With our prisons overcrowded as they are. What do we do with all the murderers and violent criminals? Should we do away with them? Because they showed no mercy for their victims and to show society we had enough of that behavior. Or should we just lock them up with free room and board? Telling society we will tolerate and condone that type of behavior. Should we have zero tolerance for violent crimes or put them back out on the streets? Because they where such good people society made go wrong.
2007-12-02 03:53:38 · 9 answers · asked by Warren 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
i am big time in favor of the death penalty!!! im tired of housing these sickos who go kill someone then our tax dollars keep them alive that makes my blood boil, this nation has become such a group of pansies and keep making excuses for these killers,child molesters,rapests,all the lowlife is hosed for free in the good ole U.S. no other countries have the problem like we do cause ite all about rights,what about the person they wronged?
2007-12-02 04:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by happy2beme60 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason prisons are overcrowded has very little to do with whether or not we carry out the death penalty. It is a result of at least two other factors. The most significant is that we sentence non violent drug offenders to long terms in prison. Secondly, a large percentage of prisoners suffer from serious and chronic mental illness. In the 1970's, states across the nation began closing mental insitutions with the intention of making community based services available to people with mental illness. That did not come to pass. As a result, many people who would previously have been identified and helped were not and have ended up in prisons
In addition 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. (Of the 124 death row exonerees, at least 50 already served over a decade. If the legal process were speeded up we would be executing innocent people.
2007-12-02 12:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by Susan S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Violent crime actually constitutes a very small percentage of all crime committed and accounts for a small percentage of incarcerated individuals, comparatively speaking. If you want to reduce overcrowding in prisons, the simplest and most effective way would be to take a long, hard look at the criminalization of drugs and its impact on the system. Finding an alternative to incarceration for many of the individuals caught up in that maze would not only relieve prison overcrowding, but would ultimately benefit society as a whole as well. Then, prison space would be available for the worst violent offenders.
2007-12-02 12:59:50 · answer #3 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only people who have not been in prison believe that being in prison is not punishment. The idea of spending even one day in prison scares me to death. Locking a man up in a brutal and unforgiving prison for life is not exactly what I would call condoning his behavior. As to the matter of executions, I think that you will find that the cost of executing a prisoner is greater than the cost of lifetime incarceration.
2007-12-02 12:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by milton b 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free room and board. Why put someone out of his misery? Why not torture them with life in prison? Telling society we will tolerate and condone that type of behavior? Don't see how since we are locking them up
2007-12-02 12:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cruelest punishment for these perpetrators is to be locked up for life and put into the regular inmate population. If they are guilty of anything to do with a crime towards a child, they will get more than their just rewards daily.... Death is too easy for these skumbags.
2007-12-02 12:06:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our prisons are already over crowded to the point of them killing each other. If they kill someone, and there is provable DNA evidence or enough witnesses, they should be killed. If they rape someone, they should have their junk cut off. If they steal something, they should have their finger or hand cut off.
Personally, I support Singapore for their public caning for vandalism.
2007-12-02 12:01:31 · answer #7 · answered by Jade 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think we ought to do like they did in the olden days and get a rope and string them up a tree and let them hang
2007-12-02 12:05:16 · answer #8 · answered by nice3fishinggal 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buy an island off the coast. Fence it off and dump criminals onto it. Let them fend for themselves.
2007-12-02 11:58:05 · answer #9 · answered by 2Negative 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋