do you believe in capital punishment?

Question

if so can you tell me why of not may i have your opinion also

my idea is if a person commites a crime WITHOUT killing anybody he should just go to jail if the crime involved killing someone then yes to it is neccecary

Answer 1

Yes I do. Here where I live, there is a man on trial for killing his ex wife three kids including one child who was 6 months old and his ex mother in law. Does this man desearve to keep breathing after such a horrible crime? No!! This is a useless piece of crap. When you put a gun to the head of all your family, you cease to be a human being. You cease to have a right to get old. You stop having the right to have memories. As far as I am concerned, when these pieces of debris are convicted beyond a resonable doubt, they should be hung within 10 days of conviction. If they have definite proof. Git-R-Hung

Answer 2

Capital punishment applies only to murder cases. Or maybe murder and treason. At least treason used to be an offense punishable by death, but I doubt it is anymore. Or maybe it's still on the books that way, but nobody actually applies that particular punishment to treason anymore.

Anyway, I am for the death penalty in cases of premeditated murder. If the sentence was carried out rapidly (rather than the usual 10 - 15 year wait), then I think it would be more of the deterrent its meant to be. As it exists now, it isn't much of a deterrent to future crime.

Yeah, yeah for all you who bring up the argument about people falsely accused, erroneously convicted and sentenced to death, I know that's a sticky problem. Fortunately, nowadays, DNA evidence is exonerating those people in prison and on death row who don't belong. And DNA testing will only become more commonplace in forensics, and this should do away with the aforementioned problem. The one thing I have to say to anyone who doesn't agree with capital punishment is this: What if it was YOUR child that was wantonly raped and murdered? What if it was YOUR husband or wife, abducted, tortured and killled with callous disregard? Wouldn't you want to make sure that monster never had the chance to kill again? Would you want to pay for his life-long stay in prison?

I say goodbye and good riddance. Fry.

Answer 3

I do not believe in capital punishment and here's why: when the state (federal or state government) puts someone to death for a murder, it is seeking retribution for the original crime. That is not justice; that is revenge. There are people like me in the world who believe that if the state kills someone, that is essentially making the people (who are the government) murderers. It is sinking to the level of the original crime.

Rather, I reserve judgment for the after life. It is not up to man to kill; that should be up to God's best judgment.

Further, there have been too many cases where innocent men have been put to death. DNA, unfortunately, is not infallible, and one cannot say with absolute certainty that DNA proves 100 percent that the person did the crime. There could be dozens of explanations, and I for one am not willing to be a part of the taking of an innocent man's life.

Moreover, statistics have shown that the death penalty is unevenly applied. Minorities who kill whites are twice more likely to receive the death penalty than minorities who kill other minorities or whites who kill minorities.

My final reason is that I believe capital punishment makes for a more bloodthirsty society.

Answer 4

i do not.... reason being: States tell people they could't kill..... yet yet the states turn round and kill by skill of capital punishment.. that is being hypocritical.. also, in a "functioning, democratic society" how do we placed people on death row, after all of us recognize in some unspecified time sooner or later an innocuous human being is going to be finished??? Now granted that would not take position oftentimes, yet my recommended wager is that its has exceeded off. The criminal Justice equipment isn't and under no circumstances will be suitable...... i don't believe of it truly is excellent for persons to homicide different people yet unfortuately it occurs regardless of the justification would nicely be. My superb pal grow to be murdered and that i nevertheless do not position self belief in capital punishment- somebody else death gained't deliver my pal back. there is not any justice even as someone is murdered. existence in reformatory is more low-cost besides... death sentence appeals take a minimum of seven-8 years (or longer relying on the state) to get through the courts. by using the time tax payers pay for courtroom expenses, faxes, criminal professional expenses, paralegals, and so on, its less severe priced to enable killers rot in a cellular.....

Answer 5

I believe that capital punishment is only used when someone dies in the commission of a crime. And, yes I believe in it. I believe that some people are so violent and reprehensible that the death penalty is perfect for them. I believe that is someone coldly takes someone's life, they need to be punished.
I don't think that it is justified in all cases, but in the case of say, a serial killer, by all means, fry him.
Oh, and if someone comes into my home and hurts a member of my family, I will pull the switch myself.

Answer 6

a 5 cent bullet is cheaper than 30 years imprisonment, however,i think there is a compromise. turn one of the islands of Hawaii into a banishment center. we could put up a perimeter of sorts,get gardens started, put on some livestock, and then ,when guilty beyond a reason of any doubt of murder or child molestation. give the guilty party a hysterectomy or vasectomy, place a tracking div ice in them, then drop them off on the island. we could permit humanitarian groups / families of b.c.inmates to drop off survival stuff a couple times a year at their ex pence,not the taxpayers. now they we have a safer,wealthier,society without killing anybody.

Answer 7

i agree with common sense. when you have irrefutable evidence the person is guilty, forgo the appeals process. after the jury hands down the verdict, carry out the sentence by the end of that week and let the punishment fit the crime. if you rape/murder the same to you tenfold until there is nothing left to bury...ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF HARMING CHILDREN.

Answer 8

Do you believe war can be justified? Do you believe in euthanasia? Should people be allowed to commit suicide? What is your stance on abortion. Personally I feel like that somebody is a hypocrite if they be live one form of death is OK and another is not.
Killing is killing, justified or not.

Answer 9

absolutely not. look how many people have spent time in prison and then been released because they found the real criminal. the government doesn't have any business killing people. convicts shouldn't have gymnasiums and libraries and televisions either. they should be made to work. the more serious the crime the longer and harder they have to work. if they refuse, they don't eat. that way the prisoner has his fate in his own hands. if he doesn't work...he dies. if i were in charge of the prisons, they would not only be self-sufficient, they would turn huge profits. they wouldn't cost the taxpayers a penny.

Answer 10

NO. I firmly believe that it is not the responsibility of the government to punish someone to that degree. Making taxpayers fund it is making every one of us a murderer. To people who say that it deters people from committing crimes, I have this to say: Do you actually think that what is going through someones head as they are about to kill someone is: "I'll only have to spend my life in prison, if I were going to die, it would be a whole other story?" No! If you have a motivation to kill, this is not going to make much of a difference.