capital punishment?

Question

What is your view on capital punishment?

Answer 1

I understand the anger and urge for revenge that motivates the capital punishment crowd, but in the end, I think that capital punishment isn't right. What does it accomplish? The victims are still victim, and the wronged are still wronged. I think it is better to just imprison the criminal for life. Furthermore, capital punishment is irrevocable, and innocent people have been imprisoned and executed.

Answer 2

I am completely, 100% against capital punishment. My three main reasons is because capital punishment is unjust, immoral, and not a deterrent of crime.

Answer 3

captial punishment is a simple means of solving a complex problem. People that commit capital crime are very sick people that would take years of professional help to recover. That would be a costly and potentially useless venue as many perpetrators of capital crime may never be recoverable. Depending in their own life experiences they may never be capable of seeing the world as livable. And the chances of finding a mental health professional that is both well enough educated and and patient and caring enough to recover one client would be astronomical. But when you consider the massive number of cases in need of that kind of care.... Let's face it, a magazine of rifle shells would be easier and cheaper.

Answer 4

Makes sense to me. First of all, it's only administered to criminals who will never leave prison and are of no real use to society. Second, it costs taxpayers over $20,000 per year, per prisoner to let them sit and rot (we have to build the prisons, pay the guards, pay food, medical care, etc.). Third, our prisons are crowded so it frees up space. Fourth, it's a very humane way to go, if you compare it with how the prisoners murdered some of their victims. Fifth, it gives closure to the victim's family and to the prisoner's family and they can move on with their lives.

Answer 5

i don't think its wrong or right because everyone has a differnt opinion on it....well i may be a 13 year old girl but.....i have a big mind. i once hear this saying "why do we kill to show that killing is wrong" if we kill them aren't we doning the same as they are?

Answer 6

The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
Dudley Sharp

The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives.

The majority populations of all countries, likely, support the death penalty for some crimes (1).

Why? Justice.

Anti death penalty arguments are either false or the pro death penalty arguments are stronger.

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES

The Innocent Frauds: Standard Anti Death Penalty Strategy
and
THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-innocent-frauds-standard-anti-death.html

OF COURSE THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS: A review of the debate
and
MURDERERS MUCH PREFER LIFE OVER EXECUTION
99.7% of murderers tell us "Give me life, not execution"
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/of-course-death-penalty-deters.html

Saving Costs with The Death Penalty
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/02/death-penalty-cost-saving-money.html

RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/07/rebuttal-death-penalty-racism-claims.html

The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-penalty-not-a-human-rights-violation.aspx

Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2013/02/19/murder-and-execution--very-distinct-moral-differences--new-mexico.aspx

The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-penalty-neither-hatred-nor-revenge.aspx

The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-death-penalty-mercy-expiation.html


MORAL FOUNDATIONS

Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.". "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral."

Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52.

John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct).

John Locke: "A criminal who, having renounced reason... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security." And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Second Treatise of Civil Government.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgments are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State." (The Social Contract).

Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566).

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1) 86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
World Support Remains High
95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/11/86-death-penalty-support-highest-ever.html

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Answer 7

It's not cruel enough for me. Murderers,rapist,child molesters,terrorists,etc,they should be tortured publicly.The rate of each of these would drop tremendously.

Answer 8

Hope I never get to view one myself

Answer 9

If it is the sentence handed down for the crime committed, it should be carried out expediently.

Answer 10

We should use it more often. Especially in blatant you are guilty and no ifs ands or buts about it (i.e. Jeffrey Dahmer)