What Do You Think Of The Death Penalty?

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I've always been against it and always will. In my opinion it is not anyone's right to kill another person. To me, its absolutely appalling how we can "legally" murder someone. There is no way you can justify killing someone. What is the difference between someone killing another person on the streets, and one being sentenced to death in a court and then executed? Killing someone whether it's illegally or legally, wow I can't even believe there is such a thing as killing someone legally, makes you a murderer in my opinion. I've never understood how you can legalize killing someone.
Besides, I think a heavier penalty for murderers and other criminals is removing them from society completely, putting them in a small, dark room with no outside contact whatsoever.
Mr Officer said it best, no one has a right to take another person's life, PERIOD.
Also think about it this way, a person murders another person, then he gets executed, then shouldn't the executioner/judge/jury be executed too for committing murder?

Ann

Some people deserve it. Rapists, murderes, etc.

typre50

I'm against it for many reasons. The most important reason is that, as has happened in the past, an innocent person can be killed. The justice system makes too many errors for it to be able to take someones life away from them. Besides, lots of scum don't care if you kill them or not. So, let them rot in jail, it's not worth the trouble to kill them.

loving life!!!!!

i think its great and we should use it more often. there are too many haneous crimes happening in america and a lot are repeat offenders. i shouldn't have to worry about my daughter getting raped or molested by her daycare personel.. does anyone agree with me?

Thats not right!

I don't think it is used enough, and the 20 year wait to carry the sentance is rediculous. it costs an average of $25000 to house an inmate, but $80,000 to house someone on death row, all tax dollars. I also believe the victims families should get to stone the convict to death. I would used little rocks and make it last for weeks.

homeward2008

All for it, until it is misused.

Fortunately only good men are in power, and, being beyond the urge for power, it is highly unlikely that an innocent man has ever been so punished
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Felix

It's wrong and it shouldn't be used no matter what.
I can't believe in the great country of USA, we still use it.

God bless the world and the US, and give us peace.

Sonja H

for it

M2S

The thing that bothers me about the death penalty is: what if you send an innocent person to die? There are a DNA tests out now that are finding some people who have been sentenced to death are actually INNOCENT! What would you think if you sent someone to die who did not commit the crime they were accused of?

nothingness

for it, you kill someone or hurt a child on purpose why should you get to live?

Susan S

Your question is way to important to be answered with slogans and sound bites. You don't have to condone brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them to avoid a harsh punishment to ask whether the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and whether it risks killing innocent people.

124 people on death rows released with evidence of their innocence. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isnâ€™t a guarantee we wonâ€™t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty deters others. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that donâ€™t.

We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. It is less expensive than the death penalty.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the 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 across the country argue 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. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

nari

i don't agree........life time is enough i think..

katie

i think that people are just being as cruel as the criminals with the death penalty.

Dinah Steeler

I think it's cruel and unusual punishment. The government should not have the right to put someone to death. Two wrongs does not make a right, and executing a murderer will not bring the victim back to life. Murderers should go to prison for the rest of their lives, yes, but the death penalty is inhumane.

BROOOOOKLYN

Absolutely immoral. A farce of the justice system. Even if one innocent person has been killed, it is too much. So often people are railroaded, and convicted on for crimes they didn';t commit. Too often poor people or minority people are sentenced to death, while their rich or white counterparts get lesser sentences (Anything is a lesser sentence than death).

It is a right that the state should never have. Life is not that cheap, no matter what you did. It is state sanctioned murder no matter how you look at it.

I find it ironic that Conservatives are generally in favor of capital punishment, but aren't they by defintion for smaller government? There is no bigger government intrusion into our lives than being able to execute you.

Roz

Unnecessary. It just does not help to decrease the crime rate.
Of course the victim's families and the society in general feel "avenged" when the criminal dies. I would feel relieved too, but does the criminals think "Hey, I might be caught and put to death, so maybe I better not kill this guy".... ? I don't think so.

Darkwolf

*readies gallows*

edit: the above answer was NOT there when I wrote that.

timing is everything, folks.

jsemkralfootball

Its wrong. The USA is a rich enough country to throw someone behind bars and leave them there. take away the prison libaries, the prison weight rooms and all the other nice to have junk. No to the Death Penalty but alos, no to nicey nice prisons

Chris C

I think the death penalty is way to critical, it just isn't right

Bing Bong Bao

Fry'em

Ego's Twin

I am against it...people who murder other people should live a long, miserable life

#48

I'm for it,
If you take a life, you should lose yours as well.

sweety514

I think it's used for the wrong reasons some of the time.

jessica

i'm not totally against it,
but i think it's an easy way out for some people.
i think instead they should have to sit in their jail cell
all day, every day.
that way they'll have to live with their mistake forever.

8784

I think criminals should have a choice between life in prison or death.

JuventAus

I think a 2 match suspension was more appropriate for Dida than the death penalty.

Whoops - this is not a WC2006 question ... lol

My answer stands anyway.

Rev Run

It should be abolished for the simple fact that even one wrongful conviction and execution is one too many. I don't see how a life for a life makes this world a better place. It only perpetuates the cycle of barbarism that has plagued humanity for so long. Civilized nations all over the world have abolished the death penalty because they realize it really serves no purpose. Ok so you killed a homicidal maniac? Are the people he killed back from the dead? No one has the right to take a life...even the lives of those who take other lives. Killing should only be in self-defense and when defending family, friends, or any human being who's in danger, etc and only when absolutely necessary.

Scott E

we should go back to public hangings

Sarge

If it was carried out within 90 days, it would be great.

Now, people sit on death row for years...worthless.

It's no so much that it is a great deterrent, although it is; it is that we do not need those people in our midst. Rapist, murders, kidnappers, burglars, etc. F-em . . . kill 'em all.

andy in greece

If there is not doubt to their guilt, kill them.

Cathy J

yes those who hurt deserve to die no questions asked

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