what are the disadvantages of the death penalty?

Answer 1

1. Can be carried out only once
2. It happens too fast
But in some cases as in the guy in Florida convicted for kidnapping violation and murder of a 9 year old girl, there is no other choice because if you think that life prison might be a harder punishment than the death, it has to be considered that his suffering will never have the magnitude of that of the victim's family.
For this and similar cases
I SUPPORT THE DEATH PENALTY 100%

Answer 2

I answered your question about the advanages. However, you have also received some mistaken answers here. They should be corrected.

JD and FredHH are wrong about costs and about deterrence.

Re: Cost
A system that includes capital punishment as the worst penalty is much more expensive than one which does not. In New York State, over the 10 years when the death penalty was in effect, it cost the state well over 200 million dollars to see just 7 men sentenced to death. None of the 7 men had come close to exhausting all appeals. For most the appeals process had barely started. Extra costs are due to: pretrial investigations to decide if a case warrants seeking the death penalty, more complicated trials (actually, two trials in one, mandated by the Supreme Court, one stage to decide on guilt or innocence and one to decide on the sentence), costs of maintaining a separate death row, among other things. Cost of incarceration someone per year are estimated at 35,000. No comparison.

Re: Deterrence
Deterrence means that if someone is punished for a crime, others will not commit the same crime. The term used for preventing the same person from repeating the crime is incapacitation. Life without parole (available in 48 states) means what it says, incapacitates the criminal, and costs much less than the death penalty.

The death penalty is not a deterrent. States with the death penalty have higher homicide rates than states that do not have it. People who commit murder do not think about the consequences, they do not think they will be caught, if they think at all.

Answer 3

Idiot liberals making it take 30 years to be able to carry it out due to endless appeals. Thus raising the cost of using the death penalty exceed the cost of life imprisonment.

Appx 0.02% erroneous conviction rate. (1 in 50,000 convicted in error)

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In favor:

If used the person executed can never commit another crime.

If not burdened with the costs of the endless appeals process, the saving of appx $35,000 a year in housing, feeding and guarding each prisoner.

The death penalty SHOULD cost society less than a life sentance.

The Islamic system does have a good point. Once convicted there's 30 days to appeal... if you can't win in that 30 days... they carry it out. Far more efficient. than the US system of endless appeals.

Answer 4

The main two disadvantages that I can think of are: 1) many innocent people have been executed 2) the state is given the right to kill people

Answer 5

Murder is on the rise, so it does not help.

If one person is not guilty and executed, that is too many.

Killing a person does not replaced or bring the dead back. It just put another Mother or Father or daughter or son or wife or husband through what you have been through. Do You think this solves any thing?

Answer 6

fred h h where the hell did you get your statistics? the last time the gov, had the F,B,I, do a survey was in the 70s that I know of and then our country had a 62% conviction ratio, now our country has a 98,8 %conviction ratio it would only seem fair to think our %of errors in executions have increased dramatically. especially in view of the fact that the only ones who have been executed was the ones who could not afford to hire their own lawyers, and had a court appointed lawyer,

Answer 7

The only disadvantage is some time the wrong person is convected

Answer 8

Everyone who lives in a democracy with capital punishment is guilty of killing another human being.

I hate being a murderer, personally. Hopefully, God will know this when I get there. I do what I reasonably can to stop it, including speaking up when the issue arises. You listening, big guy?

Answer 9

Ummmm....let's see.... With the death penalty we don't waste hundreds of thousands of tax dollars keeping some low life alive and it also prevents the chance of the low life going out and breaking the law again. I am hard pressed to see the down side.....

Answer 10

1. It cost more to execute someone than to keep them in prison.
2. This punishment is irreversible.
3. It is not an effective deterrent of murder