Who are trying to protect by making the death penalty painless?
441191
yeah, you answered your own question.  It is the "humane" death.
834157
Euthanasia is illegal in this country.  As far as prisoners having discomfort while receiving a lethal injection......I really don't care.  Sorry, but did they care while they were killing their victim?
9990
I agree with you there. The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent and has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.\nCheck out the link below & help to protest.
178822
Because there's so many devils in the world & the net gives them easier access. They can get to kids they might otherwise couldn't have. The death penalty would be too easy, make them suffer!!  It's about time they did something about the perverts on the net!!
600928
Priceless because it save innocent people's lives.
1026426
i dont know exactly but i do know we are to soft on theswe pervets and the only law we should have to worry about is a life sentence or the death penalty,,\nwe are to forgiving for this type of offender and they should not be tollerated in any civillised community
662212
With recent advances in DNA technology, they have been able to retest crime data from inmates who had received life sentences.  The study I had heard (you should do a search on the internet) is that 25% of the cases tested prove that the person convicted of the crime was innocent.  \n\nThen there are economic issues associated with the death penalty.  In theory we would think that putting someone to death would be cheaper than making them stay in prison for life.  Sadly the opposite is true (do a search for exact numbers).  The system is so overwhelmed with appeals, etc that we end up paying a lot more money to put someone to death than to keep them in prison.\n\nThen there is the fact that America spends more money on the prison system than on libraries.  We are a country focused on punishment for crime, but not teaching people the way to avoid a life of crime by being a productive member of society.
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Actually if you do some research you'll find that an average more money is spent on a prisoner on death row.  Appeals, lengthy stay on death row, etc adds up also.  The death penalty is not only wrong its wasting taxpayers money!  But what is the Gov. doing thats right these days anyways?
978301
Death penalty laws are social engineering. I cannot subscribe to the ethics of social engineering. As a nurse who has worked in the system with pedophiles, I know also that episodic imprisonment is ineffective. They are relentless. I support the only known ethical solution which is chemical castration.  But, then again, I believe in that for Conservatives, too.
222060
I am against the death penalty as it does not make any solution. When we are giving a person death penalty, we are doing the same bad thing that we can't. Nobody has any right to murder other, the final judgement is in hand of God. That we can do maximum against a criminal is to give him/her an imprisonment for several years.
1074247
no one deserves to die and no one has the right to kill
605331
state some facts like the amount of innocent people put to death. the biases that the courts have in handing out death sentences(race, etc...)Playing god. morality of it\nI feel its done to save money. ...easier to kill someone than to pay to keep them in jail the rest of their lives.
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.
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It is only to assuage our own guilt that they are given a last meal. In reality we are no better off than the killers themselves if we have to resort to dealing death in retribution. think about this, how is killing different for the legal system? What are the alternatives to the death penalty? Why are we not using and advertising their usage more?---It really makes you wonder about the cruelty and the overall lack of compassion in our societies judicial system.--"You kill someone in the state of Texas, We'll kill you back" Ron White--\n--Food for Thought--
397136
we dont send them to die...but to defend..liberty  freedom...and hopefully democracy \nand if you think their system of government is that much better, then by all means get a passport and a plane ticket and go
155423
No difference.  Death penalty has limited deterrence because it takes so long for the actual execution.
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.