Is the Death Penalty really necessary?

[Analog]

I recently reported my views about the death penalty, here are some excerpts from the presentation

-The death penalty is something which has been an accepted practice of the United States for many years now.

-The death penalty is also known as capital punsihment and it is the killing of a person by judicial process as punishment.

-Crimes which are worthy of the death penatly are reffered to as capital crimes or capital offenses.

-In the United States we have the 5th highest amount of death convictions trailing China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

-The United States does not frown upon the death penatly for multiple reasons which extend from; people who do the worst of crimes deserve the worst of punishment and that there is no need to keep the risk of having these people in our country.

-Some of the forms of execution are electrocution, the firing squad or other sorts of shooting, the gas chamber, hanging, and lethal injection. Many of which we do not practice anymore.

-The process which we now use is lethal injection and it is a quick and not a painful process at all.

As of today 34 states have instilled the death penality and realize that the death penalty is important because it serves the criminals right for what they have done. It has been stated that the death penatly works as a deterrent to crime in confessions of people who were on death row.

-Just a quick anecdote; Imagine if your mother had been the victim of a serial killer who killed 10 other people. Now this man was obviously sentenced to death. It is an extreme case in which all of America would want to see this man convicted.

-From that short story, if we decide to remove the death penatly...what happens to that man? He gets to live out the rest of his life? No. If we have extreme criminals we can't just let them live. If we remove the death penalty we won't be able to get justice from these criminals.

-If we allow the people with one of two killings to escape the death penatly and only get a death sentence than we will also have to allow that to the people who have killed or raper 10, 20 or even in some cases 30 people.

-It's just obvious that we as a country need some system, the death penalty, to combat the people who decide to mass kill.

-The simple fact remains that there are way too many murders a year. I believe the murder rate can and will be lowered if the death penalty was a real threat for these criminals.

-If anything, The Federal government and the individual states need to use the death penalty more often and more efficiently. This would show that we are serious about it and people who are desevant of it will be placed on death row. The death penalty could possibly serve as a deterrent to crime.

 

[TJ]

The death penalty should be imposed, and it should cover murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and those that have done other crimes (shop-lifting, vandalism, etc.) should be punished (jail for a long time, possible Singapore like actions, or worse). My reason is obvious, look at Singapore. If a drug dealer, rapist, or murderer is caught they are put to death, and guess what? Singapore is one of if not the safest places on Earth.

Lets put traffic violators to death to!!

 

[i noob killer i]

i belive that if they take someones life on purpose they should be executed simple. but if they are wrong killed and convicted mega compensation claim plz

 

[Panzer]

In the immortal words of Gandhi..

"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."




Need I say more?

And if you don't punish the worst offenders severely, the whole world is dead

Which do you choose?

 

[Panzer]

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
M.K. Gandhi



Or, you could just take away their rights which is worse than killing them.


Why are women and children better than a man?

1. Because for the most part, neither a woman nor a child would be able to kill a man in self defense

2. People who kill women and children usually tend to kill again

 

[Qbert24]

I endorse the death penalty to an extent.

No matter how bad the person is, no matter who they've killed or how much they've killed. They don't deserve to be condemned to a death such as the electric chair or being hung or even the firing squad.

A nice and easy death would be injection, but if we killed every prisoner via injections... It wouldn't work out to well.

From what I know the injection is quite pricey.

 

[Panzer]

I endorse the death penalty to an extent.

No matter how bad the person is, no matter who they've killed or how much they've killed. They don't deserve to be condemned to a death such as the electric chair or being hung or even the firing squad.

A nice and easy death would be injection, but if we killed every prisoner via injections... It wouldn't work out to well.

From what I know the injection is quite pricey.

Several years in prison already costs more (not to mention the sentences like 20-40 years, and life sentences)
What gives them the right to take a life?

If the person does that, they should be expecting that the same will possibly happen to them.

 

[Arya]

The death penalty should be imposed, and it should cover murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and those that have done other crimes (shop-lifting, vandalism, etc.) should be punished (jail for a long time, possible Singapore like actions, or worse). My reason is obvious, look at Singapore. If a drug dealer, rapist, or murderer is caught they are put to death, and guess what? Singapore is one of if not the safest places on Earth.

Vatican City is the safest place on Earth.

So, do you agree that if I stole from a shoe store, I should be put to jail for a long time?

Also, suppose the case of the kid selling drugs because his family is poor and he desperately needs the money. (I wouldn't do this in any normal case, but you've brought morals into it.) Suppose this case. Now, he gets caught. Does he deserve the death penalty?

 

[Shredderbeam]

The death penalty should be imposed, and it should cover murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and those that have done other crimes (shop-lifting, vandalism, etc.) should be punished (jail for a long time, possible Singapore like actions, or worse). My reason is obvious, look at Singapore. If a drug dealer, rapist, or murderer is caught they are put to death, and guess what? Singapore is one of if not the safest places on Earth.

You would call for a police state in the name of safety?

 

[Crayola Oblongata]

I think the death penalty is necessary.
I hear how prisons are getting full so the murderers and the like should all be killed.
End of my comment its simple

 

[Koot]

It isn't necessary but it would be great if it was used more often. I would prefer someone 100% guilty of a dangerous crime to be executed rather than have then live their life in prison leeching tax money. This also gives them a chance to escape while being dead it is impossible.

 

[Tradd]

I think it's fair because when they use it it's against someone who has committed a terrible act such as a serial killer or the leader of a terrorist organization. They usually don't issue the death sentence unless the criminal has done something terrible.

 

[Tradd]

The second didn't answer my question, it merely stated what my question asked the 'why' of.

'Rape is brutal'. Yes, absolutely, as is punching people in the face. Let's slaughter those who do so, too?

I agree, rape isn't that serious. It's definitely not on the level of murder.

 

[xx mdv xx]

I believe there is worse punishment than the death penalty. The worst punishment is solitary confinement; you live without seeing a person in a room all day. The death penalty only puts the person in fear for the slight second that they are hanged, which is not a bad punishment at all. I wouldn't know though, I've never been in jail and I don't know if life in prison is worse or death is worse.

 

[Arya]

I think the death penalty is necessary.
I hear how prisons are getting full so the murderers and the like should all be killed.
End of my comment its simple

Death penalty = Ultimate convenience.

It's a reason, but it's not a good one.

I believe there is worse punishment than the death penalty. The worst punishment is solitary confinement; you live without seeing a person in a room all day. The death penalty only puts the person in fear for the slight second that they are hanged, which is not a bad punishment at all. I wouldn't know though, I've never been in jail and I don't know if life in prison is worse or death is worse.

How would death be worse, anyways?