how should a murder be punished?

Question

should a murderer be killed by the death penalty!??
or just put in jail! with all the other criminal ( people who robbed etc?
in my opinion they deserve the death penalty!
thats my answer

Answer 1

Punishment should take into consideration the age of the offender and circumstances surrounding the crime. In the worst offenses life imprisonment should be the punishment.

I am against the death penalty for the following reasons:

We execute only poor people in this country for the most part: almost all people on death row had public defenders.

There are a number of people each year on death row who have their convictions overturned because they were innocent.

The cost of the automatic appeal process for capital offenders in my state (California) averages $10 million per each person on death row. It is far cheaper not to execute the offenders.

Because our judicial system makes mistakes in every state I will not support the death penalty.

Answer 2

It is good that you are asking this question- shows that you do have an open mind. You don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people. Your question is much too important to settle on the basis of sound bites or without answers to these.

125 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 those 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

If everyone who is convicted of a capital crime were irrefutably guilty, I'd probably be less anti-death penalty, but I've lived in a state that has actually argued that innocence of a crime is not evidence that a conviction was the result of an unfair trail, and thus not grounds for overturning the death penalty sentence. That pretty much made me think that life in prison is our best option. A guy can be released after serving 25 years if new evidence or new science techniques clear him, but he can not be un-killed.

I do believe some people are so badly broken that there is little we can do to fix them, and they must be separated from other people for the rest of their natural lives. However, due to human error and human arrogance and the irreversibility of the "final solution," I say what they "deserve" and what is logical are two different things.

Answer 4

As much as I would want to see a murderer be killed, I would rather see him or her languish in jail. I look at jail as a slow and painful process towards death.

Answer 5

I think there should be public hangings,firing squads,and the good old guillotine!.Let the people see what the alternative is before they committ a crime.,raping and murdering of a child,they don't care,show them what to expect first!

Answer 6

Hard Labor not just lay around being hand fed the rest of there life

Answer 7

I do not believe in killing, I do however believe in punishment.

I would say that the murder should do hard labor for the rest of his life until he dies.

Answer 8

i tihnk that they should be put in jail for an actual life sentence, like until they die! and in maximum security so they are completely isolated, that would be worse than death!

Answer 9

life imprisonment with hard labor...so that other people get scared of his punishment and don't dare to repeat the samething again.