What do you think about capital punishment?
339067
I believe in capital punishment.  My problem with it is only that our contry does not practice it very much.
1021014
It does sound awful, if you understand what goes on in that persons body when they're injected. Especially if they aren't sedated properly. Ah man, capital punishment really makes me sad, I'm not saying I'm against it, but it's just an awful situation it seems like.
920755
The death penalty was stopped in this country in the 1960's,as a lot of truly innocent people were executed.\nOkay we only had hangings,but i think it should be brought back now,as we've advanced so much.\nWhat with d.n.a testing and other ways of gaining evidence,i don't think we would have a problem apart from people crying out about their `human rights`
1102689
I totally disagree with the death penalty, ( probably because of my christian background) I do believe that if somebody does something terrible that deserves a big punishment, then put him/her in jail for the rest of their life, let them miss all the great thing that life offers out of the jail's walls,  so they can think of what they have done until they died.\nthe main reason   why I am  against the death penalty is that once you are dead, you are  gone and that doesn't sound to much of a punishment,  is more like a slap on the wrist, it might be hard on the family of the convicted person, but not that much for the convicted himself,  plus it would be a very sad thing seen innocent people died for something they haven't done.
273211
Justice and sentences are a complex subject.\nTo answer in a quick way, I'd just say I'm totally against death penalty, no matter the crime, no matter the death. Matter of principles, education and logic.\nSaying "they canno't be rehabilitated" is as stupid as saying "they will never do it again". It really depends on the person and on its personal case... but "Yes" some can be rehabilitated.\nOne last sad point: the USA carceral system and culture do not foster good rehabilitations. That has sad consequences: they go on with their troubles and the ones who believe that they canno't be rehabilitated think being right!!
958116
Yes definetly.\n\nI pose to you a question, you come home your mum and dad and all your siblings are dead, you see a man in the hall holding a gun up at you with their blood on his hands you have a gun do you draw it and pull the trigger?\n\nAlso another question\nA child sex offender is realeased from jail and re offends, then goes to jail again released with the same result, do you use capital punishment to protect all his future victims?\n\nI am pro capital punishment in out and out clear cut guilty cases (violent/ sex crimes) , as far as i am concerned the fmaily of the victim should have the choice if they want the offender to die, because the offenders death will only bring closure to those he/ she has effected.
230695
I think its sick.No matter what the person did to deserve it.I think its shameful that America actively participates in it when we are one of the only countries that does.Abortion is so called murder but they actually strap someone down and kill them with the death penalty. I don't understand how some one can justify the death penalty but in the same breath speak of how cruel and horrible abortion is.I think until the legal system and investigations into the crime are completely fool-proof and without any error then I think it should not be carried out. How many people are innocent and become imprisoned?
234331
I agree with having a death penalty, if we could ensure guilt. until then, the only justification is to "save money" that would be spent imprisoning someone for life. I think that argument is a little too NAZI. killing people because they cost society money just isn't a healthy road to travel.
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!!
579630
I believe in life in prison without parole for those criminals that have proven to be an ongoing threat to society.  I think it costs us far more to execute them than it would for us to keep them locked up forever.  However, the death sentence does not bother me.  I believe there are people who cannot be changed and that they are evil.  The sex of the person does not enter into it for me.  Would I carry out the execution?  I would not take the job.  If I were forced to do it, or the person would go free?  I would execute them.  My fear in letting them go would be that they would kill again or harm a child.  I couldn't live with that on my conscience.  Anyway I didn't sentence them to die.  I just carried out the sentence of the court.  Of course this answer is based on what I know of the courts of the U.S.A.  I would not carry out a death sentence in another country.  In some cases the sentence may have been handed out simply for being a Christian.
625857
Pro capital punishment, I just think they shouldn't stay on death row for 12 years... yes, a few innocents may have been put to death, but thousands of lives have been saved.\n\nIf life in a cell was worse than death then most criminals wouldn't fight the death penalty ;)  Most do even after 10 or more years on death row...
834572
Please keep in mind that what some criminals do to their victims is much worse than the death penalty.  Many victims who were tortured and raped repeatedly for years while being held captive in makeshift dungeons would have welcomed a swift death rather than what they experienced.  Many people think that the death penalty is too good for some of those criminals.  They would prefer subjecting them to the same torture they perpetrated on their victims.  But doing that would be inhumane, and, in essence, they would be lowering themselves to the level of the criminals.  So, they try to show some compassion by providing them with a more humane penalty--a quick death rather than a slow one involving torture.  Although I'm not a religious person, I think it's interesting that the Bible recommends an eye for an eye.  Maybe that's why church and state are separate.  If the church were running the justice system, I fear penalties would become worse than the crimes.  If you don't think so, look at the Middle East where  women are stoned to death for committing adultery or having sex out of wedlock.  So, when you look at the death penalty from that perspective, it doesn't seem so bad--well, unless you're the one on death row, I guess.  My opinion is that the people justly receiving the death penalty probably deserve worse, and should consider themselves fortunate.  \n\nYes, my country, USA, has the death penalty (in many states).\n\nYes. In my opionion, Sadam Hussein deserves what he got (and worse).
1097642
i agree with eye for an eye, the only downside is if they are innocent then they are being punished for no reason, then again innocent people get executed even in our society... some people have been executed only to find out later that they truly were innocent... if the crime was prooven then yes I think thats what should be done!
515755
I think the better punishment is to have the person work for the family of the person they killed for the rest of their life. That way they have to confront the evil they did, and the family as the opportunity to choose forgiveness or revenge. \n\nYou must listen to the song "An Eye for an Eye" by Leslie Nuchow, written soon after and two blocks away from 9/11.\n\nI am divided on capital punishment. However, if someone steals $100 from me, I would want their punishment to be to work to repay me that $100. Makes more sense than prison.
832462
I totally agree. Sometimes i think maybe it would be good to make them sit their whole life and rot . If i had my choice, i would make the person stay alive so every day they can think about the choice they made! The death penalty seems to be a cop out. But others days my opinion changes...
1151083
i think to make murder punishable by murder is a joke, what is the difference between the criminal and the law if both are commiting murder. also if i were facing life in prison i would much prefer the death penalty and im sure many people on death row see it that way, fortunatly in my country we abolished the death penalty long ago and now killers have to live with their nightmares for the rest of their lives rather than getting an easy way out. we are supposed to be promoting modern liberal western values to the rest of the world but it is not very good when the wests leading nation itself cannot follow these ideals
236586
I'm one of those people who you would probably want to move along (and aside from this issue and a few others, I'm very conservative), but I ackowledge that this is a Democracy and I am in the extreme minority on this issue in America, so I sort of accept the death penalty. Personally, if I did a heinous crime, I'd want to die instead of rot in prison, so in my eyes, "Lock the door, throw away the key" is worse than "fry the b_stard". But in spite of my opposition to the death penalty, I don't get worked up about someone who committed a terrible crime being put to death. So given that, these are the crimes I think warrant the worst penalty we dish out:\n\n- Murder (substantiated by either strong evidence- multiple witnesses, confession, video, or DNA).\n- Rape (1st offense for strong case).\n- Selling or distributing drugs to minors (2nd offense). If you distribute to an adult, I don't consider that a crime. If you distribute to a child, that's a serious offense.\n- Any kind of terrorism plotting.\n- Treason.\n- Any sexual activity with a child(below 13 would be a good age).\n- Any violent crime involving a weapon- first offense. None of this "three strikes, you're out" b s.