What do you feel about the death penalty?
2006-10-06 19:53:09 · 15 answers · asked by keemster05 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
WRONG.
-NOT a deterrent (at least not in America)
-more expensive than keeping them in jail for life because of the appeals process
-too many people are convicted wrongly... you can rarely be sure beyond a shadow of a doubt (except maybe in Jeffrey Dahmer type cases but 'body parts found at the residence' is not the norm for evidence)
-nobody KNOWS what happens after death... you might be doing them a favor
-I could never personally be the one to give the injection, pull the trigger, etc.
And for all of the people who say 'If it was MY child who was murdered, I'd consider this justice' think about this... what if it was your child who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death?
2006-10-06 19:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by sueflower 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You've asked two different questions. Personally, I don't like the death penalty because some times people get crazy and commit a crime and then they don't get another chance or some times people get convicted when they were not the person who did the crime. But as to your second question, yes it's right for the authorities to kill someone who has murdered another person.
"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. Genesis 9:6
2006-10-07 03:10:34 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I abhor the death penalty, and would like to see it abolished. I find it to be cruel in the extreme, not only to the condemned, but to their family as well. Who are we to play God? What could be more inhumane than strapping a person down and injecting them with chemicals? It's a barbaric act.
2006-10-07 02:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Necessary. Any person who feel's they can take someones life becuase it isnt' worth it, then they deserve to die. Eye for an Eye is a good thing to live by, all around. The only problem I have with the death penelty is how much it costs. I know all the deatils, believe me, my 25 page paper on it for my Master's Class let me know.
2006-10-07 02:58:25 · answer #4 · answered by panchorific 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Circumstantially, it is right.
Personally, I'm all for butchering the rapists, the child molesters and the pedophiles. I think there's absolutely no other recourse but to remove them from both society and the gene pool so that the sickness hopefully never spreads to the next generation.
That, and if someone ever injured my family, their life would summarily be forfeit... and I wouldn't care what I'd have to do to get to them.
2006-10-07 03:01:08 · answer #5 · answered by xX_DarkTreader_Xx 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm for the death penalty.
2006-10-07 02:59:42 · answer #6 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Necessary...
To kill the innocent in cold blood is different from justifiable execution of the heinously criminal.
One needs to be complex enough understand the nuances in definition.
If you find the death penalty abhorrent, then you should find abortion equally abhorrent.
2006-10-07 02:55:57 · answer #7 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If someone intentionally takes another person's life then they should lose their own ONLY if they are caught IN THE ACT,or they confess to it without being under duress.
There are too many cases of innocent men being executed and afterwards we find out that they were innocent after all, due to DNA, etc.
2006-10-07 03:04:49 · answer #8 · answered by auriform 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just as I wouldn't teach my kid not to hit by spanking them. Same theory on a larger scale. It's wrong.
2006-10-07 02:56:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
death penalty is good as you get rid of a criminal and secondly reduce population
2006-10-07 02:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by ranjanrc_banerjee 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋