How do you feel about capital punishment? Do you feel that how the person die is how the criminal should die?
99008
yes, that is exactly how it should be, but not only for the death penalty. if a man rapes a woman, he should be raped in return, and castrated. Eye for an Eye people.
735661
I'm for death penalty because it's a good preventive force, knowing that punishment is death penalty DOES stop people from committing a crime; convicted people live on the taxes of citizens, I hate the idea of thinking that some raper or murderer lives on my taxes; all the money spent on criminals could be spent on education, health care
798216
in a way it is very ironic but I think that many people feel the same way. I know that I myself believe in the death penalty for extreme crimes but otherwise not at all. See the problem that I see with encouraging to kill themselves is that often times the people guilty of such crimes don't feel guilt for their crimes, so why would they kill themselves. I don't know guess i am rambling. Good Luck in deciding
1144197
nope. i believe that all murderers should die. i dont wanna spend my tax dollars on their jail cell for longer than i have to. plus, what the criminals did was barbaric. shouldn't they get a barbaric punishment for what they did?
1093370
If murder is wrong, then how can states justify murdering the murderer? I think in some cases some criminals deserve to die...however I believe that is too easy of a punishment...I believe they should just be locked in a small, windowless room with a hole in the floor to use the bathroom for the rest of their lives.No excercize...no tv...no mail..no human contact at all...bread and water to sustain them, but nothing more...let them die alone in a dark room and then burn the body.
1153874
I have no objection to capitol punishment.  I agree that if the criminal is truly guilty, beyond a shadow of doubt, then by all means, eliminate him from society in the most expeditious manner available!\n\nUnfortunately, the modern US legal system isn't perfect.  There have been several cases in the past where a person convicted of a crime and sentenced to death has later been proved innocent of that crime.  \n\nWould you want to be the one who pushes the button on an innocent man?
98268
considering how many cases have been overturned (especially with advances in DNA testing), i think it is obvious that the death penalty is "flawed", not neccessarily 'bad' or 'good'. \n\nimagine if someone you knew was faslely sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit... or even you. is it worth the risk of making those mistakes and ending innocent peoples lives to "punish" the wrongdoers?\n\nadditionally, consideration should be given to the concept that death is the ultimate punishment. is death really the worst outcome for a convicted murder? proponents of capital punishment claim that "scum" are rewarded with an easy life of "freebies". if those freebies include shivs and anal rape, then they may be right. point being - prison is not a cake walk. some would consider a lifetime of confinement greater punishment than instant death. \n\nmoreover, as one person noted, the death penalty may not actually scare off future criminals. some cultures do not believe in "punishing" people who commit crimes, but instead focus on recovering, as a community, after such an act. \n\nthe plain fact of the matter is, people make mistakes. even big ones. why not try to understand the cause for these crimes (i.e. why did this person feel the need to steal) instead of endlessly reprimanding them when we already know it will happen regardless? often when a person commits a crime, it is out of a sense of neccessity, not enjoyment. few people take such big risks for the sake of fun. most act out of desperation - fearing they have no real alternative. \n\ni feel the death penalty is not working well in any aspect and should be reexamined. so, to put it simply "bad".
915529
How quick are people here to jump blindly to all kinds of conclusions about this.  Firstly, most people are forgetting that your question as us if WE were sentenced to death....perhaps some people here should try to get their head round that bit of the concept first before assuming that anyone should be sentenced to death.  \n\nThere have been a lot of miscarriages of justice - in the UK think of people who have been released years after being sentenced because they were wrongly imprisoned in the first place. You can't bring people back from the dead so there's a moral and ethical question people ought to ask themselves about whether the death penalty - is something that is right in the first place.  Thankfully in the UK we abolished it but there are plenty of other countries that still exercise this sentencing option.  \n\nWhen is it right to sentence someone to death, and when is it not?\n\nOf course this question has probably been prompted by the news that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.  Even in the case of such a tyrant he did not act alone - he had people around him who supported him in his actions.  Yes some will have done it out of fear, but for everyone of those there will have been someone who did it with the same intent as Saddam.  Whilst I abhor his actions is it right that he carries this alone?\n\nOf course, in an instance like this people's gut reactions will think I'm a bleeding heart liberal.  But now imagine you're in a train carriage with two other people.  One gets up and brutally stabbing the other before jumping off the still moving train.  You're found bent over the body with blood on your hands.  The CCTV wasn't working and all the evidence points at you.  Do you still believe in the death penalty?\n\nThere've been cases where people have been sentenced to death despite having the mental age of a child and not knowing the difference between right and wrong - they're particularly tragic.  And then there are the options themselves as to the way you die.  Lethal injection etc.  They say that some methods are quicker than others.  The quickest, I understand, is meant to take almost immediate effect and yet in some US States where they offer this the doctor still does not declare the patient dead for 30 minutes, suggesting that it is not as quick as they claim. If it has to be then surely it should be by the quickest method possible.  As if someone is to die a slow death then are we not committing an act of torture leading to death?  Don't we become as bad as the person who's committed the crime?
73464
I am in favor of executions for the worst crimes.  For those that think it is "barbaric" to execute a murderer, do you really think the murderer was gentle with his victims?  Do you think the muderer gave the victim time to be with their family and say a tender goodby, like they get before their execution?  I guess you believe the murderer also prepared a  nice last meal for his victim too, right?  And since most executions in the US are now carried out by lethal injection, nice, painless, and peaceful, I guess you believe the muder victim died the same way?\n\nYes, I think the executions should be made public.  Nobody that does not want to attend has to.  And the criminals should lose all of the above perks that they get.  They certainly should not get more than their victims got.
393585
If you are referring to the death penalty, I'm all for it.  The more criminals who get the death penalty, the less taxes I have to pay to keep them alive!  \n\nIf you are asking if it is right to personally murder someone who murdered a loved one, no that is not right.  The legal process is in place to serve justice; it's not our place to do that.
916102
I'm against because innocent people get judged guilty and are killed. And anyway some crimes are so horrific that death is too soft a punishment.
1179352
Yes serial killers and others should be put to death as fast as possible. I think that if everyone  knew that if they killed someone and were convicited that they would suffer the same faith, death that there would be a whole lot less murder in our society. I think people would think twice before killling someone if they knew they would die.
910327
Yes!!\n\nI think that capital punishment should be legal in all states. America was founded on the principles of God so all our laws should revolve around Him. AN EYE FOR AN EYE!! \n\nAll murderers should be killed right away not ten years later and all sex offenders should be castrated. \n\ni am a student!!!
915379
He has done horrible things - beyond belief - in his lifetime.  He used his power to kill and rape and murder.  But I do not believe in capital punishment.  It sickens me that people are happy that somebody - anybody will hang.  Should he be punished for his crimes?  ABSOLUTELY!  Should society decide if somebody will live or die?  No.  \n\nAnd if you want to get into the whole "prisons are crowded" discussion - I think our prisons in the U.S. (don't know about what goes on in other countries) are ridiculously plush.  Schools to learn new trades, weight rooms, bastketball courts, large screen TV's, ping pong tables.  Put prisoners in a cell - allow them to walk or run laps in a court once a day - allow the illiterate ones learn to read and write - and give them bland food.  If our prisons were horrid places to go - the prisons would stop filling up.  It's wrong to kill people - but it's not wrong for them to have consequences in a harsh manner - as long as it's not cruel.
932504
YES HE SHOULD BE HANGED TILL DEATH.  IT IS LESSON FOR OTHERS AND JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THIS ATTACK.
34205
becasue there are people out there the deserve it. I believe in the death penalty very much. If they are found guilty of what they did and its a bad thing then they deserve to die for it. They have no mercy on what they did so why should we show mercy.
800060
I am so torn on the death penalty issue... I don't have a stance yet.\n\nFrom a strictly economical side, I'm against the death penalty, because I've heard in multiple places that it costs 2-3 times more than life in prison w/o parole.\n\nFrom a moral standpoint, it's hard to say.  Killing someone removes them once and for all as a threat.  Granted, while in jail they are only a threat to other inmates and the prison guards, but still, you cannot make a blanket judgment on whether those people (in the case of the other prisoners) deserve the threat, or (in the case of the guards) willingly accept the threat by being in that job.  Also, there's always the chance of escape.  You don't have that chance with death.\n\nIn addition, there's the obvious fact that if you accept the death penalty, almost regardless of standards for conviction, you're going to eventually get an innocent person in there.  Making the standards for conviction extremely high just leads to multiple expensive appeals, which brings us back to the economic reason to be against it.  It also makes the death penalty so rare that any appeal to it being a deterrent is just silly at that point, because even if you are convicted you'd have to be one of the unlucky ones to get the chair.\n\nIn fact, I have not seen any evidence that it actually serves as a deterrent, regardless of the extensiveness of its use.\n\nI do believe that the highest value must be placed on human life, but when you have one human life that continues to threaten others, isn't it respecting that value to end their life?\n\nI don't know.  I'm an atheist struggling to have a position on this.