capitol punishment...?

Question

I'm only a teenager, but I usually have interesting perspectives ...so I am against Capitol Punishment, are you?

Answer 1

Yes, I am against capital punishment. Even though I am Pro-Gun, Pro-CCW, Pro police and would have no problem killing anyone who even remotely threatened me or my family.

I do not trust the government, Lawyers, judges or the legal system to get it right. Once someone is executed it is final. At least someone wrongly imprisoned can be released. There are to many screw ups and unethical lawyers in existence to think that there are not people on death row that do not deserve to be there. For those that doubt me, What about Mike Nifong? If those kids did not have families with enough money to hire good lawyers is there any doubt that Nifong would not have railroaded them?

Answer 2

Right now, I think that it is the only alternative we have to giving someone life in prison. To me, life in prison is worse. Do you want to be caged for the rest of your life? I don't. To me that is pretty inhumane.

I think that, in a perfect world, capitol punishment would be obsolete and all people who commit crimes would be rehabilitated and sent back into society. But we do not live in a perfect world.

Our prison systems are willing to go through every means possible to rehabilitate its prisoners, whether that means counseling, educating (that includes college), teaching them to drive and learn a trade, anger management, placing them on needed medication, or detox- yet when they get out, the rate at which these prisoners return to crime is still extremely high.

What, then, is the problem? Well, it seems that the problem is not as much the prisoners as the fact that we, as a society, are not as willing to accept them back into our society as we say we are. Prisoners who have "served their time" have an extremely hard time finding a decent paying job. Think about how many jobs require a criminal background check. Think about how many jobs require that you have NO criminal history. Think about how many require that you have no felonies (which is what would put you in prison). That doesn't leave you with much when you think about it. Most people end up turning right back to the lives of crime that they came from.

And if you do find a profession where having a criminal record will not keep you from being eligible, there is always a bias placed on the fact that you are an ex-con. Society wants to continue to punish people who have served their time. There was a story in the news about a man who murdered two people in cold blood who was released for "served time" in the 80's during the period when capitol punishment was taken away completely. The man went on to never commit another crime, get his doctorate, and became a well known and loved professor at a major university (he kept his criminal history hidden). He was the ideal version of what we say we want in a rehabilitated felon (a fully functioning member of society). When it was found that this man was a convicted murderer, people were outraged that an ex-con was teaching at a university. Many were outraged at the fact that he was making a higher salary than what they had dreamed of. He ended up losing his job that he worked so hard for and can never teach again.

So, in answer to your question, when we become a society that can successfully rehabilitate people- and successfully have them re-enter society, then there will be no need for capitol punishment.

Answer 3

You never said why you are against it. Through a religious organization, I came to "know" many CPs (condemned prisoners). I also lived in a prison town and met a lot of people involved with them. I can tell you that none of the men I came to know had any remorse for the crime they commited, no matter how brutal. While they would cry and say they were innocent, when they were back in their wing, they would brag about it. I met many women who fell for these creeps and ended up broke while the men strutted around in $100-200 tennis shoes. They have no conscience and they do not care who they destroy. I knew of one creep that wrote letters for the other inmates, asking people for money. I have met a lot of their victim's families and heard in great detail about the brutality of their crime. I knew of one man that thought he was doing something good by going into a prison and trying to help an inmate. He was spending his hard earned money to feed the creep while they were visiting and when he would go to the microwave or machines, the creep would roll his eyes, bored to tears. He should have been thankful anyone came to see him. His crime was horrid. He broke in on a woman, tied her up with duct tape, threw her in the trunk of his car and then drove her to the river, where he tossed her off a bridge. Nice guy, huh? Or, what about the freak that kidnapped the little girl and tried to rape her, beat her to death with a rock? I could go on and on all day if you had the time. These are the men that you don't want to get the death sentence? They could care less about you.

Answer 4

I am 21 I always have been since I was child. I feel no man has the right to take another mans life. I feel we have come a long way since the days of the code of Hamarabi an eye for an eye. I feel people should be punished if they perform a law breaking act.
I fell their is already enough violence in this country without the law producing more of it.

Answer 5

I am for cap. punishment b/c taxpayers have to pay for the life of inmates....The less inmates, the less they pay. Plus capital punishment is such a cool word. Sounds like an action movie.

Answer 6

interior the Leviticus rules you will discover that maximum crimes have been responded with the death penalty. while Jesus got here he pronounced he did no longer come to absolve the regulation yet to fulfill it. it is likewise suggested a number of different circumstances so that's secure to declare that the Bible favors the death penalty for the in charge. Leviticus 20:13 " 'If a guy lies with a guy as one lies with a woman, the two one among them have executed what's detestable. they could be placed to death; their blood would be on their very own heads. Leviticus 24:17 " 'If all and sundry takes the existence of someone, he could be placed to death. those are purely 2 examples which you will instruct you the extensive form of makes use of of the death penalty. i think of it adequate to respond to your question and that i supplies extra in case you like. be satisfied digital mail me.

Answer 7

haven't heard of capitol punishment. maybe capital punishment. i think sometimes it's necessary

Answer 8

I am against it but only for procedural reasons. In other words, the only reason I dislike it is because there is a risk of innocent people being executed. If we could be sure when we execute, I would be for it.

Answer 9

No I am not opposed to it. It is a shame its such a lengthy and expensive process. But my sympathies lie totally and completely with the victims, not the criminals.

Answer 10

i think the range we use death penalty for is too narrow.
if there is no reasonable expectation that the person will ever get out in their natural lifetime, why not just shoot them on the way in. believe me, there will be another inmate along to take up their space.