should criminals get the death penalty?
553532
Depends on the crime.  It would be a bit severe for a jaywalker, but maybe acceptable for a serial killer.\n\nPlus, the death penalty is meant to be a deterrent for criminals.  Unfortunately, since the government can't decide on what to do, and with the endless appeals & whatnot, most criminals who get the death penalty will die of old age (and never have to worry about clothing or meals) then be executed.
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.
389576
If the criminal admits to the crime, then I agree, kill them the same day.  But if they proclaim their innocence, they have a right to appeal. You are either guilty beyond a reasonable doubt or you aren't...so I don't really think you can put a percentage on guilt to be ok with the execution.\n\nOn a side note, I think that capital punishment is a good crime deterent.  If people are desperate, it won't matter, but it will deter some.
749436
Yes and No.\n I dont support the death penalty as a whole but I do believe some crimes warrant it. You have to look into the extenuating circumstances on everything, nothing is the same.\nSaddam was evil and did torture his own people, but at the same time, our country supplied him with weapons and helped keep him in power, so where is our responsibility in this?\n Politically I think it will benefit the Republicans greatly and re energize their core base into thinking they are doing something.\n In Iraq I dont think it will help any since he at sentencing he ya know told his people to overthrow the infidels(us) \n So we shall see wont we.
60823
I believe that, yes, if there is no doubt of a persons guilt (such as DNA evidence, video evidence, multiple witnesses, etc.) then they should lose their life for taking anothers.\nAnd I believe there should be capital punishment for serial rapists, especially if they rape or molest children.
436225
Personally i believe in capital punishment. I also believe that it is used to liberally in USA. Often times people go to death sentence on circumstantial evidence, or when they are retarded. \nOn the other hand SOME criminals truly deserve to DIE. If you are a BOUND TORTURE KILL serial murderer who has suffocated 10 people for sexual gratification -- you deserve to die. If you are a mastermind of genocide -- you deserve to die. If you are Oklahoma city bomber who has murdered 167 people with a bomb -- you deserve to die. No amount of jail time will atone for crimes like that.\n\nSo Back to your question. If we limit execution to Egregious cases that truly shock the conscience then i believe some form of speedy and public execution might be appropriate. Crucifixion of course is going to far as it is clearly cruel and unusual. On the other hand televising the normal mode of execution like lethal injection might be entirely appropriate.
699052
I dont believe in the death penalty because I dont believe a government should decide when to end a life especially when more often than not, the accused doesnt have enough money to afford any decent defense.  Besides even people who are obviously guilty have the right to life only God may take it when he feels the time is right.  Life in jail is the only solution.  Remember just like in the Animal Kingdom, the strong prey on the weak so someone who leads a criminal life will ultimately offend a bigger fish.
1097642
i agree with eye for an eye, the only downside is if they are innocent then they are being punished for no reason, then again innocent people get executed even in our society... some people have been executed only to find out later that they truly were innocent... if the crime was prooven then yes I think thats what should be done!
413975
I have always wondered that..\n\nI think that people who are going to be put to death for murder, should be done so only by the victim(s) families or loved ones, then I would be able to see some sort of justice out of that
10289
The death penalty is not for revenge, its justice. Because those people on death row, took someone else's life, if they were given lifelong imprisonment they would never understand to the full extent of what they had done
73464
I am in favor of executions for the worst crimes.  For those that think it is "barbaric" to execute a murderer, do you really think the murderer was gentle with his victims?  Do you think the muderer gave the victim time to be with their family and say a tender goodby, like they get before their execution?  I guess you believe the murderer also prepared a  nice last meal for his victim too, right?  And since most executions in the US are now carried out by lethal injection, nice, painless, and peaceful, I guess you believe the muder victim died the same way?\n\nYes, I think the executions should be made public.  Nobody that does not want to attend has to.  And the criminals should lose all of the above perks that they get.  They certainly should not get more than their victims got.
732314
I don't agree with capital punishment in principle. But even if you do, it's not a solution to prison overcrowding. In the US, people spend years on death row and it costs much more money than regular prison because of all the appeals etc.\n\nAnd there is no evidence that death sentences would deter paedophiles for the most serious offenders for whom it is a compulsion. Paodophilia is dangerous, disgusting and evil - I understand the anger that makes us want to kill in revenge - but it would not put off other paedophiles from doing the same sadly. All the emphasis on 'stranger danger' makes us forget that most child abuse is within the family & home.\n\n\nBritain's prisons are overcrowded because more and more people are being locked up for relatively petty crime. Paedophiles have always been imprisoned and rightly so. But we also lock up people for not paying their TV licenses....\n\nOnly people who are dangerous or who are serious or repeat offenders should be locked up. People who are addicts or mentally ill should be treated. People who are petty criminals or anti-social should be put to work cleaning up the mess they and others have made, not locked up for year at public expense.\n\nWe could save a fortune by ensuring that people get a decent education - reading, writing, IT and social skills and learning a trade - rather than making everyone sit lots of exams and then excluding the kids who can't keep up. And we need to do more to tackle drugs and family breakdown. A bit more money on counselling could save the whole of society a lot of grief in future.
874451
Assuming that you are talking about here in the United States; In order for someone to be eligible for the death penalty they would have to kill at least one person and probably more. My question is: is their death by lethal injection any more cruel than what they did to their victims? So my answer is, they are getting better than they deserve when they are executed and it is too humane.
910170
No. Capital punishment is revenge not justice.\n\nIf a con doing an armed robbery is shot dead at the scene by coips then that is justice. Murdering them months or years later is not!
772213
You do kill crime by killing the criminal... \n\nProblem solved.  \n\nYou're welcome!\n\nKnowing that there is a death penalty and yet there are people that STILL do the things they do...  DO you really believe that there is a place for someone THAT degenerative, THAT hopeless?  THAT willing to take another innocent life for their own gain in society?    \n\nI really, honestly hope that you are NEVER mugged, beaten or raped...  But some people never understand until something like that happens to someone THEY love...  Then comes the anger that shows the sense in it...
919897
pro/con of death penalty
1093370
If murder is wrong, then how can states justify murdering the murderer? I think in some cases some criminals deserve to die...however I believe that is too easy of a punishment...I believe they should just be locked in a small, windowless room with a hole in the floor to use the bathroom for the rest of their lives.No excercize...no tv...no mail..no human contact at all...bread and water to sustain them, but nothing more...let them die alone in a dark room and then burn the body.