Do you afavor capital punishment?

Answer 1

I think that you should get the facts about the death penalty and apply common sense based on them. Here are a few verifiable and sourced facts-

Re: Possibility of executing an innocent person
Over 120 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. Many had already served over 2 decades on death row. If we speed up the process we are bound to execute an innocent person. Once someone is executed the case is closed. If we execute an innocent person we are not likely to find that out and, also, the real criminal is still out there.

Re: DNA
DNA is available in no more than 10% of murder cases. It is not a miracle cure for sentencing innocent people to death. It’s human nature to make mistakes.

Re: Appeals
Our appeals system is designed to make sure that the trial was in accord with constitutional standards, not to second guess whether the defendant was actually innocent. It is very difficult to get evidence of innocence introduced before an appeals court.

Re: Deterrence
The death penalty isn’t a deterrent. Murder rates are actually higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it. Moreover, people who kill or commit other serious crimes do not think they will be caught (if they think at all.)

Re: cost
The death penalty costs far more than life in prison. The huge extra costs start to mount up even before the trial.

Re: Alternatives
48 states have life without parole on the books. It means what it says, is swift and sure and is rarely appealed. Being locked in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day, forever, is certainly no picnic.

Re: Who gets the death penalty
The death penalty isn’t reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but rather for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was sentenced to death, let alone executed??

Re: Victims families
The death penalty is very hard on victims’ families. They must relive their ordeal in the courts and the media. Life without parole is sure, swift and rarely appealed. Some victims families who support the death penalty in principal prefer life without parole because of how the death penalty affects families like theirs.

Opposing the death penalty doesn’t mean you condone brutal crimes or excuse people who commit them. According to a Gallup Poll, in 2006, 47% of all Americans prefer capital punishment while 48% prefer life without parole. Americans are learning the facts and making up their minds using common sense, not revenge.

Long answer, important topic.

Answer 2

I don't favor capital punishment. It only deters the person executed.
The biggest problem with capital punishment, in my opinion, is that it takes so long.
I always wonder how the victim's family feels when I read about or see a story on a death row inmate who was granted/denied another appeal. I feel sorry for the family of the victim to have to have this brought up over and over again over the course of the 10 to 15 years it takes before there is finally an execution.
Better, in my opinion to give them life without parole and forget about them.
Capital punishment will, eventually, be abolished in this country, as it has in most "civilized" nations for the simple reason that, as I said, it only deters the executed.

Answer 3

Capital Punishment is just Capital.
I you kill a man, a man should kill you. Its a very balanced system.
For to be a victim of the death penalty you must elect your self to it as an end by way of your choice to take another's life. What could be fairer than that?
Note: I think those people that have had a family member killed and are all out for revenge are disgusting individuals and they will be recompensed for their hatred in the life to come except they repent.
My points concisely is that the death penalty is just if administer by the state and not by vigilantes. Good Government is a punisher of evil doers bearing not the sword in vain, but is just:recompensing evil doers and acquitting the blameless. (We don't have good government.)

Answer 4

You ask a question that many people have mixed emotions about.

Most people will say that to murder is wrong, even if it is done by the State. But, those same people would favor the death penalty for a person who raped and killed their wife, daughter or mother.

I think that the 8th Amendment about cruel and unusual punishment does not apply because when people are put to death, they are not tortured. We got rid of hanging, the electric chair and the gas chamber because of the 8th Amendment. Also, I think we all have rights, but when a person takes the life of another while committing a crime (capital murder) then they surrender their right to live.

Many will call me a butcher and say I'm a bad person for saying this, but its how I feel. Thanks for letting me voice my opinion.

Answer 5

Absolutely, Do do left wingers the corporal punishment law was reversed in NY. many yrs. ago. This past summer a life time criminal tried to kill a neighbor of mine (N.Y.S. Trooper). While running from the law for six months (largest manhunt in NYS. history) he killed a trooper and nearly killed his partner, another state trooper. Eventually this worthless 22 year host of iron bar hotels was caught in a swamp in western NY. You guessed it life in prison. Just what the right to lifers, Catholics and the democratic ruled government state of NY. embraces.