Question for people against the death penalty?

Question

How can you be against the death penalty and yet be pro choice.
Your saying its not ok to put to death a murder,but its ok to kill a innocent baby who hasn't done anything.

While in the short term the death penalty does cost more money.Long term it cost more to keep someone locked up for life.
I'm not saying all people who are pro choice are anti death penalty.

Answer 1

I am pro-life, pro-war...

All that I'm saying is give war a chance.

Answer 2

Separate issues. Many death penalty opponents are pro life.
Take a look at the US Catholic Bishop's Campaign to end the death penalty at http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/deathpenalty/

Many people support the death penalty because of concerns about killers being released into their communities and because they do not yet know the practical aspects of the death penalty system. Here are some of the facts. The sources are listed below.

The death penalty risks executing innocent people (124 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 costs much more than life in prison.

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.

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 learning.

Answer 3

Wow! Who said I was both against the death penalty and pro abortion? I am a Christian but I don't believe the laws should be written for only Christians as many people are of other faith and the laws of the land should not reflect a Christians morality but allow for a man to choose his own beliefs so long as his beliefs to not infringe on the rights of others we could debate what consitutes human life forever or we could allow a person to make a decision based on their individual beliefs. At what point would an egg and sperm be considered a human being with human rights? The very second of conception? The Egg than becomes a human being entitled to all the rights of a human being? I am not pro abortion but I do think some decisions are not the governments job to decide for us.

Answer 4

I am against the death penalty but I am pro-life for a baby. Why? The death penalty does not reduce the crime rate. The death penalty does not reduce recidivism rate. The death penalty doesn't even provide justice for justice' sake! All the death penalty does is provide for retribution for a victims family. We consider America a Christian nation. Look again. The King James Bible says in Exodus 20:13, "Thou shalt not kill". It doesn't say, "Thou shalt not kill Mr. Jones, or whoever". It gives us a commandment to not kill. Therefore, WHY DO WE KILL PEOPLE WHO KILL PEOPLE TO SHOW THAT KILLING PEOPLE IS WRONG???
We can't be the most progressive nation in the world, yet rely on the barbaric punishment of death to provide for punishment of arrested, charged, tried and convicted offenders.
The states of FL, TX, CA, have the most offenders on death row. Many are in prison because they were found guilty by a jury of their peers instead of DNA profiling and evidence. What they do is depend on people's intuition and not scientific proof of being guilty of a crime.
As for a baby killed via abortion, there aren't enough words to use to explain that kind of horror. Those who choose pro-choice issues will someday have to answer to God above why they feel the way they do. Interesting what BS they will come up with to try to avoid fire and brimstone!

Answer 5

I do not believe that the state should execute people based on their actions, because the system for doing so is inequitable, racist, and inaccurate. In short, the risk of executing an innocent person is too great to be worth the dubious benefits of the death penalty.

I support every woman's right to choose to have an abortion because making abortions illegal will not prevent them from happening. I think it is better to seek socially progressive action which will address the common causes of unwanted pregnancy, and thus reduce the number of abortions, rather than seek legislation which will accomplish little more than punishing women.

This sentiment is no more incongruous than a person who is pro-life and supports the death penalty. Each is simply a matter of how one believes society is best served.

Answer 6

I am against the death penalty not from the moral standpoint, but from the economic standpoint. If you add up the money spent on appeals, the cost of actually prepping and performing the execution - many of which get a stay due to yet another last minute appeal, thus having to be done more than once, it costs more to put a person to death than it does to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives.

Answer 7

A criminal, grown person, has a choice to what he does in life, whether its to rob, steal, murder, or even to change his ways.He decides his fate.(But there are innocent people on death row too.) But an unborn fetus is not given a chance at all if it is terminated, that choice is made by the would be mother. I can somewhat understand a fetus being terminated if there was a rape that caused the pregnancy, but for no other reason. when someone has sex there is the possibility of pregnancy, whether its with a lover, husband or a one night stand, but with sex also comes the responsibilty of caring for that child if the person does become pregnant. Whether that child ends up in a foster home, orphanage it will still be given a chance at life.who are we to predict the future of this child, to be judge and executioner, to play god?? Im glad my parents gave me a chance at life, because they really couldn't afford me or my brother that came after me, they struggled yes, but giving us life was more important than any material thing they could of obtained.

Answer 8

you do no longer ought to condone brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them to ward off a harsh punishment to ask despite if the dying penalty prevents or maybe reduces crime and despite if it hazards killing harmless people. indexed under are some faq's with sources under. What relating to the risk of executing harmless people? 124 people on dying rows have been released with info of their innocence. would not DNA save new situations like those from occurring? DNA is supplied in under 10% of all homicides and can’t assure we gained’t execute harmless people. would not the dying penalty forestall others from committing homicide? No respected learn exhibits the dying penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment ought to be constructive and rapid. The dying penalty is neither. homicide costs are bigger in states and areas that have it than in states that don't. So, what are the recommendations? existence devoid of parole is now on the books in 40 8 states. It means what it says. it quite is constructive and rapid and rarely appealed. existence devoid of parole is far less high priced than the dying penalty. yet isn't the dying penalty greater low priced than protecting criminals in reformatory? The dying penalty expenses a lot greater effective than existence in reformatory, frequently simply by legal technique, that's meant to ward off executions of harmless people. What relating to the very worst crimes? The dying penalty isn’t reserved for the “worst of the worst,” yet quite for defendants with the worst attorneys. whilst is the final time a rich person replaced into sentenced to dying, no longer to indicate achieved?? would not the dying penalty help families of homicide sufferers? no longer unavoidably. homicide sufferer kinfolk around the country argue that the drawn-out dying penalty technique is painful for them and that existence devoid of parole is an appropriate selection. So, why do no longer we velocity up the approach? Over 50 of the harmless people released from dying row had already served over a decade. If the approach is accelerated we are constructive to execute an harmless person.

Answer 9

You miss one important difference.

If a woman doesn't want her child, and is forced to go full term, then either the kid is going to have a miserable existence - whether they are raised by the mother (probably young, and not financially stable) or dumped off at an orphanage where they take their chances.

Meanwhile, the prisoner that you consider bad enough to deserve death - I personally think should be forced to serve out the rest of their life in a cell. That is more of a punishment than putting them out of their misery.

Of course I don't believe in an afterlife - if you are an Xtian, you probably think they go to hell quicker if you kill them.

Sad really.

Answer 10

There are many different issues in death penalty and abortion. They have to be analyze in individual case. Generally I am for death penalty and against abortion but I won't make a blanket judgment on all cases.

Answer 11

I am pro-choice and also believe in the death penalty.