Does anyone here approve of death penalty?

Question

Is death penalty fair ? Why?

Answer 1

I would say that the death penalty is unfair because nobody has the right to decide who should die and who shouldn't. Even if someone killed another person, he should not be sentence to death. It is a method from another age.

By sentencing someone to death, you don't give him the time to think and regret ( if he can ). Only life emprisonment is a real sentence because the prisonner will have to stay in the same place for the rest of his life, won't have any liberty.

And killing a person won't help bringing back the victims. It will help you forget, ease your mind but that's all.

However there are cases when I approve : the one rapping women and more important the one rapping children should be sentenced to death.

You should watch or read Death Note. It is a manga that deals with a guy that can kill anybody he wants provided he knows his name. Ot is the same topic as the death penalty. He gives himself the right to kill criminal and thus become a criminal. Death penalty is the same. Someone decide who should time and it is not right. It is criminal too.

Answer 2

I oppose the death penalty because it is not an effective way of keeping us safe. Here are some facts about the death penalty-

It is not a deterrent- states with the death penalty have higher homicide rates than states that do not. People who commit murder do not think they will be caught, let alone punished, that is, if they think at all.

The death penalty costs much more than life sentences. A great deal of the extra cost comes before conviction. (New York State spent over $200,000,000 to sentence just 7 people to death over 10 years. Of these, only four had one appeal and the rest have not had any. Compare this to the estimated 35-40 thousand per year to incarcerate someone. Do the math.) There is an unmet need for more well funded victims’ assistance programs. (In my opinion, that is where we should spend the extra money.)

Life without parole is on the books in more and more states. It means what it says. It is no picnic to be locked up in a tiny cell for 23 of 24 hours a day.

Over 120 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. In the overwhelming number of these cases, the evidence was not DNA. DNA is not a miracle cure for wrongful convictions. The exonerees had spent many years on death row before being found innocent. Speeding up the process would guarantee the execution of an innocent person. It is human nature to make mistakes.

Death sentences can be very hard on victims’ families. The process takes a long time and they are forced to relive their ordeal over and over again, in courts and in the media. Some murder victims’ family members have said that although they support the death penalty in theory, they do not want to see it in the case of their murdered loved one because of how the process affects families like theirs. Life without parole is swift and sure and rarely results in appeals.

Last of all, opposing the death penalty does not mean you excuse or coddle criminals who commit brutal and depraved acts. They must be punished severely. But we need to use common sense based on the facts, not to focus on revenge which accomplishes nothing.

Answer 3

I'm against it, but for other reasons, and not from sympathy for killers. To begin with, anyone who has read the bible knows that human beings are fallible and that any system set up and run by human beings is bound to get it wrong sometimes. And the death penalty system buries its worst mistakes. The worst thing about it. Errors: The system can make tragic and irreversible mistakes. In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Texas for starting the fire that killed his children. Modern forensics has shown that the fire was accidental. There wasn’t even a crime. Over 130 other wrongly convicted people sentenced to death have been exonerated. DNA, is rarely available in homicides and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Obviously, if someone is convicted and later found innocent you can release him from prison, but not from the grave. Crime reduction (deterrence): The death penalty doesn't stop others from committing murder. Homicide rates are consistently higher in states and regions with the death penalty than in those without it. The most recent FBI data confirms this. Keeping killers off the streets for good: Life without parole, on the books in 49 states (all except Alaska), also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending 23 of 24 hours a day locked in a tiny cell is not a picnic. Life without parole costs less than the death penalty. Costs: The death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. The high costs of the death penalty are for the complicated legal process, and the largest costs come at the beginning, for the pre trial process and for the trial itself. The point is to avoid executing innocent people. There are tremendous expenses in a death penalty case whether or not the defendant is convicted, let alone sentenced to death. Who gets it: Contrary to popular belief, the death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed? It comes down to whether we should keep a system for the sake of retribution or revenge even though it isn’t effective in reducing violent crime, costs much more than alternatives and, worst of all, can lead to the nightmare of finding that we executed someone for a crime he didn’t commit.

Answer 4

The law that is to be followed is decided by society. An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth - the Koran says. But the Koran also says that the family of the injured, or hurt, can forgive the agressor. Isn't that fair. As in Christianity Jesus said we must forgive. If you have it in your heart to forgive the person who killed your loved one, forgive by all means, but through past experience, society has seen that the agressor has sometimes gone back to his evil ways. Society has no way to control perversion in a mind and just so that none else is harmed society has just one way. Either death for a murderer or life imprisonment. Which is better death, or a fate worse than death - life imprisonment. I would surely prefer death. The mode of punishment; hanging is just so that no blood is shed. In war when there is so much blood flowing freely, a firing squad is considered the best means to inflict this eternal punishment.

Answer 5

absolutley. If we don't execute murders then we will just have more. We have gotten so politically corrrect in this country that most that are on death row today die from old age! We have to send a message maybe some will think twice about killing needlessly if they know they will also die. I wonder if we will ever become a nation with a backbone again or stay on this course we're on now. I've seen at least 2 convicted child molesters cut loose in the last couple of months. And we wonder why this evil is becoming so common???

Answer 6

Yes---one Solid vote FOR here
If you ever had to deal with the absolute scum that commits some of the atrosities that are being commited in the world today--or had the actual "up close and personal" experience with the aftermath of their insane behavior--you, or anyone that had humanity's welfare at heart would pull the switch themselves on some of these rabid dogs !!!
Don't Mess With Texas !!!

Answer 7

you can "put down" a rabid animal, why not a "rabid" human being.....if someone murders someone else, they have "rights", yet the dead person lost all of theirs....IF, there is 100% evidence, without a shadow of a doubt, then yes, why should we pay to house and feel and give medical treatment, when for instance a "PIG", snatches a kid and murders them. We have homeless people, hungry people, and people with no means for medical care, yet a murderer can have all that, "licensed nutritions" make up the menu for jails?.....Hell, we don't even have that in our schools!!....Yes, in certain instances get rid of them!!!!!

Answer 8

Yes / Yes / there needs to be a sever penalty for severe violations.

Answer 9

Yes, if it is warranted. If someone murders another human being in cold blood he/she deserves to die. An eye for eye and a life for a life.

Answer 10

~I definitely approve. Some people cannot be rehabilitated, and it's been proven time and time again. They convince people they've changed, get out and do it again.
I say 3 strikes and you're out!~