what is your opinion on capital punishment?

Question

are you for it? are you against it? why or why not? specific and detailed answers would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The ultimate penalty is necessary for the protection of society.

However, the State can not be trusted with that responsibility.

The penalty should be administered in public, and be inflicted by the victim's family and eyewitnesses to the crime.

All convicted murderers and all convicted sex offenders should receive that penalty.

However, in cases of unintentional death, there should be cities of refuge where the accused can plead his case, and if approved, he would be granted safe haven for several years, and afterwards, the victim's family would not be permitted to harm him.

But, if the case was rejected, then the killer would not be given protection, but turned over to the victim's family so sentence could be immediately imposed.

That's how the ancient House of Israel was instructed to do things, and unlike our contemporary society, they weren't going bankrupt with overflowing prisons, or being subjected to repeated violence by convicted felons who were either parolees or escapees.

Answer 2

I used to be pro-capital punishment but my views changed after my cousin was murdered and I came to realize how futile it is. Seeking and carrying out the death penalty costs more than any other trial and carrying out a sentence of life in prison.

Few of the persons sentenced to death are ever executed. As a matter of fact a large number of death sentences are reduce to life imprisonment on appeal. In Tennessee for example only 6% of all death sentences are affirmed on appeal. What this means is that 94% of death sentences in that state are over turned.
Talk about a waste of money.

My other issue with capital punishment is that it simply doesn't work. If it did the murder rate of abolitionist states and their executionist counterparts would be show a large gap. Instead the rates between these two poles tend to differ less than 10 units.

If the death penalty worked executionist states such as Texas and Florida would have the lowest crime rate of the country. Texas does after all highest number of executions while Florida is a fairly close second. They both have murder rates higher than the national average.

I think the best solution is to abolish the death penalty. Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and mandatory hard labour should be substituted for death. These are the people who should be doing the dangerous and demeaning jobs which exists within our society. I honestly believe that each and every prisoner should be contributing to their own maintenance. I do not see why tax payers should be required to support those who threaten to rip apart the delicate fabric which holds society together.

If you kill you not only forfeit the right to remain within society you forfeit the right to enjoy the comforts that regular members of society enjoy.

I firmly believe that such a penalty should be mandatory in crimes involving violence against children.

Answer 3

You certainly asked a major question........I am for it.
I don't think our justice system is hard enough on any criminals. I have always said first offenders of rape or child molestation should be castrated. Don't you agree that would make the crime diminish and more people would seek out help??

People can be out of prison in six to ten years for first degree murder. Our prisons are becoming small towns full of criminals. The criminal population continues to grow and grow. The repeat offenders don't care. Nothing happens to them. Serve minimum time and back out on the streets. They break the law again and again. Serve minimum time and back out to start all over again.

People are walking the streets of America that should not be in public. It all depends on how good your attorney is and how much money you have.

I believe in the electric chair and I believe it should be televised. We need to change our lenient laws. No one is safe and our justice system is to blame for it.........

Answer 4

I'm for it. As much as people want to be all politically correct and say that killing doesn't solve anything, it's not true. If someone kidnaps, rapes, and murders a little child, you actually think he doesn't deserve to die? Welp, he does.
Plus, we need it so that the prisons won't be overcrowded. A lot of murderers are let go simply because there's not enough room for them.

Answer 5

yes i am pro-capital punishment and this is why. most times a sick mind will re-visit his/her perversions and killings mentally once they are confined. they write stories about them, draw pictures of them, fantasize about them night and day. they continue to get sexual/psychological gratification this way long after the victim is dead and buried. why should we confine these people, feed them, clothe them, provide them with medical care, etc. so that they can have a long life, remembering their deeds, further disgracing the memory of their victims?

Answer 6

i am for capital punishment. because i don't think we should be saving the lives of those people who do not contribute to the society.

Answer 7

I'm opposed to the death penalty; the government has no right to decide when a person should die. Murder is murder, even if the government is the one perpetrating it.