Do you believe in Capital Punishment?

Question

If so, for what crimes?

Answer 1

This question needs more than a quick yes or no or for slogans.

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

Capital Punishment ticks me off. It isn't because I don't believe in it. It is because of all the people that say it is cruel and unusual.

I think that when ever someone is murdered, and the guilty person is caught and found guilty. Then I think that they should be put to death in the same manor as their victim. Take John Couey, for instance. He has now been found guilty of kidnapping a 9 year old little girl and taking from her bed at her father and grandparent's house in the middle of the night. He then kept her in a closet and raped her over and over. Then he put her (very much alive) in two big black trash bags and then buried her in the yard not more than 500 feet from her own house. She died while trying to dig her way out.
I think he should be treated the same way and who cares if it is cruel and unusual? Did he care when he killed Jessica?

That's just my opinion and not a very popular one I might add.

Answer 3

Looks like I am really in the minority here. I don't believe one murder justifies another murder, whether you call the legal murder an execution or what ever. Lock them up and throw away the key, yes. No parole. But, 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 those people had been executed? We would have been murdering an innocent people. Would that then mean that all the jurors, the judge, and the prosecuting attorney should be tried for murder and conspiracy to commit? How could anyone live with knowing they had caused the death of an innocent person?

Answer 4

Yes, I believe in Capital Punishment in cases of premeditated murder, gross torture of a child in any manner and convicted serial murderers. Yes, I realize that the judicial system is not without flaws but I say this as a mother and someone who has witnessed gross neglect and torture of an innocent child by the hands of their own parents. No one that I personally know but through my experiences at work.

As for those who believe that too many innocent lives will be sacrificed. I think with the advancements in genetics there will be a much greater safeguard against the death of the innocent.

Answer 5

I sure would like to know how many of the people above me who said YES to this question also claim to be AGAINST ABORTION because they are RIGHT-TO-LIFERS???? If you are PRO-life, then you are pro--ALL LIFE --anything else would be hypocritical... I am FOR capital punishment AND PRO-CHOICE so therefore I am not being a hypocrit... however, I am for capital punishment for the crimes of ---SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST A CHILD, murder of a POLICE or FIREMAN in or OUT of the line of duty, rape, and murder of a Government leader.....(President or Vice)....

Answer 6

Very much so, mostly murder. If there was more of this then there would be less crime. I promise you start hangings in the town square and all things would be better. make you think twice before committing a crime.

Answer 7

Its a hard question to answer. The system is not perfect, there are people that literally get away with murder because of their wealth ( Phil Spector, OJ Simpson)

When you are poor and have committed murder, you will get a court appointed attorney and wind up on death row.

Answer 8

yes but only if the person in question is retried for the crime and found guilty but another 12 people !

Answer 9

No! Why set him free with death.
let the offender suffer a long uncomfortable existence in a dark damp dungeon. tease him with videos of pretty girls and the scent of a steak dinner. fed him only flour soup.

Answer 10

in Afghanistan the tribes have a law that says if one person is disrespected he is allowed to take revenge. The rate of murder in this area is significantly lower than that in NY. an NY is considered the safest city in the world.