2006-10-29 01:03:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No, I believe that there are some crimes that are so bad that the only just punishment is death.
I would have said yes, but then I look at all the people who got life with no possibility of parole walking around, (I'm not talking about people who won an appeal) some escaped in some cases the parole board commuted sentences from life without parole to life with parole or the sentence commuted by the governor. In some states that only mean 50 years and sometimes even less. Then again the state may just decide that its too expensive and changes the law so they can receive parole. Or the poor person has cancer, or their too sick, or their mother has cancer and they get their sentence commuted because of hardship. Maybe they'll say look I've changed, and I'm not the same person I was, look at all the good I've done. It not fair to punish me for something I did X years ago. So on and so on.
Maybe it's just me but life without parole, means you go to jail and after you die, then you get out. And until it means just that then I'll support capital punishment.
Edit for skip
Geary previously was sentenced to life without parole for the 1974 stabbing death of Annette Morris in Las Vegas.
He was paroled three times from that sentence, but each time was arrested for drinking and imprisoned again. After serving a total of 13 years, he was paroled a fourth time and a month later was arrested for Colvin's murder.
Colvin's killing led to a death sentence for Geary, but the Nevada Supreme Court overturned the sentence in 1996. In 1998, a new Washoe District Court penalty hearing resulted in another death sentence.
After that, Geary appealed unsuccessfully to the Nevada Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court.
2006-10-29 03:51:25 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sticky question for me. On one hand I think capital punishment is a good thing because of people like Ted Bundy. On the other hand I had a brother once who was on drugs. The night of the party there was lots of drugs. I don't know the whole the story all I know is one brother stabbed my other brother and almost killed him. He ofcourse went to prison for this.
After some time in prison we learned he suffered from schizophrenia and I can only imagine the complications it added while he was on drugs. (Still know excuse to harm or kill someone and just to note not all people with schizophrenia is dangerous. I belive it was the drugs he was on. ) It would have been devestating for me to know that he was put to death, but on the other hand other people who don't know is character when he is clean would say put him to death and safe the tax payers some money and he deserves capital punishment. (By the way this was his only violent crime and now talks with the brother he had stabbed over ten years ago. Also he is on medication and lives in a group home.) I still don't like group homes.
As I think about this and if he would have harmed my son, would I feel any differently. Would I want him to do time in prison, perhaps get help within the mental health field or be put to death. I can't even imagine how I would react. I would supose I would want him gone forever. I can not honestly say because I have never been put in that kind of situation but I am assumeing that I would want capital punishment.
Anyhow I think I side on capital punishment as long as the crime was murder, it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt and as long as other factors are considered. Such as, was the murder negligence. If someone accidently killed another person by running them over that shouldn't be a capital punishment. Criminal and civil suits are reasonable. Someone like Ted Bundy ofcourse I say captial punishment is reasonable.
Wishy washy on the subject
2006-10-29 08:50:24 · answer #2 · answered by Peanut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with the death penalty is that there are a handful of prosecutors and police who give the rest a bad name by "trying too hard" for a conviction. So laws have evolved to protect those convicted of capital murder by giving them numerous appeals. Those appeals cost money and, in almost all cases, the taxpayer pays for both sets of legal fees. It is cheaper to lock them up and throw the key away.
I have never heard of a parole board releasing a LWOP inmate. I should have thought it would be outside its jurisdiction, but I would be interested to see if anyone has further information on that.
2006-10-29 12:05:48 · answer #3 · answered by skip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, but we need more safeguards and swifter punishment. All evidence should be heard. And in a DP case if there are 2 criminals they should not be allowed to make a deal with one to get the other since who knows who might have done the deed. To keep the justice system straight, make it a summary execution if it is proven later the cops or DA withheld or fabricated evidence and the perp gets fried.
2006-10-29 08:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No although the value of capital punishment is often questionable - it does stop people from ever killing again!
Perfect example is that Serial killer Ted Bundy will never kill again!
2006-10-29 08:14:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No and the process should be speed up. If people knew they would be executed 6 months after conviction that would cut the crime rate down dramatically.
2006-10-29 08:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by Young 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That question should be left for families of murder victims,
Here in FL they just killed a guy who murdered 5 collage kids, He saved body parts, and posed the dead body's for the people who were discovering them
I'M so glad we kill pieces of **** like this!
2006-10-29 08:26:24 · answer #7 · answered by supervfive 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Democrats want to let murderers and child killers out of prison, and have them take "Sensitivity Classes".
(That is supposed to stop them from killing again, and turn them into model citizens.)
2006-10-29 08:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely not. it is asinine to keep murderers alive for decades at the expense of the law abiding public.
2006-10-29 08:24:24 · answer #9 · answered by grumpy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋