what is your opinion on the death penilty!?!?

Question

whats your opinion on the death penilty ? thins is for my debate in high school and i need to find out public opinion lol

Answer 1

so far it seems people do not understand the death penalty in this country(US).
once sentenced to death the condemned is then housed in a maximum security facility at a minimum cost of $30,000 per year. then there is the appellate process which takes years(decades) to wade through at a cost well into 6 digits. i am willing to bet that the cost for a death penalty case is over a million dollars before the court order is executed. and now for my opinion is that if the process is not streamlined considerably,it should be abolished. correct me if i am wrong but in other countries the death penalty is carried out a hell of a lot more efficiently

Answer 2

The Death Penalty, like other penalties, is supposed to serve as a deterrant to others and make them think twice about committing capital crimes. The way that it's administered in this Country, it just doesn't work. From conviction to execution is averaging what, about 15 years? By then, most people have forgotten about the crime. The method used to execute condemned criminals is a farce. They are put to sleep in the manner you'd put down a favored pet that was incurably ill. It's done in about as private a setting as you could find, and it's so sanitized that it doesn't serve a purpose. If executions were conducted in public, and people were forced to take a big bite of that sandwich right along with the prisoner, and it was telecast in prime time, it might be a deterrant, but not the way it's done now. I am in favor of lifetime incarceration in a prison that manufactures some sort of product that would benefit society and force the prisoner to support himself so that the prisoner is not a drain on public money, something along the lines of what's being done in Maricopa County Jail by Sheriff Araipo. There's a prison in Upstate New York called the DeWitt Clinton Correctional Facility. It's in the coldest part of the State, in a remote region and it used to be an iron mine. The prisoners manufacture furniture for State office buildings. That's my idea of punishment.

Answer 3

How can you allow abortion which kills an innocent baby and still be against killing the convicted criminals of society? If you say that the death penalty is too severe for a 40 year old serial rapist who has raped and killed 40 people, then how is it appropriate for a baby whose only crime is having been conceived? This argument cannot be answered by the greatest minds in Europe who gladly offer over the counter abortion pills but threaten to sanction and ostracize countries who execute horrible criminals. You can learn more about such European madness by examining the situation of A. Onoprienko in Ukraine. Despite murdering 52 people the European Union has threatened to bar Ukraine from membership if they execute Onoprienko, a remorseless killer who admitted these crimes. Onoprienko should, according to the EU, receive 8-12 years in prison for these actions. Makes a lot of sense! Sometimes I am glad I live in the US, since Onoprienko will be back on the streets before he is 55, ready to kill again. In fact, he has already said that when he gets out his first act will be to find the Ukrainian president, castrate him, slit his throat and hang him in a tree. Lets NOT execute this guy! He sounds like he just needs a year or two in jail. Brilliant.

Answer 4

1) it is an economically ineffective punishment that costs several times the amount that keeping them locked up for life would.

2) People who are locked up for life have a chance of proving that they didn't do the crime. The death penilty has murdered (not merely killed) a number of people who were later found to be innocent of the crime.

3) Locked away is locked away, whether alive or dead. The death penilty serves no practicle purpose if the person is going to be gone anyway.

Answer 5

It is unfairly administered more to minority members than to Whites for the same crimes. It is NOT a deterrent to murder or crime. Just recently, about 100 death-row inmates have been proven innocent through DNA evidence; I wonder how many innocent, wrongly accused and wrongly convicted men and women have been executioned since 1900? Poor criminals get court appointed inexperienced and incompetent attorneys while the richer criminals (usually White or celebrities like OJ Simpson and Robert Blake or mob bosses like Gotti and Gotti Jr) get the best attorneys in the land to successfully defend them... that ain't fair.

Poor defense, poor counsel, lack of fairness (like in the South with Blacks, or the Chicago 7, or Rubin "Hurricane" Carter), biased juries, biased judges, hidden exculpatory evidence by police and/or overzealous and/or corrupt prosecutors, faulty eye-witnesses (grave problem between people of different races), witnesses that do not come forward to testify (for whatever reason), prejudices, political climate that might have an effect on the attitude of the trial judge and/or prosecutors, unfair practices, etc.... these are just SOME causes why some trials may not be fair, and the real perpetrator gets away with the crime and is out and about in society committing other crimes!

Of all the executions that have taken place since Europeans first stepped on the shores of this continent, HOW MANY VICTIMS have these executions brought back?

HOWEVER, there are indeed some circumstances where I believe in Capital Punishment. Serial killers should be vigorously interrogated and studied, including the use of chemicals and whatever technology becomes available to ascertain the truth from them, whether or not they wish to do so, or they should be put on death row and not have to wait more than 5 years for the execution. This will ensure closing of many "Cold Case Files." If they kill while in prison, they forfeit their lives and should be executioned within 5 years (enough time for appeals, and if not... too bad!)

Those that commit multiple murders that are also dangerous to their keepers in prisons or attempt to kill another prisoner while in prison should be given mandatory solitary confinement until his/her final days of life (they have no rights as prisoners; they are less than property; they abandoned any claim to rights, liberties and freedoms when they killed). Any lifer who kills as a result of gang-related matters or any prison employee should be given Capital Punishment, and be executioned within 5 years, maximum, regardless if appeals have been seen by the higher courts or not. Any lifer that kills for gang-related issues or for the sake of endangering others or their keeps should likewise be executioned within a 5 year period.

I agree with the Death Penalty for any pedophile that abuses one child and physically harms, tortures, mutilates, kills or causes the death of a minor and the execution should not take more than 5 years after conviction, whether there are or are not any appeals; one predatory offense should earn them life without parole PLUS physical castration and imprisonment within the general population (which I do not consider neither cruel nor unusual, and moreso when compared to the gross lifelong mental scars they leave on their victims). Any pedophile convicted of more than one sexual act with a minor or two minors or more, should likewise get the death penalty and executioned within five years regardless of appeals.

Answer 6

I'm against it because too many people have been innocent and executed. Besides, life without parole serves 2 purposes: 1. It gives the innocent a chance, and 2. It is worse than the death penalty.

Answer 7

It seems that the ones who deserve it, don't get it, and the ones who do, seem to be the poor. The only one who was ever executed in a timely fashion was Timothy McVeigh, the bomber.
Otherwise killers go decades on death row, and crimes which happened last generation are punished in this generation.
Mad dogs must be destroyed. Society must protect itself with the certainty of retributive justice.

Answer 8

I'm all for it all though there needs to be some changes instead of housing all these people for years and years they should be brought out back and shot or better yet stoned to death or whatever when the fat jury sings guilty its all over

Answer 9

It should be there, but not for women. It should be by lethal injection, not by the electric chair, hanging or beheading. A firing squad is a waste of ammunition.
Rehabilitation is costly and not always successful, because by then most of the convict's life is over.

Answer 10

I agree with it.....We spend so much time and money paying for murders rights but few ever acknowledge the rights of there victims. They took a life now they pay with theirs.