Death Penalty?

Question

What is your opinion?

Well I basically dont agree or disagree. But I do believe that if one committed a crime they should be punish according to what they did.

Well I like all your answers.

Answer 1

I think that murderers should be tortured in the same fashion they tortured their victims. You beat someone and leave them for dead, you get the same. If you hit someone in a car, you get hit. If you slit someon's throat or drown them, you get the same.... I think that if that were the penalty for crimes there would be a lot less of it. The other issue here is not only the death penalty but the inconsistencies among the states on how to deal with parole ( who gets it and when), parole violators especially those who commit crimes of the same nature and which crimes the death penalty can be applied to. For example, it is a proven medical fact that sexual and possibly violent offenders (especially abusive ones) CANNOT be rehabilitated. They need the death penalty immediately!

Answer 2

Pretty easy and straight forward an answer if you ask me. Statistics show that violent criminals just return to the streets and commit violent crimes again. One recently came up with a figure of 18 people on the average could be saved by just putting murderer's to death. Modern day psychiatry seems to always think they can slap a bandaid on those with such behaviour but that's essentially what it is. Once the human mind and psychy has gone as far as to murder, rape, etc then it is generally desensitized to the severity of the crime..or the pain of those they've victimized.
Some claim that capital punishment costs more than life time inprisonment. I don't know the stats on that, but if by some miracle that it isn't a liberal hoax just to gain sympathy, we as a state need to take matters into our own hand and bring down the cost. Throwing a switch or inserting a needle should cost more than lifetime inprisonment.
And what is the pay back for inprisonment ? a clearer conscious ? That's a heavy price to pay at the cost of society being victimized again by someone we already caught once before. It isn't like you'll find the next Motzart, Monet or Sheakspear in prison. The people that are interested in a bighter tomorrow and want to build a new world don't generally surcome to the urge to become vicious orblood thirsty

Answer 3

I am against the dead penalty. Someone is committing murder to kill the criminal and that is no more right than being a criminal who committed the crime. The justice system has sent to many innocent people to jail. If they are guilty, it's worth housing them the rest of their days just for the mental torture of thinking about what they did day and out until they die. Then they will face true judgment.

Answer 4

I am for the death penalty however, justice being what it is in the US, I think it should be banned. Too many loop holes in the law and if you have alot of money, you can get away with murder. If you are poor, you get the axe. Look at the lawyers who are famous because they flound a way to get their clients off, and got rich and famous doing it. Also, alot of "famous" people seem to get off, for instance, Kobe Bryant, OJ, Robert Blake. The premise behind the death penalty is a good one, but it has to be absolute justice with no dollar sign involved. Too many innocent people are found guilty, and too many guilty people are set free.

Answer 5

I believe the punishment should fit the crime. If someone murders an innocent then the suspect should be tried in a fair trial and if found guilty put to death.

Answer 6

Too many people on Death Row were innocent (proven fact)
Did God Kill Cain?

Our Justice system is put in place so not 1 innocent person dies for a crime they didn't commit

TOO PROTECT THE INNOCENT

Not so much as to find the guilty ,Guilty

Answer 7

I think convicted should get 1 year to prove their innocence. If they cannot prove they are innocent they should be shot on the spot. They didn't let thier victims live for free with a gym, cable tv,free medical, etc for 20 years before they killed them.

Answer 8

I am strongly in favor of it. No person executed ever repeated their crime. Also, I oppose paying over $40,000 per year to house a prisoner when lots of hard working, law abiding families make less than that.

Answer 9

Completely against it, because it's poor deterrent. You need something to make mentally unbalanced think twice, and those that pay for death contracts think three times, because their setup sucker ability to finger then will not be eliminated.

Answer 10

Just put it this way......I have no tolerance for crime. The world would be a better place if we were allowed to take out the trash of this world.