Are you in favor of the 'Death Penalty' Law?
337631
yes. kill them all and let god sourt them out
147898
Abolish it entirely.  Our justice system is not infalible.  There have been multiple people sentanced to death and exhonorated post-mortem.  That's enough reason for me.  Besides which the death penalty is motivated by revenge, not justice.  An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
541781
I SO flunked a paper in college once on this subject.  I am in favor of capital punishment & my professor wrote that I "failed to make a compelling argument".  All I said was that child rapists/killers should be strung up by their balls & suspended mid-air until they die!!  Am I so wrong?\n\nForgive me, Lord, I was not brought up this way!  These are my own convictions & I stand by them!!
1132558
I am in favour of a death penalty.  If you want to believe that a life sentence is going to teach a murderer anything, then YOU pay for it.  If you want to pay room and board for a prisoner for the rest of his/her life, you're welcome to try, but you have no right to ask someone else to do it.\nImprisonment means you and I are forced to take care of criminals, and for those in the habit of taking by force, what better life can you imagine?  Abolishment of the death penalty is every dishonest person's dream.  It's the path to a life of coercion with impunity.  It's become far too easy to forget about the victims.  What about their rights?  The issue of victim's rights also reveals the fact that many crimes have no victims... ask yourself why victimless crimes are illegal (after all, cops and judges need to look busy, don't they?)\nTo those who claim prisons are cheaper-- what planet are you on?  Keeping murderers and rapists in prisons is only cheaper than, what, keeping them in mansions?  Thanks to the INjustice system, we have a ridiculous number of innocent people doing time.  In a horribly misguided attempt to regulate business and morality, prisons are full of people guilty of illegal, but not immoral, acts: smoking pot, trading stocks at the wrong moment, selling sex, gambling, etc.\nThe real problem is confusing legality with morality.  If you kill someone, and it was NOT self-defence, you have forfeited your right to be alive.  That fact doesn't change from place to place, but laws do, obviously.  In some countries, you could be put to death for being gay or an atheist, but in those cases the executioners are the murderers.  Blaming wrongful executions on the death penalty is like blaming a shooting on the gun.  If we're going to save innocent lives, we have to fight the religions and governments that destroy those lives.\nUltimately, the real issue is not the concept of execution, but rather the abuse of law by the corrupt and the persecution of innocents by those who make -and enforce- laws.
943456
yes absoloutly i think anybody that takes another life for any reason should be given capital punishment. good luck and god bless and happy holidays.
877023
Should there be a death penalty in a civilized society and if so, why hang criminals?\n\nThat's a question that's been asked many, many times. If we don't kill dangerous criminals they languish in prisons on our tax dollars. If they're put to death and they're innocent we've killed an innocent person. If we hang them; electrocute them or give them a fatal injection. Maybe we should stone them? \n\nI'm afraid this issue will go on until long after we've left this jolly old earth. Should we be too civilized or should we become more uncivilized? Perhaps dangerous offenders will refrain from killing if they know they will be put to death or do they just not care and will do it anyway?\n\nI'm afraid, given this diverse world we live in; our societies will dictate what is an isn't civilized and what forms of punishment these people will get.\n\nThere are worse places to live than the United States or Canada!
930856
Question goes even deeper:  Is it right to kill anyone in the name of the law?  Sadam certainly qualifies for the sentence under current guidelines.  But, in his case, like any case, is anyone really sending a powerful message telling others to avoid this type behavior or you will be killed?  Would Sadam evenly remotely had considered doing things differently.  \n\nSo is the death penalty a crime deterent.  Or, is it more a tool for emotional revenge?  When I was younger I used to strongly believe in the death penalty.  But now, I wonder if the whole ball of wax ever even slightly affects capital crime.  "Have to get caught, trials and appeals last several years, greater than even chance of getting life, some even accept their fate. \n\nBut to answer your question - he got what the law said the punishment must be... right or wrong!
2165
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent and has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.\nNo I don't believe in the Death Penalty.\nCheck out the link below for more information.
1024271
At heart, if it is what the people of Texas want, I am for them making that determination & not for people outside the state making that choice for them.\n\nThat aside, there are a number of reasons to oppose the death penalty:\n\n- The vast majority of people on Death Row could not afford to hire an attorney & consequently got poor legal representation that could have saved their lives;\n\n- Homicide rates in states with the death penalty are almost doube that of states that don't have the death penalty;\n\n- In the past 30 years, over 100 Death Row inmates were found to be innocent upon appeal.\n\nIt's just my opinion, but one innocent person being executed for a crime they did not commit is one too many.  I believe the states should do what's best for their own, but on principle I do not support the death penalty where I live.
19274
I don't want to kill anyone in cold blood. That's how I see the death penalty. If the government is doing the killing, and we the people are the government, then it is us ALL OF US doing the killing.\n\nAlso, there have been cases of innocent people being put on death row. Aint no coming back from dead.\n\nthe reason I start with the "in cold blood" comment is because I agree with many that say that they would fight to death to protect their own family. I would too. If I could catch the murderer in the act, I would kill them if that was needed to stop them. But once we have them in jail, we just need to agree to keep them in there.
849298
No.\n\nAs a matter of PUBLIC POLICY, I would cite the following reasons:\n\n(1) Death is an irreversible punishment, and overzealous juries/prosecutors get it wrong WAY too often.  (RECENT EXAMPLE:  Read "The Innocent Man", a nonfiction book by John Grisham.)\n\n(2) Taxpayer dollars spent on criminal sanctions should be designed to protect society, not dish out retribution. Yet, statistical data is clear that the death penalty and tougher criminal sentences does not deter murder or violent crime.  Why?  Most violent criminals are sociopathic/psychopathic and simply do not rationally weigh the consequences of their actions before committing violent crimes.\n\n(3) The numbers indicate that the death penalty is not imposed upon the worst of the murderers (i.e., the person who actually pulled the trigger and killed).  Why?  Truly disturbed seriel killers more often than not have mitigating circumstances that get them out of the death penalty (e.g., severe abuse as children).  Second, the death penalty is most often sought where the prosecution can get an easy sentence (i.e., the person who drove the person who pulled the trigger, because the person who actually pulled the trigger ran to the police and got a plea deal for life without parole).\n\n(4) Prosecuting the death penalty costs taxpayers more than simply giving them a sentence of life without parole.  Why?  Courts want to do everything they can to ensure that an innocent person is not put to death.  Unfortunately, innocent people are being released from death row routinely, despite the fact that they had numerous appeals.\n\n(5) The death penalty is not fairly applied.  For example, Harris County, Texas prosecutes more death penalty cases than the rest of the State of Texas combined.  Is that fair?  Is it fair that a black defendant who kills a white victim is 8 times more likely to get the death penalty than a white defendant who kills a black victim?  Is it fair that over 90% of the defendants on death row in states like Texas, which have no public defenders, had no money to hire an attorney and had to receive court-appointed counsel, most of which have no criminal law experience?\n\n(6) Once again, criminal sanctions should be designed to protect society, not dish out retribution.  Although victim's families will say, on the eve of execution, that the death penalty gives them closure; pyschologists who actually follow up with victim's families will tell you that is a fallacy.  (Read up on it for yourself.)  If the government wants to be in the business of making victim's families feel better (as opposed to making society safer, which is the primary purpose of criminal law), then it would better devote the financial resources to providing psychological services than seeking death penalty prosecutions.\n\n(7) The assertion that a person who commits murder poses a risk that he/she will murder again is ridiculous if the alternative sentence is life in prison without possibility of parole (as it is in most states for murder).  A rapist or other violent criminal is just as likely to murder or commit violent crimes on other inmates than murderers are.  We are not making other inmates (all of whom commited violent crimes if they are in high security prisons) statistically safer by killing murderers.\n\nNow, my Christian view:\n\n(1) One of the Ten Commandments given to Moses says "Thou shalt not kill."  That's a period at the end of that sentence.  It does not say, "Thou shalt not kill unless the person you are killing killed someone else."  There is no "unless", no "if", no qualifiers whatsoever.\n\n(2) In response to all of those "good Christians" who are often so quick to cite the Old Testament (Exodus 21:23-25) as grounds for supporting the death penalty, I would direct you to two passages from the NEW TESTAMENT:\n(i) "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a too
985869
What alternate justice system would you recommend? Or is this a statement against the death penalty? If so, why don't you just say so.\n\nWould it be better to let a guilty person that had raped and murdered you daughter/wife/mother go free?
735805
I am pro-death penalty and believe in life for life
124846
i agree ((just to have a couterfight))\nif u break somones unalienable constitutional right,\n(life, liberty, and ther pursuit of happiness) \nu should have YOUR unalienable right taken away too\n(in this case, life)\nif someone brutally murdered your brother, would you like it if he could spend his life and jail, and even if he was lucky, get out? (good behavior and such)\nThe only way to prevent those people from coming out, is giving them the death penalty.\n\ncause a life sentence isnt for life
850013
The emotional part of me supports the death penalty...i know if someone killed a family member i would want them to face the ultimate punishment.\n\nBut the rational and prevailing part of me opposes the death penalty because of the risk of innocent people being killed. People think DNA is the killsafe...it is not..not all cases involve DNA and those convicted before the use of DNA often cannot get appeals to have the test performed. So oppose it, lest I or someone I know faces the fate of the unknown amount of innocents sentenced to death.
339067
I believe in capital punishment.  My problem with it is only that our contry does not practice it very much.
368916
Wholeheartedly. I think we should have a stupid box that we can put all of the stupid people in and then burn them all. (j/p i know that's not feasible...) The death penalty is a necessary evil, and i support it.