Do you believe in capital punishment?

Question

If selected by lottery, would you be able to execute a condemned criminal?

Answer 1

No. Capital punishment is revenge not justice.

If a con doing an armed robbery is shot dead at the scene by coips then that is justice. Murdering them months or years later is not!

Answer 2

Everyone has the right to live and work on this earth, as long as , humans are killing humans we have no chance, wars that rage on the planet, this is murder, as is capital punishment and therefore any government that deals in either of these nightmares is logically going to have to shoot itself in its metaphorically head asap.

Governments get away with murder by using emotional response mechanisms IE Capital punishment can be revenge when a relation is faced with "losing" a loved one through murder or any other violent crime a understandable reaction from relations and bloodthirsty baying crowds who are addicted to death much as in the same way as the romans were in ancient history, a deep humanistic headanism

There is a much deeper answer within this area, taking life gives "power" to the sytem that deals it, much in the same way as in some cultures, Papue New Guina, South America One man will revenge a wrong done by a man from another village (rape, murder)by murdering and eating the perpetraitor of the crime!!! They believe this gives them the power from the individual and i am no doubt it does to a degree in there enviroment. The Aztecs did this on a bigger scale as did the Nazis, Kymer Rouge, United States. 300 wars since 1911 100 million humans slaughtered just jimagine what really is happening and take a breath in and pray to life

Personal on paper i disagree with revenge but i am sure i would feel differently if the latter effected me.
Killing people is never right its not like we are totally immersed within nature, we have choices in our survival, in the planets survival, ultimately this is the same choice, Choose life!

love and light

Answer 3

Yes I do believe in capital punishment. Although I think if I were selected by lottery to execute someone that would be hard. Good question.

Answer 4

Yes, but if selected by lottery I would also like the law that imparts such a sentence to be something the people vote on---not grandiose generalities such as capital punishment for a police officer----while I have utmost respect for law officers, they are not the only human services personnel to put their lives on the line---every paramedic, every emergency room personnel, every security guard etc....the list could be endless.
What about the people who torture innocent children and disable them emotionally and physically for life? Or the serial rapist who has emotionally destroyed women and families for possibly generations? Or the batterer who eventually kills his wife---how is that not murder 1 when the world could see it coming...all a matter of time....so?

Answer 5

With lottery or no lottery....if the courts and public opinion consider him or her guilty...I will be more than glad to terminate his or her's miserable life....I believe in all religions so I will be more than glad to give him or her their last rights & I will eat their last super too , in any religion he or her wish before I take their life.....I have one problem only beeing I am an eldery person....I can't do more than 2 executions a day....and if I get lucky and somehow will happen to have sex......then the GOVERMENT has to postpone the execution or a executions for at least 15 days....that's the time I will need to rtecooporate from my last sex act.

Answer 6

I absolutely do. I believe it's the best way to get rid of the most violent criminals who are a waste of humanity.
Some are better off dead and it is better for the protection of all society.

Criminals should be put to death for only the most horrible and brutal of crimes, like torture before the death, child rape and murder, serial killers.

It should be used when there is DNA evidence, confession, all evidence pointing to the obvious and a guilty verdict by a jury of the offender's peers.

If you know anything about what crimes occur, and what evil man is capable of, you could only agree that some need to be put down like the animal they are.-- Antisocial personalities, psychopaths, who torture and kill--These people are without conscience and can never be rehabilitated, the best thing is to end them.

Edit: And NO, killing brutal murderers does NOT bring us down to their level, I suppose one might think that if they are completely incapable of weighing out ethics.
If you can't tell the difference between a child predator who rapes, tortures and kills children -sometimes many of them!Making the parent's life a living nightmare-some committing suicide- creating a chain reaction of misery for the family,
and those who catch the animal and painlessly put them down for it,
you are an idiot.
sorry.

Answer 7

No - there is absolutely no data supporting the effectiveness of capital punishment as a deterent to crime. All it does is end the life of a known criminal who is already caught and imprisoned. Hence - no longer a danger to society.

...and if elected by lottery - I would pass to one of the other people who answered yes.

Answer 8

If you're talking about child murdering scum like Ian Huntley or evil, twisted serial killing lunatics like Rose West and the Yorkshire Ripper or the Moors Murderers then yeah - go for it. Hang that human trash. Its not fit to live.

In 1972, my mother in law (at the age of NINE) was savagely raped, stabbed many times and left for dead by a violent paedophile (she was lucky to survive - doctors told her parents she'd never walk again or have kids when she was older because of the damage done. Against all odds she did both but is still disabled and constant pain at the age of 44). A week after he attacked my Mum in law, this monster raped a 5 year old girl and murdered her by slitting her throat.

Should scum like that be allowed to live? Not in my book. I'd pull the switch myself.

I resent my taxes paying for people like Myra Hindley (even though thank God she's dead now) or Rose West or Huntley to live in cosy prisons, eat three square meals a day and enjoy a decent standard of life. After they denied life to their victims.

A length of rope is much cheaper. I wouldn't mind paying for that.

Answer 9

No. but quite a few states & foreign Countries do. In some muslim countries you get behaded in the public square for certain crimes.
The European Common market Countries do not have the death penalty.
In the US some states will kill you if you killed someone. But it takes long time because of the court system. I will die before I will kill a fly, by lotteri or not. All living things have a right to live.

Answer 10

Yes. I would have no problem taking the life of a murderer, peadophile or rapist.

My cousin was murdered, my other cousin was viciously raped, stabbed, strangled and left for dead by a peadophile, and I know the torment that both these incidents have caused.

The family should have a say in the sentance for these people. an eye for an eye, is what I say.

Sod all the bleeding hearts mob, and the human rights lot, I would want justice, and to me that is to remove them from this world.

Answer 11

I've a feeling you're going to get some passionate answers for this one! I definitely don't believe in it. Firstly, it doesn't work as a deterrent - see the U.S's crime rate for proof, it's no lower in the states which practise it. Secondly it's basically bringing the state down to the same level as the murderer - why are we any better if we murder too? And thirdly, what about all the people in the past who've been wrongly accused and convicted of murder? There are hundreds and a posthumous pardon doesn't do much for either them or their grieving families.
I'm no tree hugger, but there's just no logical argument for this.