Do u believe in the death penalty????

Question

Why and why not? I know for a fact if someone killed my husband or son I would definetely want them to be sitting in old sparky! No question about it!

Answer 1

yep
I also think anyone should be able to see it!!!
back in the olden days they hung people in the middle of the town for everyone to watch and everyone knew what would happen when you do something that bad!!! I don't think now a days people really understand that if you do the crime you will pay! Kids now a days killing other kids, its sad. Everyone locks their doors because of Fear. Watch Little House-- no locks. Do something major, you will die. And everyone will watch you die!! I am all for it and glad I live in a state that does it! Right someone hurts/ kills my family I will stand in the front row clapping till its over-- hell let me pull the switch!!

Answer 2

The Death Penalty is useless now a days anyway. The point of the entire thing was to prevent crime as a deterrence. But most people on death row don't value their own lives or the lives of the people they've killed.

Personally I don't think our prison system works at all. It's violence breeding violence inside a building where if you release an inmate he's going to be more violent and more likely to commit a crime then he was the first time he went in. We need to break that cycle. Prison's should be rebuilt, guards replaced with doctors and all inmates put into a chemical coma while they serve their sentence. They will feel no pain and will not be able to commit more offenses against other inmates and will be unable to interact with the outside world. This will make Prison a more dreaded place, once these people are woken up a few months before they are released they can be mentally evaluated and schooled on the advancements of the outside world. Prison should be a punishment, but should be also safe and easy to maintain.

Answer 3

No I don't believe in the death penalty. Our criminal justice systems is not fool proof and as long as there is a chance that an innocent person is sitting on death row then we shouldn't have a death penalty.

It's a normal reaction for people to want revenge when a loved one is murdered but revenge doesn't not bring you peace of mind. Nothing can bring your loved one back or erase the horror of what happened to them. The death penalty is just one more killing.

I think a worse punishment would be life in prison in total isolation.

Answer 4

No, I have never believed in the death penalty though my friends/family seem to be divided on this issue.

I don't feel that it is a deterrent, and just promotes more violence. I think that life without the possibility of parole is probably a harsher punishment anyhow...who would want to spend the rest of their life in jail?

I also am kind of leery about the death penalty because some of the stories I have read where DNA evidence has exonerated people who were sitting on death row for god knows how many years.

The death penalty is also more likely to be given to defendants who are poor, uneducated, can't afford a good attorney, or are a race other than white.

These are the reasons I don't support the death penalty.

Answer 5

I guess you can say I have 2 views. If it was someone who hurt one of my family members I would probubly be all for it. But on the other hand I was always taught that killing is a sin and that "an eye for an eye" thing. I dont feel that the death penalty really teaches the person anything. Most of the time they stick a needle in thier arm and they fall asleep. Its not like they can be rehabilitated after killing someone but still I dont feel that 2 wrongs will make a right.
The prisions are over crowded and I think that the people in prision should be out there cleaning the highways and other discusting work. Its a tough question because like myself, I do not really believe in it, but I have a feeling that if something ever happened to someone in my family I would probubly have a different view. Not saying that only my family is important but I think it is more personal.
I know I babbling on here but what comes to mind now too is abortion. A mother is killing her her unborn child. Thats another question to post on here.

Answer 6

i do not believe in the death penalty. y can strangers judge you then kill you because they say your decision was a bad one? what if you had a similar basis and reasons to kill someone? because you did not go to fancy schools and have high class education it lessons ur ability to judge for yourself and your actions?
i do not believe in the death penalty but i think something more should be done rather than the guilty bad person be getting free shelter, food and would you believe free education and security in prison!!! millionaires can't even get that kind of treatment for free.
worse of all the very victims of the guilty person is paying for the convict's leisure life!
something else should be the be all and end all other than death row.

Answer 7

And what if that person were later found innocent?

I know for a fact I have a near double who lives in the same city as me. If he were to commit murder, and a witness swears it's me, I'm arrested, convicted, and put to death, what then? What are you going to say to my family? "Oh, sorry," doesn't quite hack it.

Tell you what, I'll rethink the issue if prosecutors who withhold exculpatory evidence from the defense are held liable for murder in the event they convict an innocent person. Think I'm kidding? Do some research. It happens all the time.

Arguing the religious "eye for an eye" doesn't hack it either. Is it not written, "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord."

Also, capital punishment is considered state sanctioned murder. On the death certificate, the cause of death is given as "homicide."

Lastly, take a look at this:

"Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights is an international, non-governmental organization of family members of victims of criminal murder, terrorist killings, state executions, extrajudicial assassinations, and “disappearances” working to oppose the death penalty from a human rights perspective. "

http://www.mvfhr.org/

Of course, I'll never convince any death penalty supporter because they all believe the judicial system never makes a mistake.

Answer 8

i believe giving someone that opportunity is a blessing compared to some of the things that these criminals have done. for serial killers who torture their victims/rape/ect. are getting off easy if they get the death penalty. just think about what they do to people like that in 3rd world countries. yes i believe in the death penalty for people who did without any doubt commit their crimes. however it is a shame that there has probably been plenty of innocent people charged with outrageous crimes and have received the death penalty as well.

Answer 9

150% YES! I would hate to be one of the family member's of the victim associated with the crime and to live the rest of my life wondering if some day the criminal would get out! Laws change all the time! And a criminal could get released on a technicality! The death penalty may be an easy way out but it also spares us tax payers from supporting somebody that destroyed innocent people's lives!

Answer 10

well its a difficult cause there are people on death row who are inosent the law is not always 100 present right and i suppose i do believe in the death penalty if the crime was saver enough maybe but i wouldn't be surprised if there is a few inisent people killed on death row or guys or girls that didnt deserve it

Answer 11

I'm not on either side of the fence, honestly, i just cant deside. In one hand, i think the death penalty is playing GOD, the killer had no right to deside weither or not a person deserves to live or die, so what makes us think we can do the same. But in the other hand, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"