What are the advantages of death penalty?

Answer 1

Population control.

Answer 2

Almost none. It costs taxpayers more than life sentences due to the appeals, it does not deter crimes of passion, OR premeditated murder, since they think they won't be caught, and it doesn't deter crimes of insanity, either, since the motivations of psychopaths aren't affected by rational thought of consequence.

Politically, the death penalty is costly because it destroys international credibility. It is impossible to avoid hypocracy in calling out other nations' human rights violations, when the US executes people in such high number that we are on a par with China and Iran. We also face very tough scrutiny from the world since we have executed people who have been mentally handicapped. The execution of a person who may not have the capacity to defend themselves or understand their actions fully is appalling.

Doctors will not perform lethal injections, since they are more and more found to be extremely painful methods and very few states have executioners who are even qualified or trained to give injections, and most states don't even have written procedures for carrying them out. Electrocutions are cruel and unusual, and can take a VERY long time to kill a person. The Constitution is supposed to protect people from punishments that are barbaric.

Those Christians who claim there is Biblical precedent (Eye for an eye) are forgetting that Christ HIMSELF refuted that idea as wrong. Not to mention that the idea of "eye for an eye" is contradicted in the Old Testament by the 10 Commandments.

Finally, the death penalty is racist. Even given the disproportionate number of black men in prison, the number of black men on death row is even more out of whack. Juries and judges find it easier to sentance blacks to death, never mind the nature of the crime.

So if death penalty proponents don't see the oxymoron for what it is, I remind them that a life sentance IS justice that fits the crime, costs taxpayers less, protects the innocent on the outside, and can be a far more effective punishment for a heinous criminal than taking his/her life. Murder is nigh unforgiveable, which is why it should not be sanctioned and carried out by the state as a form of punishment. If a man rapes and kills a little girl, he goes away. For life. May he never see the light of day again, and although he may deserve to die, we don't have the right to kill him, even if we want to.

Answer 3

What world do you come from? There is not advantage in death penalty. Yes it takes up alot of tax payers money.

Texas believes in this very much. I don't. There has to be a solution. I myself am not comfortable that we execute very often.

It is sad that our country has come to this. But other countries well cut your hand off for stealing.

It just gives another empty bed for someone else.

Answer 4

Advantages only!
The executed does not re offend.
The cost to the taxpayer is negligible.
Prison space is not taken up with the offender.
Ambulance chasing lawyers are denied their fat bank accounts when the offender appeals.
The family of the victim(s) are in the main more satisfied with the outcome.
The daily papers are not full of passionate pleas about long jail sentences, or the short ones awarded.
There are of course disadvantages.

Answer 5

In the US there are none. All it does is go on far too long. With all the appeals allowed most death row inmates aren't killed for years and costs the government way too much. By the time you kill them they are a completely different people. It's supposed to be a deterrent, yet violent crime is up.

Answer 6

Assuming you mean for those other than the accused... it's cheaper, final, and if done quickly and publicly, would be a deterrent.

Answer 7

...No recidivism.