If a person commits a premeditated murder, that is they planned it out, stalked the victim, then brutaly murders them, but then confesses to it, does the confession take away the possibility of the death sentence?
2007-12-19 07:08:29 · 5 answers · asked by melowd 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The DA may take the death penalty off the table to save the time, cost and trauma of a trial.
2007-12-19 07:22:20 · answer #1 · answered by Rick T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you believe should happen to someone who murders someone, weather they planned it or not, someone is dead and a punishment need to given. I don't believe that our policies here in the U.S. are clear enough to make a decision about the death penalty. There are so many innocent people in prison right now, that we could not even begin to bring justice into this. With that being said, even if the person that was killed was someone that I loved, daughter, son, mother, father, I still would not feel that I or, my government had the right to kill them. If you are religious then you know what will happen to that person, and that is worse than any punishment that any human can think to give out.
2007-12-19 07:20:42 · answer #2 · answered by Akissyha B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. The DA may choose not to seek the death penalty in exchange for a plea, but the criminal still committed all the elements necessary to impose the death penalty.
2007-12-19 07:14:50 · answer #3 · answered by scottclear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. It is merely another piece of evidence.
2007-12-19 07:11:44 · answer #4 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not always.
2007-12-19 07:52:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋