Death or no Death?

Question

What is your opinion on the death penalty? Explain your standings using expamples. (this is for my criminal justice class.)

Answer 1

This should be your opinion - not anyone else's.

What is your opinion. I'm certain you have one. Jesus told us to forgive our enemies.

Do you believe in redemption? Or, do you think the state has the right to eliminate criminals because they have strayed?

If you were wrongly accused and convicted of a capital crime, and sentenced to death, would it be justiified.

Thomas Jefferson said "Better a guilty man go free than an innocent man be punished." This is the ultimate punishment. There's no correcting a wrong conviction after a death penalty.

What do you think?

Answer 2

Well iam a criminal justice major also and you cant answer this question its always a double sided question. The best thing you can do is focus your paper strictly on pros and cons. In some ways people would say its a deterrant, well its been established the death penalty is not. As a matter of fact in some states like Texas after a death sentence was carried out they have done studies to see if crime relating to charges of the dealth penalty would decrease they actually increased and that is one thing for you to focus on. Another thing is you cana rgue through religion the dealth penalty is justified via the whole eye for an eye saying. If you where a member of a victims family that suffered a crime that was enforceable by the death penalty points of views like that.

Answer 3

I am not a police officer nor am I an attorney. That said, here goes.

The Constitution clearly states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. That makes the death penalty legal in the United States.

I favor this punishment; however I do not favor the means by which it is carried out. Entirely too much time and money is expended on the appeals process. Thirty days to appeal, sixty days to receive a reply should be sufficient for each stage of the process. So with a State Appeals Court, a State Supreme Court, a Federal Circuit Court and the US Supreme Court all combined should not take more than a year. Add an additional ninety days for a Governor's clemency hearing and all executions should be complete in less than 18 months from the date of sentencing.

I can see no reason to allow a man to sit on death row for 25 years after being convicted of killing two teenagers for their fast-food meals. He lived longer after the murder than the kids did before it was committed.

That is the only example I will site here as time and space is limited. But when you look at the other side of the coin you can see why I support the death penalty.

An Airman from March Air Force base planned and executed his wife in order to be with his girlfriend. Part of the proceeds from the victim’s life insurance went to pay for his marriage to the girlfriend. He was finally arrested, charged, tried and convicted of first degree murder. His sentence was Life without Parole. I don't know what happened but in 16 years he was paroled. Now that is not life without parole.

Killers are released and many repeat.

An escape of two or three left a body count of about a half dozen including two armed officers if my memory serves me correctly.

There is no escape or parole from a casket.

Personally I see Death as the protection of society. My view of punishment is an action or actions designed to alter a person’s behavior. In that respect I don't see capital punishment as punishment.

I could probably go on for pages but this should give you some idea of my position and why. I hope it helps with your class. Good luck on the project.

Answer 4

when i was younger and idealistic i was not in favour of the death penalty. Now I view it this way..I think it should be in place. I think that if your sententenced for crime of such autrocity then justice should be swift. i disagree with letting them stay on death row for decades. It should be either or. I recently posted a question about The night stalker richard ramariez. responsible for at least 14 womens deaths, I was shocked to see was he still on death row over 20 years later, but also allowed to post on computors for pen-pals..He should have been exacuted immediately, and yet people still answered he should be commuted to life. HogWash....I liken tshe death penalty now as being simlar to a cure for cancer, once in awhile the treatment kills instead of cures. But on the whole the world is better of with it. We sometimes make a mistake in capital punshiment, but on the whole it is a deterant and a ness. evil.

Answer 5

I stand for it

A. biblical, I am a christian and as such you will get this answer from me, I'm not about to Hide from my beliefs

B. there is no prison in America that is escape proof

C. Death penalty should be used as a last deterrent for the worst people in society. Failure to do this could result in them escaping.

I forgot the case but one serial rapist/killer said that if he ever escaped he would go back to killing and rapping kids, he was put to death.

Answer 6

I don't care if it is a deterent or not, if you take someones life then you should pay with your own. The criminal did not respect the victims right to life so we should have no qualms about respecting the murderers life. There is nothing to be gained by keeping them in prison for life, it just costs a lot of money.

Answer 7

No Death Penalty! The people who kill need to suffer and be raped for the rest of their life in prision.

Answer 8

I favor the death penalty for those people whose crime are os horrible that nothing else could satisfy. Child killers, Bundy's Gacy's, Mcvey some of the terrorist planners ect. Not just for murder but extremely horrible crimes. Hoping you are not taking other side.

Answer 9

Against it.
There was a lot that Tim McVeigh took to his grave. Had we kept him in a cell, perhaps our towers would still be standing, as his own former attorney suggested McVeigh could have been a mule for Al Qaeda

Answer 10

Yes to the death penalty. If someone has commited murder than yes...as long as it is proven with DNA or a witness.