Do you think the death penalty is justified for someone who has killed another man?
403810
In a mature democracy, run and inhabited by reasonable people, there can be no justification whatsoever for the death penalty
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?
608775
Well personally I'm opposed to the death penalty for any reason...First off as a Christian I believe Jesus taught let he without sin cast the first stone...secondly in our criminal courts the rich can afford all the expert witnesses they need while the poor are being executed...sometimes innocent because they couldn't afford a great lawyer and expert witnesses
894019
Absolutely. The death penalty should be administered to anyone denying the existence of God.\n\nOnce of course, his existence is proved.\n\nOver to you Heinz!!
10289
The death penalty is not for revenge, its justice. Because those people on death row, took someone else's life, if they were given lifelong imprisonment they would never understand to the full extent of what they had done
409425
i think they should kill the one guy, so three men can live. i doubt that they would get in trouble for murder, because they could all explain the story and how it was not optional-- either he dies or they all die. with a good lawyer in court, i think it would work anyway. \ni think that three lives are more valuable to save than none, and if they all get suffocated and the large man dies, no one is saved anyway.
910170
No. Capital punishment is revenge not justice.\n\nIf a con doing an armed robbery is shot dead at the scene by coips then that is justice. Murdering them months or years later is not!
742733
Well, the only thing I can say about it is that it keeps the murderer from committing another murder.\nThe bad thing is that innocent people get convicted.  Not very good when an innocent person is executed.
11518
I don't believe in the death penalty; I mean who are we to play God like someone said. But the thing is; he was convicted and there was no doubt that he was guilty. He was also sentenced to death and I think that if we change the laws because one person said sorry; then others would do heinous crimes and be like "I'm sorry" and expect to be let off. \n\nI don't even know much about what's going on in his case but that's what I think.
413975
I have always wondered that..\n\nI think that people who are going to be put to death for murder, should be done so only by the victim(s) families or loved ones, then I would be able to see some sort of justice out of that
40006
The Murderer that is being executed.  It's a consequence of his crime.
1151611
No, we are killing people who murdered other people as both a punishment, and as an act to say that we value life so much, that when you wrongfully take another's, yours is itself forfeit.\n\nIf you cannot distinguish between killing as punishment and the crime of murder, then, nobody can help you understand.
1148421
I don't believe in capital punishment.  I think it's a much greater punishment to let a criminal rot in hellish prisons for endless years.  It's in no way a deterent for capital crimes.
753662
Well if someone in my family had be killed, I would want the person responsible to pay. And if it met going to the gas chamber or lethal injection then so be it. It may not bring that love one back, but I would have the satisfaction of knowing it could never go and do it to anyone else, he would be off the streets for good.\n\nThanks for the 2 points.
340500
you don't. Why should you support the free killing of someone, eventhough they killed someone. Two wrongs don't make a right.
500912
it all depends on the situation for me in my opinion the only people that should get the death penalty are child killers and sexual predators who molest children. AND in some special circumstances like a serial killer or maybe a drunk driver who killed innocent people because he or she was drunk.
942167
i think that what has the world gain in sentencing another man to be hanged? It's another life taken away. Yes, even though Saddam has did things that's terrible but still it's a life. Nothing is being gain from a war, a fight or hanging a man! Instead saddam should be sentenced to help rebuild homes that were destroyed in the war, let him see and feel personally of what he had done! As for bush? He should also bear part of the blame for the war, a war can only be fought when there's 2 countires! I doubt he wld face the same penalty 24yrs down the road but i'm sure at the brink of his death he would feel remorse and guilt. Soldiers died in a war because the country needed them to but what about the women and children? They are the innocents whom got caught in the middle of the war. My prayers goes out to those whom have died for their country, the civilians and of cuz to those family whom has lost a brother, a husband, a father as no man is juz a soldier. In whatever name u call god, pray for those who suffered in the war.