I need opinions about the death penalty?

Question

Tell me why you think so. Much appreciated

Answer 1

I don't like it.

I'm generally conservative about crime, but for some reason I am against the death penalty.

Let's say there is rape/murder right outside my house. Let's say I can hear the screams of the poor girl as she is being killed but for whatever reason me and who ever else just can't get to the girl in time and she dies. But we see the guy who did it, we chase him catch him and beat him up. And let's even say he dies because we knew the girl and she was our friend and we couldn't stop beating on this guy because we were just so enraged. And he dies there in the street like a dog.

I have no problem with that.

But that is not the death penalty. The death penalty is, he murders her, and the police catch him, and then a few months later there is a trial, and we get in our suits and our ties and we sit around and discuss and debate over this dead girl and this killer and weigh evidence like it is a math problem. Then a few weeks later the guy is sentenced and then a few years later after the girl is just a long ago memory some prison guard puts the guy in a chair and gives him a need and he peacefully falls asleep.

It is a farce. It is not vengeance and it is not justice but it tries to pretend to be both. If you are so mad about a crime that you want to kill someone why do it peacefully. And if you are such a compastinate culture that you don't want to make someone suffer as they die, why kill them at all? Either make the criminal suffer as you kill him or try to make him a better person in jail. The death penalty is just a joke.

Answer 2

sorry but i'm recently undecided. when i was growing up and learned of the death penalty i was adamantly against it, merely for the factor of human error. there is always a chance for error, especially when dealing with the human mind. since i've grown, however, and have my own family and am now a grandmother, i can understand the rage and vengeance a person would feel in their heart upon the senseless loss of a loved one, to have suffer their loss through murder. if i were an absolute eye-witness to someone's murder, someone i loved especially, i would say yes to the death penalty. when i see the cases in the news where the crimes were so heinous and so evil, serving no purpose but for the satisfaction of the person committing the crime, i feel a satisfaction in my heart to learn that they've been executed. ted bundy. yes. it's too bad jeffrey dahmer got killed in prison, it would have been nice to see him executed. these are people who've confessed to the crimes they've committed. i wish michigan (my home state) had a death penalty so that stephen grant could be executed, for the brutal murder and dismemberment of his wife just last month. he has confessed. he took his wife, the mother of his children, out of this world because of his own needs and he should not be allowed to live. he is not sorry for what he did, and it appears that he would do it again if he ever got out and remarried. i'll stop here, but you get the idea. confessed killers, proven beyond any reasonable doubt, yes, they would serve the world better with their absence. in no other circumstance should the death penalty be invoked, imho.

Answer 3

Chelsea, The death penalty is intended for those who have committed murders and have no malice, and no chance of EVER being rehabilitated back into society. I've looked at some of you questions and see that your young. There are people out there that will do acts of violence that is uncomprehensible . Such people would thrive upon your mercy that does'nt excist in them. They simply laugh at the stupidity of it. They know what they are doing is horribly wrong while committing such crimes and will at the first chance, even in prison to do it again. To house them as would not fall under cruel and unusual punishment, puts anyone at risk of death that is envolved with this person. Not being sarcastic, do you or would you want your dad in charge of watching over someone that new he would not face death no-matter what? It's cruel and unusual to ask any law abideing citizen to watch over and risk their own life to such animals.

Answer 4

I battle over this. Spiritually, I feel it is wrong to kill and God should be the judge of their penitence. Then again, I see on t.v. the jails overflowing, tax payers paying for people never to see freedom again, and the families hurt by these criminals and feel like it might be a reasonable sentence in some cases.

Sorry my answer is indecisive, but I'm looking forward to reading some of the other answers you receive. I don't think I'll ever have a true feeling one way or the other. I'm just glad I'm not in any position to have to be the one to decide some of these people's fates.

Answer 5

im for it as an explanation to what could happen if you dont respect the life and world weve all been blessed with but only because most people are afraid of death more than living until the day the world grinds to a halt. for those that are trying to die in order to get away from there sins i believe that death is too good for them and they should be kepy alive until this world cant support the weight anymore .

Answer 6

I'm for the death penalty. I'm also for harsher penalties for breaking the law, period. Do an eye for an eye, quit letting criminals slip on a technicality and I bet crime goes down.

Answer 7

I think that the death penalty should be in place for those that are a danger to society. A serial pedophile / rapist / killer needs to go. I do not trust "rehabilitation" because what if one of my children comes in contact with one of those folks when they are out on "parol." I don't think so. If they are put to death, we don't have to feed them, clothe them or medicate them. It's done.

Answer 8

If the DNA proves your guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt, then by all means the death penalty should be applied where appropriate.

Answer 9

I am totally against the death penalty. No matter how bad the crime - to kill them, brings us all down to their level and makes us as bad as them. Can't understand why anyone in a civilised world would find this acceptable! Its murder!

Answer 10

i feel that the death penalty is wrong because it is not up to humans to determine who dies and who stays a live i just think they should have life in jail. But i would feel different if someone killed mom or grandmother and just stayed in jail for 15 years or not get the death penalty