For or against the death penalty? And if for how quickly should it be carried out?

Question

Read this and tell me why you are against the death penalty. No sane person could possibly be against executing after reading this.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/14/duncan.slayings.ap/index.html

Answer 1

Death penalty should be used for certain crimes..murders..rapes..where  the criminals victimized many different victim over long periods of time..

Answer 2

I saw the headline and couldn't read the rest.

I am for the death penalty. Quick shot, get it over and done with so there's one less sub-human deviant on the planet.

I guess the "what if you kill an innocent man" question can't stand up to the case you pointed out in this article.

Answer 3

In situations when they have absolute proof, dna, video, etc., such as this one, immediate execution would be just fine.  Why should we waste thousands of dollars feeding and clothing this monster and paying an attorney to appeal the verdict?  You know it will be appealed, it always is, and since he was his own attorney, he doesn't even need an excuse for an appeal, even though its basically automatic anyway.  They'd save us a lot of money if they just put him in general prison population, let the other inmates do it for us.

Answer 4

I do not think it is fair.  Susan Smith/Andrea Yates cold blooded DROWNED their own babies and one is in jail having a great time getting in on with the guards and the other was released to a mental health facility where she will be released from in a couple of years.  However,

even if the state doesn't put him down, once he gets into the general population in prison, they will take care of him.  Remember what happened to Jeffrey Dahmer*

Answer 5

i am sane some times and thats not a joke ... but i do not agree with the death penalty  

Answer 6

I had already read the article and it repulsed me. That being said, I am STILL vehemently opposed to the death penalty. This is because we cannot and should not make government public policy based on the specifics of individual cases. We should also not make it based on personal experience. The problem with the death penalty is that we have not yet devised a way for its APPLICATION and administration to be free from the aribtrariness and capriciousness that resulted in the SCOTUS finding it unconstitutional in its application in 1972. Although we now have "guided discretion" mechanisms in place in all states that have the death penalty, there is NO evidence that the application of the death penalty as public policy has achieved that goal. Therefore, because the death penalty is a position taken by a government entity in the name of its people, and NOT a position taken in knee jerk response to heinous crimes, I cannot support it.

EDIT: I dare you to work YEARS within the criminal justice system on capital cases. Hardly is my position "unfounded."