What is your view on capital punishment?

Question

Is it better to have a murderer or someone that did a really awful crime get executed or suffer in jail for life? I don't have a view yet.

Answer 1

My dad's in prison for a crime he did not commit,
so you get the point,
I don't agree with it unless their is PROOF

Answer 2

Things being the way they are in the U.S. Justice System, I'm against Capital Punishment. Foremost because there is too much risk for executing a person who is innocent. People are wrongly convicted all the time, or convicted with little physical evidence and testimony from shady witnesses.
Imagine if you were minding your own business at home, work, or just driving around, and all of a sudden you're arrested, interrogated, charged with a murder you didn't commit, convicted based on circumstantial evidence by a jury who thinks you look guilty, and sentenced to death. It happens to people. You hear about it all the time: Death Row inmate released after DNA test proves his innocence. Aaron Patterson in Illinois is an example that comes to mind.
Do you know what the criteria is to getting an appeal? It's insane! You practically have to have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, not only that the person convicted didn't do it, but clear evidence that can point to who the actual guilty person is (DNA or fingerprints, for example).

Answer 3

Well, I just learned a few things!

Yes, I suppose that there is little proof that capital punishment deters crime.
However, in my opinion, when a person is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, then I favor execution.

Worth noting are the top five nations to carry out executions last year:
1. China (at least 1,010 but sources suggest the real tally is between 7,500 and 8,000)
2. Iran (177)
3. Pakistan (82)
4. Iraq (at least 65)
5. Sudan (at least 65)
6. United States (53)

Puts us in some great company, no?

Answer 4

interior the Christian Bible you will locate arguments the two for and against capital punishment (as is actual with maximum matters). there are various passages interior the previous testomony that help capital punishment, many times for particularly elementary offenses: - Adultery (Leviticus 20:10) - Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:sixteen) - Breaking the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14 & 15) - Disobedient infants (Exodus 21:15 & 17; Leviticus 20:9) - Homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13) - no longer being a virgin on your wedding ceremony night (yet given which you're a woman - Deuteronomy 22:20-21) despite the fact that, the recent testomony (starring Jesus) is generally ANTI-death penalty. as an occasion: - Matthew 5:7 (Jesus praises mercy) - Matthew 5:38-39 (Jesus rejects "a look ahead to a watch") - James 4:12 (GOD is the only one that could take a existence interior the call of justice) - Romans 12:17-21 (do no longer answer evil with evil; God will see to justice interior the afterlife) - John 8:7 (all people are imperfect, and hence unqualified again to a determination no remember if somebody lives or dies) - James a million:20 (my own famous: "For the wrath of guy worketh no longer the righteousness of God.") there are various, many useful problems with capital punishment (that I won't get into right here), yet in basic terms from a ethical point of view, it extremely is notably sparkling that Jesus did no longer help it. actual CHRISTians shouldn’t, the two.

Answer 5

I personaly would rather have them suffer for the rest of their lives. Put them in the worst jail ever, forever. Death penalty doesnt really deter most people. So it just undermines the morality of the state, by trying to have 2 wrongs make a right. Plus I think jail forever is much worse than just being painlessly executed. Especialy if you are locked up with a bunch of other psychos stuck in a weird survival game for the rest of your life. Not to mention if you find out someone was really not guillty you could always release them. Its better to let 10 killers go free than for the government to murder innocent people. That makes the gov no better than the criminals and undermines its authority and perceived morality.

Answer 6

A few years ago i would have sed its a good thing, but since then there have been so many reports of innocent people serving time as they were wrongly accused etc and then being let free when it has immerged that they did not commit the crime. So on the basis of that id say jail is better. If you are fully guilty of the crime and there are no appeals or any wrong doings by the law then the time inside should sort them out, if your not guilty etc then the time inside gives you time to sort out your appeal etc instead of just being killed for something you didnt do.

Answer 7

Funny you should ask. I just watched a news program about Ray Krone who spent over 10 years on death row and was completely exonerated and released. He was convicted based on faulty forensics, TWICE. Holy Cow!!

Also, in the state of Illinois, about 5 years ago, 13 INNOCENT men were released from death row.

And the number of innocent people that have been put to death that were innocent is too frightening to consider. And there are documented cases. Florida seems to have a couple. For shame!!

If punishment is our goal then sitting in prison would seem to be very adequate punishment.

States that use the death penalty have a HIGHER incidence of homicide, especially of law enforcement personnel. (to avoid detection)

So, as a matter of practicality, the death penalty is NOT the answer and just who made us GOD!?!?!

I'm not a Christian, nor do I agree with most religions but it seems to me that killing is wrong. Period.

Call the death penalty exactly what it is and that is PREMEDITATED MURDER, making us all accomplices.

Peace.

EDIT: Most of the money that is spent for prisons is paid to staff. It costs as much to house one prisoner as it does to house a hundred, about $30,000 a year. (direct quote from a Warden) So, that means that people have JOBS. NOT that prisoners have luxuries. On the other hand it costs $2.5 MILLION to put someone to death. (That figure is old, I'm sure it is much higher now) So, if it's economics that is the issue, then logic, AGAIN, dictates that the death penalty makes no sense.

Answer 8

I have gone back and forth over this and I think I finally decided that the murderer should be made to sit in jail forever instead of executing them. I think losing their freedom for the rest of their life is much more harsh than executing them.

Answer 9

I believe if a person murders, rapes a baby or a young child, or any one for that fact, or any of the horrible thing they do, YES they deserve to die, on the spot, if they have the dna, and theirs no question, YES the need to DIE, I can hardly stand it when they show little girls, 6 7 8 yrs old, and these men, say they don't know why they did it!!!!! why they killed them and dismembered their bodiesYES YES YES, how many rapists are setting on death row, what a joke death row, its begining to sound like a country club. My best friends sister was murdered a year ago by some nut, he's in jail, we are waiting to go to the parole hearing in a few years, I don't know why they didn't give him the death sentence????? the piece of **** said he did it????????? I hope this opens up your eye's an eye for an eye they should all die!!!!!!

Answer 10

I don't believe one murder justifies another murder, whether legal or not. Also, think of all the people recently, that were in prison, and thanks to DNA evidence which they didn't have when they were put in prison, it has been proven that they were not guilty. What if that person had been executed? We would have been murdering an innocent person. Would that then mean that all the jurors, the judge, and the prosecuting attorney should be tried for murder?

Answer 11

For the really horrible crimes, I think justice points to the ultimate penalty which is death. What I would do is have all death penalty cases carefully reviewed to make sure there is almost no doubt that the person being executed is guilty of the crime.