do you think the death penalty is good or bad, explain.?

Answer 1

It's a good thing in that it serves as a warning to other would be killers as to what will happen if they do not follow the rules of society. Also, any person who has killed because they simply wanted to, or has killed a multitude of times is most likely going to kill again if they ever get a chance to. I think it is irresponsible to give them that chance. Life in prison does not make up for the lives they destroyed, and even if they reform they still should pay for what they did. Justice is not very just if you can kill and not expect to be killed in return.

Answer 2

At this point, it is pretty much a nothing and is bad because it wastes resources that could be put to better use. There will be about 50 people executed this year in a nation of 3,000,000,000 people. The highest number of executions in a year in the last 100 was 198 in 1935. There are about 2,500 murders a week in the country. Do the math, there is no deterrent value with such low odds. The death penalty just gives prosecutors an opportunity to grandstand about how tough they are on crime, but in the end it costs the taxpayer about three times a much to process a death penalty case than it would to send the same person to prison for life and the major cause of death on death row is natural causes followed by suicide. A majority of the people in this country may be rah rah for the death penalty but in the final analysis they are spitting into the wind.

Answer 3

Sounds like a school project. A terrific website specifically for students is at
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=1917

In the meantime, ou don't have to excuse brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them to avoid a harsh punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and if it risks killing innocent people.

124 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongly convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and can't guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No generally accepted study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To deter others 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 costs less 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 long 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.

Answer 4

There are many ways to view the death penalty as morals and priciples are matters in which the current system is involved. Personally as this is merely my view, the death penalty is a good measure to show that a serial killer/ murderer can face if the brutal nature of that person's killings justify that person's death.
The current system is meant as a rehabilitation program for inmates but it is more over a system to just detain than change that person's perspcetive. You can still make friends, exchange ideas and so forth, but the death penalty serves as the ultimate example of punishment. This punishment should be done swiftly rather than delay due to court trials once the punishsment is executed, the matter is resolved and justice serves its purpose. There is on going debate as to the nature of type of death penalty stating that it is cruel punishment, but then again everyone forgets the exact nature of cruelty performed by the criminal to their victims.

Answer 5

It is a very final solution. If you later discover that you made a mistake there is no going back and redoing it. There are some criminals that are so horrendous that they cant ever be reformed to be returned to society. Life in prison without parole would need to be unpleasant enough that they would suffer if that was going to be the alternative. If the death penalty is enacted it needs to be swift (not years of appeals) and public and then it would be an effective deterrent.

Answer 6

I used to support the death penalty, but changed a few years ago.

Humans already devalue life way too much. I believe we need to be consistent and support life from conception to natural death. There for I cannot support anything that takes life such as the death penalty, abortion, assisted suicide etc.

Answer 7

well if someone killed one of my family members i would want them put to death.. if they didnt get put to death then id do it myself..

Answer 8

It's good.

It prevents repeat offenders.