Do you believe in the death penalty??? Why?

Question

Im doing a report on crime and punishment and I have up to 15 ideas. I only have 7. My mind went blank. Dont you hate it when that happens?!

Answer 1

Absolutely. A murderer has no value in society, nor any hope of redemption. Rather than burdening society with the costs of keeping such an animal alive and running the risk of it escaping and doing more societal harm, kill it.

Answer 2

I personally don't really believe in the way the justice system actually works now. I feel that treatment is grossly overlooked when dealing with convicts. I do also feel that the moajority of people convicted of a crime are not properly rehabilitated by the system, due to treatment being overlooked. Some people though are messed up and cannot be helped no matter what. These people should be locked away or put to death. Its hard to say because I am not into playing God or anything. But some disgusting child molester that is so screwed up that they will only hurt more children needs to be kept off the streets...

Answer 3

Here are some arguments against the death penalty:

1. A lot of "criminals" have been exonerated by DNA evidence, and sending even one innocent person to their death is bad.

2. Two wrongs don't make a right -- just because someone killed a person doesn't mean society should put that person to death.

3. State-sanctioned execution is barbarism and isn't practiced in the civilized countries of the world -- except the U.S.

4. The Bible says "Thou shalt not kill."

Here are some arguments for the death penalty:

1. It's an effective deterrent -- people will think twice about killing or raping if they'd face the death penalty upon conviction

2. It serves the public interest of justice -- a person who kills or destroys someone's life through rape receives a fair punishment.

3. It alleviates the public of the burden of incarcerating these criminals for life -- recent estimates place the cost at $150,000 per year to incarcerate one murderer/rapist, and the taxpayer foots the bill.

4. It serves the public interest of preserving a safer society -- if murderers are put to death, there's no possibility that they'll go to jail and get paroled after 7 years and then be given an opportunity to kill again.

5. It serves society's interest of accountability and punishment for crimes committed -- allowing a convicted murderer to live, even in a prison, isn't truly holding that murderer accountable.

6. The same God who declared "Thou shalt not kill" prescribed a penalty for those who did. "If a man taketh the life of another man, then by man shall his life be taken." Not 100% sure but I think it's in the 20th chapter of Exodus.

Answer 4

Well, I know this may not be the most popular answer, but I must say I do not believe in the death penalty.


I as a human being, created by the One Creator, I was not bestowed the right to take life. He is the giver and taker of life, not me. As a human I can create life, at God's will. I will not take a life, nor can I be a part of taking a life. I understand that if my child or husband were to be killed that I would be angry and want revenge, but my faith in a higher power would help me through and the person would be judged by someone more powerful than man, and the punishment would be far more than we can deal out.

Answer 5

To a certain extent. I understand that sometimes mistakes are made and years and years after being in prison it is discovered that they guy was not guilty. But come on...Charles Manson? Need I say anything more? They weren't gonna kill Jeffrey Dahmer because they didn't have the death penalty in Wisconsin. WHAT? Come on! He was flat out without a doubt guilty. It is cases like those that I think they should go directly to the chair.

Answer 6

Hi CADIE
well if someone killed,raped,are done real damage to some person in my family or a fiend i would say YES to the DEATH penalty,,,, WHY its a known fact there most people that do that sort of crime will re-offend if they get out. Well that's just my view

Answer 7

First and foremost, the laws should apply to all of society equally. How can someone poor schmuck from the ghetto get the same kind of representation and defense as some rich person? Also, why is it that courts are more reluctant to give White defendants capital punishment but not to Blacks and Hispanics?

As technology progresses, we've discovered that there have been wrongly convicted prisoners on death row and/or doing life sentences; that confirms MY beliefs that some innocent men and women may have been executioned, and that also leads me to believe that some criminals have gotten away with heinous crimes for which innocent men and woman have been wrongly convicted of.

There are rogue cops and a few rogue prosecutors that hide evidence and testimony that can acquit those wrongly accused of crimes and would prove them innocent; they are more interested in maintaining the facade of having caught, prosecuted and convicted another criminal, not in the actual due process of law of punishing the guilty, not the innocent. There are also difficulties in identifying perpetrators, particularly when there are racial differences. People lie for all sorts of reasons. Oftentimes, people get so caught up in the in the details of the crime that they forget that they are ready to convict and execute anyone who is merely an ACCUSED person, not necessarily guilty of the crime he/she is suspected of!

People all over the world were ready to condemn the man who claimed to be the JonBonet Ramsey killer and even seasoned TV and newspaper reporters were calling him a monster and all sorts of awful things... when he is simply a demented would-be pedophile that has yet to be proven guilty of anything under the laws of this land; but, where's the real killer in all of this?

Right now, the law is a joke to some who continue to offend, even while in prison! That leads me to believe that the laws are flawed, and the laws are flawed because lawmakers have lost their grip on reality. Yes, lawmakers use the euphemism "to rehabilitate" when they should be thinking in terms of teaching those convicts vocational skills they put to use when released into society, instead of reverting to their old criminal behavior.

Our penal system is being run with 18th century mentality. Taking a life for revenge is one thing. Executing a person who is dangerous to society and those that confine him away from society is another is yet another thing, and justice should be swift but it ain't; and, yes, I acknowledge that some people are predators that do not belong in society. But executions are simply not the answer when there is a slim possibility that the prisoner may have been wrongly convicted.

Yes, the Bible does make reference to laws such as "an eye for an eye..." but that was in the old testament, and it was based on laws over 2,000 years ago; times change and we have the New Testament, and we live in different times with advances that could not have been imagined 2,000 years ago. "Vengeance is mine SAITH the Lord;" we are not the ones to seek that revenge but "the LORD." Let's not twist the words of the Bible to suit a purpose; it is wrong and it equates to lying when you change the context and the spirit of the original words.

How many executions have there been in America since 1900, and how many victims did those executions bring back? HOW certain are we that not one of those executioned was innocent?

Answer 8

Most definitely. "An eye for an eye". If you've killed someone, you shouldn't be running around as a free man. If there's no death penalty, ppl won't think twice about murdering others and they'll start killing off those whom they don't like. The world would become very chaotic.

Answer 9

Yes, Let the punishment fit the crime.

Answer 10

I believe in the death penalty because it gives the family closure to see it come to an end.

I believe the death penalty should be extended beyond Murder and include rape.