Should murderers be executed or not? Why? Why not?

Answer 1

Yes, providing there is no doubt that the offender was the murderer

Answer 2

Execution is a form of revenge killing.

I don't agree with execution because it damages the pschye of innocent people. The murderer has done wrong by killing and it doesn't help if another murder takes place in the form of an execution. The blood of the murderer is now on the hands of the government who killed him and the nation who brought them into power.

In civilised society criminals are dealt with in ways that do not cause further loss of human life or damage to society.
Two wrongs never make a right, just a hellva lot more wrongs.

Sometimes years later new evidence shows that the person thought to be the murderer did not do the crime. Society then has to bear yet another burdon if they have executed an innocent man.

Answer 3

No, with one exception Michael Vick...

Why?
1. the justice system itself is not equal protection under the law, those with money have a better chance than those who don't..
2.Morally, you don't teach people not to kill by killing.
3. Seems like more of a punishment to rot in jail than to get out early by execution.

I do offer this solution to equalize the justice system and support capital punishment as fair, have a lottery every year and throw in all the lawyers, judges, politicians, and prosecutors names. Draw out 12 of them at random and execute one them on TV every month. See how long capital punishment lasts then.

Answer 4

I am only against it because unfortunately some police make mistakes and some are bent coppers . A posthumous pardon if it turns out you were hanged by mistake is no compensation. Having said that there are many I would like to see hanged including the killers of Kriss Donald.

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Answer 5

No.

1.. The death penalty in no way deters criminals.

2. The chance of killing someone who is innocent is not worth the risk (look at all the inmates who have been freed by the Innocence Project as a result of DNA testing in the last decade).

3. Murder is not justifiable whether it is comitted by an individual or by a state. Let's be consistent.

Answer 6

NO!! Because we may possibly be doing them a huge favor.

Depending on the severity I'd go for incarceration, to maximum security with no human interaction or diversion from their sordid lives for the rest of their lives.

We really don't know whats on the other side after death, if anything. Therefore what we should be doing is controlling their lives now and let the afterlife, after their natural death, rule their outcome, not us.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 7

Why should murderers not be executed? They are human beings, like the rest of us, with families, obligations, hopes and dreams, gifted with abilities and handicaps. The overwhelming majority of murders are committed by family and "friends" of the victim, under circumstances unlikely to be repeated in a life time. As a crime in general, homicide has one of the lower recidivism rates - very few murderers ever commit another.

Why should murderers be executed? Some of them are chronic, repeat offenders with a history of violence and a trail of broken and dead bodies behind them in their pasts. Some of them regard other human beings as of no consequence, to be used, destroyed and discarded at their own convenience. People who enjoy killing people, and are accustomed to benefiting from it, are a potential future danger to every member of society.

So, for the majority of those who kill a fellow human being under extraordinary circumstances, a death penalty seems to serve no social value. Individuals like these can actually work to the benefit of society if properly punished and alive. For the minority who kill people for sport, or financial gain alone, or for political purposes, if not legally insane, the only safe thing for you and me is to execute them,. before they have a chance to kill somebody again. Not as a "lesson to others", just as an end to a crime spree.

Answer 8

No.

When a person is executed, their death certificate reads they died as a result of a Homicide. Why? Because they did.

It wasn't an accident, a suicide, or by natural causes. So that leaves homicide.

Society becomes the killer. A "civilization" that approves of killing people is a society of killers.

Answer 9

No. Execution is not a means of rehabilitation. And the chance of wrongful prosecution is too great.

Answer 10

Depends on the crime committed.

For example...should a domestic abuse victim be executed for killing their abusive partner? You get the idea.

The way I see it....all the bleeding hearts who are anti capital punishment, should let all these hardened criminals who commit heinous acts move in with them. They can pay for their room and board. It'd take a load off the tax payers.

I fully support the death penalty and think it's a shame we don't use it more often.

We need to execute people who commit heinous acts.

Answer 11

I think we should send them all to a remote Island, let them build there own buildings, plant there own food, and make there own clothes, and live in fear of dying themselves for the rest of there lives. If they don't build quality living conditions then they live in squaller. If they don't plant food then they starve. If they don't make there own clothes then they live naked. Let's see how long it lasts before they just kill each other. Please discount anyone who kills in self defense. The answer to the question is no! Just because they killed does not make it ok for us to kill!