Death Penalty

[Macroman]

The death penalty is the most severe punishment given out for crimes like ,rape, murder and terrorism

I don't think the death penalty should stand because it only wastes life and doesn't teach anyone anything, After all think about it if you were wrongly accused of murder you die.


Ofter the death penalty is a relief to some religions, because they would rather be in their " Heaven" than in prison so its serving no purpose.

But i don't agree with life sentences either.
A brief side of the argument
Death Penalty Immoral Even in Takuma's Case

Dear Editor:

Mamoru Takuma, who killed eight children and injured two teachers and thirteen children in June 2001 at Ikeda Primary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, received the death penalty. He was executed on September 14, 2004, but his death made me think about the death penalty. I strongly believe the death penalty should be abolished.

A criminal’s death can’t atone for his crime. Killing the murderer does not solve the problem or help the victim’s family. Criminals should be kept alive and spend all their lives atoning for the victims.

The death penalty is simply a way for the courts to murder people. Murder is a crime. Why can the courts kill people legally? Killing a killer puts the court on the same moral ground as the killer, so the death penalty is immoral.

Why does the court kill criminals even though killing people does not help anyone? Even if the criminal is killed, the victim can never come back. Killing the criminal is no use.

Also, killing criminals does not decrease the number of crimes. Although the death penalty has not been abolished in Japan, the number of criminals has not decreased. Killing criminals has no meaning.

Criminals can’t atone for their crimes by their death. Killing criminals is immoral even if it is legal. Killing criminals also does not bring back victims. The death penalty helps no one. The death penalty should be abolished.

Sincerely yours,



Tomomi Shinohara .

http://www.hs.reitaku.jp/english/ic/letters/letters2005/deathpen2.htm

What do you think ?

Country Date of Abolition Date of Abolition for Ordinary Crimes Date of Last Execution
ANDORRA 1990 1943
ANGOLA 1992
AUSTRALIA 1985 1984 1967
AUSTRIA 1968 1950 1950
BELGIUM 1996 1950
CAMBODIA 1989
CAPE VERDE 1981 1835
COLOMBIA 1910 1909
COSTA RICA 1877
CROATIA 1990
CZECH REPUBLIC 1990*
DENMARK 1978 1933 1950
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1966
ECUADOR 1906
FINLAND 1972 1949 1944
FRANCE 1981 1977
GERMANY 1949/1987** 1949**
GREECE 1993 1972
GUINEA-BISSAU 1993 1986***
HAITI 1987 1972***
HONDURAS 1956 1940
HUNGARY 1990 1988
ICELAND 1928 1830
IRELAND 1990 1954
ITALY 1994 1947 1947
KIRIBATI ****
LIECHTENSTEIN 1987 1785
LUXEMBOURG 1979 1949
MACEDONIA
MARSHALL ISLANDS ****
MAURITIUS 1995 1987
MICRONESIA (Federated States) ****
MOLDOVA 1995
MONACO 1962 1847
MOZAMBIQUE 1990 1986
NAMIBIA 1990 1988***
NETHERLANDS 1982 1870 1952
NEW ZEALAND 1989 1961 1957
NICARAGUA 1979 1930
NORWAY 1979 1905 1948
PALAU
PANAMA 1903***
PORTUGAL 1976 1867 1849***
ROMANIA 1989 1989
SAN MARINO 1865 1848 1468***
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 1990 ****
SLOVAK REPUBLIC 1990*
SLOVENIA 1989
SOLOMON ISLANDS 1966 ****
SPAIN 1995 1978 1975
SWEDEN 1972 1921 1910
SWITZERLAND 1992 1942 1944
TUVALU ****
URUGUAY 1907
VANUATU ****
VATICAN CITY STATE 1969
VENEZUELA 1863
TOTAL: 57 countries

 

[Xtreme Geek]

I would say they deserve life imprisonment, I find that much crueler for anyone who is sick enough to murder innocent people. However, I don't think this is likely to happen because of the costs of keeping someone in jail until the day that they die..

 

[penman2k7]

I dont think the death penelty should stand. I would much rather see someone serve a life sentence. But the system is messed up.

 

[SlaveOfTheBeast]

I don't think there should be a death penalty, it's sick if an innocent person gets killed.

 

[stacked]

i think the death penalty should stop and just have life in prison.

 

[SlaveOfTheBeast]

i think the death penalty should stop and just have life in prison.

Some people would rather just die than spend life in prison.

 

[Eric]

If a person is proven without a doubt to have killed people, then he should receive the death penalty.

I don't think the death penalty should stand

But i don't agree with life sentences either.

What do you say with those people that do those awful crimes? 10 years?

 

[Shredderbeam]

The death penalty should be abolished because it accomplishes no material good, and is only based upon a petty human sense of revenge.

 

[jackc]

The death penalty is the most severe punishment given out for crimes like ,rape, murder and terrorism

I don't think the death penalty should stand because it only wastes life and doesn't teach anyone anything, After all think about it if you were wrongly accused of murder you die.


Ofter the death penalty is a relief to some religions, because they would rather be in their " Heaven" than in prison so its serving no purpose.

But i don't agree with life sentences either.


What do you think ?

of course it teaches a lesson. if your mom killz someone, and i kill her for it under law. you aint guna kill anyone! think again, it does teach a lesson. you seem stupid.

 

[shamcooly]

I dont think anyone has the right to take somone's life, only god has the right to do that... although they should be imprisnined for a long time until they get old and weary, then put them in a retirement home or something >.<

 

[O m G k 0 e R]

The death penalty should only be given to criminals who've been proven guilty.


As I live in Canada the justice system is much different. It seems like the petty criminals(thefts, etc.) end up serving more time then all of the "Public Enemies". I remember a hit and run that occured in my town last year. The victim, a 14 year old, ended up dying and the driver of the car ended up serving 2 months. If this was down in the U.S. this man may have been given the death penalty as he lied his way out of a longer sentence by saying that he had diabetes and could not remember the incident. How unfair is that?

 

[Shredderbeam]

The death penalty should only be given to criminals who've been proven guilty.


As I live in Canada the justice system is much different. It seems like the petty criminals(thefts, etc.) end up serving more time then all of the "Public Enemies". I remember a hit and run that occured in my town last year. The victim, a 14 year old, ended up dying and the driver of the car ended up serving 2 months. If this was down in the U.S. this man may have been given the death penalty as he lied his way out of a longer sentence by saying that he had diabetes and could not remember the incident. How unfair is that?

Executing somebody will not accomplish anything other than to fulfill another's petty sense of revenge.

 

[Eric]

We should put everyone on death row, and after they have their last meal we could be like "JUST KIDDING, NOW GET YOUR ASS IN THIS JAIL CELL FOREVER"

it would provide me with countless hours of lulz

 

[Hells Duke]

If your some terrorist like Saddam I think he should have life in prison, just starve and beat them more

 

[The Waffles]

The Death Penalty is sick. All it is is stooping to the criminal's level.

Life sentences....I dunno :\

 

[Shredderbeam]

We should put everyone on death row, and after they have their last meal we could be like "JUST KIDDING, NOW GET YOUR ASS IN THIS JAIL CELL FOREVER"

it would provide me with countless hours of lulz

:/

It would be funny in a sort of twisted way, I guess...

 

[masterkiller]

The death penalty should only be given to criminals who've been proven guilty.


As I live in Canada the justice system is much different. It seems like the petty criminals(thefts, etc.) end up serving more time then all of the "Public Enemies". I remember a hit and run that occured in my town last year. The victim, a 14 year old, ended up dying and the driver of the car ended up serving 2 months. If this was down in the U.S. this man may have been given the death penalty as he lied his way out of a longer sentence by saying that he had diabetes and could not remember the incident. How unfair is that?

Okay. You think that is unfair?

let me give you another example. Person 1 kills person 2. Person 3 comes up, gets knocked out, gets a gun put into his hand and is framed. Person 3 dies in life sentence by lethal injection. 4 weeks later, person 3 is found not guilty. Too late right?

Another scenario. Person 1 wants to commit suicide. Person 1 does not like person 2. person one kills person 2, and then gets killed by death sentence. If there was no death sentence, then Person 1 would be in jail, for a loong time, or he would just commit suicide himself. but which is easier, killing yourself, or someone you hate? Either way, only 1 person dies w/o death sentence.

10% of all people on death row are inocent.

Canada has no death sentence, their crime rates are lower.

 

[Macroman]

Its sick and immoral as i posted, like someone else said its a weak excuse for seemingly finding revenge.

 

[Ins4n3 m0nk]

Do they even have death sentences in the US anymore?

I think that life sentence are the correct punishment for the crimes people committed.

instead of a quick pain, and then you die, why not torture them their whole life, sitting in a cell?

 

[samnoz]

England doesn't have the death sentence, we have a higher crime rate and our prisons are over-crowding. Plus people seem to think that you get executed in less than a year after your given the sentence. Wrong, your sat on death row for at least 3 years, possibly more as there is the chance for appeals in most cases. I'm not really sure what i believe, in some cases mass murder, etc then if it is proven beyond doubt that they are guilty or if they plead guilty then they should be executed. But if there is the slightest doubt then there should be a re-investigation. Also instead of just sending people to jail, make them do manual labour! It saves the government money and gives them a use.