will the issue over whether or not the death penalty should or shouldnt be abolished will ever be solved?

Question

what's your opinionm

Answer 1

You don't have to condone brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them avoid a harsh punishment to ask whether the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and whether it risks killing innocent people. Many people in the USA are beginning to ask this. One day, the answers (based on facts) will determine public policy.

What about the risk of executing innocent people?
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence.

Doesn't DNA keep new cases like these from happening?
DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

Doesn't the death penalty 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 do not.

So, what are the alternatives?
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.

But isn't the death penalty cheaper than keeping criminals in prison?
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 mount up even before trial, continuing through the uniquely complicated trial (actually 2 separate trials, one to decide guilt and the second to decide the punishment) in death penalty cases, and appeals.

What about the very worst crimes?
The death penalty isn’t reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but rather for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was sentenced to death, let alone executed??

Doesn't the death penalty help families of murder victims?
Not necessarily. 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.

So, why don't we speed 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 2

I think one day there will be no death penalty, and in the not too distant future. Personally, I'd rather put a mad dog down and never happen to worry about it again--I have no personal bias against the death penalty. We do however, live in a global village. The United States is the last democracy to have an active death penalty. Other nations that have a death penalty are IRan, North Korea, Bulgaria--all rather repressive regimes. Currently those who commit murder in the United States and escape/move to Europe are diffiult to extradite from there because of the death penalty provision we have. At this point there is more to be gained in doing as the rest of the world community at large does than to keep that penalty. Europe has a different way of accomplishing the same end. Check statistics on the suicide rate among the convicted killers in Europe. The state doesn't pull the trigger over there, they just make it easy for the inmate to do so.

Answer 3

i desire so. i'm against the death penalty. i've got confidence that there are some people who choose killing. There are some crimes that warrant the death penalty. yet there is usually a huge gamble that the guy on death row must be harmless. and that i'm no longer prepared to take that threat. there became right into a guy who killed an 8 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous woman in my section quite a few yrs in the past. He became into accountable of the crime in accordance to all the information. He became into additionally sexually abused as a baby. He became into finally placed to death after quite a few appeals which will have fee the tax payers greater desirable than if he have been only saved alive in penal complex.

Answer 4

if life is so precious to some of these people against the death penalty, what about the life or lives of the victims?
There life was also precious! Sorry, but I am in favor of the death penalty....especially with serial killers, mass killings and child cases. It's time we quit feeling pity for the criminal and start having compassion for the victims. They are gone...here no more...no chance to continue their life. The same should apply to the animal that took their life. People who seem to think that the death penalty is :"inhuman" should be given the opportunity to view some of the crime scenes
and watch the the pain and anguish that is felt by the families
of the victims.

Answer 5

When public opinion is divided, the issue can't really be completely resolved. The other problem is that, if there is no death penalty, what do you do with a criminal who no one wants to ever be released? It can be argued that life without any possibility of parole is a harsher sentence than execution.
Also, even in prison, inmates still commit violent crimes, including murder. Abolish capital punishment and you'll still have criminals shot by police. Effectively, that is an execution without trial.

Answer 6

Maybe. I imagine any comprehensive final solution will establish rights for all living (or yet to be living) things including fetuses, and encompass abortion as well. I am in favor of having people sit down to discuss the merits of both sides, but I'm afraid that large sectors of the population will not accept answers. Some people will always oppose abortion because they view it as murder (I do). Others will look down on capital punishment as cruel and unusual. I think capital punishment is OK if you can prove beyond proving beyond a reasonable doubt: like a guilty plea, or forensic evidence that suggests it could only have been the defendant that was guilty.

Answer 7

I don't think it will ever go away entirely. There may come a day when the battle is almost won and the death penalty is abolished and then some horrifying tragedy will be perpetrated and the culprit will have so shocked society that the death penalty will be reinstated.

Answer 8

The Supreme Court has already ruled that capital punishment does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, so the death penalty is still in the hands of each state in the union.

Answer 9

The penalty fit the crime> If there is a death penalty for murder or rape than do it there no since in having all these> in prison for life>

Answer 10

Once Americans realize how precious life is, they will join the rest of the world in outlawing capital punishment. It is still faith in the Bibble that makes Americans so vengeful. It is the nonsense about an "eye for an eye" that does it. That little phrase makes Christian idiots believe they have the right to act like a god.