Oy, vey, who believes in the death penalty? if you do, just give a thumbs up to?

Question

the answerer you most agree with.

Answer 1

Much too important for a one word 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.

Answer 2

Death penalty is totally and unconditionally alien to my world-view. For me, a "civlized government" seeing killing its citizens as one of its tasks is even worse than individual, deluded murderers killing others out of distorted mind, mental sickness, bad upbringing, uncontrollable craving or hate, or whatever.

Crime is a big problem, and of course can't be swept under the carpet, but deliberate killing or any other expressions of revenge and hate is definitely not a solution. One wrong doesn't make another wrong right - that would be letting the criminals themselves dictate our society.

And just a side-note: why give the punishment to the convicts parents, children and brothers and sisters? How would you feel if for example your own mother or daughter was sentenced to death?

Answer 3

The death penalty is right. Who do we HAVE to be to condone it ? It just takes one person to step up and say, "I'll pull the switch...doesn't bother me". I really don't care about deterring others from killing...just get one killer off the street at a time...with death you can GUARANTEE they won't do it again. As far as the circular argument that 'killing to teach people not to kill' ...it makes perfect sense...remember 30 years ago how your mother would slap your hand if you slapped someone ? You realized what pain felt like, realized the consequences of your actions and realized what it was. If you knew you would get the exact same punishment as what you did, you'd stop. You kill enough murderers, quickly, and they WILL realize it's a real punishment and I would venture to guess that we would see murders go down. In the unlikely event you wouldn't see that, what do you lose ? Less scum on the earth. It's a win-win.

I've said it before; with the advent of technology, the bleeding-heart mentality of society, the absence of personal responsibility, virtually NO ONE gets wrongly convicted now. I've also said before, people get paroled that were to have 'life' sentences, get off on technicalities, etc. And just ONE child being killed by a wrongly released animal is one too many. I could morally live with a wrongly-convicted execution than a tortured, abused and murdered child by a repeat-offender that we released anyday.

'Morally bankrupt ? Close their account for good'

Works for me.

Too many good, moral people to help than to waste resources on evil ones.

Answer 4

Who are we to take another person's life away? What if it was you sitting in the chair? Life is priceless and should not be ended by our means. Is it not bad enough that so many soldiers die at war? Why do we want to kill more? Life is more valuable than death.

Answer 5

It's not as simple an issue as some people make it out to be. I totally support death for the guilty, but unfortunately, in our "justice" system the innocent often get convicted.

Answer 6

The death penalty is a premeditated killing, and is therefore murder.

There is too many issues with it, and there is evidence showing that it is not a deterrent.

Civilized nations should follow their own laws.

Answer 7

i would give thumbs up but i am just on level one so thumbs up to Raves With A Grin!! because i feel just as he does. i say let them rot in prison. murder is murder is murder, no matter who thinks they are above the law of man or the law of God.

it's as if the courts and prisons say...u are forbidden to kill, but if u do...we're gonna kill u...huh?

Answer 8

Death penalty is needed... ask those who have been wronged by the people who deserve the gallows

Answer 9

The death penalty is state-sponsored barbarism.

Answer 10

if a part on an assembly line is poorly made, you throw it back in the smelter.