Your views on the Death Penalty

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I think it's wrong because:

1) Forgiveness is a virtue, revenge isn't. I admit, people who murder children with hammers, or politicians who cause mass suffering with their selfishness or incompetence, I sometimes half feel we should just kill them, but I feel like those kind of people are too insane to really hold accountable for their actions so it's kinda like hating a grizzly bear for mauling campers. Nobody's been in their shoes and knows exactly what caused them to become that way, we aren't worthy of taking them out of the world.

2) I'm not convinced the death penalty gives closure to families.

3) Putting death penalty on the table for murder opens the possibility it could be used for lesser crimes.

4) As corny as it sounds, I think everyone deserves a chance at a second chance. Though obviously when talking about serial killers and the like, it should be given very rarely.

5) There is no evidence the death penalty has any effect on the crime rate.

6) Innocent people can and have been put to death. That's really reason enough alone to be against the death penalty.


I think for the most heinous crimes (anything from basic murder upward) there should be a sentence of 25 years without the chance of parole. Then a random sampling of the general public should be called every 10 years to decide if they should be freed. The way I see it, this makes it so everyone technically has a faint hope of being rehabilitated but the really dangerous people, such as serial killers, would never be freed.

I'm on the fence with this one. Some acts are so unspeakable, so vile and their perpetrators so beyond rehabilitation that incarcerating them seems pointless - why warehouse a waste of oxygen like that, when their actions don't warrant it? if someone behaves in a manner unfitting that of a human being, they forfeit the right to be treated like one. A vicious animal which attacks people is put down, since that is its nature. So should it be with those who commit the most appalling offences.

The problem with this is that of proving beyond doubt their guilt - history is littered with unsafe convictions, trumped up charges, miscarriages of justice. You can't unexecute an innocent person.

in the UK we only have the death penty
for 2 things

high treason agenest the queen
being a prireat

Capital Punishment is showing its wrong to kill people by killing people. Before you answer any question on the subject of Capital punishment, you must answer this: Is it OK to kill another human being that is not an immediate threat to you?

Here is a documentary that some of you may enjoy. It concerns the history of executions during the 20th century.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvuLAZxgOM[/youtube]

It might tend to change the minds of even the most ardent supporters of execution.

Those who think no one deserves to die have obviously never seen what the kind of people who get the death penalty usually do.

I don't like the idea of a "justice system". I prefer the idea of an "internal defense system". If someone is dangerous, then lock them up. They are no longer dangerous, and there is no reason to kill them.

"Many who live deserve death. Some who die deserve life. Can you give it to them?"
- Gandolph

I also dislike death penalty.
I think people always fail when they evaluate other people's lives.
(death penalties, punishments or rewards are in my eyes ratings about the value of the individual)