For what crimes would you recommend death as a deterrent punishment?

Question

Can capital punishment be a deterrent for most inhuman, abusive and heinous crimes committed on the unwary? If your answer is yes, what crimes do you recommend as deserving death sentence? Do you fall in line with the Islamic way of reprisal? If No, how do you account for the more orderly life we see in Islamic countries? Please answer with our vision untainted. Lileeann 33

Answer 1

Murder....A life for a life.

Answer 2

Capital punishment is not a deterrent.

When most people commit crimes as severe as murder, they do so in the belief they will NOT be caught, so no punishment is a deterrent. Also, they commit murder as a result of a strong emotional investment, which clouds all reason.

Deterrents only work for lesser crimes like theft- crimes where no civilized society would consider capital punishment.

The "orderly life" you see in Islamic countries, and in North Korea, is called fear of a police state.

All nations have to exist somewhere in a balance between the rights of the individual and the preservation of order.

Those who focus entirely on preserving order do so by sacrificing individuality.

We, (meaning the US, Europe, Canada, and other western nations) live in free countries that are based on the concept of human rights, so we do not accept the concept of a police state.

Answer 3

No reputable study has shown the death penalty to be a deterrent. Murder rates are higher in states (and nations) with the death penalty than in those without it. Most people who commit murder do not think about the consequences, if they think at all.

The word "deterrence" means that a particular punishment for a person who has committed a particular crime will persuade others not to commit the same crimes.
The term "incapacitate" means that a punishment will prevent the one who is punished from reoffending. To be a deterrent, a punishment must be swift and sure. The death penalty is neither. Life without parole is on the books in 48 states. It means what it says, is swift and sure, costs much less than the death penalty.

Answer 4

Personally, I do not feel the death penalty is punishment. All we do is turn their spirit over to a Loving and Forgiving Creator. I would want them to have plenty of time to think about what they did.
I would never give anyone more than 50 years with
the "possibility" of parole. Otherwise, we force people with less punishments to be locked up with
homocidal maniacs. But of course, there are psychotic individuals I would never release back into Society. Wondering "if" they would ever get paroled, would be a fitting punishment. Since those they murdered didn't get that opportunity.

Answer 5

I am not actually in favor of capital punishemnet because I do not believe in the accuracy of judgement, and I don't think we should be executing those who are not guilty...

But in principal I am in favor of capital punishment, even though I don't think capital punishment deters anybody from heinous acts. People who commit heinous acts do not think they will be caught, or act out of impulse anyway.

I am not in favor of it because I believe in retribution either, I am in favor of it because if a person does some sorts of heinous things, they are not reasonable company for other members of society. Prisons contain members of society also, both prisoners and guards, and these people are changed by their interaction with people who are bent enough to perform heinous acts.

Life imprisonment seems to me a great imposition on the people who must associate with these people for their remaining lifetime, and also a great suffering for the people who will be imprisoned for life with others of similar character. If it were me, I would prefer death.

People are funny critters, but we are still critters. We carry the temperament of our parents, and we add to that the influence of our peers. I do not want to deal with the people formed by peerhood with heinous persons after those peers are released, or even those formed by association with heinous persons through their job duties. Society has enough burdens without that.

it is interesting to consider that the jews had a death penalty for adulterers for about a thousand years, and that was mostly over 2000 years ago... Yet to this day jewish men in America are 1/3 more likely to be related to all of their children than a gentile man in America. It seems the tendency to adultery was culled out to some extent by that death penalty. I wonder if the tendency to heinous acts could also be culled? If justice were functional I would guess it could be culled.

Finally, I do not see the islamic world as more orderly, considering the constant reciprocal bombings between factions there. The terrorism of the islamic world has found America, but it is by no means new. It is a cultural tradition. Represive societies do seem smoother running, merely because they do not tolerate any behavior out of the mainstream. I would not give up the freedom to worship as I like, or in fact to be a woman in the world as I am, for a more orderly society in which I could not participate meaningfully. The US has harbored many races and religions over a fairly huge and densely populated land area for a couple hundred years in relative internal peace. Most islamic countries have not done that over a much smaller area for even a fraction of that time. The islamic world has been in near constant war or occupation for close to 17,000 years. I would rather be here, thanks.

Answer 6

Death is not a punishment. The crimnal escapes even from answering to his own conceousness,by this act of termination.
1.This penalty is not giving a chance for correcting the crimal or gives solace to the affected.Hence meaningless.
2.As we have no powers to create , we cannot destroy life for any reason.
3.If a Judge can order death under any authority,"suicide"will also have justification.
4.Death by wars have taken more lifes in the past than death by murderers and judgements. In the name of patriatism if wars are allowed ,we are not improving.If this century can show improvement on it's past culture, this the one area.Warless future.
5Hence let us move to warless future!

Answer 7

Capital punishment has been shown repeatedly to be ineffective as a deterrent to crime. States that use the death penalty have much higher murder rates than those that do not.

the murder rate per 100,000 people in "liberal" Massachusetts (with no death penalty) is 2.7. In "conservative" Texas (with a high number of inmates put to death) it is 6.2 - more than double.

Studies show that the murder rate actually goes up with each execution.

Answer 8

i think that the death penalty in the us is too easy. all of the fluffy bunny folk dont want the criminal to feel the pinch of a needle or any pain what so ever.

nay, i say that protection from cruel and unusual punishment should be seen as that you can not be killed for Jaywalking. or some other minor crime.

but if you rape somebody, then your dentence should be death, by severe anal violation and beating with blunt objects.

if you kill somebody you should be put to death in the same manner in which you killed your victem.

that psycho that put her baby in the oven ...cook her alive,,,
that woman that put her kids in a car and drowned them....
same thing..

punishment for a crime is not a deterrent unless the punishment is more severe than the crime.

i think that punishment for shoplifting should be that that store gats to garnish your wages to the point of you having to pay for the stolen item 12 times,,once a month for a year,,, then stealing is no longer a viable way to gain nice things.
of course chopping of hands and fingers works well too.

Answer 9

I think it has been pretty much proven that the death penalty here in America, has not proven to be much of a deterrent.
I don't believe in the use of the death penalty. There is too much room for error. Too many innocent people have been executed only to be exonerated post-mortem.
There is no returning from the dead.

Answer 10

i become on no account against it, yet then I grew up and observed each and all the corruption interior the government! i won't be able to talk from an American's viewpoint simply by fact i'm from Africa, there is not any president obtainable who would not have some undesirable in him! till each and every united states, city or city can instruct that the guy or female given capital punishment is one hundred% thoroughly in charge then i visit help them yet there is not any longer this form of case obtainable! in simple terms so which you comprehend it is not inevitably extra low priced, no person is complete at modern-day they are put in detention center to stay for years then positioned with the aid of an costly execution! existence in detention center is a miles worse punishment as prisoners assist you to comprehend themselves. If I ever had to commit this form of undesirable crime i might truly get the dying penalty than existence in detention center, kill me and allow it end there simply by fact i will possibly on no account want to be in a cellular the size of a lavatory, 23 hours an afternoon going out of my suggestions, going insane! we'd desire to additionally think of with regards to the individuals who have been complete as harmless women and adult males individuals yet whilst this become realised they have been already lifeless mutually as the authentic in charge individual is provided persevering with to do what he or she does, i think of simply by fact of this many individuals are against it and you may desire to look at it from each and every a possibility perspective!

Answer 11

None

death is not the solution

i would sugest life time imprisonment

tlll u die no 14 yeras how we have it here in india

but till you really die

so that the person amy realise his mistake

and seek for repentance
ask forgiveness

etc

detah we have no right
to take away what god has given