I beleive capital punishment is wrong. Do you?

Question

We arrest people for murder, and use capital punishment for murder. But capital punishmet is murder! An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind. Killng is wrong. To make places better the death penalty should be banned.

Answer 1

In rare cases where we are absolutely sure that the accused did the crime then the death penalty is truly appropriate but I agree it's hard to pardon a dead man!

But Who ever killed Maddie, Ian Huntley, seriously why should we be forced to share the same air as this scum!

Answer 2

I wholeheartedly agree.There's no righting the wrong of executing an innocent person.

The Free Thinker:Death Row Scot Kenny Richey freed after 20 years in jail for one.

The Birmingham Six and the Guilfdford Four spent years in prison on the stregth of faulty forensics.Had there been the death penalty in Britain ten innocent people would have died and sadly Guissepe Conlon died an innocent man in prison.

Answer 3

Yes, you are right. Not only that, I think we could make the prisons much nicer and that everybody should be allowed out on weekends. After five years, all sentences should be dropped and they should study art or wine making. I love goat cheese with cold Chardonnay.

Answer 4

No, I also think that a murderer should die the same way he killed the other person...  but slower!

The best part of executing scumbags, is, it stops repeat offenses!  And there is one less democrat to vote for the left, send money to the ACLU and collect welfare and commit other crimes.

Answer 5

no i dont agreet with!!! people that have commited a terriable crime should be put in torture chambers and die slowly and painfully do soo easy like the government makes it. or they should be left in prison for the rest of their lifes until they cannot take it anymore and commit suicide....capital punishment is making life easier for criminals.

Answer 6

NO.

Answer 7

so you support spending your and our money keeping prisoners alive when they brutally murdered or raped many other people yes that makes sense  

Answer 8

Nope I'm all for it! If you kill someone why should you be able to live even if it's in prison! Plus I'm all for my tax $$$ going to capital punishment, better then my tax $$ going to people who have been on welfare for the last 10 years.

Answer 9

i go with Sharia- sometime death is the answer sometimes not, it depends on the crime and the evidence.

Answer 10

ooo, such a controversial arguement, i'm gonna guess you'll get a few answers on this one.

i'm undecided, I no longer want child molesters and murderers on this planet, they do not deserve to breathe the air of the bereaved.

though death is a way out, hence why many try to committ suicide.

I believe in proper prisions, no, not these ones with days out to the zoo, and sky tv with an en suit cell. I believe they should be made to suffer, as they made their victims suffer.  

Answer 11

No, its not murder. Hang'em often,hang'em high.

Answer 12

I believe firmly in the death penalty, you say it is murder, not so, if the law says you will be hanged if you murder another person, then it`s your choice, do it and you are committing suicide, that is NOT legal murder

Answer 13

depends,

sometimes prison is too good for certain people (UK), they have tv with numerous channels/pool tables/playstations/sometimes even mcdonnalds (that is no lie).

think america is got the system right, put them on death row for 15 years, feed them basic scraps and excute them after that, a kid where i live killed a landlord served 1 year for man slaughter and is now out drinking in the same pub.

is that justice?

british justice system is a joke though.

in america drug addicts get put inside for a few years, in britain they get sent on holiday.

Answer 14

No. It is necessary.

Answer 15

gandhi was a wise man. good that you know enough of him to quote him. however. what is more cruel? locking some one up for life or killing them?  the earliest justice was along the lines of an eye for an eye. but in our enlightened age we take only their freedom and then give them things that the normal law abiding person can not have unless they have a great job that pays more than the day to day bills. but i think that in areas where the death penalty is in effect, if people commit a capital crime in that area then they should hardly complain that they will be killed by the state. after all. they would have known about the possible out come should they be caught. saying that i believe that the death penalty should be used only where some one has murdered 2 people. and that only where it was not a crime of passion. from your question. it sounds like the killer of your grandfather is/was a very nasty person. to kill is bad enough but to torture the victim first shows some one who has no regard for other peoples rights.

Answer 16

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Think about it once...Think!

Answer 17

I agree with the Bible. God gives life and takes it away. No other entity is entitled to do that. It's immoral for humans to assume that sort of power over others.

Answer 18

I believe that capital punisment can be used for certain "Proved beyond any doubt"  cases.

But then again some guilty peeps have been found innocent.

First up would be Ian brady _boil that guy in oil.

The scum who killed those 2 girls  Holly and Jessica - shot to the head

Gary Glitter - lethal injection

Rosemary West - 9 inch nails through her head

The 2 scum who killed Jamie Bulger - boiled in oil

Then some more......

All executions should be in public and screened on TV - on all channels at the same time.

Answer 19

Capital Punishment should be banned.  Innocent people will get hurt.

We don't have a right to kill people for their actions, regardless of what they did.  This is why we have prisons.

Answer 20

What's the point in keeping a serial killer alive? I just don't get it.  

Answer 21

No I believe God gives us all a choice in life and if you choose to take someones life who is going about their day to day life then you don't have a right to live its simple if you don't want to be executed don't make that choice.

Answer 22

The word will be better - if we eliminate the heavy duty Crimminals- Yes you are right- We have to become humain- lets give the criminal exactly the same punishment that gave to his victim or victms...this way society will not have to feel  quilty  because simply the Criminal will choose his own punishment...if likes it or not.

Answer 23

Allow me to ask you, "Has anyone you loved very dearly ever been brutally murdered?" If not, then you are looking through smoked glass eyes.

Answer 24

in principle, yes. On the other hand, it can be used as leverage to get a guilty plea on someone who might be able to beat a murder rap. And I don't have a problem with it administered where there is a certainity of guilt and somoen is tearing the fabric of society, like a McVeigh or John Wayne Gacy. Too often the death penalty is applied in a racist manner and where there is less than certainity of the degree of guilt.

Answer 25

The sooner they are dead the better off we are i just wish they could'nt make so many appeals and drag their executiono ut for years.

The  person they killed cant make any appeals so why should they be allowed to make any.

If you care for the killers so much take one home with you i think you would soon change your mind if you could!

Answer 26

i agree keisha.  if you havent seen this site take a look, its very good

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article....

hunter - if we keep them alive, psychologists can interview them and learn about them, so hopefully we can reduce the number of murderers in the future

Answer 27

NO murders take innocent life, society uses capital punishment as self defense, to avoid the further taking of innocent life, the difference is it is not murder to execute a murderer, it is murder to take an innocent life. Also putting these animals in prison forever is not an answer either, they are still a threat to staff and inmates, and always possibility for escape. I know of one case where an inmate killed another inmate because he wanted to go to death row to be with his boyfriend. Capital punishment also gives closure to the victims families.

If a human or an animal killed a human, the killer was to be put to death (Genesis 9:5). This was because of the sacredness of human life. God created humans in His image, so murdering another human meant you would forfeit your own life.

Answer 28

Yes, I agree. The death penalty violates the right to life. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It has no place in a modern criminal justice system.

An execution, just like torture, involves a deliberate assault on a prisoner. Even so-called 'humane' methods such as lethal injection can entail excruciating suffering.

Capital punishment is irrevocable. All judicial systems make mistakes, and as long as the death penalty persists, innocent people will be executed.

It is also discriminatory and is often used disproportionately against the poor, the powerless and the marginalized, as well as against people whom repressive governments want to eliminate.

The death penalty does not deter crime more than other punishments. In Canada the homicide rate has fallen by 40 per cent since 1975; the death penalty was abolished for murder in 1976.

Answer 29

a lot of ppl answer in this debate : "what if he killed (raped etc) one of YOUR relatives?" but that's hardly the question for that's the exact reason the law has taken justice out of the hands of the common (vengeful) ppl.  Also, looking at some proposals of punishment, we should be glad the law did so.  

I am against capital punishment, for the simple reason that it is murder and backwards.  We should use condamned ppl to different (economic) use, like working camps and reeducation centers. Remember that most of the killers killed in an uncontroled moment and live with regret.

Answer 30

When something too bad happen to someone you care, your point of view is completely different, when you get tired of seeing how murders go with it and just live after taking a life... I think you are not serious about you believe capital punishment is wrong.

Let me ask you something, are you sure that if something happen to someone you care let´s called friend of yours, you would say oh its ok don´t apply to that guy capital punishment?... I don´t think so, but in the other hand tell me what good is on paying the expenses of a murderer?

Are you sure that to keep them in jails is good for society? or by that the damage can be heal? ok, for the victim there´s no return too but, with capital punishment, it will be someone else not the same f!!"· guy doing what he did the first time....

Let´s think about solutions, not "killing is wrong..." you say that to the victim´s family.

This has nothing to do with better places, people who has something wrong in their soul they have it, a better place would change nothing, people who has everything as well kills.

We should protect the victims NOT THE MURDERERS... by banning a punishment.

Answer 31

Please accept my condolences for your grandfather.  NOBODY should have to live through that.

I supported capital punishment for a long time, but I have changed my stance over the years, for several reasons:

1. By far the most compelling is this: As you mentioned, sometimes the legal system gets it wrong. In the last 30 years in the U.S., over 100 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases. No matter how rare it is, the government should not risk executing one single innocent person.

Really, that should be reason enough for most people. If you need more, read on:

2. Because of higher pre-trial expenses, longer trials, extra expenses associated with prosecuting a DP case, and the appeals process (which is necessary - see reason #1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.

3. The deterrent effect is questionable at best. Violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty jurisdictions. This may seem counterintuitive, and there are many theories about why this is (Ted Bundy saw it as a challenge, so he chose Florida – the most active execution state at the time – to carry out his final murder spree). Personally, I think it has to do with the hypocrisy of taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’

4. There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age. When Ted Bundy was finally arrested in 1978, he told the police officer, “I wish you had killed me.”  Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (the architect of the 9/11 attacks) would love nothing better than to be put to death.  In his words, "I have been looking to be a martyr [for a] long time."

5. Most governments are supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. James 4:12 says that God is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."