usa are well known as the "democracy exporters"...this should mean that usa are a modern and democratic country....but the capital punishment is not modern and correct at all....it is brutal, useless and primitive...i mean it was used by the babilons hundreds of centuries ago....
2007-10-06 13:52:23 · 7 answers · asked by Quella che non è 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
i'm not judging usa, i'm judging the justice system, which i really can't understand....and stand...
2007-10-06 14:02:55 · update #1
i don't really accept the idea of "ok you have killed a man, so you will be killed"...it is not fair...no one (expecially teh state) has the right to kill someone else...to decide for someone else's life...only god can choose weather to let us live or to let us die...
moreover: you are condamning a person to the capital punishment because he has killed, but you are making the same mistake this man has made....
2007-10-06 14:18:57 · update #2
I don't know. We have this whole "tough on crime" thing going on, like we think compassion and mercy are tools of Satan or something. If you really want to be shocked at our shortsightedness and barbarism, read up on the War on Drugs someday: completely useless and it's why we're the democracy with the highest percentage of its members locked up. Yet any suggestion that we change things is met with accusations of being soft on crime and a bleeding heart liberal. By the way, the above poster is incorrect. It actually costs more to execute someone than it does to keep them in jail forever.
There are plenty of people who are trying to change things, on both accounts. I don't know why they meet with so much opposition.
2007-10-06 16:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by random6x7 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let me ask you this - if a man sits in jail for the rest of his life because he murdered innocent people, don't you think something else should be done? What about the brutal, useless, and primitive way he took that persons life. If anything, the way capital punishment is carried out is much more humane than the way he took someone else's life.
I whole heartedly support capital punishment and I certainly don't want to continue to pay for these people to sit in jail for the rest of their lives. If you ask me, I don't think it's carried out often enough.
2007-10-06 21:07:38 · answer #2 · answered by lchardy70 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I alrady answered this in another category, but I want to let ichardy know that the death penalty actually costs much, much more than life without parole. This is mostly because of the legal process, which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.
At least 50 of the 124 wrongfully convicted people on death row had already served more than a decade. Speeding up the process will guarantee executions of innocent people. Most people, including death penalty supporters, believe this would be intolerable.
2007-10-07 12:59:34 · answer #3 · answered by Susan S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only place capital punishment is still used here today is in the private home. It's not used in schools and is considered assault anywhere else, even prisons. You may think its primitive, but its the most successful means of using force when force is necessary. School children behaved much better back when they faced a spanking for misbehavior. Now they fear nothing and that is NOT good. Prisoners SHOULD be whipped- its prison!
2007-10-06 20:58:59 · answer #4 · answered by UwishUwereME 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
iamsaved is talking about corporal punishments.
Capital punishments have actually been put on hold here (good) because of the increasing numbers of innocent people being on death row. I hope they are eventually outlawed. Many individual states have outlawed it already.
2007-10-06 22:31:34 · answer #5 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Live here before you judge. You must have no clue on the US
2007-10-06 21:00:01 · answer #6 · answered by Rina 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people just need killin
2007-10-06 21:16:22 · answer #7 · answered by vladoviking 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋