How can you agree with capital punishment???

Question

it's immoral and nobody deserves to die, regardless of the crime they commited.

Answer 1

Wrong. Tell that to the parents of a 8 year old that was raped, tortured and murdered. Some people deserve to die for their deeds.

Answer 2

Apart from the moral issues which people can think about based on their religious and ethical beliefs, there are practical things to think about.

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.

Risks of executing 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 3

If you've ever had a family member be a victim of a senseless, violent crime, you might disagree.

Back in 1990, I sat as a jury foreman on a 1st degree murder trial. After the conviction, we were presented with other crimes the man had committed. He was already serving a life sentence for murder and an attempted murder. Under the law of the state I lived in then, you had two choices - life or death, weighed by aggravating or mitigating circumstances.

I would hope you'd see the fact he had already been convicted of 1st degree murder as an aggravating circumstance.

We did and handed down a death sentence.

Answer 4

If U ruined or took away a persons life,like by rape or even bringing a disabled person into the world,then yeah, I think U do deserve the Death Penalty. O.J. Simpson still does! Then let's make it sure and swift then Susan! Even the doctors whom allow disabled people into the world should receive the death penalty

Answer 5

You would not think of it that way if you had my job.

haha Ruth, I am just saying I have seen things that people (either first hand or through crime scene photos) that make me believe the death penalty should be used in some situations.
Ruth see alpha males description, that is exactly what I am talking about.

Answer 6

So you and your boyfriend are out enjoying a nice night together. You get dinner at your favorite restaurant, go see a really good movie and then get some ice cream and go for a walk afterward.

You’re walking arm in arm think that life is perfect. Out of nowhere a van screams up to the curb, the sliding door flies open and four men in black ski masks grab you and your boyfriend and throw you in the van.

Once in the van they blind fold you, tape your mouth shut and bind your hands and feet. After a long, frightful and quiet ride, the van comes to stop and you hear the door open. Two men pick you up and carrying you into an old house. When they take the blindfold off you, the first thing you see is your boyfriend changed to a cement wall on the other side of the room. His mouth is duct taped shut and he is completely immobile, all he can do is stare into your frightened eyes.

Just then, the men from the van come in and grab you. They rip your clothes off of you, and take turns brutally beating, raping and violating you, all while your boyfriend is forced to watch.

After hours of excruciating abuse, the men tire with you and turn their attention to your boyfriend. They tie you the same way he’s tied up and force you to watch as they torture and maim him. Cutting him, stabbing him, burning him with cigarettes, stabbing his eyes, cutting off his fingers until he passes out; that’s when they pull out guns and empty more rounds into his body than you care to count.

Then they turn their attention back to you. They repeat the senseless abuse for days until finally they decide to just kill you. They do so in the same manner they killed your boyfriend.

Answer 7

There, I disagree--some crimes are so brutal that the perpetratoredoes merit death.

However, I do not approve of capital punishment for two reasons:
1) It gives the state to legally take the life o fthe citizen. That is a dangerous and unnecessary power to hand over to the state.
2) NO systemis perfect. In my own state in the last 5 years, 6 people on death row have been proven to be innocent of the crimes for which they were condemned to death for. Allowing capital punishment is not needed to protect society--life inprison will do that. And as long as capital punishment is allowed, we, as a society, are condoning the killing of at least some innocent people. THAT is unacceptable in a civilized society.

Answer 8

eye for an eye.

I think people should be executed, but only if they knew without a doubt that they were guilty (confession, DNA, etc).

They should execute more people than they do now, and it shouldn't take 20 years for it to happen. What is the point of supporting all of these people who don't deserve to breath after (killing kids, etc) with our tax money? I don't even eat 3 meals a day, but a child killer does?

Or if not execution, they should castrate men who are rapists, etc (you get the picture).

Answer 9

wow ....how Nieves can you be ???

examine this scenario:
lets say hypothetically,,,, there was a deranged "rapist" at large he breaks into your parents home then brutality murders your dad with a kitchen knife,, while your mother watches then molests and rapes her repeatedly and then attacks her with the same knife that killed your dad,,leaving her for dead and bleeding ,,,upon his exit he then defecates on then floor of your house,,,, then turns to your family pet and slices it up for no reason other than just being plain EVIL.
now
you as a conscious human being,,,,,, how could you sit there and say this person doesn't deserve to die...

it's evident that your heart is in the right place and you mean well......But please realize , as gruesome as the scenario sounded, this kind of crap happens every day in every city in our nation......you can only control the Evil by eliminating the Evil all to gather

Answer 10

Has anyone noticed that the U.S. is the only Western liberal democracy left in the entire world that still allows capital punishment? Yes, people do commit disgusting, vicious, horrible crimes for which there is no remorse and it is the worst part of being human. But, to those who support capital punishment (in all seriousness): Could you be their executioner? Could you really do that and say to yourself for the rest of your life that that person died because of the direct actions of myself? I know that I couldnt. I do agree that some people deserve to die for the horrible things that they do, but I know that I could never give them that sentence. And if you think that you should sentence someone to die because the law allows it or because its what other people believe, then you are wrong. The whole point of our political system is that we have the ability to change laws, just like this one.

Answer 11

The main reason I don't believe in capital punishment is because if someone has done something to deserve it.. then death would be letting them off easy.... I guess that makes me a little sadistic though ;P