Don't you see death penalty as taking away the opportunity?

Question

for repentance to a human being that make big mistakes and poor desicions in life. This penalty will not bring back the lives or happiness of the their victims back..it only claims revenge..Why become like them??.Why don't we let them reflec on their behaviour and be their counsciousness to punish them? That will be enough suffering don't you think?... They have to be away from the people too, so they don't cause more harm.

human beings who Made big mistakes

Answer 1

I do not agree with the death penalty...but not for the same reasons as you. I don't agree with it because I feel that it is letting the person out of something..or letting them out of their guilt...I think that people who are in prison for doing harm on someone else...should stay forever in prison and live with the guilt. Prison is a lot worse than death.

Answer 2

I almost gave a thumbs up to that frying in hell answer for humor, alone, although I don't believe in the sentiments. And the utube video has been removed. Can you summarize what it says? I think that the main question is getting more and more difficult. I see that we have new information on rehabilitation that really changes people, if they where just raised all wrong. I don't believe people are born wrong as a rule. Now we are seeing that more and more we caused many break downs and the disease is wrong thinking, emotional ignorance, wrong ideas and abusive experiences as a teacher. We don't usually kill the patients to cure them, we usually quarantine and isolate a patient until a highly contagious disease is cured. We can lean more in that direction, but it takes un-infected people to give no harbor for the disease and I'm afraid we are all full of hate and other diseased attitudes and still allowed to walk the streets, blaming our victims instead of our race. When that's the case, I have to say that in that case I'd rather see a cure than an extermination. Some of the poorest and downtrodden and abused of people sometimes have the most to offer when they get up. It's just another seeming contradiction. Life seems to be made of absolutes and paradoxes. The abuser was abused and they only can learn the cure that we all need. We have to take responsibility for a squeaking wheel if we have the oil or it will fall off and the whole wagon will come to a hault. The Mid-East has been crying for help for a long time and we didn't know what to do. We sort of do know now and have to step in or we will continue to suffer the effects. More effective yet is an ounce of prevention. Catching it before it errupts like Columbine and Virginia Tech. We have to do it. Stress from greed and an increasingly fast paced life causes breakdowns eventually to the whole society. Less competition and more co-operation on our mutual problems helps, but the pace will continue to accelerate. The solution is the lightining speed of the subconscious and it's infinitely slower, but still, probably adequate forever rate of 24 images a second and the fields of Emotional Intelligence, quantum physics and breakthrough everywhere can do it, just as we have food to feed the world, but not the intelligence and humanity to impliment a lasting solution until we upgrade to the new awareness. New Age ideas are not entirely wrong, only partially.

Answer 3

Good point. Oscar Wilde once said, "every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

I used to be pro-death penalty, but I have changed my stance over the years. My reasons are different than yours, however:

1. By far the biggest reason is this: Sometimes our legal system gets it wrong. Look at all the criminals who are being released after years of imprisonment because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. No matter how rare it is, our government should not risk executing one single innocent person.

Really, that should be reason enough for most reasonable people. If you need more, read on:

2. Because of the extra expense of prosecuting a DP case and the appeals process (which is necessary - see reason #1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.

3. The deterrent effect is questionable at best. Violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty states. This may seem counterintuitive, but think about the mixed message it sends: we’re trying to take a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’

4. There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age.

5. The U.S. government is supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. 1 Peter 3:9 argues AGAINST “eye for an eye”-type justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Answer 4

I'm going to speculate on a tomorrow where the death penalty as we know is morphed into a new form of capital justice. The year is 2050, crimes punishable by capital justice are handed down to the most serious of societies offenders.
The offender is taken to a medical center where he/she is typed and tested for transplant, personal data files are collected before surgical procedures begin. The individual is anesthetized and disassembled into usable biological and medical research material(recycled) After completion of this procedure any unused tissues will be cremated. Social security numbers, credit cards, school records, drivers licenses will cease to exist. In effect this person has be deleted from the face of the earth.

Answer 5

The death penalty is the only way for society to make the statement that murder is a horrible crime. Taking the life of a murderer after he's found guilty in a court of law is not at all the same thing as a murderer taking the life of an innocent victim. Let's think clearly about these things. Murder is the ultimate evil act and it must be punished severely to bring justice to the family of the victim, and to send a message to everybody that murder will not be tolerated in decent society.

Answer 6

Of course the Death Penalty ends opportunity. That’s the point.
You don’t get to repent. You don’t get to murder anyone else. You don’t get to exist.

The Death Penalty for Murder is about respecting life, because the punishment defines how seriously one takes the crime.

Murders kill without sufficient cause, because they do not have much respect for the lives of others. So if you do not think murder should carry the ultimate penalty, how much respect do you have for the life that was taken?

You do not become like a murderer when you kill one. You become like a murderer when you let one live.

Answer 7

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate sacrifice and should be used when the crime is deserving. I work in a prison and find that some criminals dont mind being in prison and in some cases have spent most of their lives there anyway. The death penalty is the only punishment that seems fitting. Just my opinion though...good question/perspective!

Answer 8

The death penalty is awful and barbaric. People want the death penalty enforced because of taxes, money. No matter how horrific the crime we have no right to take someones life!! We are not only hurting that person we are hurting their loved ones. That eye for an eye crap is from a long, long time ago, when we only knew how to be barbaric.

Answer 9

No. I beleive people should have life sentences. They need to suffer the consequence's. When they die they die NO punishment, most people who commit crimes don't care for there life anyway WHY not sit them in the electric chair?...Yeah, give them what they want, a easy way out...
I'd rather pay out of my taxes for people to pay for there destructive actions...Maybe society wouldn't take crime punishment as a joke.Maybe POLICE officers wouldn't be disrespected but respected..without a choice

Answer 10

Well the death penalty is very wrong because they could give them life in jail but with some people that isn't enough anyways and for the people that have 198 year why make them live in jail and there is no chance for them to get out why make them live with it and just terminate them so they wont have to be part of the over population in our prisons anyways