death penalty?

Question

Is the death penalty the correct way to bring justice?

Answer 1

not all the time

Answer 2

I think that before people make up their minds about this, they need to have the facts. Here are a few facts about the death penalty, all verifiable and sourced.

Re: Possibility of executing an innocent person
Over 120 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence, many having already served over 2 decades on death row. 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 the real criminal is still out there and will have successfully avoided being charged.

Re: DNA
DNA is available in less than 10% of murder cases. It’s not a miracle cure for sentencing innocent people to death. It’s human nature to make mistakes.

Re: Deterrence
The death penalty isn’t a deterrent. Murder rates are actually higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it. Moreover, people who kill or commit other serious crimes do not think about the consequences or even that 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, forever, is certainly no picnic. Life without parole incapacitates a killer (keeps him from re-offending) and costs considerably 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 or an eye for an eye sloganeering.

Answer 3

this is a tough one. you see, i'm in favor of the death penalty. years ago my cousin murdered my mother, and all she got was life with parole becasue she was 14 at the time. now i hear that she is trying to get out and that she's "not finished yet." now i have to write a letter to the parole board every time she comes up for parole and tell them i don't want her out because i am scared to death that she is going to come after the family again, particularly me and my sister since we were there when she did it. so in instances like this, yes, i think it is.

Answer 4

10 years on death row then out go the lights.if they havent found any evidence by then to let em go kill em.my 19 year old cousin and her 17 year old cousin where beaten to death with a hammer while they were sleeping by my cousins boyfriend for no reason evidently.so you tell me if that piece of **** deserves to live?

Answer 5

with all the advances in technology and science and DNA. if they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt an individual murdered someone then yes the death penalty is appropriate. i think it should be televised so it can be used as a deterrent for future criminals.

Answer 6

confident, so far all civilizations have deem forcible rape to be a capital crime 2nd purely to homicide. Rape is a terrible crime, it kills the sufferer's experience of character protection. regrettably, societies in many situations placed the blame of rape on the sufferer or the father and mom/guardians of the sufferer --- no longer the rapist. in spite of if, rape can and has been falsely charged against harmless people. i think of that rape ought to be a capital crime (and that i've got faith that one and all capital crimes ought to be completely resolved interior one thousand days of apprehension of the accused.) allowing any murderer or rapists to make the main the welfare of the state for better than that ingredient is implicit advantages for vile habit.

Answer 7

Yes, but I think the Jury System could be improved.

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

Yes, in certain cases.

Answer 10

I believe it's a very good system for certain offenses....I'm all for it!