Capital punishment?
why do you think should capital punishment be legalized??? i need facts about the benefits of legalizing capital punishment, or consequences of not legalizing it at all!! and cite instances to support the claim.. thank you so much!!!! advance happy valentines day
Should capital punishment be legal?
No. Many, many people on death row have been freed of their convictions by the various justice organizations.The number of people who were wrongly convicted is staggering.The death penalty is not a deterrent, the sentence drags on for years while the necessary appeals are made and it is hugely expensive.The criminal justice system is too imperfect to allow for the death penalty.
Should the UK reinstate capital punishment?
No. It's a bad idea.I am open to the idea that some crimes are so bad that the retributive element of punishment (and I do think that there is a retributive element of legitimate punishment) could justify execution, but I oppose it on pragmatic grounds. I am not convinced that imprisonment cannot satisfy the retributive angle for the most grievous crimes.Anyway, my pragmatic reasons:People being later exonerated is well documented. Capital punishment is final in a way that imprisonment is not.Capital punishment is expensive given the need for lots of appeals etcThe abolition of capital punishment is enshrined in protocols 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and I strongly support the ECHR and human rights internationalism as a whole. I thus oppose any changes that would weaken it.There is zero chance of the death penalty being restored in Britain. And a good thing too!
Why is capital punishment still legal in the United States?
I give you the counterexample:Norway Has to Pay Mass Murderer’s Legal Fees Because of “Degrading” Confinement in Fancy SuiteI cannot stress enough how unacceptable this is to the VAST majority of Americans. This man makes a mockery of the "humane" treatment he gets, even after committing a truly horrible crime. What a joke.But let's go back a bit further.See, The US (and the British colonies before them) have never had the sort of history with capital punishment that most of Europe has had until the very recent time.We haven't burnt people at the stake, drawn and quartered them, garroted them, slaughtered them in mass for dubious military crimes (Shot at Dawn Memorial) and even the worst tragedies that befell the Native American populations pale in comparison to what Europeans are doing to each other, like, today. (See the Ukraine, where POW's are being summarily executed, for details). And let's not forget the full horrors of world war two and the tens of millions of Europeans executed by state governments during that time.In spite of what you see on TV, from 1608-2002, only about 15,000 people were executed in the US in total... That's less than the low end number for the number of french civilians executed during the "reign of terror" during the french revolution alone.Frankly, in spite of all of its issues, I'd FAR sooner trust the death penalty to the US than to Europe.So without the background of unimagined horrors that Europeans have subjected themselves to from the beginning of time until approximately yesterday, you can understand why getting rid of the death penalty doesn't attract the kind of attention in the US than it might.One last thought... Not all criminals can be rehabilitated. This may seem a horrible perspective, but if you've spent any time around the criminal justice system, you know full well that some people are simply broken beyond repair. The first responsibility of government should be to protect the lives and freedom of its people, and the only way to do so is to lock up those people forever, or dispose of them... Any other outcome is fundamentally unjust.
Is Capital punishment funded by taxes?
Yes. But costs really do vary from state to state. They are enormous. Here is an easily understood excerpt from a state report: “The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases. The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case).” (. Kansas: Performance Audit Report: Costs Incurred for Death Penalty Cases: A K-GOAL Audit of the Department of Corrections) As El Guapo wrote, other states report the same kind of things. Why is the death penalty so expensive? The costs of the death penalty begin to accumulate from the very beginning of a death penalty case. Here are just a few of the contributing factors: • more pre-trial time will be needed to prepare: cases typically take a year to come to trial • more pre-trial motions will be filed and answered • more experts will be hired • twice as many attorneys will be appointed for the defense, and a comparable team for the prosecution • jurors will have to be individually quizzed on their views about the death penalty, and they are more likely to be sequestered • two trials instead of one will be conducted: one for guilt and one for punishment • the trial will be longer: a cost study at Duke University estimated that death penalty trials take 3 to 5 times longer than typical murder trials http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/COcostte... page 3 and 4 on why the death penalty is so expensive The point here is that largest part of huge costs for the death penalty occur way before a defendent is convicted and sentenced to death. It has very little to do with "food, clothes, education, medical and dental care" of someone who is incarcerated.
Should the U.S. continue to use capital punishment?
In the United States, it should be a national mandatory that criminals who commit first degree crimes receive the death penalty. 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 (preventing crime is NOT their job) -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
Should capital punishment be a justified punishment for any kind of sex crime?
Should capital punishment be a justified punishment for any kind of sex crime?You do know that public urination, peeping tommery, and public display of genitals are sex crimes, don’t you. Do you really think the death penalty is appropriate for these sex crimes?
Should capital punishment be allowed in democracy?
The question basically mixes two totally unrelated aspects of the society. One is related to the morality of the society while the other is the maturity of the society. The governing structure of a modern society will progress from dictatorship -> socialistic democracy -> capitalistic democracy -> libertarian depending on the overall maturity levels and respect for property rights.Capital punishment or for that matter any other punishments are a matter of imbibed and transmitted morality of the society. It is akin to your parents either teaching you that all lying is bad & you end up the most honest guy who can not lie even to save his life or they teaching you to bluff your way out & you ending up as the most successful salesman minting money by promising the moon to clients. Mostly people end up somewhere in between.Hence growing democracies will have revenge as a form of justice if that has been the prevalent morality of the society or will not have capital punishment if justice is deemed reformative rather than punitive. It is mostly expected that as society matures punitive judgements will have lesser predominance but whether it will compulsory happen or not, no one can say.
Should capital punishment be implemented in India?
Capital punishment is already legal in India.May be you wanted to ask if it is right to have such a system or should it be abloshied.If I am correct and this is what you wanted to ask then here is my opinion.I personally think it is very important to have a strict punishments to maintain fear in the criminals and to maintain the law and order. As humans we are very capable of hurting people around us (physically and mentally) unfortunately not much can be done for the mental pains as it is hard to prove but luckily we have a system to punish people for physical attacks.Capital punishment is rarely announced because a person is only charged with such punishment when the intensity of his/her criminal activity is severe. For example: the Delhi gang rape case or mumbai attacks. For such inhumane acts I think it is right to give such punishment.Also if such a process is abolished, there will be no fear in the minds of people who are planning to commit an criminal act. I personally think it is correct to have such a system to maintain peace or elese people will go nuts and make things crazy.