Whats your opinion on the death penalty?
492044
It blows my mind how people can be anti-capital punishment and pro-abortion.\n\nEither respect all life, or respect all innocent life, but not the liberal "don't kill convicted murders, but kill all the babies you want".\n\nBTW - to the person below... the Bible does NOT say "Thou Shall Not Kill"... it says "Thou Shall Not Committ Murder."  There is a difference.
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.
65162
I'm against it. \n\n1)There is way too much error in our system (just since dna testing has been a available in a small percentage of capital cases, a large number of convicted people have and to be released.)\n\n2)It is the wrong thing for society -- there are many people that need to be locked up for life, and it would be no great loss if they were dead.  It is a great loss when society kills them. It reinforces the notion that humans have the right to kill each other.\n\n3)All studies have shown little to no deterrant effect, across all societies.  No one about to kill another stops to think "Wait, if I get caught I'll be executed -- better do this where there is no death penalty." Killers in the act don't think they will be caught, or don't think they care.\n\n4) While the system must be more efficient if any deterent is to occur, there is a limit to how quickly and efficiently executions can occur and still be just. Therfore executions will always be  years after the fact, and thus have even less deterrent effect.
787665
death penalty....cuz i life in prision bout b a waste....im still gona  die there..y not make it sooner?! o yah
992235
I think they should be put to work. Clean the f*cking roads and sh*t. \n\nI don't believe in capital punishment. We don't have the right to take anyone's life. Always leave the possibility for remorse and forgiveness.
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.
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?
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.
77918
I am a staunch supporter of the death penalty. A lot of people say "well the death penalty is not a deterrent so why are we using it".. I always have to laugh when people say this. The people who are against capital punishment were the first people to use this argument. Never have I heard a proponent of the death penalty regard it as such. It is about JUSTICE... Not deterrence..\n\nThen of course the other argument is "death penalty is barbaric"... well, so is killing innocent people.\n\nAnother fun argument that I cant get enough of... "Pro lifers are for the death penalty, how hypocritical".. We are talking about a convicted murderer versues an innocent child... very big difference.\n\n...\nI know there are a lot more arguments against the death penalty, but those are my favorites. Thanks for letting me vent.
436225
Personally i believe in capital punishment. I also believe that it is used to liberally in USA. Often times people go to death sentence on circumstantial evidence, or when they are retarded. \nOn the other hand SOME criminals truly deserve to DIE. If you are a BOUND TORTURE KILL serial murderer who has suffocated 10 people for sexual gratification -- you deserve to die. If you are a mastermind of genocide -- you deserve to die. If you are Oklahoma city bomber who has murdered 167 people with a bomb -- you deserve to die. No amount of jail time will atone for crimes like that.\n\nSo Back to your question. If we limit execution to Egregious cases that truly shock the conscience then i believe some form of speedy and public execution might be appropriate. Crucifixion of course is going to far as it is clearly cruel and unusual. On the other hand televising the normal mode of execution like lethal injection might be entirely appropriate.
490858
It amazes me in America, a country built on the foundation of Christianity, that we condone state sanctioned murder.  No matter a person's belief, the only person who has the right to take a life is God, Allah or whatever you may call him or her.  \n\nIf we are talking about punishment, life in prison is no cakewalk it's severe punishment.  If we are talking about costs, it costs LESS to house an inmate in prison for life than to put him or her on death row.  The appeals process is so costly and the person remains on death row for so long, that it costs the tax payers more to kill someone than to send them to prison for life.  Often times, when an inmate is murdered via state sanction, they are not even the same person they were when the committed the crime.  You have folks being "put to death" 20 years after they committed the crime. So the state is then murdering someone who is no longer the person who committed the crime...umm the point of that is WHAT?  \n\nAnd finally, the death penalty does not deter crime.  Low life murders don't stop murdering because they know they can get the DP.  Crime rates don't decrease because of the DP.  And if you are going to get a low life off other streets and they are sitting in prison for 20 years before getting iced, then just let em rot in prison. I am just glad that I ain't the one who has to pull the switch. I would never be able to sleep at night.
9990
I agree with you there. 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.\nCheck out the link below & help to protest.
339067
I believe in capital punishment.  My problem with it is only that our contry does not practice it very much.
747872
Yes i believe it is justified for i believe that if someone takes a life they deserve to have their life taken. To think of all the rapists, murders, and etc. people their are in the world, it is not right to have them remain alive if all they do in the world is take the people we love from the world.\n\nIt costs an average of $20,000 to imprison someone for 1 year,\nto think that a person guilty of first degree murder is sentenced to 25 years in prison... thats approx. 500k \n\nSo unless u think its okay to forgive someone for their sins they commited, for the lives they have taken and the lives they have ruined. then dont enforce the death penalty. \n\nBut i believe in the death penalty because i believe that is the only real justice that is even justified in this world... because all the murders and rapists out there are still alive and will be out in about a decade to commit the same crimes.
666671
I certainly think that some people that are in favor of the death penalty are people that would murder as they have no value of life. Yes it is barbaric and wrong to lower your morals to that of the alleged perpetrator.
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!
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...