In regards to the death penalty?

Question

Who thinks the families of the victims should decide how the person dies, collectively? And who believes it should be kept humane? Remember some of these people showed no humanity to their victims? Or do you just let God sort it out and make the victim's families wake up each morning knowing that while their family member is dead, the killer still gets to eat 3 squares, gets cable, etc and they have to pay for it?

Answer 1

honestly, I had a child who was hit and runned by a drunk driver who has not been caught yet. I wouldn't want to choose how the person who hit my son should die if he ever gets caught and gets the death penalty for it. Revenge won't bring my son back, however i do want justice. I want the day in court to be able to get up and ask "How could you drive away and leave a little boy laying bleeding in the street??" "how could you??" In Kansas which is where I live at- hit and run only carries a 6 month sentence and that's all the warrant reads is hit and run. Victims' families are allowed to get up and ask questions of the accused- not that they'll get an answer but they are allowed.

Answer 2

death penalty must not be abolished, it should be done quickly, beheading, less suffering to the victim's family and the convict's family,.Only set back is that it should be judged beyond reasonable doubt.
if there is no death penalty law, the people will resort for vigilantes, more will be forced to get involved, more life and property will be lost. Accused will not have the chance to air their defenses, motives, reasons in neutral grounds, the courtroom.Accused may even be innocent if not properly investigated.
Death penalty laws really did not deter hard core killers, some are even challenged, but, having a law to uphold what is just and right, people won't resort for personal vengeance.

Answer 3

I have no problem with the victim and/or their family to have an input into what the punishment should be but not the final decision.

Death penalty is a must for rapists and child abuser's for they are a risk of a nations security, as they hurt a nations people which in effect, affects the nations future.

Answer 4

The christian should not advocate the death penalty.
It's a form of giving justice allowed by God until the Kingdom of God gets here.

If the christian lives in an area where the death penalty is allowed, he lives in an area where the death penalty is allowed.
If he doesn't, he doesn't .
He should hold no opinion on it, but should tell people of the coming perfect system of justice.

Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away

Answer 5

Depends on the situation, sadly money can buy justice in some places but will never ever buy the past and will never buy the human conscience of the criminal or the person who did harm with intention or without intentions andother human being.

Answer 6

Until they can come up with a 100% fool proof way of determining quilt the death penalty should be banned
BUT
If the person is not willing to change and remains cold towards his/her crime of murder and is a threat to mankind they should be executed!

Answer 7

We have no right to kill anyone on the earth for any reason, in the name of death penalty we doing the same crime, instead that we can put them in life time imprisonment, as a society we have to bear the cost to correct them..

Answer 8

The Death Penalty is wrong. It is not for mankind to decide, collectively or not, to murder another human being.

Answer 9

An eye for an eye--kill them the way they killed someone else. It costs way over 40,000 a year to keep this trash alive in prison--I don't want my taxes going to support this human crap.

Answer 10

I don't believe there should be any death penalty at all.