who agrees we should bring back the death penalty?

Question

overcrowded prisons,escaping murderers,perverts and child molesters out on "work experience" etc etc etc.I personally am sick of paying my taxes to keep all these dregs of humanity in 3 meals a day(1 more than i have)clothes.hot water ,education.dentists(i can't get one)doctors.hospital appointments(no queue for them)etc etc.

Answer 1

I think with DNA as it is today if they are 100% certain that they have the correct person especially with child killers then they should have the death penalty .....

Answer 2

UK answer - I do not agree that the death penalty should be brought back. My reasons are that the sentance should mean the sentance meaning LIFE - without any privlages whatsoever. If the more lesser criminals were given harsher conditions whilst serving their time perhaps they would not re-commit any offence and this would serve as a deterrant to other criminals to stop them committing the crime. Thereby the prison wardens along with the system would be able to make sure that the LIFERS had the security and manpower allotted to them that they deserve - to make sure that there sentance was the toughest kind possible.

Answer 3

I think there should be the death penalty. I am a Christian and guess I shouldn't really feel that way but I do. I am also a Canadian and we don't have it here and I think that we should. People get away with killing police, they are put in jail for a life sentence and the sentence is 25 years of their life. That really gets me angry. If it has been proved that that person killed someone I think they should face the death penalty.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. I would be in favour of a rejigging of the justice system to solve overcrowding in prisons, and to remove dangerous individuals from society at large. There should never be a situation where people go into prison and come out more likely to commit crime than they were when they went in.

You talk as if all your tax burden is going to the prison population, I doubt that's the case, it pays for a lot of other things as well.

No to the death penalty! It's no deterrant. Britain's most prolific hangman was Albert Pierrepoint, (third in a line of executioners working for HMG), that was his conclusion as well. It's just revenge, it solves nothing.

Answer 5

Yes i do, but ONLY when guilt has been proven 100%, without any doubt whatsoever, ie DNA evidence. It's costing millions of pounds of taxpayers money keeping them in a life of luxury. Prison is no longer a deterrent to crime, more like a reward, that's why they are full. Sadly the do-gooders of this once great country have seen to it that justice by death penalty will never return.

Answer 6

I think that before people in the UK make up their minds about the death penalty, they should take a look at the experience of the USA with the death penalty. Here are a few facts, verifiable and sourced. (Some of the answers you have already received are mistaken)

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 (lots of people are not aware of this.)
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: 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.
(For info about supermax prisons, anyone in the USA can watch MSNBC programs about them.)

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. (Many people do not know this.)

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 7

We have too many people in jail who don't need to be there. People are in for life because of three strikes laws and thats inhuman. They can be crimes that didn't hurt a soul.
We still make too many mistakes during investigations.
Texas and Florida should be ashamed for all the killings by the state. They seem to take pride with every black man they kill:(
NO DEATH PENALTY

Answer 8

For each high risk prisoner it costs in excess of £37,000 per year to keep in custody. If you can guarantee 100% that you have the right person then I totally back the death penalty.
If it cannot be 100% proven, then a life sentence should be given and that should mean life.

Answer 9

Yes.... in all states when a person is 100% guilty of killing in cold blood and esp. children....... our penalties should be much more strict and first time offenders should be punished VERY VERY HARD... maybe people will think twice before committing a crime the first time, or maybe they will not be a repeat offender......... something sure needs to be done, people are getting off way too easy...... a slap on the wrist doesn't bother anyone anymore.

Answer 10

There's no justification for the death penalty. The deterrent argument doesn't hold water and I don't want to be a part of any society where vengeance/retribution are state sanctioned.

Answer 11

I don't, although I think NJ may have it already. It's far more expensive, first of all, to have the death penalty than it is for life in prison with no parole, so your concern about paying for these people would only be worse. My other problem is that too often, the wrong people are put to death.