should capital punishment be alowed?

Question

should capital punishment be alowed? well i go against wut u guys think?!?!?

Answer 1

Yes

If a person killed your whole family, would you want your tax dollars spent on him in prison, with a chance to get out, or would you want him dealt with capitally?

Answer 2

Yes. I understand where those who do not agree come from, but some people are not human beings, they just look like ones. A person who has intentionally killed another should face the same fate. The money you'd spend on them when in jail could be better spent on homeless people, or making other things better.

Also, there is the possibility that they get out of jail. Why risk lives of innocent people? Don't expect a killer to change. When evaluating things, you should always look at both the good sides and the bad ones before making a decision. Sure, some may change, but the risk is too enormous.

Answer 3

I think that once you have the facts, you can apply common sense and make up your own mind. Here are some verifiable and sourced facts about the death penalty. Some of the answers you have received are wrong about a few things.

Re: Possibility of executing an innocent person
Many of the over 120 people on death rows released with evidence of their innocence had already served over a decade. 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 higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it. 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. There are more cost effective ways to prevent and control crime.

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. Life without parole incapacitates a criminal, and it costs far less than the death penalty.

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.

Answer 4

Hmmm, since people are still killing each other at horrific rates in the United States, killing people for killing people hasn't been a deterrent. Most "civilized" countries don't allow capital punishment (about 88 countries), and think the US is backward for doing it.

Answer 5

sIt should be stopped! That right is reserved solely to God. What other civilized nations has capital punishment? Lets see Pakistan, Libya, Saudi Arabia just a few that i can think of now.

Answer 6

The Innocence Project has helped free 195 people from prison, most of them on death row.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

And those are only the people proven innocent by DNA testing, never mind all the other victims of wrongful convictions. When you can bring innocent people back from the dead after execution, THEN you can talk about having it.

People who advocate execution are sociopaths and psychopaths.


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Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

No, I don't think we have any right to take a persons life no matter what they did. There should be other punishments put in place.

Answer 9

It is already allowed in capital cases, and it works wonderfully.

Answer 10

Allowed? Where? It is legal in many jurisdictions.