do u believe in capital punishment?

Answer 1

Hell yeah!!!

I heard enough anti-death penalty activists say its not moral but i think it damn well is. If you murder someone... you have taken their life forever... you have made a horrible choice and affected their loved ones forever.... the only punishment fit is that your life should go too. How would you feel if someone killed your child mercilessly.... Luckily these child killer bastards dont die as painfully as their victims.

In my opinion they should have a new law whereby the criminal dies in the same fashion he killed his victim.

And regarding wrong convictions. Well, a death penalty case should be thoroughly reviewed and take years if possible. Only if the proof is CONCRETE then you execute. For example I think Tookies execution was a wrongful conviction.

Btw they should only have capital punishment for murder and underage sexual assault (talking under 13 here).

Answer 2

Yes. The main purpose of capital punishment is not to "fix" or "heal" the loved ones of those who are killed. The main purpose of capital punishment is to remove individuals from our society who pose a significant threat to the safety and liberty of private citizens. People who arbitrarily kill others (READ: I'm not talking about self-defense, defense of family, or military/law enforcement personnel acting within the legal scope of their employment) have elevated themselves to the position of God and believe they have the right to end someone else's life. There is NO WAY that we can be sure a person like that will never kill again -- even if someone kills another person in the heat of the moment, how do we know that person won't feel that same heat in the future and kill someone else? It's not about an eye for an eye, it's not about deterring violent crime; it's about what's best for keeping John and Jane Q. Public safe.

Answer 3

I believe in capital punishmet, but hesitate when I think of innocent people being killed for crimes they did not commit. Recently with DNA a lot of people were cleared and released from prison after years of suffering for something they didn't do (though I know most people are not innocient). So, what I struggle with is the question; how do we make sure everyone is guilty? But, altimatly we can't afford to have serial killer and such in prison or risk them getting back out into society. Capital punishment should be reserved for the worst of the worst.

Answer 4

Yes I do, but there is always the worry that they got the wrong person for the crime!! It is a deterrent though, if people knew they would get a punishment that fits the crime perhaps they may think twice about it, but seeing as most people get sentenced just a year or so for acts like rape and murder, they don't have much to put them off committing the crime.

Answer 5

No. It is barbaric. Even if it sanctioned by the state, it is a vile act of premeditated murder. It appeals to one of the basest of base emotions in humans, that being unadulterated vengeance. We must rise above our weaknesses if to have any hope of salvation.

In the words of Albert Camus, I give you this:

"An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison. It adds to death a rule, a public premeditation known to the future victim, an organization which is itself a source of moral sufferings more terrible than death. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." †

Answer 6

Sort of...don't like the idea of paying thousands and thousands of dollars to house a dirt bag for the rest of their miserable life's. But the law is not perfect and mistakes can be made and it's hard to correct killing someone if it's later found out they didn't do it.

I know it's sound way to sci fi but if there was a way to just sort of freezed them so we wouldn't have to house and guard them and just sort of store them with the nuclear waste, then if something comes up 15 years down the line that shows they didn't commit the crime than we could just unfreeze them. I know far fetched but would be sort of an alternative.

Answer 7

No, I don't think so.
It is one of those issues I haven't got a definite opinion on.
On one hand you have a victim's grieving family who have a right to see justice done.
But is it justice for the state to take someones life?
Far more knowledgeable and learned people than I have argued this case. And the debate still rages on.

Answer 8

As much as I hate the thought of feeding someone for what might be a lifetime, the though of letting someone sit in jail for a lifetime seems to me to be worse than dying. Its a far worse punishment to have no control over the simplest things in your life, like heat or cold, or what to eat or when, lights out or go out,
what to wear or with whom to speak.
Loss of freedom, as opposed to death....loss of freedom is worse and so that is what they deserve.

Answer 9

I don't BELIEVE in it, but I support it... if the person is proven totally, 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt, hands down, guilty of the crime in question. I also think the guilty party should be killed in the same way they killed.

Answer 10

Absolutely!! The scum of the Earth, like rapists, child-molesters, repeat offenders (reguardless of the crime) should just be killed. They cannot be "cured", are a waste of oxygen and my tax dollars.