do you believe in the death penalty?

Question

what's your political association, if you declare one?

Answer 1

Yes I believe in the death penalty.

Answer 2

I strongly believe in the death penalty, particularly in cases of murder. It's just a shame that we have to care for these people until they have exhausted endless appeals and numerous trials. Whatever happened to the good old days when someone was tried and sentenced on the same day?

I really don't know which political association I am. I have some liberal views and some conservative views. I usually vote for the person I feel will do the best job, regardless of affiliation.

Answer 3

In absolute terms, an emphatic YES. But it should only be used when there is no alternative. I am not convinced of the justice of the punitive death penalty, only the protective death penalty. For example, in a state of emergency or in a war zone and then only when it is impossible to keep prisoners, the death penalty should be used against violent and dangerous criminals to protect the public. I heard of a seven year old girl who was raped during Hurricane Katrina. Had the perpetrator been caught in the act and were there no way of detaining him, it seems to me that death is the only way to protect the weak and innocent.

I also believe that for similar crimes in peace time and under normal circumstances, judges should be empowered to sentence a convicted criminal to suspended death/life imprisonment. The understanding being that should a state of emergency be declared and the security of the prison complex be rendered impossible to guarantee that those life-serving prisoners be executed - again for the protection of the weak and vulnerable.

Allow me to stick in another idea dear to my principles - regular corporal punishment for violent criminals, murderers, rapists and child abusers. So, rather than the death penalty for murder, give them twenty years imprisonment and a good birching every four months for the duration of the sentence.

Politics? I couldn't support a party, only people and policies.

Answer 4

I believe the death penalty exists, so in that sense I believe in it.

I go back and forth on this. On one hand, I believe it is a part of human nature to want revenge, and it will be bhard to do away with. if we are to use, we should use it better and more wisely. Most people who commit murder were pushed too far beyond their breaking point, whereas there is almost no excuse for a repeat child molester. What about allowing the victims families tomplay a role? What about a prayer for healing of the society that produced the person we are executing?

We want quick fixes, but real life is never quick and it is almost always messy. I do believe in a higher power, and I believe that we cannot know the intentions of that higher power. Everything serves a purpose, but we do not always know that purpose. I like the Gibran quote about people who are fleet of foot and forge ahead, but do not think to remove the stumbling block behind them for those less agile. We are in this together, and sometimes people are here to teach us something, as hard as the lesson is. Who are we to judge the plans of the god we believe (or n do not believe) in? Whether or not we use the death penalty as punishment, it is high time we started working more on long-term solutions to social problems, rather than quick fixes of the symptoms.

The rates of mental illness are staggering, and there is little doubt they are partially a by-product of a culture learning to deal with fragmentation and alienation. True psychopaths are still rare, but it is getting easier for their predispositions to manifest completely. As long as we continue as a society to turn on rather than to each other, we will not overcome this problem. It does not matter how we punish the ones who fall.

Answer 5

I believe in the death penalty. I guess it depends on the crime of course. Why the death penalty though? I mean what about those weirdos like Jeffrey Dahmer who were serial killers who ate body parts. They die nice peaceful deaths by an injection. I think the death penalty should be worse than that depending on the crime. But screw it at the same time, let them rot in a room by themselves, they never get to go outside and see the light of day. Have them sit in their small little room, with a toilet and sink, food and that's it! Die of boredom!

Answer 6

I do. Nonpartisan, myself. Is this a poll?
Human life is easily the most valuable thing on the planet. That's why people bend themselves into pretzles over hostage situations. Crimes must be paid for, and the only currency that can even come close to the value of a human life is another human life.
But philosophy aside, there is also the need to remove harmful individuals from our society. The death penalty could potentially offer the most effective and least expensive way to to this.

Answer 7

no for these three reasons.

sometimes the wrong person are sentenced to death when they are not the ones who commited the crimes

even when there are evidence aganist that person that proves gulity but you have to relized that sometimes those evidence can be question becasue it could be made up by the police

it is agnaits any religion to kill and the government dshouldn't becasue their laws are based on religion moral laws.

Answer 8

No, just cause it doesn't work...neither does putting someone in jail for years for drugs....people still kill people and smoke drugs.
I would allow it if the killer's family performed the execution itself though.....if re are talking retribution, then it would make sense for the family to pull the switch...but not a doctor(lethal injection).
It's against the hippocratic oath......let the victims fanily give the shot, and just teach them how to do it, if it goes wrong, than what can you do?

Answer 9

yes i believe... but it takes soo long 2 kill them.. i also believe the gov. should buy islands.. one 4 each different crime..and let them learn how 2 survive on their own.. and rape of a child should be classified as murder because really the raper murdered the childs soul... these kinda people can stand no lower in my eyes..

Answer 10

No its murder
i dont bother voting I want Jesus only