DEATH PENALTY: Opposing It Is Uncivilized, Right?

Question

If someone opposes the death penalty, isn't it clear evidence that they are uncivilized because they place more value on the life of a convicted murderer than they do the life of the innocent victim?

Answer 1

Yep, I agree.

I'd like to see rapists, and child abusers gotten rid of also.

Answer 2

Just the opposite. We who are opposed to the death penalty do favor punnishment but we believe that no one but God has the right to take someone's life even that of a criminal. If anything we are more civilized. Only uncivilized look for ways to kill, kill, kill. The death penalty is more a form of revenge than penalty. Those who receive the death penalty have resigned themselves to the fact and made peace with their maker or not. The one seeking reveng is tormented even after the deed is done. It is applied unfairly to people of color. The death penalty is not a deterrant to crime. Do you seriously believe when someone is going to commit a murder he stops and thinks about the penalty for doing so? They are caught up in the moment and their mind is on what they are doing. Thou shalt not kill, sayeth the Lord your God. Innocent people have been killed because of a crime they did not commit.
Finally if we go around taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth soon the population will be nothing but blind and toothless. What will we accomplish by it? Self satisfaction or revenge? That is a pretty lame reason for taking anyone's life.

The victim's life should not have been taken it was wrong. So, do two wrongs make a right?

Answer 3

No.

IF the death penalty could bring a victim back to life your point would be valid. But it won't.

Which does not in and of itself mean the death penalty is a bad idea. But consider the these thrree facts:

1) Statisticsshow that life in prison is at least as good a deterrant--if not better--than the death penalty (some people dispute this, but that's what the data tell us).

2) A criminal can be confined for life--thus protecting society effectively.

and the kicker:

3) NO system of justice is perfect. Mistakes will happen. Which means aas long as you advocate the death penalty, you are condoning the execution of some INNOCENT people.

Now, THAT'S uncivilized.

Answer 4

People do not oppose the death penalty because they place more value on a criminal's life. There are substantial practical problems with the death penalty system, as well as moral issues. When you are ready to learn more, check out the Death Penalty Information Center at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org.

Answer 5

No, i don't agree. I think people have the right to oppose the death penalty! I'm personally for it, and think that when someone is sentenced to death it should be done in a lot shorter time frame then they normally give them. But everyone has the right to feel the way the do, Some people say that just because that person killed someone doesn't give us the right to murder them as well. It should be left up to God to decide a humans fate. I understand this mentality, but my vengeful side gets the best of me and I understand that people want to see a the murder of their family member or loved one die, I too would want to that to happen also.

Answer 6

Reasons to oppose the death penalty:

1: Innocent people do get convicted. Prior to a governor-ordered moratorium on the death-penalty, more people had been released from Death Row after having their convictions overturned than had actually been executed; these individuals were released solely because of the work of volunteers--the state resisted every step of the way, long after the convictions were obviously fraudulent.

2: There's strong evidence that suggests that Texas has already executed at least one innocent man. Of course, the gutless, cowardly worms in the Texas government refuse to open an investigation, lest they be shown to have blood on their hands.

3: Because of the above issues, there are numerous mandatory appeals that have to be followed before a convict can be executed. These, plus the actual execution itself, cost MORE than simply incarcerating someone for life. Executions are thus a waste of taxpayer money--simply use the funding to build secure prisons. There have been damned few prison-breaks involving death-row prisoners, so it should be possible to make 'life w/o parole' prisoners just as securely locked away.

4: Anyone who calls themselves a Christian has no business supporting the death penalty. Period. RTFM, people. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

5: The death penalty has no deterrent effect on murder or other capital crimes. It's been shown that crime rates in states with the death penalty follow the same trends as the rest of the nation for violent crime.

6. Establishing the death penalty for crimes other than murder is doubly stupid, as it gives an incentive to non-murderrs to kill. A rapist MIGHT, theoretically, let his victim live if he fears that killing her will get him the chair; but if he's going to die for the rape, anyway, he may as well kill her, since that will eliminate a witness, making it more likely that he'll never get caught in the first place.

Of the above, only #4 has f***-all to do with the rights of actual murderers; it has to do with the rights of the innocents, the waste of resources, and the actual effects of the death penalty, as opposed to the intended effects.

Answer 7

It's just hard to tell who's actually innocent. So if someone is put to death and didn't commit the crime then two innocent people have been killed.

It's a sad truth that our justice system isn't infallable so opposing the death people is really the most humane thing. I think.

Answer 8

Let's see...nations that abolished the death penalty:
United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Romania, Turkey... just to name a few.

Nations who still practice the death penalty:
Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Congo, China, Mongolia, Lybia, Yemen, Iran, North Korea, Vietnam, to name a few...oh, and the United States.

Why is it that nearly all of our Western allies have eliminated the death penalty, but we remain with some of our enemies, dictators, and non-democratic nations who still have the death penalty? Which is more civilized?

Ask yourself why states with the death penalty have MUCH higher murder rates than states that have abolished the death penalty? Michigan has the higest murder rate of all states that have abolished the death penalty: 6.1 per 100,000 people. It is the ONLY state above 5 per 100,000 of those that have eliminated the death penalty.

So, what's the average murder rate for Death Penalty states? 5.3 per 100,000. And the rate for non-death penalty states? 2.8.

Thus, living in a state with the death penalty makes you twice as likely to get murdered.

So you decide.

Answer 9

As someone who is PRO DP, I don't think it makes you "uncivilized" to oppose the DP. it just happens to be your personal conviction (no pun intended). There are alot of states in the union that have banned it, but I wouldn't call them uncivilized (well, maybe NJ, but that's a whole 'nother thing). I happen to live in a state that has it, I'm for it, and that's that.

Mumia, you're goin' down!!

Answer 10

How about this...people who are opposed to the death penalty believe that it will be a bigger punishment to make a person rot in a cell the rest of their lives rather than killing them quickly and now painlessly.

Is punishment supposed to be about pain?

Some will say that keeping all those in jails is a burden to our taxes and that convicts enjoy prison cuz all their buddies are in there. Im not disagreeing with that point, but i believe that to be another discussion altogether on how to reform our poorly run correctional institutions

Answer 11

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