5 reasons to support the Death Penalty?

Answer 1

It stops repeat offenses
Revenge
Gets them to hell that much faster
Victims family gets closure
Serves as an example to others

Answer 2

OK, here are just a couple of reasons why it is necessary to have a death penalty, and why just life in prison without the possibility of parole is not just and proper.

1.) A prisoner already serving life without possibility of parole murders a fellow inmate. You can't sentence the guy to life twice and call that justice.

2.) A prisoner already sentenced to death or life without possibility of parole puts out a contract to kill a witness who might testify against him at a subsequent trial, and a hit-man kills that witness. Life without parole is not sufficient and just in that type of case.

3.) Someone hires a hit man while inside prison to kill a member of another rival criminal gang, or a prison guard.

4.) A criminal commits a political assassination of an American president or other leader. This is essentially a crime against the entire government, and deserves the death penalty, not life.

5.) A criminal commits a random act of terrorism that results in the deaths of hundreds or even thousands of citizens, either directly, or as a result of a conspiracy. Where is the justice of one sentence of life for such a horrid act.

If you don't see these are crimes that require something more than a sentence of life.....well, then I guess we have nothing to discuss. You obviously don't agree with the laws, or the opinion polls in America.

Answer 3

Well it all depends....here in CAlifornia we do have the death penalty....but why fool ourselfs...most inmates that are in death row die of OLD AGE!....it takes years to give some1 the death penalty. Plus its PRICY!!!....it cost lots of $$$$


so...once I look at it supporting the death penalty is like supporting nothing at all!!

as for this point california has 600 inmates in death row.....how many might be executed probably 10. Death Penalty in California is a joke!!

Yes we have it.....but it doesn;t even seem like we do.

Answer 4

i can give you many reasons to not do so but here are some to support it
rape enough said
murder an eye for an eye
costing the system to much to support people who are getting life where this money can go to other uses such as education for the law abiding citizens of this country
corrupt politicians it might keep politicians honest
sex offenders against small children you see many see it as a barbaric practice but in the end when people know the punishment they are less likely to commit crimes that would give that sort of punishment so people can feel safer rather then be afraid and living in a corrupt failed justice system

Answer 5

Perhaps if we could 100% prove that someone committed a crime. The problem is that often we can't. People have been found innocent after being sentenced to death. Allowing one innocent person to be executed makes you just as bad as all the criminals you want to execute.

Also, don't post that BS about it being cheaper. It is far more expensive to execute someone that to keep them in prison for life. When someone is sentenced to death they receive an automatic appeal, not to mention all the appeals they will do after that, etc.

Answer 6

Here's 5 reasons:

1. Melvin and Linda Lorenz and their son Richard were killed by Roger Stafford. Melvin stopped on a highway near Purcell, Okla., to help what he thought was a woman whose car had broken down, but instead was ambushed by Stafford and his brother, using Stafford's wife as bait. Less than a month after these horrific murders, the trio killed six employees of a steak house in Oklahoma City. Stafford was an escaped prisoner given a life sentence for murder.

2. In 1985, 13-year-old Karen Patterson was shot to death in her bed in North Charleston, S.C. Her killer was a neighbor who had already served 10 years of a life sentence for murdering his half-brother Charles in 1970. Joe Atkins cut the Pattersons' phone lines, then entered bearing a machete, a sawed-off shotgun, and a pistol. Karen's parents were chased out of their home by Atkins. Karen's mom ran to the Atkins home nearby, where Joe then murdered his adopted father, Benjamin Atkins, 75, who had worked to persuade parole authorities to release Joe from the life sentence.

3. When Katy Davis observed three strangers outside her Austin, Texas, apartment, she walked away. Returning later, she was attacked and forced to open the door by Charles Rector, on parole for a previous murder. The men ransacked her apartment, abducted her and took her to a lake where she was beaten, gang-raped, shot in the head and repeatedly forced underwater until she drowned.

4. Ruby Longsworth of Pasadena, Texas, met Jeffrey Barney through a prison ministry, then helped him get paroled from an auto-theft sentence. Her kindness was repaid when Barney raped and sodomized her, then strangled her with a cord. She had made the mistake of calling Barney "a bum" after she had gotten to know him better.

5. In 1965, Robert Massie murdered mother of two Mildred Weiss in San Gabriel, Calif., during a follow-home robbery. Hours before execution, a stay was issued so Massie could testify against his accomplice. Massie's sentence was commuted to life when the Supreme Court halted executions in 1972. Receiving an undeserved second chance, Massie was paroled, but eight months later robbed and murdered businessman Boris Naumoff in San Francisco.

If the perpetrators of these 5 murders had received the death penalty the first time - those additional victims might be alive today.

Answer 7

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. (Gen. 9:6)

The death penalty was created by God.

The death penalty was actually created as a benefit to the murderer.

The murder (by the shedding of their own blood) may possibly be able to avoid going to hell for eternity...(maybe not...I'm not the judge...) but since that is the reason the law was given...I imagine it benefitted at least 1 murderer.

Mercy (for the murderer...to have a chance to avoid ETERNAL punishment)

Answer 8

1. Prevention He/she'll never commit that crime again. 2. Prevention. The everyday citizen doesn't have to worry about a damned murderer getting out in 5 yrs. 3. prevention 4. prevention. 5. prevention

Answer 9

Murderer will no be able to get parole
Discourage these types of crimes
families of vitim will not have to deal with anymore trials
jails will be less crowded
Punishes the person for his sins

Answer 10

Sorry I can't give you any because I am against the dealth penalty.