just curious
2007-10-20 14:00:19 · 12 answers · asked by zab1984 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
the death penalty is a tax savings
2007-10-20 14:05:56 · answer #1 · answered by Just a guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although this in the poll category, your question deserves more than a yes-no answer.
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.
124 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.
The death penalty doesn't 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 don’t.
We have a good alternative. 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.
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.
The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?
The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. 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.
Problems with speeding 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.
2007-10-20 15:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong.
Life imprisonment is a better punishment. And I mean literal imprisonment for life, not that stupid 21 year thing.
The death penalty only punishes the relatives of the convict, who may be completely innocent of the crime.
2007-10-20 14:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dangerous.
How can be sure we are executing the guilty? Because I am sure we have done it to many innocent people. A jury may have decided a guilty verdict but that is still an OPINION.
After the excution we found that the person is innocent, what then?
2007-10-20 14:14:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no matter what the crime a person has the right to live. life is one of the most important things you give a person and that should not be taken away from them no matter what. Lets say someone killed someone if you decide that murdurer has to die then you are a murdurer too.
2007-10-20 14:13:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is wrong. Even though some people do things for which they deserve to die, I don't think we, as a society, have the right to make that decision.
2007-10-20 14:40:45 · answer #6 · answered by Dawn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has ruined many NCAA programs. Take SMU for example....
2007-10-20 14:03:51 · answer #7 · answered by Vick (Philadelphia Phreedom) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 strikes your out unless it is a violent crime....If thats the case.......FRY EM!
2007-10-20 14:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by A Conservative Voice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its better to let them all rot in jail together. they will eventually kill each other off.
2007-10-20 14:03:28 · answer #9 · answered by Neev 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eradicate the freakin guns and crime and there would be no need for it.
2007-10-20 14:05:02 · answer #10 · answered by ConstElation 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋