Death Penalty Debates

Comment: WOOOT!! DEATH PENALTY!! :D

Comment: You kill someone, we'll kill you back, lol.

Comment: The death penalty is required to restore an overall sense of justice. For the death penality, a higher standard of certainty should be required.

Comment: The death penalty is necessary for both the prison population and the American population. The sad thing is that it is drawn out to a length both unnecessary and highly inefficient. The guilty should be brought forward quicker for execution.

Comment: An eye for an eye? Nah, just justice.

Comment: Only in the rarest of occasions, when people cannot be protected from the criminal in question. And I'm not sure such a thing even exists.

Comment: All states should have the death penalty for all degrees of murder. Most if not all forms of negligent homicide should receive the death penalty, e.g., drunk drivers, bar tenders who serve too many drinks to patrons who know those patrons should have been cut off hours earlier, etc. And, the age for being considered a juvenile should be lowered to 12, based on the maturity level as determined by a group of psychologists. That is, if you are 12 and murder someone, and a group of psychologists determine that you understood what you were doing, you get the death penalty, even if you are only 12. Also, the speedy trial process has to be shorted. The longest it should take with all repeals should be no more than 4 years. Also, the death penalty should be imposed on any financial criminals (e.g., bankers, mortgage company executives, CEOs, presidents, etc.) who are convicted of financial crimes equal to or greater than $500,000 (e.g., Ponzi schemes, embezzlement, consumer fraud, fraudule

Comment: Only in severe cases.

Comment: Raise the evidence standards. A lot. But for individuals in which there is no doubt that they murdered someone, raped children, participated in genocide, or other grave crimes--hang them.

Comment: Theroleofprisonsisrehabilitation.Ifyoucan'trehabilitatetheconvictthantheycannotbeheldinprison,andtheycannotbereleased;thustheymustbekilledorexiled.

Comment: It's my inner Malthusian talking here....

Comment: Having to live with and come to terms with what you have done is a bad punishment already. In addition, places with no death penalty have lower murder rates.

Comment: "You've killed someone, killing is bad, so we'll kill you, and that's OK." Not a self-contradictory message in the slightest.

Comment: The one penalty box that you never leave.

Comment: no one should die because they killed someone. this is just like "an eye for an eye". revenge. keep them locked for eternity if you will, but still, they don't deserve to die.

Comment: Of all the reasons to not support the death penalty, I think the best reason is people could have gotten it wrong. There are many cases in which evidence was found that could prove a person innocent. In order to maintain a fair justice system, people should not support the death penalty. In either circumstance, a sentence to life in prison is a sentence to death in prison. They guilty will still die, but just through sickness or old age in prison. I believe that suffering a life in prison is a more just punishment than a quick painless death. Another benefit is it doesn't cost as much. That's always helpful.

Comment: Mistakes-can-be-made.

Comment: At the end of the day, executing people doesn't resolve the crime that happened. It's also expensive, and as good as forensics is, it's not perfect.

Comment: Don't really have many reasons against it, I just don't see Death Penalty as fair.

Comment: Nobody really deserves to die!