Do You Believe In The Death Sentance?

Question

Just looking for opionions! lol

Answer 1

yes i do. I believe in an eye for an eye.

Answer 2

In a perfect justice system, maybe. It's not perfect, though and I think that ego plays too much a part with the lawyers. No lawyer wants to lose so the prosecution wants to prosecute to *win* and some I don't think really care if the person is innocent or not.....case in point..the Duke Lacrosse case. Same with defense attorneys....they'll try to get anyone off...guilty or not. I don't think they really care about the truth sometimes, esp. after someone is found guilty and are appealing. Many people have been found guilty only to be exonerated later on. Look at James Earl Ray....even MLK's family thinks he was innocent, but did they take the time to find out and run tests??? Of course not because that would mean more work for them. Not only that, but I don't think that you should ask someone to be in charge of putting someone to death. I don't think it's our place to be taking life away.

It's also not applied evenly and that's not right.

Answer 3

Nope. It is completely wrong and medieval. It's time some people catch up.

First of all, no human being has the right to take another person's life. Who are you to decide whether someone lives or dies? You're not God, and that decision is only God's to make.
For the criminals and all the bad guys, God will deal with them in the afterlife. That's why there's a Heaven and a hell.

Besides, doesn't it make sense to let the criminals live their lives behind bars for the rest of their lives? Don't you want them to suffer and live each day in misery? I think that's real punishment. When you execute a criminal, you end their misery right then and there.

Second of all, not all investigations are accurate. Innocent people have died and will die in the future.

I think it's completely barbaric!

Have a nice life :]

Answer 4

No - and for the following reasons

1. It is given out arbitrarily

2. Death sentence laws show that the government thinks cops lives are more important than the general public (kill a cop, get executed, kill an entire family of migrant farm workers and it is just 2nd degree murder)

3. You are six times as likely to be given the death penalty if you are black than if you are white or Asian. (Even for the same crime)

4. If you kill an entire family in Oregon, you won't be executed. If you kill a drug dealer in Texas, you can be executed.

5. Their have been literally hundreds of cases where someone has been executed, or put on death row due to police corruption/incompetence, faulty CSI work, false witness testimony, and incompetent representation. Would you want to be one of these people on death row?

Answer 5

Yes, I do. Some crimes are so atrocious the death penalty is the appropriate punishment, especially when DNA is involved and there is no question of guilt. No one who has ever been executed has ever killed again, but many who received life sentences, then received parole have gone on to commit other crimes.

Answer 6

Death Penalty: Saudi Arabian style! Executions are carried out in public, with a sword! We need some of that here in the USA. Firing squad- Vietnamese style! Hanging- japanese style. Stoning- Pakistan style. USA is too soft on crime.

Answer 7

If a person is caught red handed I think it should be done immediately not 10 years down the road. I also think if there is is a whisper of dout that the death penalty should not be applied.

Answer 8

It depends. If you have the evidence against him/her then yes. I think murders should have to sit in jail the rest of there lives to think about what they did. I think sex offenders [the ones that mess with little girls/boys] should be put to the death sentence

Answer 9

Yes, in appropriate situations.

Answer 10

nope an eye for an eye makes the world blind. It makes the government as bad as the the person they are killing. it's hyprocritical