Do you support of oppose Capital Punishment?
It is not proven to be a deterrent. Does anyone seriously believe a murderer stop and think " if I do this I could get caught and get the death penalty"? Generally it is racist More people of color are sentenced to death than whites who committed the same crimes under the same circumstances. Used more as revenge Many death row inmates would rather die and get it over with than continue to live. It does offer revenge (notice I did not say justice) to victims families Mistakes are made Several inmates on death row are found to be innocent after spending many years on death row. If they had been murdered by the state an innocent person is killed. Religious Thou Shalt Not Kill If it is wrong for one person to kill why is it okay to kill when it is done by the state. Who would watch? Would you be willing to watch or pull the switch that would take another person's life. Even if you did not know either convict or victim? Or is it out of sight out of mind therefore okay to deal with? Do you think it would be popular if executions were televised? Maybe some people would be ghoulish enough but I consider myself more civilized than that. Even lethal injection is being examined as cruel and unusual punishment. The United States is the only industrialized first world nation that still does it. Do others know something we don't or are they more civilized?
Do you support capital punishment?give reasons to your answere?
I support it. Here's why: -it serves due justice (the punishment fits the crime), and serving due justice is the NO.1 job of a court of law -it shows that we are tough on crime -it gets bang for the taxpayers buck -criminals given the DP have a 0% recidivism rate -It holds people responcible for the horrible content of their character. This fulfills what MLKJ always wanted: judge not by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character. The characterof these criminals warrants death -It holds the criminal responcible for his actions -appeals and **** aside, it's cheaper then prison -it decreases the prison population, which saves even more taxpayers money -Because the death penalty is the punishment given by a neutrel judge, there is no vengance in it. Therefore, there is no moral objection to be had with the death penalty. -The death penalty defends human rights by establishing a mentality that "we will not tolerate any violation of any innocent person's human right's
Wat do you think about capital punishment?
When you look at the death penalty system in action, you realize that the only purpose it serves is revenge, it is seriously (and intrinsically) flawed in application and that there is a serious and continuing risk of executing innocent people. And, it costs much more than life in prison. A couple of points in response to previous answers. First, and for Maze, homicide rates (not the same as the number of homicides) are higher in states and regions with the death penalty than in those without it. Secondly, for Yeah Me, families of homicide victims are far from unanimous on the death penatly. In fact, it was the testimony of families that was key to the New Jersey legislature's vote to abolish the death penalty. I suggest taking a look at http://www.njadp.org/forms/signon-surviv... and at www.mvfr.org for statements on the death penalty by families. Source on homicide rates: FBI http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/tab... To see the correlation (or lack of it) between having the death penalty and homicide rates, visit http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-r...