capitol punishment?

Question

should we have capitol punishment? if yes, doesn't death set the person free? if no, what if the crimes increase because the criminal knows that there would be no death for punishment? help! i need ideas for debating.

Answer 1

I am not interested in punishing capitol murders. I believe the best value of the death penalty is that it removes the person from the planet and they can commit their acts no more. Timothy McVeigh will no longer bomb federal buildings. John Wayne Gacy will no longer murder young boys and Saddam will no longer gas Kurds and murder his own people etc.

As for life in prison; "life" never seems to be "life" does it. Charles Manson comes up for parole constantly. He is rejected but I do not trust all of the politicians who must judge all of the nameless Mansons without the glare of the worldwide camera shining on them.

When the new sentence "life without parole" was put into use there was an immediate outcry from certain groups (I suspect the same groups who oppose the death penalty) that this was cruel and unusual punishment. If they are then they are not doing their anti-death penalty cause much justice. I do not want to gamble the safety of soceity on the judgement of people who have yet to be appointed.

I reject the idea that we should merely imprison these people. I happen to have been in the town of Huntville TX when two death penalty inmates escaped from prison. If they are still alive they retain the ability to kill.

Their ability to kill is not limited to soceity on the outside. Remeber there are correctional officers who have to deal with these dangerous inmates. Why should they be forced to work with these people on a long term basis. There are also the other prisoners; why should a pot dealer or car thief live with such threatening people? Why should the resources that should be used to reform other offenders be used to warehouse capitol murders.

The main thing that the death penalty accomplishes is that it takes the most evil among us out of the equation.

Answer 2

I feel the best advantage of capitol punishement is a tool for the DA to use in prosecution. It's been showed that it doesn't work that great as a deterent for crime. What I think it works best for is if a criminal is facing good evidence and the death penalty is waved in front of him, he'll plead guilty and take the life sentence. Thus saving tax payers from a trial. Or sometime a criminal will take the life sentence to avoid the death penatly to turn state witness. So I think that outways the expense of the death penatly. People always say that with appeals it's more expensive than a life sentence. But nobody has ever weighed the cost saved by avoiding trials.

Answer 3

Yes, capital punishment should be mete out for serious crime. The question really is what sort of crime would duly justify for another killing? No doubt, massacre, terrorism or murdering of more than one are all heinous crimes and should not be tolerated. But what if it's man slaughter? What if it's a murder with a vengeance or doing drugs that potentially could kill many? Firing of weapons with intention to kill? These all are grey areas that involves religion, social intolerance and ethics. Some countries are too magnanimous some are overly harsh for the simplest mistake. A life is all one has, death don't set a person free neither does one's death justify another. An eye for an eye is never advocated in our religious believes but two eyes for the price of one could just be a tip over.
Prison is not a hotel like many people thought it's, inmates doing time
are also doing good to the society, they're doing laundry for the hospitals, they making bread for the needy and some prison even make wood craft or farming for sales that benefit the elderly.

Answer 4

Capital Punishment is a good thing because as you said, the crime rate would go up for current crimes that have capital punishment as the consequence. Capital punishment is the only way that a person will not be able to harm anybody else. They aren't set free because they usually sit on death row for quite a long time, so they have a long time to think about what they did and they have the torment of knowing they are going to die.

Answer 5

WELL, I myself am PRO death penilty. My reasoning for this if a person rapes someone, murders someone, beats someone there is a reason for this. An eye for an eye. If the crime carries the death penilty then he/she should be put to death. I believe a sound logical reason for this is if we put him/her in prison WE MUST support him/her. They will get 3 hot meals per day, TV, Medical. NOW they may not live a rich life, BUT they WILL and DO LIVE BETTER than some people who have done NOTHING WRONG. So why should this be, or allowed to happen. WE have all so many people who are homeless or ahve NOTHING in life and have to pick through garbage cans in order to survive. BUT NOW we are going to FEED and SHELTER a criminal for rapiong, or murdering someone. YOU JUSTIFY this. I say KILL HIM. OH as an after thought, The death sentence WOULD and WILL deter crime if the DEATH sentence IS ENFORCED. Meaning CARRY IT OUT. Once the criminals see that they can be and will be put to death I can say I believe crime will drop.

Answer 6

This American society encourages criminal activity and then seeks to punish the people that it taught to be criminals. There is no current evidence that shows that the death penalty has been a deterrent on criminal activity. Murders increase each year with or without the death penalty. what purpose does it serve. There is evidence that shows that alot of innocent people have died simply because they got the wrong people. In my personal opinion it serves no purpose!

Answer 7

Yes, capitol punishment should be allowed. From an economic viewpoint, we are wasting millions of dollars on lifers in prison. The problem is that most people don't like the idea of putting a price on life. Unfortunately, the inability to do this results in keeping the lowest members of society needlessly alive.

Answer 8

Should we have capital punishment? Yes

Doesn't death set the person free? Nope He gets to face the Judge and I don't want to be around for that sentence being handed out.

Capital punishment does deter crime because I have yet to hear anyone who got a death sentence carried out on them every getting so much as arrested again.

Is it perfect nope but there is enough appeals to make as close as possible.

If perfect has to be for a death sentence than I say OK.
If 1 mother ever regreted to have an abortion or found out that test to determine the baby was healthy show the baby had downs come to find out it didn't.
Than abortion has go too.

Answer 9

We are _all_ currently being subjected to capitol punishment. It's known parenthetically as "the congress of the United States of America".
As for capital punishment, it is definitely a deterrent for the subject of it. If the executions were made public and sentencing guidelines were relaxed a bit, we would see a decline in capital crime.

Answer 10

Every person who has been executed under capitol punishment has never committed another crime. If the goal of capitol punishment is to reduce crime, then it must be deemed successful in achieving that goal by at least one criminal each time it is performed.