Do you think that the death penalty should be banned?

sony_sony

No. If you see how bad some people have done in this world. They deserve to be dead.

jim

No...I think it should be expanded !

carpediem

Absolutely. It is proven to not be any type of crime deterrent and how does that make us any better than the criminals themselves? And what about all the death penalty cases that have been overturned due to new evidence? It's not being soft to sentence someone to life without parole, and if prisons were ran like the ones in Louisiana where the inmates work and grow all their own food then the cost to taxpayers is much less.

JWAV

Well... I disagree with the Death Penalty and here is why... Death is the easy way out... It some cases it is martyrdom.... I find it much more horrible to spend the rest of your life in a small cell with no human contact...(one would lose their sanity and prefer death).....

For instance Musawi was sentenced to life without parole...

All the Neo Cons went in a uproar.... but by killing him would be making him a martor....

I think the right decision was made...

In discussing the conviction at work a co-worker said that the decision was made based on "Where he'd go when he died" referring to Hell.... but as an Islamic Terrorist his fellow militants believe he would go to heaven as a martor...

Perfect example of why we need separation in church in state...

By the way I am a Liberal....

"The Bible says an eye for and eye"....

The Bible also says ye who is without sin cast the first stone...

Unless Jesus is the one inserting the IV then that was a stupid reference...

FozzieBear

Absolutely not.

1 - If fear for your own life won't stop you from killing someone, what will?

2 - Why should other prisoners have to deal with someone serving a life sentence? If a guy knows he will spend the rest of his life in jail, how are the rest of the inmates going to be safe from him? He has nothing to lose.

3 - If the fear of losing your life doesn't keep you from killing, then at least we can make sure that the murderer never kills again.

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kehkohjones

Yes.

As technology progresses, we've discovered that there have been wrongly convicted prisoners on death row and/or doing life sentences; that confirms MY beliefs that some innocent men and women may have been executioned, and that also leads me to believe that some criminals have gotten away with heinous crimes for which innocent men and woman have been wrongly convicted of.

There are rogue cops and a few rogue prosecutors that hide evidence and testimony that can acquit those wrongly accused of crimes and would prove them innocent; they are more interested in maintaining the facade of having caught, prosecuted and convicted another criminal, not in the actual due process of law of punishing the guilty, not the innocent. There are also difficulties in identifying perpetrators, particularly when there are racial differences. People lie for all sorts of reasons. Oftentimes, people get so caught up in the in the details of the crime that they forget that they are ready to convict and execute anyone who is merely an ACCUSED person, not necessarily guilty of the crime he/she is suspected of!

People all over the world were ready to condemn the man who claimed to be the JonBonet Ramsey killer and even seasoned TV and newspaper reporters were calling him a monster and all sorts of awful things... when he is simply a demented would-be pedophile that has yet to be proven guilty of anything under the laws of this land; but, where's the real killer in all of this?

Right now, the law is a joke to some who continue to offend, even while in prison! That leads me to believe that the laws are flawed, and the laws are flawed because lawmakers have lost their grip on reality. Yes, lawmakers use the euphemism "to rehabilitate" when they should be thinking in terms of teaching those convicts vocational skills they put to use when released into society, instead of reverting to their old criminal behavior.

Our penal system is being run with 18th century mentality. Taking a life for revenge is one thing. Executing a person who is dangerous to society and those that confine him away from society is another is yet another thing, and justice should be swift but it ain't; and, yes, I acknowledge that some people are predators that do not belong in society. But executions are simply not the answer when there is a slim possibility that the prisoner may have been wrongly convicted.

Yes, the Bible does make reference to laws such as "an eye for an eye..." but that was in the old testament, and it was based on laws over 2,000 years ago; times change and we have the New Testament, and we live in different times with advances that could not have been imagined 2,000 years ago. "Vengeance is mine SAITH the Lord;" we are not the ones to seek that revenge but "the LORD." Let's not twist the words of the Bible to suit a purpose; it is wrong and it equates to lying when you change the context and the spirit of the original words.

How many executions have there been in America since 1900, and how many victims did those executions bring back? HOW certain are we that not one of those executioned was innocent?

playtoofast

That is hard for someone to give an answer to considering the vicious nature of some crimes . Does the cost of incarceration figure into the equation or simply the basic instinct for revenge and punishment almost all people have come to accept as normal behavior .
If we find killing others such a n unacceptable practice then how can we justify taking the life of someone else .
True this person has killed someone and lets say it is a small child who was molested first for weeks before being killed .Now lets say this was your child and you where alone in a room with him and had the means to kill him would you .
This is the question you must answer and if you say yes are you a killer now also and should the parent of that child also be allowed time in a room with you .
Where does the killing end an the violence which curses us all .
If we are ever to come to terms with this then we must first address what creates many of our killers .
Street violence and murder is different then a man who hunts down children .Both however share one thing in common .A defective human being .Some one who has been taught it is wrong to kill but can not overcome this problem .
When you do something wrong how do you feel about it .If you become excited or high from it is it nature or nurture that determines weather you are a killer .
How hard do you have to fight to keep from killing others and is it a conscious choice to fight the urge to kill or do you lack the ability to kill all together .
We need to begin to map the human dna of killers and see if there is some kind of link to crime .If we can find the cause of why one person can kill and others can not or will not kill becassue they choose not to .
Killing is easy when you think about it .
But there are those people among us who find killing to be an urge that is uncontrolable . The same as some people becoming addicted to drugs .
WHat is it that makes a killer and do we have the right to kill them once we have caught them .
I must suggest we enter into a pact with one another to prevent as much death and violence as possible .That we look for early signs that someone is going down the wrong path .That we teach people that there is no reason to take a life .That it is short in the relative age of the universe and may be what defines us and seperates us from the beasts of the fields .YEs we can kill if we want but we can choose not to .This should become the rule in dealing with capitol punishment and the death penelty .
Not that we can not kill but unlike those who have killed we just choose not to .
I have a feeling that if we accept that killing is justified for any reason some one else can justify it also .
From that guy killed my son to he cut me off in traffic is able to be justified in the minds of man as a reason to kill if we do not end the idea that it is acceptable for a good reason .People will always find a good reason in there own minds to justfy there actions .FRom taking a grape in the grociery store to slicing the head of another .
WE can always find a reason as long as it is thought to be ok to kill for a good reason .

a4kneekater

No.

Holly A

Absolutely not!! I think it should be expanded and more often utilized!

People who think they have the right to kill, torture, maim, rape, and destroy life have the RIGHT to have theirs ended...plain and simple. What deterrent is it to 'be locked up for life'?? Unpleasant, but ultimately bearable...

Look at the societies where the death penalty is no longer in existence....crime and the severity of crime goes up....

The thousands of dollars to merely house inmates for their lives, lives then spent in the pursuit of college degrees, hobbies, etc....is this punishment?? That they just have to live within an institution for the rest of their lives? Not in my opinion....

Karina B

No...

qbanita0113

I think so, because too many people have been put to death, and have been found innocent after they died.

Cardinal Richelieu

No, because those who take a human life deserve to suffer the ultimate punishment. As the Bible even says "an eye for an eye".

iamct01

I would rather see a suicide penalty that way the criminal sends his or her self to hell not the people killing them. Gets us around the sixth commandment.

mimi

HELL NO, WE NEED ALOT MORE OF IT.

Jim from the Midwest

No. Texas clearly shows the death penalty works. VIolent crimes are down because criminals know they will get whacked.

Spud55

Yes. Because dying is the easy way out. A criminal - especially those who commit capitol crimes - should have to spend every last, miserable day of the rest of their life thinking about why they're in prison. We need to do away with the country club jail system too.

wmp55

Yes. Even for treason by Republicans.

Jessie P

No. It's not used NEAR enough!

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