Why are you AGAINST the death penalty?

Question

Give it some serious thought. People say, let them suffer in jail. I feel they get used to prison, and actually start to like it, free meals, exercise, I assume TV, library, etc.. Yet everyone fears definite death. I put before you the example of a recent MA convicted state trooper who yelled to the family of his victim, in so many words, "I am better off than Ricky!!!'. Seriously consider the way these people murder, burning to death, mutilation, torture rape, the forced drowning of children. Give this some serious thought, and try to take your religion out of it.

Sorry, should be state tropper killer convicted.

Answer 1

God told Moses one of the rules was do not kill.

Answer 2

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I was pro-capital punishment for a long time, but I have changed my stance over the years, for several reasons: 1. By far the most compelling is this: Sometimes the legal system gets it wrong. In the last 30 years, over 100 people have been released from death row after years of imprisonment because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases. No matter how rare it is, the government should not risk executing one single innocent person. Really, that should be reason enough for most people. You say you need four, so, read on (I'll even throw in one bonus reason): 2. Because of the extra expense of prosecuting a DP case and the appeals process (which is necessary - see reason #1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life. 3. The deterrent effect is questionable at best. Violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty states. This may seem counterintuitive, and there are many theories about why this is (Ted Bundy saw it as a challenge, so he chose Florida – the most active execution state at the time – to carry out his final murder spree). Personally, I think it has to do with the hypocrisy of taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ 4. There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age. When Ted Bundy was finally arrested in 1978, he told the police officer, “I wish you had killed me.” 5. The U.S. government is supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. James 4:12 says that God is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Answer 3

My first answer to your question is - it is never man's place to take the life of another human being...period. Abortion is wrong. Capital punishment is wrong. Euthanasia is wrong. End of story.

My second answer to your question is - the purpose of the judicial system and imprisonment is first and foremost to remove a dangerous person from the general population to prevent the harm of yet more victims. I personally don't CARE how the prisoner feels, what he or she thinks, or how good or awful their lives are in prison. Obviously, if they killed someone in a particularly horrible way, they are not "all there" so they could not possibly be expected to understand the gravity of their own actions. They probably still feel that they had very legitimate reasons for doing what they did, no matter how ludicrous and depraved those reasons may be to us normal folk.

They WILL pay for their crimes with the ultimate penalty from God if they fail to repent before their death. All I can do is pray on behalf of their souls that they come to the Lord and pronto.

Answer 4

I'm against it for several reason:

1) You can put a person in a maximum security prison, and they do not receive the amenities that other prisoners get; no TV, no exercise, etc.

2) Living with what you've done for the rest of your natural life is worse than dying (this somewhat depends on whether one believes in an afterlife or not).

3) It actually costs less to lock someone up for life. Cost of the death penalty is high mainly because those on death row don't work as other prisoners do and they are entitled to several appeals before their execution.

4) The bias evident in the criminal justice system against the poor and minorities is also very evident when one looks at those on death row.

5) Basic problems in our criminal justice system, besides just bias. 10% of people that have EVER been on death row are innocent of the crime that they are there for.

Answer 5

When I was created God gave me my mother's brown eyes, and my fathers red hair. He gave me a soul to love with, a heart to feel and a brain to learn. However I was not given the right nor the ability to say weather or not someone should live or die. This is not an ability or power that was put in my hands to bear. I can only imagine what or how some one deals with when a loved one is killed. I can only imagine. If my son or my husband was taken from me, I would be lost. But search my soul I cannot find the place where I can take a life. That is for God to do and for me to have Faith in his works. I pray for those that kill and that are the victims of their insensible acts.

Answer 6

I am for it to an extent, it think there needs to be a better apples process like when some one is found guilty and sentenced to death there should be a committee of lawyers that look over everything and are able to look at the evidence again just to make sure it is correct, and should look at any new evidence just to make sure we are keeping Innocent people in jail.

Answer 7

If a person is reincarnated, I think it is better they spend time in jail than be released to start again without learning anything.

If you believe in Christianity, then god is your judge and executioner.

The death penalty is used politically to get rid of opponents. Oh, this only happens in the other guys government.

If reincarnation is correct, the death penalty should make crimes become more vicious and horrific . Each murder is released to start again in a baby ... to grow up... being worse than before.

The death penalty is for people who want vengeance and not for punishment. The death penalty is not a deterrent. Stupid people don't think this far in advance. To punish is to educate them to the reason why their crime is wrong. When the murder can understand their crimes, then you have punishment.

If God exists, wouldn't he kill the murder?

People do not all fear death. Suicide bombers....suicides in general...911 terrorists. People can be conditioned to believe heaven awaits them.

Answer 8

I am against it because of the possibility that we could put an innocent person to death. There have been so many cases of people wrongfully convicted being released from death row, and one definite execution of an innocent man in Texas. It is just not worth it to accidentally execute innocent people. If we keep them in prison, at least we can release them when we realize there was a mistake.

Answer 9

You can never undo the death of an innocent person who mistakenly given the death penalty.

The death penalty is plainly and simply revenge killing for the taking of another person's life. It is an angry response to a violent act. A society that uses violence as the primary resolution violent problems will use any justification, including anger, to apply the death penalty.

Answer 10

The death penalty is wrong because the odds are that there are innocent people sitting on death row right now. DO you want to take that kind of chance with someone else' life or your own? People are wrongly convicted because we are human justice system and to be human is to err.

Answer 11

The ONLY problem with our death penalty is that it takes too long . An example: When O J Simpson was arrested and charged with his ex-wife's murder, there occured in Mexico an assassination of a Mexican presidential candidate. Before O J's second court appearance, the Mexican assassin was arrested, charged, went to trial, was convicted AND executed. Now THAT'S justice and an effective death penalty!