death sentence?

Question

what is ur opinion abt death sentence...please give me some points to oppose it

Answer 1

I think in the right circumstance that is great. Sadly enough it does cost the government more money to execute a person than it does to keep them in prison for life. I see the death penalty being a good thing because why reward a murderer or what ever the crime was, for doing that crime. Because technically that is what you are doing. You are putting them in a place, where they will always have a roof over their head, 3 hot meals a day, a hot shower, cable TV, books to read, Internet/computers to use, books in the library and endless time to exercise (use the weight machines) and they even get visitation rights. How is this fair? This is not only fair to the victims and their families, because they will never get visitation rights. But its also unfair to the millions of poor or homeless people. Who can't say that they always have a roof over their head, one meal a day let alone a hot one. Who if don't have a steady home wont have a steady shower, or cable or Internet or the resources to keep fit both mentally and physically. Prisoners even get a chance to make money by working in the prisons facilities. How does this seem fair. They are being rewarded, they have a better life, despite being behind bars, than most people do.
So why not give them the death penalty if they are guilty without a reason of a doubt? That is after all what they deserve. As the old saying goes an eye for an eye.

Answer 2

For the worst crimes, life without parole is better, for many reasons. I’m against the death penalty not because of sympathy for criminals, but because it doesn't reduce crime, prolongs the anguish of families of murder victims, costs a whole lot more than life in prison, and, worst of all, risks executions of innocent people.

The worst thing about it. Errors:
The system can make tragic mistakes. As of now, 147 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated. We’ll never know for sure how many people have been executed for crimes they didn’t commit. DNA is rarely available in homicides, often irrelevant and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

Keeping killers off the streets for good:
Life without parole, on the books in most states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending the rest of your life locked up, knowing you’ll never be free, is no picnic. Two big advantages:
-an innocent person serving life can be released from prison
-life without parole costs less than the death penalty

Costs, a big surprise to many people:
It is well known that the death penalty costs far more than life sentences. Not many people know why. The upfront part of the legal process, as well as appeals, are much more complex in death penalty cases, because the punishment sought is irreversible. We know that innocent people were executed in the past (in the US and elsewhere.) The largest costs come at the pre-trial and trial stages and they apply whether or not the defendant is convicted, let alone sentenced to death.

Crime reduction (deterrence):
Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people without a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent. The death penalty is no more effective in deterring others than life sentences.

Who gets it:
The death penalty magnifies social and economic inequalities. It isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. Practically everyone sentenced to death had to rely on an overworked public defender.

Victims:
Like no other punishment, it subjects families of murder victims to a process which makes healing even harder. Even families who have supported it in principle have testified to the protracted and unavoidable damage that the death penalty process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

The death penalty comes down to retribution or revenge—the only plausible reasons to support it.

Answer 3

Im going to tell you this. I think death penalti is not going to:
1:Make annyone feel better
2:Make crime percentage decrease
3:Bad reputation for our countrie
4:We are civiliced people not monsters
5:We are humans and even the person who commited the crime has right to live
6:Goverment are against crime and their just making a crime killing someone.
7:Life is a gift so we,the gorverment or annyone Has the right to Chooce if a person should live or die

Answer 4

tht instead of deathe sentence, he/she should be publically flogged and shamed and forced to do community work for the rest of his/her life