what do you think about death sentence??

Question

why in usa there is the death penalty...this is revenge not justice

if someone is condemned to death he can't think about what he had done,his orrible crime,but he will think about the day when he will loosing his life...sentences have to teach to the person who had committed the crime ,not to pay him back with his own coin...if this person have the sentence of life imprisement he could think about what he had done why his life is so wasted and if it's worth the effort to remain for all his life in prison...

Answer 1

Agreed. As you can see in some of the answers you received, many Americans think in terms of revenge and have not thought about the death penalty as implemented.

You don't have to condone brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them to avoid a harsh punishment to ask whether the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and whether it risks killing innocent people. Here are some faq's, with sources below.

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, which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.

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

In a suited international the place shall all of us be attentive to a hundred% if somebody grow to be responsible specific. that may not the international we are living in. quite some issues ought to hold approximately a wrongful conviction. infants each and every so often have fake thoughts in the event that they're asked foremost questions. A famous case in the Nineteen 1880s carry approximately infants in actual fact believing they have been abused with the aid of day care workers who they suggested took them right into a tunnel below the construction. No such tunnel existed. different issues that could take place is the incorrect wrongdoer may well be pointed out. Or a toddler may well be intentionally manipulated with the aid of an grownup to lie for the sake of revenge against the accused or for another twisted reason. Convicted toddler rapists could desire to get existence devoid of parole, and in basic terms ever see freedom lower back if new evidence exhibits they are not responsible.

Answer 3

You're wrong. Anyone who is against the death penalty is basically saying that a person who plays God and decides to take someone else's life has MORE of a right to life than the victim he/she killed. That's completely backwards. Besides, why should the hard-working American taxpayer shell out an average of over $80,000.00 per year for every murderer on Death Row to keep them alive? How is that fair? A killer gets free room and board, all paid for courtesy of John and Jane Q. Public, for breaking the law? THAT is not justice.

Answer 4

Number ONE, it's permanent. I have no problem with executing someone who is positively guilty of a truly heinous crime, but we must NEVER take the chance of making a mistake.

Number TWO, it certainly is justice. For some crimes, ending the criminal's life may in fact be the only appropriate punishment. This is done for the sake of society, not for the edification or rehabilitation of the criminal himself.

Answer 5

The only legitimate argument for me against the death penalty is the case of a mistake. Someone who feels remorse and spends a lifetime thinking about it is a for of torture. For someone who doesn't feel remorse an easy death is an easy way out. Anyone who's done something that deserves the DP, can't repay or make better what they've done. The DP gives closure to everyone involved, and puts it in the hand of God.

Answer 6

Why should they get to live while the other person had to suffer, most likely, a horrible death. Why should Americans pay for a murderer to stay alive until he dies of old age? If the suspects family wants their family member to stay alive, then they should pay the annual cost of keeping them incarcerated.
I have a problem paying and allowing a murderer or a rapist to stay alive at our expense.
It's cheaper for the taxpayers to kill the condemned anyways.

Revenge is not the idea of the death penalty anyways, it's a deterrent. It's supposed to make people think, "wait, if I kill this person, I could get death"

Think what you will, I am all for it!

Answer 7

Greetings. the death sentence in America is mainly for torture not revenge. the government does not really give a fat lot of concern about killing, they do it regularily. But they do like or rather love torture. and sitting on death row for untold years waiting to be executed is nothing other then torture. is not revenge for their crimes. and it allows the government to charge the people of the country for keeping them on death row all those years, which comes out to fantastic amounts for their incarceration, which the state charges the people for. is a money making proposition. imagine if we had the people sentenced to be executed simply executed as in China, usually within 24 hours of the sentence being passed. What profit is there in it for the state? Very little. but put the same criminal in death row and there is usually about 15 years of very high rate security to be paid for and skimmed from. and to add icing to the cake prisoners in Texas on death row know that the state of Texas executes all its prisoners on death row and never orders a stay of execution, following the Bush plan, no retrial, no stay, no checking to see if they were actually guilty, just house them in high security death row for 10 to 15 years then execute them and throw someone else in death row. Many go insane during their years of waiting. others commit suicide. all are a great source of entertainment to people like the bush who get off on such forms of torture. Which is why they do it in the first place. Some people, like psychopaths that are not curable, like our leader, cannot be cured and turned into responsible citizens and should be executed. But many states have checked on the trials of condemned people and found that they were innocent and were convicted on the crimes for convience mainly so the police and criminal justice system did not have to discover who the actual killer was. Note many states have halted executions completely as the records are checked. surprising the number of people on death row that were framed by the police or the justice department prosecutors.

Answer 8

we cannot say that all donot think abot d crime they hav don.some of them may rethink about him past wrong deeds.we cannot judge everyone by someones thought.the things of mind is not statitical we cannot judge everyone from a generalisation. human mind cannot be analysed so.it may change from person to person.some are not moved by death sentance or full life imprisonment.some people think that death sentance is an easy escape from the wrong things he have done.but one cannot predict whether the person who did wrong repents or not.it varies from person to person.sthere fore the judgement must be done according to the person who is being sentenced.it can't be compleletly said that by teaching him the right way he might move.but that is also possible.some hard rock peopler not ready to change even if they r given life imprisonment.

Answer 9

The death penalty is justice. If you steal $5, then you owe $5 and not a penny less. If you take a life, then you owe your life and nothing less, it is the only thing of equal value.

Also, it is the only sensible way to protect society. The death penalty is the only 100% way to ensure that the criminal will not escape, or kill a prison guard, or get paroled and kill again.

Answer 10

Death penalty is not used often enough, it is a waste of resources to keep someone locked up for life.