Is capital punishment murder?

sonny l

yes........all countries that still have capiltal punishment live in the dark ages

cantcu

State sanctioned murder! It seems Texas executes 1/2 of all those executed! Another Bush legacy!

â™¥Robinâ™¥ (Scot,UK)

Yes - and when 'they' murder the wrong person there's no coming back to say sorry to you.

Aviator - THE Resolution

by definition, yes.

attax321

yes

rock_dudette4eva

personally yes, i think no one has the right to kill someone even if they have done something that is so terribly wrong, i think it's disgusting, and also they should live with their consequences and should spend life in prison and definitely not just a couple years and appeal, life should mean life.

gringopete101

Of course, Execution is premeditated murder.

aline b

When you act like a barbarian you are one. Justice shouldn't be.

frasier

yes. it is state sanctioned murder. Murder has to be defined as the taking of life by another and the arbitrary making of laws does not exclude this premise.

The reason weak politicians like Blair and Brown are so unsettled by the murder of Saddam Hussein and the consequent publicity, is that they know it is murder in any real definition...and that they are just as vulnerable to suffer the same fate as any other murderer.

DejaVu

In my opinion yes it is murder cos of killing someone who's not trying to kill you or anyone... also I think wars are murders too if civilians get killed its not OK just because there's a war, as innocents are obviously people like just me and you....

So its wrong and shouldn't be happening in 21st century...

ideamanbmg

No. Murder is the willful taking of another's life in the commission of, or as a crime. It is defined as the unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice. Capital punishment is the ultimate penalty for (first degree) murder and other serious crimes.
Capital punishment is used as a deterrent to crime. That means the threat of the death penalty is supposed to make somebody think about the consequences of their possible criminal acts before they happen. The hoped for result is that somebody thinking about doing a crime will weigh the penalty of death for committing a crime and decide to not do a crime.
liberals have perverted the death penalty into being something it is not--namely legalized murder. It is punishment for committing the worst kinds of crime.

druskininkai

Of course it is

angothoron

No but there are better options such as having them work for the good of society as slave labour for the rest of thier lives...that would be a better deterrent than death I think

LYN W

Hi,
I believe that in the UK, when capital punishment existed, the executioner was deemed guilty of "judicial murder" and fined the sum of one shilling. This was never paid of course. It was just accepted as read.

azman5998

I don't know about murder but possibly it is as the executioner has a choice, and that choice is to execute the prisoner or not ,regardless of any disciplinary action taken against him after the fact!

colin.christie

No! The person being executed took a life or lives, they did not consider the right to live of the person or persons they killed. If some of the do-gooders on this site have their way we would have to pay to keep them in jail for the rest of their lives, or they would be released from prison after 10-20 years. Sometimes these people go on to kill again after being released, because they have no respect for life.

msi_cord

The state sanctions it, so it is not murder in the legal sense. Morally is it murder? That would depend on your point of view.

exposrule2000

No, because murder is the unlawful killing of another person while capital punishment is written into state statutes where it is permitted.

Valli

Legally no ....morally .....that's debatable and highly controversial.

Pink

No not if you are going by the definition of murder which is per Websters:

murder:
the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought

Capital punishment is not unlawful so it is not murder.
Now if you are talking about the rightness or wrongness of murder then it is another debate.

douglas b

No.

mikegellatly

Firstly, this is a much better question than the first few answers give it credit for!

In a nutshell it is not murder, but it is homicide.

Murder is the unlawful, premeditated taking of another's life.

The main difference is that of law, though many (including myself) do not agree with capital punishment the laws of any land that allows for the death penalty transforms the taker of a life from murderer to executioner.

I live in a country that allows the death penalty, so if a person is found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, by a jury of their peers, then no, capital punishment is not murder.

jenay672001

No..it's punishment. Usually for committing a murder.
And it is a deterrent. I've never heard of one case where an executed murderer killed another person.

Thorgrim

No, it's revenge. A life for a life. Obviously there are tons of legal and socioeconomic issues in the US system that make the judicial system ineffective, but that's a whole other discussion.

No, it's justice...

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