What are your views on the death penalty?

Answer 1

I'm against it. It's much too quick, and nothing more than eternal peace. I say let the SOB rot in prison. But no more protective custody for the sex offenders. Put them in with the general population, they'll fix their a*s!

Answer 2

I'm against it. Although this is a polling question, here are some facts about the death penalty system (souces below) that are leading more people to oppose it.

Risks of executing innocent people-
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that don’t.

We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.

Death penalty costs. The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process. When the death penalty is a possible sentence, extra costs start mounting up before trial, continue through the uniquely complicated trial in death penalty cases (actually 2 separate stages, mandated by the Supreme Court), and appeals.

The death penalty doesn't apply to people with money. Its not reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?

The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. 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.

Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

Answer 3

If more than three people witnessed your crime (and tell the same story) or, it's on video tape...you get to go to the front of the line -- without the ability to appeal.

Answer 4

I'm all for public hangings of all murderers, rapists, child molesters, and liberals. Have a nice day.

Answer 5

I can be kind of on the fence about it but I lean more towards being against it.

Answer 6

if you make your bed, you lie in it.

i dont feel the least bit sorry for a cold blooded murderer who gets to die by lethal injection with no pain inflicted whatsoever after the unjust and gruesome suffering inflicted on his victim.

Answer 7

Let the punishment fit the crime....

Answer 8

Let them die if they kill, hello i am from Texas.

Answer 9

Im for it

Answer 10

kill em all let god sort em out