are you in favor of death penalty? why?

Answer 1

There are some crimes so heinous that the perpetrator can not be allowed to share our society ever again. I believe these people don't even deserve the privilege of being housed and fed by our tax dollars. Murderers, most rapists, pedophiles, these people are predators. There is no reason to keep them locked away where they can prey upon other inmates or injure the guards who watch over them. Verify that they were given fair trials and then put them in the ground.

Answer 2

I don't favor the death penalty so much as I am in favor of state sanctioned torture: physical as well as mental. Certainly it is a violation of all human rights, and a stab into the heart of the constitution of this great country, however there is a point at which we need to divorce ourselves of our compassion towards those who have no compassion towards us and focus our attention on those who have lost their loved ones. Regardless if a criminals behaviour can be proven to be a product of nurture or nature, that they were without free-will; if a person commits a heinous crime deserving of death then certainly it is deserving of torture. State sanctioned death costs the state and taxpayers a considerable amount of money. Ideally the death of a criminal should be no more that 25 cents, the amount of money used to purchase a bullet, a cost which should be billed to the family of the criminal, a symbolic gesture to remind those that we are responsible for those we raise. However, we do not live in the most ideal society, we create laws to protect the good of society yet pick and choose which rules we follow (how many of us are really commited to following all traffic laws?), this is the American way, indeed torture is constitutionally prohibited, but I see torture as a way to let the family of those grieving know that for as long as that person is alive, they will suffer. Everyone knows that the victims of these crimes are never satiated even after the criminal dies, that the death they sought for the criminal was not the solution to their anguish over their loved one(s). So my solution is torture, it will create jobs, it will save the tax payer money, and mostly it will calm the minds of those who have lost that which they did not deserve to lose. I know this is not a logical argument, but an emotional response, an emotional response to crimes which are commited without logic.

Answer 3

After many years of supporting the death penalty, I have changed my position. I am now (barely) against the death penalty for two major reasons:

1) I'm increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of the State taking life, given the rampant incompetence, bias, and general unfairness in the American justice system and government.

2) Murderers should be locked in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives with no chance of parole. This is a fate worse than death. In other words, I'm now against the death penalty not because I have compassion or sensitivity for murderers; quite the contrary, I want the severest and harshest penalty for killers. A 9/11 victim's family member said it best when Zacarias Moussaoui was given life imprisonment instead of death: Moussaoui will be locked away [in solitary] and never be heard from again.

Answer 4

Yes I am in favor of the death penalty. Anyone who wantonly takes a life deserves to have their life taken but they should be made to suffer before being granted that final release. I think being made to live isolated
with nothing but their own thoughts and madness, no contact with others or visits from family and friends would be worse than death. I think a few years like that and they would be begging for death. They should be made to suffer before being put to death.

Answer 5

Usually yes, but in the Timothy Mcvay death penalty, he chose when to die. He was NOT made to suffer in prison for a few years. I don't find he was punished at all. They could have at least tortured him for a year or two for his terror attack in Oklahoma. The death penalty is imposed on people who have no soul because they have done horrible crimes. Why waste oxygen on them.

Answer 6

That is a serious matter to discuss. But, not when you deal with the penalty on some one who has abetted in a heinous crime aimed at the sovereignty and integrity of the nation and when he remains unrepentant and when he shows no proof that he will mend his ways in future. Let this argument be reserved for some other deserving occasion. It is not warranted now.

Answer 7

Absolutely not. In the cases of wrongly accused, death cannot be taken back and in the cases of the guilty, there are worse things than death. Why put them out of their miserable existences? Let them be alone with their own head for another thirty, forty years.

Answer 8

My answer will be no. This is because death penalty involves human life that is to say OUR LIVES!!!
And there is a rule, a divine rule saying that there will be no man shall put death upon another man. (The term man refers to human). In other words, only God can determine our own life on earth and not for the other human to determine.
As for law purpose, they should establish more rehabilitation institutions as well as prisons for all the criminals to be keep in for a while until they learn their lesson. (I only say this in the very general view and straight forward.)

Answer 9

I'm in favor of death penalty for people who advocate death penalty!

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Answer 10

In certian cases yes. Pedophilers and anyone who is guilty of sex crimes. They can not be rehabilitated, some people you just do not risk having out in the general public. Another group would be serial killers. I would imagine just about any other group of criminals could be rehabilitated and would become productive members of society. This is my beliefs based on Biblical grounds and a dash of common sense.