What is your opinion on the death penalty?

Cherokee

I am for the death penalty. If the person is found guilty with all of the evidence needed they need to be executed right away. They do not deserve to be on death roll for years while taxpayers are footing the bill. Prisoners get 3 meals a day, all of their medical, dental, optical and even mental health care while many are going without. I also believe they should feel pain while being executed. They sure do not care what they have done to get there in the first place! Nor do they care for the victims!

mistery

abolish the death penalty, it is cruel and unusual punishment. the way they put people to death is dispicable. lethal injection only causes more pain. their is so many factors to consider such as the possibility of being innocent. as well as putting people to death who do not know from right or wrong. Do you call that justice to put someone to death when they did not know right from wrong. That is cruel and unusual punishment right there. If you still think people should be put to death, then u really need to go read the facts yourself. ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY, NO MORE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT

Low Key

It really depends on what the criminal did to be in prison for a long time. The only time I believe the death penalty is justified is when it's a serial killer. Taking a life is the ultimate crime, and taking many should mean theirs should be taken too.

crimkid2002

The death penalty is meant to be a deterrent and NOT a punishment. With this distinction capital punishment is inappropriate since it has been proven again and again to not be a deterrent.

I hate to break it to you but inmates on death row spend decades on death row so your paying for them anyway. Those on death row cost MORE to incarcerate so if we got rid of death (more guards needed per inmate, and so on) row they could join a regular population in the prison and wouldn't cost so much.

There is simply no GOOD reason to kill people in the name of 'justice'.

Pro - kills bad people and keeps them out of jail for life at tax payers expense

Con - People have been falsley convicted and killed in the past, and mistakes can and will be made in the future.

Anthony R

i think ppl need to be alive to truley think about wat they did they will regret it and it will drive most people insane

lovethoseyankees

Death by lethal injection sux!!!! It is peacefully putting a monster to sleep. If they are going to kill them they should feel pain. I'm not a sick & twisted person, but I believe, especially for the brutal murderers and rapists, etc., they should have to feel at least some of what their victims felt.

Big T

The death penalty is all to do with revenge and nothing to do with justice.
It is excellent for those people who believe that there exists a judicial process somewhere in the world that never, ever, makes a mistake, and who would face their own death penalty with equanimity if they were one of the people condemned by one of those mistakes.
Naturally, to believe that, one would have to be almost unbelievable naive.
It has no place in any kind of civilised society.

Famous59tank

I agree with you for the most part, and believe that in many cases there are criminals who are very deserving of the death penalty.

The problem is that most people don't want to have the deaths of others on there hands, or they just think its too barbaric and we are too advanced of a society to do such things, yet innocent people are murdered in cold blood every day.

Justice has gotten very soft these days. If you knew the penalty for a severe crime was death without all the appeals and costly (to the taxpayer) litigation, would you be as inclined to commit that crime?

EDIT: Crimekid2 and others...we (not speaking for everybody but I think a few of you feel this way) don't want that kind of "death penalty" that is used today in the US...we want swift judgement and execution..no hundreds of appeals and mindless hours, days, weeks, and months of litigation...

if you broadcast lethal injections, hangings, or even better electrocutions, or any other form of execution on the execution channel on tv I believe that would not only 1) be a new source of income but also 2) be a deterrent and way to show people that the penalty for doing evil is death

malika

well look at suicide bombers for instance they kill a load of people then don't have to live with the consequences. if someone is killed they feel no sadness guilt or remorse or even punishment for what they have done. and what if that pearson happens to be Innocent you would be the criminal then for taking the innocents life or for allowing it to be taken for this i DO NOT agree with the death penalty.

Anna C

maybe not so harsh as the death penalty but definatly less luxury in the cells. these people are suposed to be in punishment

Susan S

I've gone back and forth on this issue. But, as I found out about the rising number of innocent people sentenced to death, I started looking at how the death penalty system actually works. I learned a lot that surprised me.

Most disturbing is that innocent people have been sentenced to death. Lots of them. 130 people wrongly convicted people were sentenced to death and were lucky to be exonerated and released, eventually. DNA, available in less than 10% of all homicides, canâ€™t guarantee we wonâ€™t execute innocent people. If someone is convicted and later found innocent you can release him from prison, but not from the grave.

Another surprise: The death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. Most people are surprised to hear this. The high costs of the death penalty are for the complicated legal process, and the largest costs come at the beginning, for the pre trial process and for the trial itself. The point is to prevent executions of innocent people.

I always assumed that all families of murder victims would want the death penalty. It just isn't so. Some oppose it on moral grounds. However, even families who have supported the death penalty in principal have testified that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Other stuff I learned:
Life without parole, on the books in 48 states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending 23 of 24 hours a day locked in a tiny cell is not a picnic. It costs less than the death penalty.

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.

There are serious risks 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.

Unless you ignore all these things, it is hard to support the death penalty.

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.nyadp.org/main/70308Statements.html
www.mvfhr.org and
www.mvfr.org for statements of victimsâ€™ families

sassysophisticate14

It's hypocritical. Most of the people who receive capital punishment have killed someone. How can the justice system then decide to take way their life as retribution? It makes no sense.

wizjp

There are some incredibly evil beings out there who are committing the most horrible crimes imaginable against the weakest and least of us. A just society demands that the only true justice for these acts is a forfeit of their own lives; and nothing less can really be called justice.

J H

You killed someone.... you broke the law ....you DIE !!!!

grump56

I think it is necessary in the worst cases. Although I think it should be expanded to drug dealers. And, go back to public hangings. Might be more of a deterrent.

irishkween614

EYE FOR AN EYE

psy-op

Not just the death penalty or some willy nilly "humane" injection or electric chair. A mass killing type of death penalty would be better. Complete with live cameras, the videos for sale, commentaries, music and instant replays.

The money generated from the sales of T-shirts and products will pay off the national debt and totally save the economy. Taxes will decrease and the general public won't have to deal with criminals returning to the streets to continue contaminating our children and great nation.

Nothing but good can come from this.The leaders of the free world know this and there is already a plan to set this in action. Things are starting to look up.

bella baby :)

i think that lethal injection is way to easy.
unless they are afraid of needles.
but whaa.
and the whole process takes to long anyway.
people can be on death row from upwards of twenty years.
once convicted just take them out back and "take care of them" like lassie.
thats my opinion on it all.

paulie0064

The death penalty as it stands is useless. A .45 to the back of the head in the front of the courthouse for all to see is far better option. The difference of course being the deterrence factor; when people see what the possible outcome for their actions are should be far less likely to break a severe enough law warrant the option of death.

Tropical

death penalty is a deterrent to crime in those cases where a criminal has been excecuted

Dirty M

I think they should put it on pay per view to make som money from it. These monsters are getting a free ride and an easy death. I wish they put them in arena with lions and let them get ripped apart. That is for anyone who commits a felony.

Maori Gurl From NZ

It the innocent people that the corrupt police put inside are the ones that loose out.

I believe in the strike three rule.

Three strikes and your dead!! Everyone should be given a chance but not too many.

Oh and about the Murder thing, totally depends on the situation.
Its about breaking the cycle.

P.S So when the Armed forces go into another country to kill people, who should pay? the tax payer?

Turning a blind eye doesn't work either!

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