..chair, hanging, or firing squad? or something new and creative that none of us has ever heard before?
2007-12-14 14:38:05 · 28 answers · asked by ? 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes. I like the old Taiwanese method. 9mm in the ear, and you don't kill them until you have someone lined up for the heart, corneas, knees, liver, kidneys, and lungs. You shoot them and immedicately harvest their organs. Win/win.
2007-12-14 14:43:27 · answer #1 · answered by Jack Flanders 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Is this for a college class? I ask because I am a student and 2 women just did a fantastic presentation on it, one for, one against. All have been botched at some point. Lethal injection in recognized as the most humane. If they serve life with no parole, longer to reflect on crime. A person on death row costs more than a life prisoner due to all of their appeals. If I had to be executed, I'd choose lethal injection. They used google search for their info.
2007-12-14 14:47:27 · answer #2 · answered by Melissa F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
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.
2007-12-14 15:06:05 · answer #3 · answered by Susan S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They would both suck and did you know lethal injection is not actually painless? But maybe the shock chair. I don't know. Your suffering either way. I do support the death penalty after years of triaals. Because innocent people do die. While life in preison would make you suffer more. Our money is what is supporting that
2016-05-24 00:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As much as I hate to consider that perhaps by abolishing the death penalty, some idiot perv who rapes a small child will get to live the rest of his or her life, I would have to say nay. It has been proven over and over again that innocent people have been sent to death row, and furthermore, I still slightly have a problem with taking a life deliberately--we don't have the power to choose who gets to live or die.
If I were being executed, I would prefer lethal injection. Kind of puts you to sleep, and you don't remember you're dying if it's done right.
2007-12-14 14:42:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yay, lethal injection. Some people really don't deserve life after the horrible, sick crimes they commit. I wouldn't want the responsibility of the judges who make those decisions, that's for sure.
2007-12-14 14:42:34 · answer #6 · answered by Eternal Love 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, of course. I am a civilized person. Death penalty is for barbarians. There is actually new research showing that death penalty not only does not deter crime, but actually causes more murders. Because people imitate the state. If it is good for the state to murder people it doesn't like, it is good for other people too! Death penalty creates a barbaric society. And to use it for sex crimes is completely unjustified. Sex should be free and available to all! Sex is never a crime!
How I want to die? I like Baystreet's answer. Very creative! Who wouldn't want to die like that?
2007-12-14 15:00:10 · answer #7 · answered by professortvz 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yay and if I had to be executed I choose lethal injection.
2007-12-14 14:47:12 · answer #8 · answered by Big momma panties! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, never. As bad as murder, etc is, it's not nearly as bad as collective murder by judge and jury. The collective decision to commit murder becomes custom. Witness the former Gov. of Texas, where the highest, by far, number of executions took place. When elected President, that whole system became standard operating procedure, and war for no particular reason was accepted as normal.
2007-12-14 15:02:58 · answer #9 · answered by Bob H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yay, i don't want to have to pay so much in taxes for someone to sit in jail for 20 years, trying to get appeal after appeal knowing good and well that they are guilty. And if I was executed I would want the newest form, Oxygen fixation. You basically breath in pure Oxygen and you pass out and never wake up. Kind of like Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Quick and painless.
2007-12-14 14:45:50 · answer #10 · answered by HeisMe 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yay. I would choose lethal injection. I go to sleepy now.....
2007-12-14 14:41:23 · answer #11 · answered by andmic510 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋