In favor or against the death penalty??

Question

Discuss one position in favor and one position against the use of the death penalty. Hoe does either position relate to the 8th amendment provision against "cruel and unusual punishment?"

Answer 1

death penalty is like handling the symptom and not the cause.

a criminal is a victim... a victim of the society. There are various factors responsible for a crime... social, economic, political and psychological...
to ignore these factors and to punish a criminal only reflects immaturity and also is quite unethical..
crime calls for a drastic change in the ways of the society... and unless and until efforts are made to bring about the necessary change...there will be crime.
death penalty does not resolve crime... it only reflects our failure to address the issue effectively
its like killing a patient for having a disease instead of curing the disease
crime cannot be controlled through retribution... but only with compassion and consideration
the issue of crime is too vast and complex... simply killing the criminals is a barbaric act.. the humane thing to do would be to understand what causes crime... when you have that understanding, then you wont kill the criminal. society can only be reformed through humanity...and not through murder.

the only justice... is love

Answer 2

The death penalty is irreversable. If you find new evidence 8 years after a trial, that doesn't necessarily give you a new or better suspect, but PROVES that the person was innocent, you cannot go back and FIX the death penalty. It's over, you screwed up, and an innocent man was killed.

The death penalty puts us on the same level as the very criminal we're putting to death. An eye for and eye, and the whole world goes blind.

Sure, the death penalty is satisfying, but it doesn't change what's already happened.

And some forms of the death penalty are very cruel.

Answer 3

Only uncivilized and barbaric people have the death penalty - certainly no civilized European nation is open to reintroducing the death penalty. Third world countries on the brink of bankruptcy are the only states left open to this form of cruel and unusual punishment - oh yes and countries who are financially about to topple into the third world - like the good old US of A. Look at whats about to happen to the dollar - how else can their politicians get elected without stringing up a few felons for that all important winning vote?

Answer 4

The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.

I am against it

Answer 5

I'm against it. There has been case after case where a convict on death row has been exonerated due to new evidence coming forward, usually DNA.

Answer 6

if you was sentenced to death you didnt j-walk and it cost tax payers 40,000 a year per inmate to house them and a death row inmate usually lives 20+years on death row

Answer 7

carrying out the death sentence accomplishes two things:
removes a predator from this earth.
limits the wasteful spending of tax dollars.

Answer 8

There are people who just can't be rehabilitated, and are a danger even locked up. There's no reason such people should be allowed to stay alive.

Answer 9

Against, let them sit in jail and think about it for the rest of their lives

Answer 10

A life for a life is a penalty that has never been abrogated.