Death penalty is inhumane?

Question

debate topic

Death penalty is inhumane

in the aspect of human rights

and give me some examples,

Please!

thx~

Answer 1

Let's say you murder a police officer at a routine traffic stop to avoid going to jail on an outstanding warrant......kill a clerk you just stole $40 from to support your drug habit......commit a violent sexual assault....again..after being released from prison & the victim takes their life...unable to cope w the trauma,pain, & shame.

Do you deserve to walk among the rest of society enjoying life without regard for the pain,suffering,financial & emotional losses, & enduring fear & trauma of your victim's surviving family?

Who gave government the right & holds them responsible? Come on wake up!! The government isn't some faceless machine that decides to kill people at random.

The government is YOU....it's ME, it's your friends,family, co-workers, & neighbors.

I read questions from folks trying to avoid jury duty on this site. Guess what the JURY is who found the person guilty & voted for the death penanlty in cases where the law allowed it as an appropriate punishment based on the severity of the crime committed.

Is it inhumane for someone to experience a few minutes of pain after ending the life of another, & causing untold suffering for years to come for surviving family members?

There was a trial decided upon by 12 citizens, & presided over by an impartial judge. In EVERY case where death is the punishment the entire trial proceeding is reviewed by an impartial judicial panel.

EVERY person sentenced to death receives one automatice appeal, & is often granted at least one additional appeal. Did their victim have those options?

Personally I have no problem w the death penalty tho I think a sentence of life with no possibity for parole might be more punishment & certainly more inhumane.

Is it humane to put another human being in a cage for the rest of their life? Probably not, but what alternative would you propose. Maybe we ask them very nicely not to do something that ugly again or we'll be REALLY disappointed!! Yeah that might work.

God forbid my own life ever took such a turn that I commited such an offense & was given a choice....I would most certainly choose death by almost any method over living in a cage forever!

Answer 2

humanity or inhumanity is relative. Observe the crooks. Humanity to them is to be allowed to trample the common citizen To the good citizen, their acts are inhuman. However, the Founding Fathers. determined that it is always the common good that shall prevail. We are in an orderly society that is being regulated by laws and regulations. These laws had been promulgated and approved by the majority of the citizens. Their implementing rules were made based on these laws, such that if the law says that the penalty for stealing bread is death, then so be it. The citizens shall make do with this law until such time that this shall have been amended. Certain crimes are penalized by death. This is to protect the interests of the majority. If we shall let a criminal off the hook for consideration of his human rights, what of the human rights of the many whom he has abused. How about the society which shall be chaotic because of their existence and continued violation of the human rights of others. Mostly, as you shall observe, it is always the meek, the humble, the peace loving citizens who falls prey to human rights violations. Seldom will you hear these people complain. And such as these that the law protects, because they usually bear their burdens silently. Never mind the Steven Segals of this world, they can protect their own. If we shall not implement death penalty especially for heinous crimes, then they shall propagate and take over an orderly society. Farmers almost always take away rotten fruits in order not to contaminate the others. We always discard and do away with anything that destroys other things. So, shall we do away with anything that shall prejudice life and peaceful living. Heroes were made because of this. And history tells that criminals are usually executed to put a stop to their crimes. DEATH PENALTY!!! HUMANE!!!

Answer 3

I wholly support the death penalty, or capital punishment if you will in cases such as this. America, in particular, is getting much too soft on crime as perpetuated by Demonrats.

To deter capital crimes, such as murder, the death penalty and public executions should be staged. If potential criminals, which we all are, were to see the public execution of murderers and such on a regular basis this would have an effect towards greatly deterring these crimes and crime in general.

If you're soft on crime, as the Demonrats are, this only promotes criminal activity. So voting Democrat is part of the problem. However, we'll have to address the psychological problems of America in a later venue and stick to the generalities of murderers and the death penalty.

I personally would like to see not only public executions but public purification ceremonies. If you've seen Mel Gibson in Braveheart you have a clue as to what I'm talking about. Put a clergyman up on the stage and give the sinner a chance to repent before death. Make it slow, get personal and create some pain. Allow the criminal plenty of opportunity to scream and repent.

When millions of Americans are allowed to see this tough on crime approach, both in person and through the media, criminals will begin to give serious thought to the consequences of their actions. We can either do this or spare the rod, spoil the child and suffer the consequences.

However you feel about the death penalty weigh this in your mind. If it makes sense copy it and send it to everyone you know. And send it to your elected officials to let them know how you stand. Let's take back America from the liberals who would rather let convicted criminals roam your neighborhood at night.

Answer 4

Opponents of the death penalty usually argue that is inhumane, or even that it constitutes a form of torture. Those who make this argument commonly insist that, in addition to violating the right to life, the death penalty is also contrary to the right to be free from torture or inhumane treatment. This right is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many other documents.

Some arguments about the humaneness of the death penalty apply only to specific methods of execution. Of methods of execution currently in use the electric chair and the gas chamber are widely seen as producing great pain and suffering in the victim. All U.S. jurisdictions that currently use the gas chamber offer lethal injection as an alternative and, save Nebraska, the same is also true of the electric chair. Lethal injection has become widely used in the United States in an effort to make the death penalty more humane. However there are fears that, because the cocktail of drugs used in many executions paralyses the victim for a period before ending her or his life, victims may endure suffering not apparent to observers. The suffering caused by a method of execution is also often exacerbated in the case of "botched" executions. Amnesty International has highlighted lethal injection as the most frequently "botched" method of execution, noting practices such as crude "cut-downs" into prisoners' arms when a vein cannot be found [5]. Medical staff, who might have expertise in minimising suffering, do not normally assist with executions, as this would be a violation of the Hippocratic Oath [6]. Those who make this argument also insist that the knowledge of one's impending death causes tremendous psychological suffering. This suffering, exacerbated by the long periods often spent by convicts in the United States on death row, have together been described as the death row phenomenon, which is considered by some to be a form of torture.

The proponents of the death penalty point out that incarceration often produces severe psychological depression and that life in jail is often physically violent, which makes this type of argument for substituting death penalty with life imprisonment or long incarceration moot. A minority among proponents further argue that great suffering is somewhat desirable by the principle of retribution, by its deterrent effect or by other perceived advantages of capital punishment. Occasionally arguments from humaneness are made in favour of capital punishment. The political writer Peter Hitchens has argued that the death penalty is more humane than life imprisonment.

Answer 5

Imagine being on death row for almost 18 years, knowing that you may be executed any day, and knowing that you are innocent. Juan Melendez went through this, and was released when the courts finally looked at the confession (which they had all along) of another man.

Or the case of Ray Krone, sentenced to death on the basis of faulty forensics, now a free man. Police and prosecutors resisted requests to revisit the case, but finally realized that the real killer was in a state data base when they finally got around to checking his DNA.

These are real people. You can read about them and the 121 others who were freed from death rows with evidence of their innocence. It horrifies me that they could have been killed, in our name.

Another thing is that the death penalty can be extremely hard on families of murder victims. They are forced to relive their ordeal, in courts and in the media, over and over again. Some of them have said that while they support the death penalty in principal, they prefer life without parole because of what the death penalty process does to families like theirs.

An execution creates a new set of victims, that is the families of the person executed. In addition to their grief, they are stigmatized for something that they did not do.

Carrying out a death sentence is very hard on executioners. Dow Hover, the last man to carry out executions in New York and in New Jersey, later committed suicide. Executioners and wardens in Mississippi and Alabama all attributed their mental and physical health problems to their involvement with lethal injection. There are more stories like these.

There are other reasons to do away with the death penalty. It is not an ineffective way to reduce crime. It costs much more than life without parole. It is not a deterrent. States that have the death penalty have higher homicide rates than states that do not have the death penalty.

None of this should suggest that I believe that brutal acts should go unpunished. But common sense, based on an awareness of the facts, should be applied, rather than blind vengeance.

Answer 6

Yes the death penalty is inhumane, and two wrongs NEVER make a right!!!

Answer 7

List of things I consider inhumane and worthy of capital punishment:

Murder
Terrorism
Child rape
Drug trafficing
Human trafficing

I consider the death penalty entirely within the bounds of morality and reason if it means ridding the world of people who commit these acts.

It's simple math: Kill one murderer, save 10 lives, free 1000 people from living in fear.

Answer 8

death penalty is inhumane and out of date. maybes a suitable punishment for the medieval times but not today our world society has moved on we can do better then the death penalty life in prisons better because the criminal has to rot in prison and live a pointless life most criminals say they would rather be dead then spend life in prison because you cant do anything for the rest of your life.

just my opinion

Answer 9

i think of the dying penalty would properly be humane, yet oftentimes that's not. i think of we would desire to continually abolish the dying penalty, not on the grounds that's inhumane, yet simply by fact the dying penalty kills harmless human beings, and we could the accountable guy or woman bypass unfastened. A classic occasion of that's the murderer Barrabas exchange into freed, and Jesus Christ exchange into accomplished. Thou shalt not kill, does not make it appropriate for the goverment to kill. a truthful trial, is the place a team of human beings occasion, and are available to a decision that somebody merits to die, and has him killed. it is likewise the definition of First degree homicide.

Answer 10

I'd be for the death penalty if it were administered fairly but it is not. The wealthy and powerful are immune to it and innocent people have been put to death