The Death Penalty: Yay or Nay?

Where do we stop? We kill people who murder others, then we'll kill them for man-slaughter, self-defence, emotionally killing.... If we continue this way we'll never stop.

When guilt has been established beyond a reasonable doubt, when DNA proves the guilt, then YES. No matter what age or anything they are, guilty is guilty and then need to be gone.

Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?

When there is proof without a doubt (for example someone on video shooting someone) then yes, I believe in the death penalty.

On the other hand only in rather extreme circumstances where they have full 100 percent knowledge the person is guilty. Executing innocents is most unfortunate.

I always seem to be in the neutral ground, however as the Universal Rights of Man state that everybody has the right to live but if someone goes on a killing spree citing revenge or mental state, i think it is abusing the law and even though they go to jail nothing proves him to be changed man afterwards ( it's a common thing,)

Sometimes I sort of lean towards agreeing with it.... I don't agree with the death penalty when there's limited evidence or witnesses, when it's accidental murder, or murder in self-defence... When it's a serial killer, and he/she has admitted what they have done, shown no remorse and there is solid evidence that they've killed 10 people I can kind of see where people are coming from. I actually quite like what many Muslim states do: they give the family of the victims the choice to send the murderer to jail for life and claim blood money or to have him killed.

agree with you, it is the kind of topic that can split views. I stay with modern world such in America that according to news and sources it is common, sadly sometimes it is with little witnesses and evidence but hey, a serial killer is totally out of the way, and surely not above the law

No, they're not. It's just cases like Troy Davis that make me want to rip my hair out.... They don't use the system very well, sometimes.

Yeah, it was Troy Davis case i tought of, as i received letters from amnesty group demanding of reviewing laws and stuffs as there were no proof of him murdering or whatsoever and they thought this case to be of racial intent of human race as they killed an innocent guy and the real murderer is actually still on the loose, enjoying life and crime

I saw his case advertised somewhere, and that's how I became a member of Amnesty. I think they're work is brilliant.

they are, and they work with universal and international laws....It's a charity group

I know :) I'm a big supporter of Amnesty.

they do a great work

For some maybe, like those proven to be serial killers. They're not going to stop.

agree with you

There are some people who need to be scrubbed from the earth like a virus! But Ilike the term death sentence. a penalty is reserved for sporting events

While some crimes are terrible enough that they may deserve death, I believe that by killing someone we are playing God, and ultimately, committing murder, which makes us no better than those on the last mile. I also believe that, even if I was to be for the death penalty, the jury should not be the one to decide. They are twelve people with no personal ties to the crime. If anyone should be able to choose what the defendant deserves, it should be the victim's loved ones. (Personally, I'd rather someone rot in jail than be able to take the fast way out.)

they should suffer like there victims did. slow and painful.

Some peoples actions earn them expulsion from the human society .
Until there is a planet we can ship them to the only method of carrying out such an expulsion is through execution, which should carried in a timely manner at the lowest cost possible.

rarely serial killers, people that can't be fixed pediphiles

I'm against it.

if i don't trust my government to even deiced if my shoes should or should not be shined why the hell would i trust them to determine if a man should die?

I think that I should have voted yay cause there's a lot of crimes nowadays which should be punished. For example when Hosni Mubarak, former prime minister of Egypt broke a war and killed some of the protestants who were against the government. This should be punished, kids have lost their parents in this war. And there is nothing worse than seeing a kid cry. I get mad when I see what they've done to kids. and egypt is just in unrest cause this still continues with Mohamed Morsi, the other president in egypt who was supposed to give peace and love to anyone.

I'm almost 99% against it, but I know without a doubt, that if someone killed someone close to me, I'd want them to suffer in someway.

So, I think that tortuous, Solitary Confinement is the solution. Life without parole, to sit with your thoughts and suffer.

But I still. I just don't know

Perfectly said.

I just feel you can't give someone their life back if you're wrong. And with all the reversals based on new DNA evidence, I just don't want to take even one innocent life.

Only in cases where the act was horrendous, and guilt was proven decisively, beyond even a shadow of doubt.

Why is it liberals LOVE abortions but hate the death penalty? Seems hypocritical.

I'm not in favor of it. I don't think it has worked as a deterrent. I believe life, without parole is more of a punishment than death.

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Yes! And for those who would ask if I could do it. YES, I would have no problem pulling the switch.

I don't believe in it.

this one goes both ways for me, on one hand we're trying to be the better example and take the moral high-ground to not kill our own, but on the other we now have to spend large amounts of hard earned tax dollars going into keeping undesirable people locked in a cage, feeding them, clothing them, but they themselves contributing nothing to the nation. now if we used prisoners as a labor force of some kind then i would be far less inclined to condone the death penalty, but as it stands now most prisons serve no other purpose than lock-up. its not that i want these people to be executed, but if all they're doing is sucking unnecessary amounts of cash then i see no other reason to keep them around. besides if we did it anyway, i'd ask that only the worst of the worst be put down, those who are deemed no longer a threat to society should be released under a temporary observational period without their knowledge of course, and an array of other precautions. whatever we do, the justice system needs a major update

I find it difficult to support a prison system executing criminals once they'd become prisoners yet I'd carry it out myself if I witnessed a crime like gang rape - no problems there they'd all be toast.

If murderers get out after so many years, they usually kill again and I know every convicted murderer is not always guilty, but weighing up the pro's and con's I go for the death penalty without being on death row for years....with all the technical knowledge out there they don't make many mistakes with getting the right person...

I disagree with death penalty altogether... But your idea sounds like it's one more step towards being humane.

More than 2,000 people have been exonerated of serious crimes since 1989 in the United States alone, as reported in a study by University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions only last year. And this study feels that this number is just the tip of the iceberg.
I would hate for me or one of my family to be one of those 2,000.

That's interesting. Then, I think of Amnesty International's cases that are being worked on, the victims of legal injustice that have been executed, killed by other prisoners or died in prisons of natural deaths, and the other tragic victims, whose cases fell apart, when years passed, and major witnesses became seriously ill or died.

It's disturbing that some prisoners get early parole, repeat their crimes, while innocent people sit in prisons, along with some non-violent, milder offenders.

It must be torture to have a loved one wrongly accused and imprisoned.

I imagine it would be so horrible to be falsely imprisoned.

I'm all for increasing penalties for violent crimes, even making parole harder, but once the person's life is gone, any chance of righting that wrong is gone.

I served on a jury not long ago (attempted murder and rape case), and it is an awesome responsibility to hold a person's life and liberty in your hands. I couldn't imagine if it had been a death penalty case how hard that would be.