should capital punishment be brought back for the increasing amount of unprovoked murders?
956193
Many states have the death penalty. The problem is the sentences aren't carried out enough.
25892
I don't think executions deter crime at all, and I don't know why public executions would make it any better, not least because there is no way to actually force people to watch them. The sort of people who would choose to watch them are the sort of people who wouldn't commit crimes.\n\nCanada does not have the death penalty, and yet has a third as many murders per capita. Also, the United States has a murder rate significantly higher than any of the other first-world countries, all of which don't have the death penalty. Finally, non-death penalty states have consistently lower murder rates than death penalty states.
627875
It's probably not fair to lump all people into one group but the current system is not working.  Depending on the crime some convicts should be counseled and educated;  some should never again see the light of day; and others deserve the death penalty.
240893
Yes.\n\nThe death penalty is not about getting even.  It's about controlling criminal intent.  Once criminals see that you are easy on violent crime, crimes will multiply.\n\nStates that have and enforce the death penalty have far fewer violent crimes.  Criminals there are afraid of the consequences of murder.  That's good for all of us.
78682
The principle here is not that they are able to kill people but for what reason. The execution of a known felon who has him/herself murdered countless lives has forfeited his/her right to live under the eyes of the law. If he/she were to be set free and thus cause more deaths on the population it is justified to take his life for the general good. They are against violence, random and senseless violence that is. Sanctioned killings whereby a person has commited crimes deemed irreconcievable in the eyes of the community is not a crime nor hyprocracy but justified and necessary. As for war it depends on the reason, to the defence of life and country it is a noble cause, for an outster of a regime not friendly to a country that is selfcentered hyprocracy for a nation that cherishes life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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.
998689
An offence is punishable for two reasons. First to render justice to the victim and secondly, to prevent the criminal  and other potential criminals from such offences against society in future Some offences like murder can not be controlled unless the killer faces the fear of capital punishment. Capital punishment does give justice when the utmost care has been taken by the jJdge and is awarded in the rarest of the rare cases.\nConfusion Master
423022
I don't think they should be done in front of the public. I know public execution is seen as a deterrent by some, but the media covers executions thoroughly enough that we all know that that notorious killer got it today, etc. I am against it being televised because it is a serious matter, and not particularly pleasant; but also because it should not be given an opportunity to become entertainment. We don't need reality shows about criminals's lives and demises. That's risking a reawakening of Rome's Coliseum. Criminals lose their rights and privledges when committing such crimes as receive a death sentence, and shouldn't warrant more than factual air time as notoriety is sometimes what they seek. The public needs to know that the person was caught, and brought to debatable justice, not all of the gory details.\n\nAfter reading other responses, I feel compelled to say that the death penalty, while a sentence of judgment, is meant to be the difficult decision that someone cannot be rehabilitated and is a permanent menace/threat to others. It is meant to protect others from the criminal; it is not punishment at that point, like it is with prison time. Cruel and unusual punishment is banned so we don't have citizens reveling in the torture of others. Judges' roles are to show neither mercy nor contempt, but to be objective in  balancing justice. It is base and savage to seek vengeance in cruelty and abuse to criminals, no matter the nature of their crimes. In carrying out such a sentence, justice is best served by a quick, clean extermination.
1051526
What might be nice is to let the family and immediate relatives of the victim carry out the sentence in any manner they want.  After all, the killer (if it was  a murder) did not give the victim a choice.  If they want to club him, stone him, stab him slowly with knitting needles, clamp his nostrils shut and tape his mouth, nail gun his head with 4 inch nails, whatever.  Strap him down to a chair and let them go to work. They would be given 1 hour in which to complete the task.\n\nIf this type of capital punishment existed it might give a lot of criminals pause before they go out and commit their dastardly deeds.
249091
absolutely.. if they are capable of murder, the authoraties need to know before it happens again.  It will be hard, but imagine how much worse you'd feel if they murdered several other people as well, and you had the ability to stop it.
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.
463140
I too believe that life without parole should be the maximum sentence for any crime.  In a world where the law and conviction system is full of inaccuracies it is too much of a risk to sentence someone to death-EVEN with a confession there is always the chance that they are innocent or did not play as big a part in a murder as they claim to have done.  Its AMAZING the amount of false confessions people will make under pressure-particularly those with a learning difficulty.  Also, the people who are actively involved in the execution of prisoners are surely then also commiting murder and they will have been involved in the deaths of many more people than the inmates they are executing-does that then mean that they deserve to die for choosing a career that involves the killing of others? \nThe death penalty is in no way a deterrent (this is a statistical fact) to murder either and is purely a 'revenge' punishment.  \nIt is not up to anyone to take the life of another and after all who decides who lives and who dies for murder?  Some murder/rapists get life, and another one time murderer could get death. It is a decision that NO-ONE should be allowed to make and it is ALL about Governments having the ultimate control-Death Row Inmates can be put on SUICIDE WATCH if they are deemed 'at risk'.  By all means give them life in prison with a little less of the luxuries they currently receive, but we cannot choose and ponder over who lives and who dies.
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!!
684955
which is why im against amnesty, and for the death penalty.\n\nin fact i believe our current methods arent cruel/unusual enough for punishment\n\ni say we bring back the guillotines and ropes; put them in the public square and behead criminals.
578063
I think it is a necessary evil. I only wish the appeals process didn't take so long. There are times when I think we should have public executions again. Then, capital punishment would be the effective deterrent it is supposed to be.
1134633
The laws need to be overhauled.  Too many judges are lax  enough to keep justice from being  reliably practiced.  Recently a little girl was beaten and killed by a sex offender, and though the murderer confessed, his testimony was not allowed because of what I consider a technicality.  He is free to kill more children right now.  It is intolerable! Male sex offenders who kill should better be castrated and tatooed on the forhead.  In ancient times people practiced a science they got good at where head shape and and head bumps equating to the practice of such crimes called forth surgery  on head bumps that changed the thinking patterns of former creeps and turned them into decent respectable citizens.
316252
Absolutely, and in a Public forum. Televise it as well as injections, electrocutions, and gas chambers. I would take it a step further. If guilt is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, they should bring back beheading. I'll bet crime would be diminished drastically. Why should we support these bastards, and pay for their education in prison? I'm with you pal! Sometimes you have to ask and answer the hard questions.