 7

Capitol punishment certainly does work, if implemented expeditiously. With the added scientific evidence of DNA, it becomes even more assured that the convicted individual is the perpetrator. Capitol punishment, backed with solid DNA, should be expedited without the usual delays and tiring accusations of mistrail! There is no personal satisfaction achieved from capitol punishment except to say" "do the crime and your @ss is grass!"

Answer 8

Perhaps the reason you think nobody gets anything out of the death penalty is because it wasn't your family member that was murdered. You can say you would feel this way regardless, but you may have a very different outlook on the subject if it was one of your loved ones who had their life taken by a coldblooded murderer.

Answer 9

Punishment of any kind will not stop crimes definitely but capital crime might make many people hesitate.

Don't forget that many executed prisoners murdered many people. It's very easy to accuse states of murdering & conveniently forget that these prisoners took away the lives of others.

How about the tax payers' money used to feed these people?

Answer 10

It goes nowhere, it does nothing. The only thing about Capital Punishment is that you get to say you ruthlessly suffocated a "convicted" killer to death, when that's no reason to celebrate, seeing that someone proven guilty may not be guilty.