Captial Punishment. Are u against it or for it and Why?

Question

How does"Religion" relate to your side of the debate?
In what states is "Captial Punishment" a law and how does it effect the crime rate?
What roll does "Race" play in Capital Punishment- or does it play a roll in Capital Punishment?
Explain the "Cost" benefits or non-benefits of Captial Punishment.

Answer 1

well i actually just had to write a debate paper on this not to long ago...i am 100% against the death penalty! I believe that no human should have the rite to decide when another humans life on this earth is up EVEN IF that person decided to do that (for example; if a man murders another man, there is still no one that has the rite to decide that the murder should be murdered!) it is not our role to play god. Capital punishment is used in thirty-eight states in the united states (im not exactly sure which ones but it is VERY easy to find). The majority of people on death row are black, and if a black man kills a white man then he is ten times more likley to be sentenced to death row then if a white man were to kill a black man. Also im not sure excatcly what the cost of leathal injection is but i know that it a CONCIDERABLE amount more then life in prison costs.

here are the sites i used to write my paper(the first one has alot of great info):

-http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=5&did=184#inmaterace

-http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/annual.htm

-http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=27&did=203#execsus

and here is my paper if you feel like reading the enitire thing i recieved a 100% on it:

It’s the middle of the night. Your family is sleeping. You hear a noise outside of
your house but you don’t think anything of it, you just figure it’s the wind. You fall back
asleep, just to wake up to the sound of screams ten minutes later. You hear the blast of a
shotgun; you get up and run down the hall to where you heard the noise. You run into
your little sisters room and see her dead on the ground with a bullet in her chest. You are
soon joined by the rest of your family, who immediately starts crying hysterically. Your
mother falls to the ground and holds her baby in her arms. Your father runs to the phone
and dials 911. Your other brothers and sisters start crying hysterically also. You also begin
to cry as you watch your mother hold your dead little sister in her arms. The ambulance
comes to get her and you follow to the hospital. After waiting three hours the doctor
pronounces her dead. You find out the next day that she was killed by a man who was
trying to rob your house, and when he went into your little sisters room, she woke up so
he killed her. When the police catch the man. Three years later your sitting in a court
room, where they will make the final decision as to weather the man will be sentenced to
death or not.
Thirty-eight of the fifty states in the U.S. use the death penalty as a form of punishment. There are currently three thousand three hundred sixty six inmates on death row. Ten being women. In three states of the thirty eight that use the death penalty, three try anyone over the age of fifteen as adults, nine try anyone over six-teen as an adult, and thirty-eight try anyone over seven-teen as an adult. In 1999 Sean Sellers was executed at the age of twenty-nine for a crime that he committed when he was six-teen. So far there have been thirty-two deaths on death row in two thousand six.
In my opinion, I think that if someone commits a crime, they should be sentenced to life without parole. Isn’t it better to have someone who committed such a bad crime, to have to sit in prison for the rest of their life, not being able to see their loved ones, not having freedom, and knowing that because of their actions they will die in jail? Isn’t it better that they will wake up every day in a jail cell and wish that they weren’t there, and then be reminded of what they did? When you put a child in time-out they sit there and think about what they did, then they choose not to do it again, and if they will be sentenced to a longer time out, or they will be grounded, ect. Its basically the same thing, if someone has already committed a crime and done time, and then they are released and haven’t learned their lesson, then they will be sentenced to a “permanate time-out.” Isn’t it better for someone to have to think about their actions for the rest of their life rather then to end it ourselves?
We don’t have the right to play god. It is not our decision when someone is to die. Isn’t that the reason that it is illegal to kill people in the first place? It is no human beings rite to decide when someone should be put to death. That is for god, or who ever you consider the “higher power” to decide. By killing someone for a crime, usually being murder, isn’t that being hypocritical. You made someone die, so now were going to do the same to you. That isn’t our rite, and it shouldn’t be allowed.
Also, people are found guilty, when sometimes innocent. If there is not 100% proof that someone is guilty, then why should they be sentenced to the death penalty? That is making the executors, and anyone who agrees with the death penalty the murderer, by killing an innocent person. How is that fair?
People can change, going along with the statement made above on why people should have to think about what they did, Stanley Tookie Williams was the founder of the Crips. He was arrested and put in prison for a murder that he committed in the seventies. While in jail he completely turned his life around. He wrote books on his mistakes, encouraged anit-gang activities, and was also nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. However in December of 2005 he was executed for his crime that he committed almost thirty years ago. What is that saying to current gang members, that they might as well not try to stop their current activities, because they have already established themselves as a criminal so they might as well stay with it, there is no second chance?
As you sit in the courtroom, and think about that night, you decide. Would you rather kill this man as he did to your little sister, and make any loved ones he may have feel how you did? Or would you rather have him sit and think about what he did for the rest of his life? To give him a chance to realize that what he did was wrong, and possibly help others not to do the same. It’s not up to you, it’s out of your hands, but you decide what you believe is the rite thing

Answer 2

Well, I am for Capital Punishment and here are the reasons why.

1) Why should we (taxpayers) pay to feed, house, entertain, and give legal representation to serial murderers, child killers, murderers, rapists and other violent criminals for the rest of their lives?

2) I support the eye for an eye. I see the other side that we all have sin as well, but I am not talking about capital punishment for the guy who kills his wife when he catches her cheating. I'm talking about those like Joseph Duncan who kidnaps children and rapes and tortures them and kills them, or slices them to bits and eats them or worse. This category of people -- Evil - simple.

3) I don't know what states support Capital Punishment, but every state should have an express lane like Texas does or faster.

4) Race plays zero role in the death penalty. I don't see that as a legitimate question even. No race card to pull. White, blue, yellow, the crime is the same.

5) The cost of keeping, clothing, housing, supervising, entertaining etc prisoners is astronomical. Add the cost of their defense over twenty years and it's through the roof.

Answer 3

hostile to: a million. Capital punishment hasn't ever been shown to be a deterrent. It serves no purpose except vengeance, this is might want to not be the purpose of authorities. crime coverage. 2. Capital punishment is somewhat more advantageous expensive than existence in detention center without chance of parole, by way of fee of needed appeals. 3. CP is unfairly meted out. ninety 8% of the persons on demise row are indigent and had to position self belief in court docket-appointed public defenders. If the defendant has any money or power in any respect, the prosecution is going for a lighter sentence or a plea good purchase. 4. interior the severe 20 years a number of HUNDRED human beings were cleared of crimes with techniques from DNA after being convicted and spending as a lot as a lengthy time period in penal complicated. lots of those human beings, a number of dozen, were on demise row. no human being is established with what number chance free human beings were carried out because after a criminal is carried out each and each and every of the trial data is destroyed. 5. "'an eye fixed for an eye fixed and a tooth for a tooth' is the fastest thanks to an eyeless and toothless society." i'm not confident who suggested that, it ought to were Gandhi

Answer 4

For. Religion plays no role. It doesn't effect the crime rate because people very rarely get the death penalty. They need to be consistent with the sentencing so race and other factors won't play a role in it.

Answer 5

if there is DNA that proves he did it and he took another person life, then he deserves the punishment. Ya it does cost more bec they keep hoping someone will not see that DNA and set them free. I think they should only get so many chances to go to court. People have been hung and shot to death for crimes for thousands of years and they still do it in the middle east.I believe an eye for an eye

Answer 6

yes!and you made 4 questions actually,i am not religious,i do not know the states that permit it,the race play an important roll because actually the numbers talk about it.that is one of my point if you kill the criminal will not be like him?so the cost is not going to cover his action at all,the best way is to make him living thinking about that without freedom but working for the state with surveillance with anothers criminals.

Answer 7

for it if you kill someone for there rims you should die for your crime race has nothing to do with it or religion its all about eye for an eye

Answer 8

Against it why should you slaughter some one for commiting the same crime and isnt american the land of the moral way.

Answer 9

For it if we didnt kill some of the felons we would just be paying for them to live and kill some more people.

Answer 10

Keep your religion out of my politics, (separation of church and state), and hang them high.