Should we abolish the death penalty?
538520
And do you think housing them for life, giving them free clothes, free food, free gyms, free medical and free dental care, free Internet access, allowing them to spend their days having fun, playing games in the courtyard, watching free cable, etc is better?  A lot of hard working, law-abiding people live without all of those things, why should a piece of garbage that has murdered someone get all of that for free?  How, exactly, is supporting them in a life of leisure punishing them for the crime(s) committed?
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.
234331
I agree with having a death penalty, if we could ensure guilt. until then, the only justification is to "save money" that would be spent imprisoning someone for life. I think that argument is a little too NAZI. killing people because they cost society money just isn't a healthy road to travel.
24795
No.  However it can seem harsh for certain types of crime such as drug smuggling, and therfore its application is a little extreme. Unfortunatley the pendulum has swung a little to far with respect to the application of the death penalty in Singapore. Other countries, such as Canada, that do not have the death penalty should consider it for murder and attempted murder. Here the pendulum has swung to far in the other direction. There has to be a balance so that a justice system, in any given country, is just. Meaning that the appropriate punishment is given for the crime.  Unfortunately, opponents of the death penalty fail to understand this simple principle.
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.
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.
816986
not quite the same thing really....although i am in favour of eutahnasia which should be strictly controlled and not  used as an excuse to get rid of people that we feel as a society are no longer able to contribute to our society..i,,m not in favour of the death penalty..you only have to look at the tragic case of Timothy Evans who hanged after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and baby daughter..in the end it turned out to be Christie,,what would you do then? you cannot bring back an innocent man from the dead and if this doesn,t convince you then just look at al the miscarriages of justice there have been
128064
Seems like it to me. I think the death penalty is bad for our culture. It doesn't do anyone good to support the murder of another. My friend who is pro life and pro death penalty says that people who have taken another life should lose theres. where as children who have not been born have not done anything wrong.
303605
George Carlin is 100% correct on this one.  To paraphrase, he says that capital punishment doesn't do anything--it simply satisfies the Judeo-Christian/Biblical need for revenge.  We are so indoctrinated to believe that it is a deterrent to crime.  I personally have refused to sit on any juries, because I will never put myself in a situation where I judge another person for ANY crime!  ESPECIALLY one where my vote is needed to kill someone!  And look how often juries are found wrong themselves!  Abolishing capital punishment just might help us take a closer look at ourselves and the "whys" and "wherefors" of a completely flawed judicial system!
1042815
Yes.\n\nBy the explicit text of the Aqdas, sometimes referred to as the Book of Laws, the death penalty is permitted for murder and arson, but not required.  Because of this, we oppose the total elimination of the death penalty.
32268
I am absolutely against the death penalty, in all cases, no matter what the offender did, who the victim is, and so on.\n\nWe punish murder because we think (as societies) that murdering is wrong. So, we cannot simply kill a person just because this person has killed! That is plain revenge, not justice! It is doing to them what we're criticising them for doing! Remember this: "Do as I tell, not as I do"?\n\nLeave alone killing other criminals, who aren't killers themselves. In that case, we're doing to the offender something much worse than what they did in the first place.\n\nAnd what about people who are innocent? What about the political use of the death penalty? What about the fact that most of the victims are black or Latinos, poor and powerless? Don't Anglo-Saxon, wealthy and powerful people commit crimes? And even if they didn't (which is not true), doesn't anybody wonder what makes poor people commit crimes, in the first place?\n\nAs long as the death penalty is legal anywhere in the world, we're no better than animals. At least, they only kill when they're hungry. Humans make the state kill on our behalf, only because we are a very cowardly species.
46990
Because sentencing a murderer to free food, free clothes, a free gym, free cable, and all the other things that the law-abiding have to work for (and if they cannot legally afford have to do without) does not seem like a punishment to me.\n\nThe only way I would agree with doing away  with the death penalty would be if prisons were actually a PUNISHMENT for the crime committed - meaning none of the above perks.  A small cell with a toilet and a sink.  Maybe, if they behave, once a week they can go for a stroll in the court yard for exercise.  But that's it.
225466
Life.. or better yet.. the death penalty (for Murder 1)
1180933
We (as a society) kill those who commit the most atrocious crimes so that we can show those who are living that there are consequences to actions. We would hope that the prospect of death would detour folks from participating in such heinous atrocities but, obviously it doesn't. People are a become increasingly depraved and indifferent. Personally I think we should do away with the death penalty, its senseless.
208022
Our society has put a high price on the life of the individual.  We have debated the death penalty with this question at the fore.  If someone takes a life, should they forfeit theirs?  We value life so highly that even in this case we don't take a life.
884151
If the severity of punishment were a real and viable tool, then the death penalty should have worked years ago.  The fact of that matter is, it deters no one.  People still commit murder all of the time. All you can do (after the fact) is lock them up without possibility of parole.
579630
I believe in life in prison without parole for those criminals that have proven to be an ongoing threat to society.  I think it costs us far more to execute them than it would for us to keep them locked up forever.  However, the death sentence does not bother me.  I believe there are people who cannot be changed and that they are evil.  The sex of the person does not enter into it for me.  Would I carry out the execution?  I would not take the job.  If I were forced to do it, or the person would go free?  I would execute them.  My fear in letting them go would be that they would kill again or harm a child.  I couldn't live with that on my conscience.  Anyway I didn't sentence them to die.  I just carried out the sentence of the court.  Of course this answer is based on what I know of the courts of the U.S.A.  I would not carry out a death sentence in another country.  In some cases the sentence may have been handed out simply for being a Christian.