capital punishment: good or bad?

Answer 1

I'm for it. It should be carried out quicker though. We taxpayers are keeping a criminal on death row for as long as 30 yrs. sometimes. If they haven't been able to prove themselves innocent after the 2nd trial, chances are thay aint gonna. Another waste of tax dollars. Appeals 6 times.

Answer 2

Capital Punishment is not only good but should be expanded. As the article from WKRN (see below) points out "Of the 163 people arrested for homicide in 2006, 17 had previous homicide arrest records." That is a whopping 10%!
As far as I know, nobody has ever commited a new crime after being executed.

Answer 3

We all have our opinions on this topic in one way or another.

If you like reading and the topic interests you, you may find John Grisham's book "The Chamber" one to read, as it pulls you into the subject of capital punishment from every angle of emotions, by all involved, and also including the political, appellate, incarceratory, and all other legal processes and wranglings involved in such.

John Grisham is a great author. The book I mentioned above is extremely informative, interesting and very difficult to put down, as all of his books are, and to his ability to tell any story, including The Chamber, which covers the entire topic in the question you posted, is always unbeatable. Go get the book and see.

Answer 4

9.5% of people who have been placed on death row since 1973 have been removed. That statistic does not include the dozens of people who weren't taken off and did nothing wrong. Look up the story of Carlos De Luna. If one innocent person might be killed then I believe the entire system should be shut down. Im sure if you were that one person who was going to be wrongly executed your opinion would change. To quote Voltaire, "It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Answer 5

I can't remember the definition of capital punishment, but if that's the death sentence, bad. I used to believe strongly in it until I realized that it solves nothing. Just give them 200 years in prison with no chance for paroll. Some criminals want to die for their crimes once it hits them what they've done. Let them think about what they did in prison for the rest of the lives. I think that is more cruel than death. I did not become a born again Christian or switch religions or anything when I switched views.

Answer 6

GOOD-, an eye for an eye, and they deserve whatever they get.
BAD-, takes too long to execute someone on death row and the ones serving life, should also be executed, will save much tax payer money. And this punishment should be carried out in a matter of days, not years.

Answer 7

The only reason for using the death penalty is revenge.
There is NO deterrant viability except to the one individual. It has been proven that the threat of the death penalty does not reduce murder.
One more problem, since 1973, 110 inmates who were given the death penalty were proven by DNA to be innocent; many more were freed due to new or newly identified evidence of the likelihood of their innocence.
First order of business in executing anyone is to guarantee their guilt beyond their stance in society, financial standing, race or sex. Othewise, we're just killing people out of revenge and in many cases allowing the perpetrators to walk free.
"The steady stream of errors that we see in cases in which defendants are sentenced to death is a predictable consequence of our system of investigating and prosecuting capital murder. . . . At best, we could do an imperfect job of catching errors after they occur, and in many cases we don't really try. As a result, most miscarriages of justice in capital cases never come to light." ` Professor S. Gross

Answer 8

I think we use the wrong definition of capital punishment.It is not the death penalty at all.It really means "without capital,you will recieve punishment" case in point,If OJ was poor would he have been found innocent?

Answer 9

I'm all for it. I believe that whatever you do, you should have done upon you. In my home state, there is a criminal getting executed tomorrow and his lawyer is trying to block it, because of the lethal injections have caused some to be awake during lethal injection part, I think its crazy that a guy who killed 4 people in cold blood says its not his human right to be awake during a killing. Its absurd.

Answer 10

It is a good way to remove people who have, by their own actions, proved themselves unfit to be in society. The taxpayers should not be forced to cage, guard, provide medical services, legal services, entertainment, clothes and food them for 30 to 80 years.

If you want your taxes lower, end the years of death row appeals.