Does anyone else think that the Death Penalty is not being used to its full potential?

Question

I support it for almost any crime.

Go Texas!!! You do it right! We had it in Illinois until our former P.O.S. Governor suspended it before leaving office.

Answer 1

absolutely

China executes around 30,000 people a year, and tell me, how could a billion people be wrong?


All joking aside, Prison only makes more effective criminals, and some criminals will NEVER be reformed

Answer 2

This issue is way too important to decide without information on how the capital punishment system actually functions.

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 3

yeah i think murder=death penalty. And i think the death should be slow and very torturing

Answer 4

yes and no, rapist , child molesters and murderers /terrorist only should die for the crimes they do and most drug dealers to like crack and meth sh-it like that I'm for it, man ***** it I'm going back to Texas when I'm done with school

Answer 5

Yup. Why wait, kill 'em on the spot. They let these rapist, murders and child molesters sit too long, just do that damn thing and make more room....

Answer 6

i agree. should i say who should ALWAYS get the death penalty? child molesters. murderers.

Answer 7

i dont believe in the death penalty.

Answer 8

yeah, people sit on death row for way too long.

Answer 9

i agree with you.Why waste the money,they say we don't have enough of.That's why we have so much crime.

Answer 10

I agree!!