What are your thoughts about it? I live in a state with a high murder rate,and it only has life with no paroll. Should michigan bring in the needle to send a message?
2007-11-12 03:38:20 · 6 answers · asked by downriverguy66 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
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.
2007-11-12 03:57:06 · answer #1 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are your thoughts about it? I live in a state with a high murder rate,and it only has life with no paroll. Should michigan bring in the needle to send a message?
Personally I’d be for life without parole, if it meant that, but they have been MANY cases where someone who received LWOP who are out of jail or who received parole. No, I’m not talking about people who appealed and won or escaped, I talking about people who have been pardoned or received parole.
In one case a man got LWOP, went to the parole board, who modified the sentence from LWOP to life with possibility of parole, then later gave him parole, he then in gratitude killed someone.
LWOP should only mean one thing, you go to jail and when you die we’ll let you out, no pardon, no parole. No I don’t care that you have cancer, or your mom died, I don’t care that you’re a changed person, I don’t care what good you’ve done while behind bars, you get to stay in jail until you die, nothing more, nothing less. Until LWOP means that Ill support capital punishment.
2007-11-12 12:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by Richard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in the Electric Chair, I believe in Electric Bleachers!!! the needle is too humane. I believe in eye for an eye. Yes Yes and Yes Michigan should get rid of these interesting people who seem to prey on all of us. I have no mercy for the evil doings of our scum bags. They are a burdon on our already over stressed system. The goverment seems to care more for the criminals rights then those of the victims and thier familys. All we do is build more and more prisons, we need to take a stand now!!!
2007-11-12 13:44:59 · answer #3 · answered by J.C. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 50/50 on this issue.
I am only for the DP because some people deserve to die and not live out their lives in prison.
Not for it as a deterrent because as we have seen, it is not. AND I'd prefer to have someone live their life out in a cell, But change it so they suffer more so in prison. ie no tv, no visits, 23 hours lock down. Of course this is for the most serious offenders.
2007-11-12 11:48:03 · answer #4 · answered by zzyzx08 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they suffer more when they get life anyway, imagine, living your life confine to a cell 22 hours a day for the rest of your life, shoot death is the easy way out.
2007-11-12 12:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by Htown chick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel it is ever right to kill someone. You can't say that a person is evil because they killed, and turn around and kill them. Why is that murder okay?
Put them in prison for life, and it allows you to keep them from society, and not be a hypocrite.
2007-11-12 11:51:31 · answer #6 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋