What is your opinion of Death Penalty??

Answer 1

I think that once people have the facts about the death penalty system, common sense will help them make up their minds. Here are a few practical facts about the death penalty system in the United States, all verifiable and sourced. (Long answer, important topic.)

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 gotten away with the crime.

Re: DNA
DNA is available in less than 10% of murder cases. It’s not a guarantee that we won't execute an innocent person. 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. Much of these result from the unusually complicated nature of both the pre trial investigation and of the trials (with 2 separate required stages) in death penalty cases. 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 eye for an eye slogans or partisanship.

Answer 2

How many innocent people do you think have gotten the death penalty? Before DNA the conviction was based on the opinion and corrupt facts of a police officer. If they are gonna enforce a death penalty they need to do something about all the corruption first. I agree there are ruthless criminals out there, and they should be dealt with accordingly. But there are more corrupt people in law enforcement than there are murderers in the world.

Answer 3

It is proof of a civil society. When a society demands the ultimate punishment for those who prey on the weak and defenseless it shows compassion. Not every killer deserves the death penalty and many other crimes some may see and less than murder should also be held to death penalty prosecution. There is no up side to allowing people like Jeff Dahmer to live out their lives in prison(oops he received jail house justice now didn't he)

Answer 4

There are 2 motives for opposing the shortcoming of life penalty which the overall public of the united kingdom inhabitants agree on, which became why the shortcoming of life penalty became abolished in 1998. they're: a million. Inhumanity. it really is imposssible for a state to homicide someone and protect the moral 'intense floor' 2. Miscarriage of justice: if some thing is going incorrect, and it does pass incorrect in capital situations, the guy who's executed cant come decrease back.

Answer 5

I am for the death penalty. For child molesters (not statutory rape), pre-meditated murders and the such.
It needs to be executed within the week of conviction (keep cost down) by lethal injection or other painless and humane executions.
Only with 3 or more witnesses or indisputable evidence like DNA from semen inside the child or other types of 100% positive evidence.

Answer 6

I think there are some people who are indisputably guilty and who deserve to die for their crimes. However, I have reservations about the death penalty, because a lot of innocent people have been wrongly convicted. You can always free someone from prison, but you can't reverse an execution.

Answer 7

It helps raise the value and respect of human life. If a person rapes and kills a child, he should be put to death. If a person takes away the life of another person without a cause such as self-defense, then he ought to pay with his life in turn.

Answer 8

Why kill them too? How will more death erase their crimes?

Thankfully I don't live under a murdering government. It gives a terrible example to our children. It's plain barbaric revenge and has nothing to do with justice.

Answer 9

i think that it is a good thing but if they are proven guilty, just kill them on the spot and get it over with. don't let them live in cells and off of taxpayers money. sure that sounds barbaric but what the heck, they must have been barbaric to get onto death row anyways.

Answer 10

I am against the Electric Chair... but I am all for the ELECTRIC BLEACHERS...

When that human trash kills an innocent person, or even worse, they don't deserve to breath the same air I do.

Kill everyone on death row, so we can make room for more human garbage... then kill them too.