Do you guys support the death penalty?

Question

....If you agree that someone should be dead, isn't that a sin? Even the thought of commiting the crime, counts. right? (if you support it, it would be like you're supporting to kill someone)So i was just wondering.

eye for an eye...i think we've come a long way to know, an eye for an eye wiill leave us all blind. ")

Most of you guys who support it, are you also a bit racist to a certain extent?

lol. I personally don't care, And i asked because i wanted to hear from a christian's perspective.

The bible is so huge you can find a scripture to fight any argument...Those dudes that wrote the bible, were either geniuses, or actually had some devine intervention that contradicts itself.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Yes. And no, it isn't sin. It is justice and Biblical. In fact, lack of carrying out the sentences given is the crime.
Ecc 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
In our legal system, there are many different types of killing. If you get beat up in a barfight and go home and get a gun and come back and shoot the guy who beat you up, you will most likely be charged with premeditated murder.
If you are driving slow in a snowstorm, and someones car slid off in a ditch and they were walking in the middle of the highway trying to get help, but it was snowing real heavy and you didn't see them, and when you did, you tried to stop but didn't make it and hit them and accidently killed them, the prosecutor is going to treat you quite differently from the case mentioned above.
Within our laws, there is premeditated murder all the way down to justifiable homocide, with DIFFERENT penalties. If you're real important and get killed, there is even a special word for this type of death: Assasination.
When a jury finds a criminal guilty of a capital offense and recommends the death penalty and the judge concurs, this is NOT "killing" by society or "murder" by the state, IT IS EXECUTION OF A JUST SENTENCE.

Answer 3

I oppose the death penalty because it is not an effective way of preventing or reducing crime and because it risks executing innocent people.

You have asked about the moral and religious aspects about the death penalty, but two answers (from scvidrine and Kathy L) are wrong about the costs. The death penalty costs much more than life in prison. The reasons have to do with the legal process.

48 states now have life without parole on the books. It means what it says, costs much less than the death penalty. It is sure and swift, both necessary for a punishment to deter others (while the death penalty is neither sure nor swift.)

Answer 4

I don't support the death penalty because the convicted doesn't have to suffer long. People think death is the worst possible punishment, but I'd rather die than spend life in prison.
I guess people for death penalty are 100% sure the condemned will surely go to hell. But how do they know? What if they're wrong? Also, they can kill the wrong person.

Answer 5

I'm not religious, but I do support the death penalty. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, and, in this case, life for a life.

Oh, and in the hypothetical and highly unlikely situation I would ever turn back to Christianity, I would say that the Bible supports Eye for an eye. (If I remember correctly)

Answer 6

The death penalty is a consistent failure in everything that it has ever had claimed for it: it does not act as a deterrent, it does not offer consolation for the victim's family, it amounts to saying "We do not know what else to do with some people and we don't know how someone who was born an innocent baby like the rest of us turned into someone whose life we will now end".

Answer 7

Yes I do. I work hard for my money. It is cheaper to put someone to death than feed and take care of them until they die in prison- which they don't because the jails are so crowded now that they get out. Then guess what they do it again. I am tired of people taking whatever they want from someone else because they are too lazy to work so they just kill them for their money, or rape them, or mame them. I would like to have a lot of maney too, but I don't want it so bad that I would hurt someone to get theirs. I go to work everyday to get mine. It is a sad time when hard working people have to look over their sholder all the time to see who is coming after them. And I live in a good neighborhood.

If you don't want to do the time (or punishment) then don't do the crime!!!

Answer 8

I don't. I don't think anyone has the right to take another person's life (without their consent--I do agree with euthanasia with infomed consent).

This is something that has confounded me where many religions are concerned. I don't understand how "an eye for an eye" mentality fits into their belief system.

Answer 9

I 100% support it. I pay enough taxes for the leaches in society. I don't think I should house, feed, educate and entertain criminals. How is that punishment? I've said before, trees are abundant and rope is cheap.

Answer 10

No, as long as we can catch them and cage them, we don't have to kill them, and that makes us better people. plus it costs more in legal fees to put the average death row inmate through all their appeals than it takes to keep the average lifer until they die. I don't support butt rape in prison either, that makes us worse people if we tolerate it.

Answer 11

Nope, I don't.

We're constantly trying to prove that killing people is wrong, so what does the death penalty say about that, huh?