Why do you oppose the death penalty ?

Answer 1

casue people are sometimes innocent but proven guilty. and in 7th grade we learned that the death penalty is actually more expensive than keeping someone in prison. this is becasue of the appeals and having to hire judges and so on.

Answer 2

Firstly, I don't oppose it based on Constitutional grounds. It's hard for me to consider the death penalty as cruel and unusual as the 8th amendement prohibits when the 5th and 14th amendments infer that one may be deprived of life so long as due process is afforded.

I guess the real question is why should one support the death penalty. Most of the folks who support capital punishment make reference to one "deserving" this sort of punishment. The real question, in my opinion, is what purpose does it serve society. I believe that valid reasons for punishment are these: 1) remove the offender from the population so he won't hurt others, 2) deter the offender from repeating the conduct and 3) deter others from committing that conduct.

Note that not included here is retribution or revenge, because there is no conceivable public purpose for retribution or revenge.

In light of the 3 legitimate goals of punishment, capital punishment certainly removes the offender from society, but imprisonment does the same thing. It also certainly deters the offender from repeating the conduct, it makes it impossible. It also makes positive contribution to society impossible. Lastly, innumerable studies reflect that capital punishment as opposed to imprisonment does not serve as a deterrent to capital crimes.

So, what is the point, other than killing someone for the sake of killing him?

Answer 3

Well, why kill someone--it's doing them a favor. Which sounds better: suffering from staying in prison for the rest of your life, or dying from a quick shot?

I do not go with the latter. Suffering in prison is a better punishment.

But morally, I am not opposed to the death penalty. I understand that if they murdered someone, they shouldn't even be a part of society.

Answer 4

I don't.

I like the way the Death Penalty is carried out in Texas. They take 2 a week (or more.)

Criminals know in Texas, justice is swift, and you can literally "see the line move" toward the death chamber.

In a society where we grant the greatest level of feedom, we must also demand the greatest level of personal responsibility.

Answer 5

I not only favor the death penalty, I would favor expanding its use for the following crimes:

1st degree murder
murder of law enforcement officials
murder of federal administration employees
any terror related charges linked to murder or homicide

molesting of children 16 and under (second offense)
molesting of children 12 and under (first offense)

serial rapists of any kind (three or more offenses)

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If I were a governor or president, I would also seek to "fast track" executions. The burden of proof should be fairly high to prove capital cases, and when the burden is met, the appeals processes don't need to be so extensive.

I would work to ensure that appeals can only be on material case issues, not stupid little details that don't matter.

Answer 6

I do not oppose the death penalty, and I believe not only murderers should be executed. In fact I think that child molesters/anyone who messes with children should be executed at a higher priority. There is a certain degree of evil.

Answer 7

Because it is CRUEL and UNUSUAL especially when we have prisons to lock people up in.(now I do think that people should be able to CHOOSE DEATH at any given time rather than face incarceration, ie>doctor assited suicide) Back in the day when there were NOT ENOUGH RESOURCES to have prisons or in WAR TIME when you have to shoot captives sometimes, well that is one thing which is not really the same thing as PEACE TIME situations. Obviously today in our society(world wide)there are apparently many people locked down who should NOT BE LOCKED DOWN and therefore we could "free up resources" by letting the ones who do not need to be locked down, as they can go thru other REFORMS like probation or TRUSTED HOUSE ARREST situation, and essentially if you think about it, it really should mainly be VIOLENT offenders who make up most of the prison population.(maybe over time the numbers will reduce as a result of focussing on ACTIONS of direct natures)

IN general the death penalty is the SAME THING as what the "badguy" did, you are STOOPING TO HIS LEVEL, and whether you know it or not you are going to regret it at some point down the line b/c you know "what goes around comes around"...

I believe in a REFORMED CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM which does by in part rely on MASSIVE sociological change in the mindsets of the people.

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Answer 8

I do. I used to support the death penalty but since then I've come to believe that death is too good for some of these people. Some criminals should have to spend the rest of their natural lives thinking about why they have lost their freedoms. Of course, it would be a lot more meaningful if the prison system wasn't dictated to by the ACLU.

Answer 9

1. Our judicial system is not perfect. We don't always convict the person who actually committed the crime. If the convicted person is executed, and we find out later that we were wrong.......death is not reversible!
2. Two wrongs don't make a right. Killing someone is not going to undo what they did, and it's not going to make me feel better about anything.
3. I can't think of any worse punishment than rotting away in prison for the rest of one's life.

Answer 10

feeding ,housing ,and educating the monsters that plague our fair country for life or until some liberal chooses to set the poor souls free on a technicality