are you for or against capital punishment?why?
598527
against . regardless of what someone has done it is not up to me to take there life.there is no circumstance where i would accept that killing one more person was right and justified .
600447
Yes, for 2 reasons - they made their choice when they took a life & why should we as taxpayers pay to fed, clothe, educate & guard life sentence criminals.\nIn our state it is rarely given - must be cruel - like all murder is not cruel. Murderers forfeit their right to live.\nMy brother was murdered while buying a gallon of milk during robbery. They got the death penalty but it was overturned & they get out this year his 3 children are not even out of college yet. They grew up without him.
416989
I am for the death penalty, and for expanding the number of crimes eligible for the death penalty.\n\nI am also for corporal punishment. Caning or whipping can cure a lot of criminal tendencies.\n\nIt is called punishment. There is nothing immoral about harsh punishments. But there is something wrong with failure to punish wrongdoers. Leniency towards evil-doers is surely as immoral as the crimes themselves.
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.
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.
699052
I dont believe in the death penalty because I dont believe a government should decide when to end a life especially when more often than not, the accused doesnt have enough money to afford any decent defense.  Besides even people who are obviously guilty have the right to life only God may take it when he feels the time is right.  Life in jail is the only solution.  Remember just like in the Animal Kingdom, the strong prey on the weak so someone who leads a criminal life will ultimately offend a bigger fish.
128064
Seems like it to me. I think the death penalty is bad for our culture. It doesn't do anyone good to support the murder of another. My friend who is pro life and pro death penalty says that people who have taken another life should lose theres. where as children who have not been born have not done anything wrong.
807581
The reason is not to show that killing is wrong.the purpose is to show there is a debt to pay for your actions. you pay with your life. all murder is wrong,[ murder ]and the courts will kill you for it.[hence the death penalty]
1034800
Execution can be viewed as the physical manifestation of Justice carried out on those found guilty of killing.\n\nI doubt death penalty advocates are really getting off knowing that criminals are dying.  The argument that never seems to be heard is that, aside from being a (alleged) deterrent to crime, the death penalty allows Justice to be done.  When one takes another life, it isn't hypocritical to take the life of the killer-- it is Justice.  It would threaten our integrity as a Just society, a crime far worse than hypocrisy some would argue, if our society allowed one of the most heinous crimes to go (relatively) unpunished.
834398
I would for me.... but that's not the point of Capital punishment.... Retribution and justice  are the point. Any determent is just a plus. And one thing is absolutely sure.... the person upon which Capital Punishment is carried out *never* commits a crime again. It is the only punishment with a zero recidivism
415079
Death Sentence = Capital Punishment
1024222
Those are all good points for the legislatures to consider but the constitution does not allow the court to simply decide that the death penalty is unwise.  State legislatures decide and then then Court decides if that penalty is barred as "cruel and unusual" punishment but the constitution doesn't preclude state laws that are merely "counterproductive."  so, run for your state legislature and vote to abolish the death penalty in your state.
113653
I know you don't actually want an answer - you seem more interested in pontificating.  Be that as it may, it is perfectly easy to justify a belief in the legality of abortion vs. the legality of the death penalty.  For me, capital punishment is a governmental rights issue - that is, I do not believe the government has the right to deprive its citizens of life under any circumstances.  It's simply something the government should not be allowed to do, because allowing it for some people (odious though they may be) makes it easier to apply it for lesser crimes - a slippery slope argument, essentially.\n\nAbortion is a different issue, because (1) it is not the government depriving someone of life; (2) there's no scientific reason to argue that life begins at conception; and (3) if we assume life begins at conception, then all laws regarding children would apply to zygotes/fetuses, which would be unworkable in any society.
732314
I don't agree with capital punishment in principle. But even if you do, it's not a solution to prison overcrowding. In the US, people spend years on death row and it costs much more money than regular prison because of all the appeals etc.\n\nAnd there is no evidence that death sentences would deter paedophiles for the most serious offenders for whom it is a compulsion. Paodophilia is dangerous, disgusting and evil - I understand the anger that makes us want to kill in revenge - but it would not put off other paedophiles from doing the same sadly. All the emphasis on 'stranger danger' makes us forget that most child abuse is within the family & home.\n\n\nBritain's prisons are overcrowded because more and more people are being locked up for relatively petty crime. Paedophiles have always been imprisoned and rightly so. But we also lock up people for not paying their TV licenses....\n\nOnly people who are dangerous or who are serious or repeat offenders should be locked up. People who are addicts or mentally ill should be treated. People who are petty criminals or anti-social should be put to work cleaning up the mess they and others have made, not locked up for year at public expense.\n\nWe could save a fortune by ensuring that people get a decent education - reading, writing, IT and social skills and learning a trade - rather than making everyone sit lots of exams and then excluding the kids who can't keep up. And we need to do more to tackle drugs and family breakdown. A bit more money on counselling could save the whole of society a lot of grief in future.
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...
284273
Great Question!  Made me think...not too many here do...here we go!\n\nNOT against Abortion....feel it is every woman's right to decide!\n\nWAS against Capital punishment UNTIL I went to a site called Prison Talk Forum and read what all the woman in the United States are on Death Row for.  Obviously I was surprised that SO many where there for killing their own children......and in alot of cases not just one child...multiple children.\n\nSo when I went to answer this question....I had to stop and actually think.  Am I right in my thinking that it is OK to terminate a fetus.....BUT.....at the same time hold these woman in so much CONTEMPT.\n\nI don't have an answer to the question...my heart says kill kill kill.....those precious children didn't deserve that.....especially from their mom.  My brain says....hmmmm.
816986
not quite the same thing really....although i am in favour of eutahnasia which should be strictly controlled and not  used as an excuse to get rid of people that we feel as a society are no longer able to contribute to our society..i,,m not in favour of the death penalty..you only have to look at the tragic case of Timothy Evans who hanged after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and baby daughter..in the end it turned out to be Christie,,what would you do then? you cannot bring back an innocent man from the dead and if this doesn,t convince you then just look at al the miscarriages of justice there have been