If they take someones life, they deserve to die. It's that simple. Don't give me the crap about "How is the death penalty any different from a murder murdering his victim?". So me killing a innocent person would be the same as me killing Bin Laden? They are both the same situations, right??
Plus I am not wasting my tax money to help a sick freak continue to live his life.
2006-12-14 08:26:35 · 26 answers · asked by da_bigunit 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
So if a US soldier kills a terrorist that was gonna blow himself up and kill 300 people, the soldier is a murder? He should be jailed because his act was the same as some girl rapist killer?
And they don't get the death penalty wrong these days, they are on death row sometimes for nearly 30 years. They review everything, forensics is very accurate today.
2006-12-14 08:30:48 · update #1
So what you are saying is that we should not kill a criminal with a gun on a shooting rampage? Just let him be cause if we kill him we are no better than him? That logic sucks.
2006-12-15 13:02:12 · update #2
yea i agree with u r right
2006-12-14 08:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by micho 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because people are people, and if you kill someone who has killed someone else, you have just committed the same crime they did. Then wouldn't you also be deserving of the death penalty? Besides, I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt. And what if the person ended up actually being innocent? That happens all the time. So many innocent people are killed while the real murderers roam free. Is that how you want to run your society? Oh, wait, too late.
It doesn't matter what the situation is. Killing people is wrong. And if you're a conservative who's against abortion, you should understand that.
And somehow I think you'll get over the tax money. If you are typing on a computer, have a car, a job, and a roof over your head, you are much richer than most of the world. So waah.
2006-12-15 09:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by moonotcow 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I simply don't believe killing is ever okay. I feel murder is wrong, rather it be from a person or the state. Your argument is flawed because you assume I would think of a murderer and an innocent person as the same. I understand that a murderer is a lot different then an innocent person. I still don't think it is okay to kill them. I simply have the moral that killing is wrong. And I don't make exceptions to that.
As far as the death penalty in particular. I think that it is always possible that an innocent person is found guilty. There has been cases of people on death row being found innocent. Once you've killed them, you take away any chance that they might later be found innocent.
And I'm not even Christian. Christians should completely be against it. It specifically says killing is wrong in the Christian faith. It also says that YOU shouldn't judge people, that's God's job. I'm not saying you are Christian, I'm just bringing up that point.
2006-12-14 08:34:51 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, if you're pro-life, then this would be against that position. Second, there are flaws in the judicial system. There have been quite few cases where people have been wrongly convicted of murder. Once they're gone, they can't come back.
Problem is establishing- beyond a reasonable doubt.
You're mixing apples with oranges-- a soldier killing a would-be terrorist in a war zone is not murder. It is still killing but it is in a war zone and the terrorist with a bomb strapped on is in no way innocent.
2006-12-14 08:32:24 · answer #4 · answered by dapixelator 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree. What would be a better question is,....If your child was murdered would you want the killer to get the death penalty? I know as a parent I would personally want to throw the switch myself if someone harmed one of my children in such a way!!!!
Also I would like to add that I have had a friend that was innocent but chose not to disclose whom had really murdered the victim. But he wanted to be executed as he was there and did not stop it. Wrong place wrong time situation. But bad things can happen when one hangs out with bad people.
Edit: very true that some stay on death row for a long time. But here in Texas some get executed within a couple of years. My friend was executed after being on death row for 6 years I believe.
I don't see where people figure that it cost more to execute someone than it does to have them on death row for life. It only cost about 80 dollars to execute them.
I am in Texas by the way.
2006-12-14 08:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by Dana A 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't have a philosophical problem with the death penalty. I'm OK with it as a penalty for those who are guilty of certain crimes.
The only problem I have is with the criminal justice system. I don't trust it to determine true guilt. Many times people on death row have been released once new evidence has exonerated them.
If there were a way to know absolutely that someone's guilty, I'm on board. But failing that... I'm OK with the theory, but I have a problem with the practical applications.
2006-12-14 08:32:28 · answer #6 · answered by EQ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think (in the uk especially) should have harsher prisons. No tv, gyms or collage corses.
When i was a child someone did wrong by me, he would have got a jail sentance if he had not killed himself first and i wish the bastard hadn't. I personally would have paid taxes to watch him rot, not let him die and give him the easy way out.
For this reason i think the death sentance is wrong these rapest and murderers should be given a matress and bars for walls. The should be given 3 square meals of slop, that i wouldn't even feed to my pigs and i feel they should suffer. Just like they made their victims and their families suffer.
2006-12-14 08:29:17 · answer #7 · answered by sxiecat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I oppose the death penalty because it costs more (as you yourself said 30 yrs. on death row) due to all the expensive free and mandatory appeals than just being locked up. Your example of a US soldier only killing terrorists and always being right is debatable.
2006-12-14 08:47:00 · answer #8 · answered by Raven 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I oppose the death penalty because death is an easy way for a murderer to get out. Life in prison is far worse than any death penalty you can ever imagine. There is no life continuing in prison. Your tax money will be wasted anyways.
2006-12-14 08:35:42 · answer #9 · answered by OC 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It actually costs more to put someone on death row than it does to give them life in prison. Moreover, if you spent a little time involved with the penal system you would see that many of these individuals repent and change their lives even though they are facing either life behind bars or death by lethal injection. If I were murdered, I would hope my death would at least serve to change the murderer rather than only resulting in the death of the murderer. Moreover, the majority of people on death row are indigent clients who could not afford million dollar legal fees and who are often times mentally handicapped.
2006-12-14 08:33:22 · answer #10 · answered by hello 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In Ann Coulter's book "Godless," I thnk she has the greatest quote about people that say the death penalty is not a deterrent to stop murder... "If the death penalty isn't a deterrent, then why is that Michael Moore is still alive, and I'm not on death row?"
2006-12-14 08:29:46 · answer #11 · answered by Chris C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋