Do you think a murderer should be killed?

Question

I think that in most cases a murderer should be killed. I know that if someone murder someone I love that I would kill them. I think that it is very wrong when that some people get off with 10 to 15 years. I know that in some cases there are extenuating circumstances. But in most cases I think murders should get the death penalty. What do you think?

TO queen: some people do not feel bad for what they do they are for lack of a better word " evil"

Answer 1

Your question is a good one. It is entirely understandable that we would want to kill anyone who murdered someone we love. The question is whether this should determine public policy.

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.

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

It depends on the severity of the crime and whom the person killed. If the felon murdered a child, police officer, firefighter, pregnant woman, or multiple people, by all means give them the death sentence. But I really think that life imprisonment is far worse; it gives you plenty of time to think about your crime and the confinement (especially maximum-security, where inmates are in their cells for 23 hours a day) can drive them almost insane, which is a better punishment than death.

Answer 3

Not a murderer who is convicted under the U.S. criminal justice system. There is too high a likelihood that person convicted of murder is innocent. It happens all the time, and I have empathy for those people.

Answer 4

It's pretty pointless to kill a killer.I'd rather l;et them deal with the guilt that they killed a life and has to sit in a jail cell for all that time.I do think they should go to jail for life.

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Even if they ARE evil,they should just rot in a prison cell.That's all I'm saying.

Answer 5

yep, if the took someones life, the owe that person a life, and its their own