Should they bring back in the death penalty??

ali

I think they should.. it's legal in Texas. If two or more people see you do it..you go straight to the front of the line. As a tax payer,I don't think we should be responsible for supporting the life of someone who takes lives and preys on our women and children.

malibugirl

I believe they should if it is proven without all manner of doubt that they have committed a crime such as murder etc. With DNA, CCTV etc. these days, there is more and more chance of people being correctly sentenced.

blue dolphin

Yes i think they should if it is proven without doubt. Prisoners get to soft a life these days, bring back bread and water for prisoners. Rehabilitation doesn't seem to work as all they do is learn how to commit crime better and not get caught while they are inside.
Or better still, let them out, after the public have been given the time of release, with no police protection, if they can then get home safe they are free. I doubt any would want to come out. Let the public and the families of the victims dish out their own punishment.

chrissaltmarshafc

oh i think this is a grey area and people have to be proven guilty without any doubt . But in my opinion the answer is a yes.

zedkay

Yes.
It's amazing to see when families lose someone whose been murdered in cold blood, that suddenly they want the death penalty brought back. Before that they would never have considered it.
An eye for an eye is what justice should be!

Davy Crockett

Yes.

fireblade

yes

karl g

Yes The jails and prisons are too full allready!! Thanks to so many stupid laws.
They should be used for real criminals not just pidely small crimes !!!!!

My sage name

It is debatable.
Some people after the things they have done, and lives they have taken way, deserve the death penalty.
Why should we pay to keep them fed and watered
Times have changed and with new technology it is NY on impossible to charge any one now unless there is concrete evidence
Since they abolished the death sentence.
We have gone beyond finding evidence, with DNA and medical knowledge
Today I do not think an innocent person would die
I'm in favour

tasty x

yes

MIKE YANTREE

Innocent people HAVE died by the hands of the murderer. The murderer needs to pay the ultimate price because life is sacred. Downgrading the life of the victim by uplifting the life of the murderer gives the wrong message to society. There are NO repeat offenders with capital punishment, the perp is dead.

mobile auto repair (mr fix it)

we still have it in utah

it needs to be used more

Stephen K

Some crimes are so heinous, they deserve death for it

Kit Fang

of course they should. After all, it's the only real deterrant. People couldn't care less if they have to spend 20 (which will turn into 15 anyway) years in prison, because it's easy. The death penalty is wanted by over 50% of the british population, and democracy states that we should get it.

All the people saying innocent people would die, well, not that many would. When we last had the death penalty we didn't have nearly as advanced forensic techniques. DNA doens't lie, afterall...

Spindrift

Absolutely. The laws favor the criminals so much as it is the whole justice system is skewed plus, the criminals get an average 18-20 years on Death Row with appeals, stays, etc it just goes on and on. Not only do we need the DP we also need to speed up the process and limit appeals to one.

Max

What a Question Lol... Well I reckon they should prisons are getting over crowed so might aswelll get rid of people who are in for life... :D

Susan S

No. In the US we are realizing that you don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid terrible punishments for terrible crimes to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime, to look at alternatives and to think about the risks of executing innocent people.

128 people on death rows released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA, available in less than 10% of all homicides, canâ€™t guarantee we wonâ€™t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reliable study shows the death penalty deters others. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that donâ€™t.

We have a good alternative, life without parole, on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. Life without parole costs less than the death penalty.

The death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison, mostly because of the upfront costs (before and during the initial trial) of 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 have testified 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. Speed up the process and we will execute innocent people.

Sources:
Death Penalty Information Center, www.deathpenaltyinfo.org, for stats on executions, reports on costs, deterrence studies, links to FBI crime stats and links to testimony (at state legislatures) of victims' family members.

FBI http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_04.html

The Innocence Project, www.innocenceproject.org

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/COcosttestimony.pdf page 3 and 4 on why the death penalty is so expensive

http://www.njadp.org/forms/signon-survivor.html for statements of victimsâ€™ families

Rommel

there really isn't an alternative. its just that no one has the balls to face that fact. meanwhile the body count of innocent law abiding men women and children keeps on rising. criminals are like a cancer on civilised society. there is no excuse for being a criminal, (we have a good welfare system) if you are a criminal it is a deliberate choice, and you must face the consequences....why are people so reluctant to punish these mindless destructive morons who blight civilisation???

Wizard Of OS

I am not against the death penalty but against the way our legal system works. The burden of proof of innocence is on the defendant. Our Constitution may say different but the issue is not what the theory is but how it is practiced.

Any way as long as you have...
Juries that can be swayed by emotion and theatrical lawyers.
As long as we do not allow the jury to ask questions.
Allow judges, prosecutors and police to control the evidence and presentation of that evidence.
Allow plea bargaining.

We will not have a fair and impartial legal system. Until we have a fair and impartial system with checks and balances for the police and prosecutors then we will be executing innocent people.

Secondly it is cheaper for the tax payer to keep a prisoner in jail for life than to execute them. Due to the number or automatic appeals and delays it can take many years to execute someone and the legal cost to the state is very high.

I feel that death is not a punishment, but living a long time in a restricted environment where your every move is controlled is greater punishment than death. Too many capital criminals seem to look forward to execution.

So for reasons other than moral or religious I do not believe in the death penalty.

moonbeam

No the death penalty should not be bought back as there are so many miscarriages of justice occurring in this country that many innocent people would die. Maybe if the person who would be facing the death penalty had pleaded guilty and cound be given the choice of 30 years in prison or the death penalty many would themselves choose to die and it should be thier choice, no one else's.

danor

Yes, whats the point in putting vicious murderers in jail, hardly a fit penalty for taking the lives of others

Sonny (Plz, I'm a atheist)

I personally think death is way too easy to reach. If I get shot in the head, get hung, get drown, I die. So the most drastic way of punishment is definitely not death penalty, but to let the guilty live on redeeming themselves until their guilts are atoned, or never at all until their lives end.

morshock

yes they should bring it back. some people deserve to be hung.

Jude

No it has no place in a civilized society.

Veston Pants

Apart from the ethics of institutionalising the act of killing someone in cold blood for killing someone in cold blood and the whole possibility of miscarriages of justice we cannot reintroduce the death penalty and remain part of the EU. It is forbidden for any member state to execute its citizens.

xxFJ

minootoo

This changes from time to time, right now the trend is towards the abolishing it.

Main reason is that, lots of people are found innocent of the crime who are on the death rows all over USA, due to re-examination of evidence using DNA profiling.

It cost lot more to get the death penalty processed. If a person is put to death and then new evidence proves that the person was innocent nothing can be done.

I prefer life sentence without release. It less costly and the person committing the crime has lots of time to repent and think (soul searching in prison) about what the person had done. If a new evidence proves the person is innocent then he/she can be released and compensated for the mistakes.
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PS
I do not know where you are from but most states have death penalty in USA to day and the federal appeals courts also have death penalty provisions.

Asherz

I don't think they should bring it back in. I don't beleive that we should give up on someone who did a bad thing and just kill them. I think that we should try to understand why they did it and help them become rehabilitated. Of course not everyone can be sorted out, but I do not beleive in killing people, even as a last resorrt

Katelynn

no i dont think so. because alot of people do bad things, just so theyre killed by the police right on the scene because theyre too scared to kill themselves. i think that every time someone breaks the law, such as rape, theft, or counterfeit, the one who does it should get one finger cut off. that will teach em. and the next time, thatll be another finger. by the time he finally learns a lesson, he wont have the fingers to commit a crime.

charming360

In dealing with the death penalty...it's kinda a catch 22. I think that the death penalty was meant for someone who is mentally disturbed beyond the point of rehabilitation. You would not want someone who acted in the heat of the moment or out of emotions and not thinking clearly to get the same penalty as someone who is a killer from predator instincts with no remorse (psychotic maniac). In addition, history shows that some people have been convicted and sentenced then later found to be innocent, suppose their sentence had been the death penalty - How can you go back and undo that sentence? So, my answer is no...I don't think that the death penatly should be brought back.

misscacazzy

no no no.but if victims family sort natural justice i would understand and look other way

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