Survey:The Death Penalty?

Question

Recently there as been much furore in India over the fate of ‘Afzal Guru’, who is due to be hung for masterminding the 2001 attack on Indian Parliament.

What is your view on capital punishment? Do you agree that governments are right to use the death penalty for punishing certain heinous crimes? Or do you think that capital punishment has no place in a humane society?

Answer 1

What I believe is you do the crime, you do the time!! I believe in capital punishment, only for murderers. We had this guy close to where I live and he killed an 8 year old and planned on eating her, examples like him is why I support the extermination of monsters like him, because I am not going to pay with my tax dollars to feed him and give him cable tv in jail.


For those who say killing is killing, that is not true. If someone breaks into your house and is going to harm you, it is justifiable that you harm him first. Same reason why people who rape should have their "things" cut off, thus they won't do it again, but thats my opionion

Answer 2

First of all let me say that I am NOT against killing, I am not some peace mongering pacifistic polyanna, quite the opposite. That being said I will say that I opopose the death penalty for one and ONLY ONE reason. If the law says it is illegal to kill then NO ONE should be able to kill, not even executiners. They don't get punished for taking human life, they are, essentially above the law. The death penalty is LEGAL murder, by the legal definition of what murder is. It is NOT right to let some people kill and not others. It is NOT right to give some people the authority of life and death but not others. If killing is illegal the it is ALWAYS illegal, or it never is....one ot the other...no gray areas, no legal loop holes. That is the ONLY reason I oppose it, no moralizing on the wrongness of killing, no religious philosophising on life and death, just simple legality. The punishment for breaking a law should NEVER be having that thing done. THAT is nothing more than simple revenge, no matter how it is couched, that's what it comes down to.

Answer 3

I am absolutely against the death penalty. No civilized nation should use this kind of punishment. Killing somebody is killing somebody... if this somebody is a 'bad person' that doesn't make a difference.

You can see it in the US that capital punishment is no way to keep people from committing crimes - on the contrary there are a lot more capital crimes than in Europe where there is no death penalty. (and yes, I am living in Europe :-))

Answer 4

The question is rather deceptive. it extremely is no longer approximately abolishing dying penalty yet to alter the way we administer it. meaning, dying penalty continues to be and how it's going to be mete out could count on a case-by way of-case foundation. If we comprehend this, then all of us know the respond ought to be sure we'd desire to continually substitute the way the way it is going to be administered; and no we'd desire to continually no longer abolish it as that's an powerful deterrent to those thinking of committing a serious offence in Singapore. no longer attempting to be a saint right here or play hero, yet people do deserve a 2nd hazard. despite the fact that if, despite the fact that if or no longer they deserve it or no longer is an extremely subjective rely. i could think of that the present gadget makes it much less complicated for the decide. You do something incorrect and deserve a dying penalty they administer it. in case you alter the way it is going to be achieved. Then, inconsistencies and issues might upward thrust up. So, the present gadget is working and that's giving the decide much less soreness so save it. in this occasion, the Msian guy, does he extremely deserve a dying sentence, based on the information amassed? specific? despite the fact that if, can the regulation shows some humanity? provide him yet another hazard? specific, the president of Singapore can try this. So there is an street to pardon a dying penalty and it lies on the hand of our President. So in case you look from that perspective, the dying row prisoner does have a final street to stay alive. It relies upon on the President. So, to all...merely stay stable and be spectacular. Dont flout the regulation, I propose serious ones. in any different case your life would be on a putting loop....

Answer 5

I don't believe in the death penalty. I think society should take part of the blame, learn why people commit crimes and fix the problems.
The death penalty is barbaric and we should not trade with any country that uses it.

Answer 6

A couple of months ago a Y! Q/A participant on the French list asked the following: "Qui, au 19° siècle, avait proposé d'abolir la peine de mort, et, à la place, de crever les yeux du condamné ?" ("Who, in the 19th Century, proposed abolishing the death penalty and, in its place, plucking out the eyes of the condemned?")

The Asker, a secondary school teacher in France, got no replies and so he gave his answer: Jules Ferry. Ferry was French minister of education in the 19th Century, and a lot of streets and schools are named after him -- after all he instituted free, secular education for all. I haven't been able to track down such a proposal on any site, French or otherwise, and I note that the Asker has since deleted his question. Still, plucking out eyes isn't so final as the guillotine, is it?

Answer 7

I think capital punishment is okay and should be used, but only on certain heinous crimes.

Answer 8

I support the death penalty for certain crimes.

Answer 9

I'm all for the death penalty.

Answer 10

I would say it depends on the crime. I am at a crossroads with this answer.