"capital punishment should be expanded. Our society is too soft on violent murderers."
2007-05-06 09:25:39 · 29 answers · asked by nikki 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Disagree.
The eye-for-an-eye mentality does nothing to disuade the most common types of violent murderers: people who kill in the heat of passion and those who are criminally insane. There is no way to make sure you actually have the guilty party EVERY TIME. If you kill even one innocent person in the name of justice, you are just as bad as those you are attempting to punish.
It does not save any money to kill the criminals, either. The death penalty is much more expensive than life without parole because the Constitution requires a long and complex judicial process for capital cases.
2007-05-06 09:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by doodlebuttus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Disagree. Your statement is too broad. Expanded? It is up to the individual states to determine if capital punishment should be used at all. The reason we use capital punishment is not because we want to punish the transgressor, but because it costs too much to keep them locked up for life. Killing someone because they have killed is not punishment. It is murder as well. Willfully taking the life of another human being, whether by lethal injection mandated by the state, of simply taking a gun and shooting someone are both murder. People who kill should be punished, yes, but lethal injection solves nothing. People who kill do not fear dying, they do, however, fear 60 years in prison. Time is prison is a deterent. Hard labor is a deterent. Lethal injection is not. It comes down to a question of what it is exactly that we wish to accomplish. Do we want revenge or do we want to deter murder. Make existense excrutiating for murderers, publicize the punishment, and instill in the minds of people that murder is truely punished, and that a person will not simply be put down.
2007-05-06 09:36:43 · answer #2 · answered by michael p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it should be expanded.
If we could actually convict criminals and were 100% sure they did the crime and the death penalty was imposed, I think we should carry out that sentence within a day or two. Why wait? why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars housing, feeding, and caring for a person who was sentenced to die. We don't do this now because we (society) knows that juries make to many mistakes.
The problem with our system right now is, "Reasonable doubt".
Look, how many people get suckered by Internet scams, or other just obvious scams. Personally I'm losing faith in the average Americans intelligence. Innocent people are not suppose to go to jail, ever! 10 guilt people getting away with their crime is better than sending one innocent person to jail, or to death.
2007-05-06 09:42:18 · answer #3 · answered by ablair67 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
disagree
There is no proof that capital punishment has deterred violent crime in our society. In fact , it has brought on a possible lack of civility and lack of dignity for the human person . An eye for an eye is outdated and we should try everything we can to civilize our society with decency .If ,however after we have exhausted the process of rehabilitation and the prisoner still has no remorse for what he or she has done then may be that person has forfeited their right to live since they will not try to repent and reconcile with society.
2007-05-06 10:10:00 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think violent murderers should be forced to live in a prison cell for the rest of their life, rather than being allowed to be put to death and have a way out of their miserable life.
2007-05-06 14:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by ballerina856 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree.
2007-05-06 17:16:17 · answer #6 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree.
2007-05-06 09:28:38 · answer #7 · answered by Daniel F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree.
2007-05-06 09:32:53 · answer #8 · answered by proud_sexy_mommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i live in canada..
and i undertand that people in canada beilve that they want yu to leave hail and become a better person but so9metimes it gets ridiculos...
i should sumthing in a newpapaer, a boy who hated his sister and he murderer her...BSDLY and VIOLENTLY goes to a jail that has a queen size mattress, a heated indoor ppool, a tennis cort, libary and basketball court...
the jail "cells" are wooden cabinss...
it looks more like a cottage vaction..
there are people who have perfect police records and work and dont even live like that!
i dun beilve in the deth chair for ALLL of murders but i do beilve we pamper violent criminals
=)
good question
2007-05-06 09:32:15 · answer #9 · answered by tickingclocks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree...we are way behind in the times with our barbaric punishments. Most countries have abolished the death penalty, and we are trying to enforce it....we're going in the wrong direction
2007-05-06 09:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by MsKitty 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋