Do you support capital punishment? Why or why not?

Question

I need this info for a speech I'm giving. Please give me your own personal opinion. Thanks!

Answer 1

I oppose it because it is not an effective way of preventing or reducing crime. Here are some facts, with sources listed below, about the practical aspects of the death penalty system.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison.

The death penalty risks executing innocent people (123 already exonerated) and DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides. It is not a guarantee against the execution of innocent people.

No reputable study has shown the death penalty to be a deterrent. In fact, homicide rates are higher in states with the death penalty.

Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. Supermax prisons are terrible places to spend the rest of your life.

The death penalty can be very hard on families of murder victims. Many murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn- out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Several murder victim family members who supported the death penalty asked the New Jersey Death Penalty Commission to replace the death penalty with life without parole. They testified that death sentences caused them more pain due to the endless appeals and constant press coverage. The commission found that abolishing the death penalty was
in the interest of murder victim family members

The death penalty does not apply to the worst of the worst. It applies to defendants with the worst lawyers.

48% of Americans prefer life without parole and 47% prefer the death penalty. We are rethinking our views about the death penalty and relying more on facts than on quick sound bites.

Answer 2

In theory, I support capital punishment. I think it makes an example of people who have committed horrible crimes.

Some argue that one problem with capital punishment is that innocent people might be executed. Well, in the United States, one is supposedly innocent until PROVEN guilty. It is impossible to absolutely PROVE that someone is guilty if they're not. And if juries really did follow that rule, innocent people would never be executed. But with the judicial system being as screwed up as it is right now, I just don't know.

EDIT: hyungbinkim, claiming that intelligent people do not support capital punishment does NOT constitute an arguement. Sure, capital punishment is irreversable. Sure, it's costly - but not nearly as costly as housing and feeding a prisoner for a lifetime. And I think you're wrong about its failure as a deterrence. When it was done as a public display, it WAS an effective deterrent.

Answer 3

I totally support it.
I used to live in Soth Africam where crime and corruption rule the day and the law, when it's not for sale, means nothing.
I now live in Singapore, where the majority of crimes are rude comments from men about women, etc. Crime is almost non-existant, cause everyone knows what will happen and corporal punishment serves every bit as the deterrant I always believed it would.
The same amount of muders that occurr in South Africa PER DAY happen here in a year. Need I say more?
I'm never leaving here, and could care less that I have no freedom of speech, there is nothing to complain about. Nothing.

Answer 4

Capital punishment solves the created problem and guarantees it will not be repeated this in the worst cases of atrocity is sufficient reason to use a finalization method of punishment.

Answer 5

Try and read the insruction manual on universal constituition and universal laws for the good of mankind left behind by our creator in planet of apes.
Leviticus 26
The whole third book of Moses.
With all the answers waiting for you to put it in practice in planet of apes.
Vital for the survival and advancement of living human kind in planet of apes.
Not in doing things at own whims and fancy living in misery in own backyards in planet of apes.

Answer 6

If you did a little research, you would find that almost any informed/intelligent person does not support it.

Some reasons include: high costs, bias, irreversibility, and failure as a deterrence.