Should the state of TX impose manditory death penalty to first and second degree murder and manslaughter?
131864
First degree yes, second degree would have to depend on events around it, manslaughter say 25 to life.
16487
According to the figures on the source site, death penalty states have higher murder rates. So it doesn't seem to be much of a deterrent.
213865
I live in a non death penality state (Michigan) and feel that it is barbaric and wrong for the state to kill anyone. Our justice system is not fair and I truly wonder how many innocent people have been put to death by it. If you are rich or white you can beat a charge. If you are poor or Black you are going to die that simple.
198761
In this case, the death sentence would have to be set down until the new charges were heard . Then the first sentence could proceed. But it would depend in which state the offender was being held in USA. \nMany persons offend while on bail awaiting trial. Many are accused of further crimes while they are in goal. Each offence has to be tried and judged upon in isolation to another.
180925
No. He would deserve the Death Penalty! Go, Texas!
407612
Capital punishment is premeditated killing.\nAs a Christian I am morally opposed to killing regardless of the situation.\nI also believe it is morally wrong to force me to pay for the state to kill people.\nOK, it's only 3 sentences.....so kill me.
11940
Well... yeah, that is so wrong.  Everything you listed there seems pretty bad to me... rape/molest/death.\n\nThis isn't such a simple issue.  Perhaps it is true that some sex offenders should be in prison for life without parole, but whether the state should execute people for any crime is another issue.\n\nIt actually statistically costs more money to keep a person on death row and deal with the appeals process than it does to just keep them in prison for the rest of their natural life.\n\nOn top of that, some registered sex offenders are people who got caught pissing outside when they were drunk.  I don't think they deserve the death penalty.
320974
I don't believe in the death penalty.\nToo many Innocent people have been executed for something they did not do.There are two infamous cases here in Australia where the murderers/rapist were caught red handed within days and admitted they did it,both these individuals have tried to commit suicide while in prison,their crimes against another human being were horrendous and had a great impact on our country not just the state in which it took place,in a case like this I think the judge should be able to in-force the death penalty.\nSome people still think the last man hanged here was innocent and it was done for political reasons.
498514
Often times we use capital punishment (killing) to tell people it is wrong to commit certain crimes (like killing). I do not refuse to commit heinous crimes because the state will kill me. I refuse to commit those crimes because that is not who I am. It is only an earnest inner choice that can effectively deter crime. Think about it: When a man is committing a crime that is horrible enough to merit capital punishment (such as murder), he knows at the time that he might be killed in the act of committing the crime itself. If you try to kill someone, they will certainly try to kill you first. Apparently, the man who would commit such a crime doesn't care about living, if he was willing to risk his life to commit it. Death is no punishment to the man who does not fear death.
275689
i   strongly  support  the  death  penalty. why  should  somebody  that   killed  another   person,  family  get  to   visit  and  talk  to   this  person.  when the   victims  family   can  never   see  or  talk  to  the  person   who  was   killed   again ?some   people  change after  being  in   prison,  but  it  makes  some   people  worst.a  person  that   would  take  another  persons   life,   doesnt   deserve  to  live.especially  a   child. and  if  this  country  would   start giving   these  sick   minded  perverts,  that  mess  with  little   kids  the   death    penalty  some  of  this  would  stop.
578080
Those are all good points for the legislatures to consider but the constitution does not allow the court to simply decide that the death penalty is unwise.  State legislatures decide and then then Court decides if that penalty is barred as "cruel and unusual" punishment but the constitution doesn't preclude state laws that are merely "counterproductive."  so, run for your state legislature and vote to abolish the death penalty in your state.
285683
Yes, for 2 reasons - they made their choice when they took a life & why should we as taxpayers pay to fed, clothe, educate & guard life sentence criminals.\nIn our state it is rarely given - must be cruel - like all murder is not cruel. Murderers forfeit their right to live.\nMy brother was murdered while buying a gallon of milk during robbery. They got the death penalty but it was overturned & they get out this year his 3 children are not even out of college yet. They grew up without him.
342695
A death penalty would not likely stop people from committing such a crime.  They have no value for any human life, including their own.  It only saves the state the obligation of keeping the person(s) alive and in decent health.
243408
Hmmm. Personally, I don't believe in Capital Punishment, if that's what you mean. I don't think it's the government's place to kill people. I believe in justice, not vengeance for our legal system.\nRevenge is a personal matter, not a matter for the state.\nIt is unreasonable to expect the state to kill someone for you. You want him dead, do it yourself. Someone killed your daughter? You want him beaten to death? You do it, and then find a way to get away with it.\n\nFor me, vengeance is carried out by the one wronged, or not at all.\nNow, as for how I would carry out my revenge for some horrible wrong done to me or my loved ones. I don't think it would be prudent for me to go into details, but I probably wouldn't kill the person, but leave them in a bad way, so that they would have a long long time to think about what they had done while they have to have a nurse wipe their @ss, and while she's doing it (something she has done for years for many people) she will think "my god, this is the most horrid job ever." as she holds back vomit. And she would have to smoke a cigarette after work with jittery hands and try so desperately to forget the image of what is left of a human being, but she can't because it's etched into her brain and her dreams of him awaken her at night and in a cold sweat, and she will always remember the remnants of the man in the hospital bed, who no longer looks like a man. And he will always have a pain, somewhere, a different pain in a different place everyday, so that it never dulls and he never gets used to it, and he can never ever forget who he wronged because that pain is always there.\nThat would be my revenge.
311904
No death sentence.\n\nLife in prison or not, the sentence should make him repent what he/she did and his/her painful life (not physical) should be an example to people not to commit crimes against humanity.
49731
i think its a good idea.  It's certainly  better than a Governor being able to unilaterally execute innocent people.
373529
I am not sure if you want the actual laws or how often the crimes occur.\n\nI am guessing you wanted the laws and misspelled the word statute, even though the previous poster thought you wanted statistics.\n\nThe site below will give you the Texas homicide laws. I do not have the Louisiana laws, but you probably already have those.