If the Death Penalty is inhumane and "An eye for an eye" too barbaric how would you punish the criminals.?

Question

I am talking about the hardened criminal. What are your suggestions?

Answer 1

Incarceration for life.  Can't be any pleasure in knowing you will never get out of your 9 x 12 ft cell for the rest of your life.  Won't straighten them out, but will keep the public protected from these types.

Answer 2

Life without parole - the monster is taken off the streets.  For good.

I'm against capital punishment, but not because it's too "barbaric" (in some cases, I think it's too easy on them).  The main reasons I oppose it are practical:

1. By far the most compelling is this: Sometimes the legal system gets it wrong. In the last 30 years in the U.S. alone, over 100 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. These are ALL people who were found guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt."  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 to oppose it. If you need more, read on:

2. Because of higher pre-trial expenses, longer trials, jury sequestration, extra expenses associated with prosecuting a DP case, separate sentencing trials, 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 fosters a culture of violence by saying, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’

4. As I mentioned above, there’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst 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."

Answer 3

I am for the death penalty, kill them all

When the sun rises in the east, its going to be a good day

Answer 4

Well you have to look at why we punish people in general.  It is to bring about remorse, this can be done without killing someone in a way that works into their personal lives.

Answer 5

LoL...my take on it is this,

DO NOT DO ONTO OTHERS THAT WHICH YOU WOULD NOT HAVE THEM DO ONTO YOU!

I know it falls along the idea of "An Eye for an Eye" but hey, all is far in crime and punishment. Also, I don't think anything less than the death penalty should be given to rapists, [especially] child predators and murders.

Answer 6

life in prison without the possibility of parole.  all lifer's should be seperated from other prisoners who might one day be released into society.  keeping them locked up would actually be LESS expensive then all of the legal bills we pay now to process their endless appeals before executing them.

Answer 7

From a lawyer and ex-prosecutor.  What we do now is to put the criminal behind bars with worse criminals, they rape each other, torture each other and kill each other.  When he gets AIDS he dies in prison. The jailed criminal lives in fear of his life every day, has no privacy, has to go to the bathroom in front of everyone, has to eat school lunch room type food until he dies, etc.  You people who think it's like a cruise line are idiots.

Answer 8

Life without parole, available in 48 states (all except Alaska and New Mexico.)  It means what it says and is much less expensive than the death penalty.  (The high costs of the death penalty come from the upfront stages of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people. (upfront=pretrial and trial).

And, if we find that an innocent person has been sentenced to life without parole, he can be freed.  You can reverse an execution.  You can only say oops.

Sources:

www.deathpenalty.org

Click on life without parole

Click on costs.

Answer 9

stick him in a cozy cell that has heat and a/c, cable, internet connection, allow him "art's and crafts" time, time to go outside and play basketball with the other inmates........you know, just what our country is doing already.  I mean, it works so well, right?