Why do the pro death penalty people always assume that those of us who oppose the death penalty don't care

Question

about the victims? I do care about the victims and their families a whole lot...I just don't believe that we have the right to take another person's life even if that person committed the most heinous crimes. Also there is always the possibility of putting an innocent person to death. So even one mistake is just unacceptable!...Killing should only be in self-defense. I think that life without the possibility of parole is a much better punishment for some of the worst psychopaths in our world. Why? people like that don't fear death anyway. People say things like "but what if they escape, what if they get pardoned and go out and do it again?'...well the chances of that happening are extremely slim. What we should do is let the prisoner decided if he/she wants to die and let them do it themselves! ...let's also force them to pay restitution to the victims and the people they hurt. It makes more sense like that!

GOD BLESS NEW JERSEY!!!

I'm anti on both the death penalty and abortion!

Answer 1

Agreed. Actually many victims families have said that the death penalty process causes more pain to them than life without parole. (http://www.njadp.org/forms/signon-survivor.html for statements of victims families before the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission)

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.

Answer 2

pro choice is not anti-life. it's letting the mom choose whether to keep the baby. most pro-choice people don't want the baby to be aborted, but also believe the mother should be forced to keep it. For some reason, it is not well known that you can just give ur baby to the fire dept and they'll take care of it (at least in the US) Pro life people who are pro death penalty may believe in the saying "an eye for an eye". if you kill a fetus that has done nothing wrong, it's sinful. if you kill a man who killed five girls, it's even. personally i think they should return to the system of prison they had before (where everyone was forced to be clean, and there was a lot less freedom and problems) and keep them alive, because death is the easy way out.

Answer 3

Criminal Law is about punishment, or more specifically about punishing criminals on behalf of the society. I do not see death penalty as punishment. They get zap or injected and they are gone.

People arguing for death penalty usually focus on the victim or the victim's family. That is NOT what criminal law is about. We don't kill a criminal as compensation to the victim's family. If they want compensation, sue in civil court and get money.

About the only argument I can accept for pro-death penalty is the deterrent effect for future criminals. But then the same can be said for life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Answer 4

*always* is a strong word, and never applies in reality. This is simply a difference in opinion, we are humans, it happens. Thank goodness we have the right to have and voice our own opinions. I think the death penalty, abortion, and right to die issue are all individual and personal decisions, each case for each person will have its own circumstances with need to be considered individually. I live in Michigan, we have no death penalty here. In my opinion for certain cases, the death penalty is appropriate, but the process i states that do have it are too costly and time consuming, so I do not hope to have it in Michigan anytime soon. Abortions are a very personal decision, and should be left to the people who are directly involved, should it be used as birth control? NO, should it be a choice in certain circumstances? YES. Right to die is another personal choice, and I feel that is a right we all should have if we are terminally ill. I do not want to be forced to live my last days in pure agony just because other people are applying their personal religious beliefs to my life and death. Again it is a personal decision that each of us should have the right to make, or not make for that matter.

Answer 5

It's an emotional argument used when empirical arguments fail. The death penalty is not a deterrent, does not save money and is unequally imposed on the poor. Every year now more falsely convicted people are released from death row. No question that some criminals "deserve" to die, but that has nothing to do with whether the Government has the right to kill them.

Answer 6

i am pro death penalty. i am confident that we are all concerned about the victims. but i am sixk of paying for losers to live out there lives with my tax dollars. i understand the possible innocence side and firmly believe that we need to be strict with it. but why should we pay to keep someone locked up that will never see the light of day again anyway?

Answer 7

some people assume those anti-death penalty (us) don't care because it already registered in their minds that we oppose death penalty for having mercy on suspects rather than victims and their family,,, well, there are special sayings here on earth " you'll never know it until it happens to you",, just because they are the family of the victims,, anger pushes them to kill the suspect through death penalty,,, but if they are not related to the victim like me,, i'll say no to death penalty because there is no anger inside of me,,, and that,, i can think humane because i'm calm,,, but when someone hurts me or anyone related to me,, "i'll be a pro-death penalty",, but as of now,, i'm anti-death penalty",, it depends on your mood,,, by chances,, and how you manage and control yourself

Answer 8

If a dog goes mad you shoot it because:

a) Given the chance it will bite you again

b) It's no use to anyone

c) It costs the taxpayer ridiculous amounts of money to protect the rest of us from your dog.

Oh, and I know a person is not a dog (apart from the fact that most dogs are nicer than most people) but when you cease to behave like a human-being you lose the right to be treated like one.

Or do you just get free board and lodgings for life, colour TV, conjugal visits, medical care, etc, etc, and spend all that spare time trying to figure out a way of hurting someone else?

There are people who should not be here - they rape children, they torture and kill, they murder large numbers people in schools because they are suffering from angst.

Hang 'em.

Answer 9

gud question, but the death penalty should be in place, but only for terrorist crimes which the prosecutors are 110% sure that those people were responsible, the same for people who have murdered more than once. other murderers should just be locked up for life

Answer 10

A family whose loved one has been raped, murdered, kidnapped or all three of the above - is a tiny bit pissed at the people totally uninvolved in their intense emotional pain at having their lives trashed - who campaign FOR the heartless monster who caused pain and death to their loved one. (not too difficult to comprehend I would think) Stay home - don't protest in public. Protest with your vote if you wish but don't publicly side with the sociopath who if he did get out, would repay you with a painful death kidnapping murder etc..