Should the death penalty be abolished?

Question

please logically evaluate your question and write a valid argument please tell me whats on your mind??

Answer 1

A reason to say yes is because refer back to Machiavelli. He argues that very harsh punishment will keep strong order in a society.

This will at least scare some felony commiters and would refrain them from doing so.

Think outside the box about how harsh punishments would affect those outside the prison. They would think twice before they commit strong felonies.

But I think they should change it to no death penalty and instead, put people in a room with nothing to do for eternity with strong security, but still feed them because I think no one deserves to die, only by time. This would still scare a lot of people and they would be more careful.

A LOT of innocent people have been executed for the wrong reasons. If they put them in for eternity, maybe someday they will be proven innocent with new evidences and be freed!

Answer 2

Yes. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation in several answers you received. Sources below.

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. Many americans are rethinking their views, given the facts and the records on innocent people sentenced to death.

What about the risk of executing innocent people?
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence.

Doesn't DNA keep new cases like these from happening?
DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

Doesn't the death penalty 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 do not.

So, what are the alternatives?
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.

But isn't the death penalty cheaper than keeping criminals in prison?
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.

What about the very worst crimes?
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?

Doesn't the death penalty help families of murder victims?
Not necessarily. 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.

So, why not speed up the process?
Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

Answer 3

I think so. Many death row inmates have been exhonerated by new DNA evidence. I have heard as many as 25% innocent. Even if it were only 1% I am opposed to executing any innocent person. And It will definitely happen.

I will add something. Should the death sentence remain in place, another form of execution is needed. The method should allow the harvesting of viable body organs to be used for transplant. No matter how horrible the crime, the opportunity should be given the condemned to make the last act of their life a good one.

To the one wanting application of Bible laws: I am assuming you are also in favor of bringing back stoning for adultry? As well as the punishment for breaking the Sabbath for walking through a grain field? You might look into immigrating to Saudi. Those laws are all in effect there.

Answer 4

No.
In fact, the use of the death penalty should be
expanded to include politicians or corporate
officials who steal or otherwise misuse public
or general funds in an amount exceeding what
a minimum wage worker might earn in a forty
year career.
If the damage to society is the equivalent of a
life of labor, and the crime is premeditated,
the penalty should be the same as
for murder.
No more six month sentences for fat cats!

Answer 5

Well, I myself feel the death penalty isn't used enough by all means, in the cases of murder!!! Why should tax payers have to support a prisoner who has commited the worst crime in the world? Murder!!! I truely and strongly belief that anyone that murders another human being should be put to death immediately!!! When found guilty!!! of such a horrible crime!!!
And no age limits either!!! We have Kids killing parents and kills now!!!

I also believe that Child Molesters should be put under the crime punishment of the death penalty!!! Now the laws say keep them in prison for life, well now theres another tax payers debt!!! Prisons and jails are always full, why not empty them out of Molesters and Murders and give them all the death penalty! Which they truely deserve because there a danger to the public and they don't deserve to live the rest of there lives in prisons and jails and be fed everyday until they die of old age!!! That money to support them losers can be used for a better service for all the Drunks and Drug addicts!

The laws are getting so weak on such cases as murder now! lawyers are getting killers off death row and life sentences now! Hell there are many people that only serve 7- 10 years in prison for murdering people now! Is that all a human beings life is worth now! Come on were spending billions of dollars killing the 9-11 terrorist! By getting rid of the death penalty would only cause more and more murders!!!

Life in prison today is a easy street for killers, why anyone feels that's better then just doing away with them! has to be completely insane! They took a innocent life, and there life should be taken away for doing such a act to someone! Sure you can say, Two wrongs don't make it right! Well then , why are we at war then with Iraq and Afghanistan??? We have enough killings going on everyday now, we need to show the crazy people that if they kill someone, there life is over too! Once everyone knows that if they take a life, there life will be taken, Not let them spend the rest of of there lives in prison!

I would like a law to pass, where if someone kills someone, the family members of the victim that was killed! They get to take the killers life by law!!! The court systems are getting softer and softer every year with murders and drunks and big changes need to be made to let the world know murders and drunk drivers and molesters no longer get a free pass to a life in prison!

You take a Life, you lose your Life! Putting them in prison is not taking away there Life! They stopped someone from growing old! so they shouldn't have that right to grow olds either!!! Plain and simple!!! Drunk drivers, you take away there drivers licenses and they keep driving!!! You put them in jail, then they finally get out and head to the bar!!! What do they learn? nothing!!! They just do it over and over and over! and may take some Life's on the way!!! and then they should get the death penalty immediately!!!

And all the child molesters should be severly punished along with rapists! First time convicted, Have a law that they have to have an operation so there sex organ no longer works for molesting and rapeing! It will only work to use the restroom, Period!!! Now we Won't have them filling up the prisons and jails anymore either, saving tax payers lots of money!!!

SO NO! THE DEATH PENALTY SHOULD NEVER BE DONE AWAY WITH !(EVER!) And it should be used way more often!!! For all MURDERS! No if's and But's about it!

Answer 6

It should be abolished.


If the courts order the execution of someone because they murdered someone, that stoops the courts down to that person's level.

Capital punishment and the death penalty are unethical and immoral. Not to mention, it's an easy way out of punishment.

Answer 7

No.

1. The Bible DEMANDS it for capital crimes, whether Godless secular liberals like it or not. All true morality, as summarized by the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) comes from the word of God.
2. There are monsters and other vermin in our society that ought to be exterminated.
3. If such monsters and vermin are not exterminated, then they continue to prey on society. They are PREDATORS! Get it? PREDATORS! And, the best way to remove predators is by execution.
4. Execution IS a deterrent. One predator at a time, if not more widely than that.
5. Liberals against capital punishment quickly become quite conservative in this matter, once a child or other relative of theirs is victimized by such a monster.

I rest my case.

Answer 8

It seems cruel because basically its murder. But think about it. If someone is a serial killer/rapist, ect. do you really want them to have the possibility of getting out of prison, or just knowing that theyve hurt so many people and that they are still living. Im sorry but I think its better that they die. Yeah a life for a life, of course its not gonna bring anyone back, but oh well. It gives you some peace of mind.

Answer 9

No it should not. There are certain crimes for which there is no other appropriate punishment. In addition, society should not be required to pay the cost of keeping someone alive who clearly does not deserve to live. To every action there is a equal and opposite reaction, this law of physics should also extend to violent criminals.

Answer 10

No, it should be expanded. Anyone whose sentence would keep him imprisoned until the age of 85 or older should have their sentence changed to death. This would cut down prison overcrowding and costs. Who says a life sentence has to be a long sentence?