2006-12-23 16:43:22 · 21 answers · asked by Behrang 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Disagree because it is not implimented fairly and it costs tax payers so much money to pay for all the appeals....
I am not anti-punishment I think we need to go back to public floggings and tar and feather....stuff like that (yes I know it's unconstitutional)
2006-12-23 16:51:32 · answer #1 · answered by Love always, Kortnei 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I highly doubt, that capital punishment works. There are some problems with it: It's irreversible, meaning you can't unkill someone if you find out he/she was actually not guilty (as I heard there are quite a few cases like that). I don't think that the scaring off tactic works. In Iran they cut off the hands of thieves. So the benefit ratio to steal is way low. Yet they still have thieves in Iran. Crime is to a very big part a social problem. The other problem with the scaring off tactic is that the execution itself has to remain humaine. The only way I could support capital punishment would be, if the relatives of the victim were allowed to torture the murderer to death. That way the victims family would get a just revenge. I think you're quite unlucky to have to support the death penalty in a debate, because I don't think there are any rational arguments, that support it. So you will probably have to take an emotional approach, contrasting the poor victim and the gruesome murderer. I wish you the best of luck
2016-05-23 03:16:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree if there is plenty of evidence, I just wish that the legal system didn't allow for all of those appeals to happen when one little thing changes. Many murderers get off because of that. Also, without Capital Punishment for the most serious offenders, the prisons would become even more over-crowded than they already are.
2006-12-23 16:58:13 · answer #3 · answered by tahu492 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally disagree with capital punishment because I don't believe that anyone has the right to take the life of another, for any reason.
2006-12-23 18:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by oldironclub 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agree
2006-12-23 17:02:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Agree.
2006-12-23 16:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by Bec 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What is the main purpose of capital punishment? If the purpose is to deter people from committing crime, then I disagree. Many studies show that capital punishment does not deter crime.
How would you feel if your loved one was executed only to find out after the fact that they were wrongly convicted? It happens.
Since 1973 there have been 123 people RELEASED that were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death...that could have been any one of us. That could have been you!
The problem with the death penalty is there is no going back, there is no retribution. Once a person is dead, that's it.
It's interesting to me that the death penalty even exists in the United States, where the majority of people are Christians. Aren't Christians ethically bound to allow God to judge people? It seems counter productive.
2006-12-23 17:01:57 · answer #7 · answered by suede_blueyes 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Used to agree with it, but now I disagree. Murder by the state is still murder, damnit. Just because a rigged "justice" system says someone's guilty and needs to be put down doesn't make it so. So-called Christians who back the death penalty are hypocrites. God even said THOU SHALT NOT KILL. It doesn't have a "he was really really bad" exemption.
2006-12-23 17:08:58 · answer #8 · answered by eatmorec11h17no3 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think there should be another means of sentencing...wasting money on killing people or keeping them in jail isn't cutting it. It's wrong to kill, but then even in the bible people were sentenced to death by higher powers, it's YOU, as the individual and your works...not them. You can agree to it because it's part of the system, just like if you were forced to go to war for your country and you had to kill people....it's wrong duh...but some things are inevitable, and as long as YOU as an individual realize this...then you can't condemn what has to be...There's evil people here that just do NOT be alive in this world...
BUT...personally i would find programs that techncially sentence them to death..but for a greater cause...like sending their *sses to baghdad, let THEM be suicide bombs. Put them in harm's way as they put others in harm's way...feed them to carnivorous animals that need food. Or even better, put them to sleep and donate their organs to people who need it...they're gonna die anyway, so why not sacrifice themselves for the greater good and give back for their crimes? SOMETHING more constructive than wasting money keeping them in a gay whore house, catering to their every need for their crimes, and then upon death waste money to create this quick death concotion.....you've given them more reason to waste life than how they wasted life when they were free.
It's either that or follow the 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you' in the negative aspect and..well if the guy raped someone....have someone RAPE him. Somebody killed someone maliciously, let it be done to them.....eye for an eye no? And most death sentence cases aren't because they robbed or imbezzled or something to that extent. It involved a death, physical abuse, the latter.
Blatantly the death penalty i agree with...but i can only justify it in a manner where their death can REDEEM themselves, rather than just get murdered for their crimes and nothing more.
2006-12-23 17:32:19 · answer #9 · answered by Dennis 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
agree.
Capital punishment is just a very late abortion of a bad seed.
2006-12-23 16:52:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋