Should the death penalty be legal

If you've never been around these people, (I worked for a prison for a while) then you don't understand how or what they are capable of. They don't care that they killed someone, raped someone or what they did to get there it's just a big joke to them, to them people are just objects and that isn't my opinion that's is what they will tell you. In my opinion the death penalty is too lenient, I believe we should use the eye for an eye thing and I can guarantee we would see less crime.

It's hypocritical. You kill someone because they killed other inoccent people? That makes you a murderer as well.How are you any better then them. Lead by example. However, I am NOT defending them in any way.I think the proper way to deal with them is to lock them up in a cold dark cell so no one has to see their face again. They abused their freedom and rights. No second chances.

And eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. There is a bigger chance for a black guy to get on death row, than it is for a white guy equal the crime. It's illegal to put people, who doesn't understand that they committed a crime on the death row, like mentally retarded people, but several of them have been, and is, sitting on death row right now.
And then there is innocent people who are getting killed for a crime they didn't commit. How are you going to apologize to the family, if new evidence shows that (s)he didn't do it?

Is the death of an innocent worth less than the death of hundreds of criminals? No, I think the chance of killing an innocent is too big of a risk. And did you know, that it costs around 1-3 million dollars to keep prisoners on death row? It would be cheaper to just keep them in prison.

And death penalty have NO proven effect against other criminals. Besides. Dead people can't learn from their mistakes.

I think people who dont show andw remorse for doing their crime should be killed. Those who show regret and are sorry for what they did should be alowed to live.

yes it definatly should why would people who kill people get the rite to live

Its also less money as tax payers have to pay for those monsters to be alive and eat three meals a day

The curious thing about the death penalty is thst it's generally carried out by countries closer to the equator than those further south or north of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_nation

It's also one of the few times America finds itself agreeing with countries like Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Vietnam, against the rest of the world's opinion.

But to answer your question, if someone is a rapist, or murderer, or paedophile, they're infinitely more use alive than dead because we want to know why they did it, and to stop others doing it. While it's tempting to want to stamp down the iron fist on someone who has wronged, if they hold the key to saving thousands of children from being abused in the future, don't the thousands outweigh the one? I'd keep them somewhere secure (so they don't offend again) but I'd trade off the cost of their incarceration against the usefulness they may have in stopping other murderers, rapists, and paedophiles arising.

hell yeah I think they should all have express lanes.

The death penalty is legal in many places. This doesn't make it right or wrong. These trials costs a lot of tax payer money as the case gets moved through the justice system like a dandelion puff in the wind.

I don't personally agree with the death penalty. I don't feel the government should have the right to take someones life from them-regardless. Send them to jail and have them do forced labor. They are a burden to society, so force them to contribute something back. I think these people should be laboring at waste management facilities, cleaning trash off the side of the road, etc. Put them to work to benefit all. I wont fault the mourning father for seeking vengeance. But he has no more right to take a life then a serial killer. We just accept this behavior when it can be considered a "crime of passion". Still not right or wrong, just justified by the masses.

i agree with dappled 100% but i also like the thought that a child murderer is handed the gun with the choice, do it or we'll do it for you. thats civilised

The only argument against capital punishment that makes me question my opinion supporting it...is that it's too humane.
1)They don't have to live with the burden of what they've done..
2) In the U.S., they're "put to sleep" like we do for ailing pets we have compassion for. That tends to complicate the hurt that the victim's families feel when they know that their loved ones typically died a horrible death at the hands of the beasts.

Im totally for marshmallows in lucky charms!!!

I think that the Death Pentalty is good because if u did something like rape someone or kill someone they should not get to live i believe that everyone that does something bad will never!! go back to being a good preson

Keeping the people in prison is not the way to stop crime. Neither is the death penalty. We shouldn't just kill or hold the criminals, we should cut the roots from where they came. That is our terrible society.

Focusing on the criminals is nothing if the same terrible society that gave birth to their crimes still remains.

Most killers got their psychopathy from the enviroment they grew up in. People who sell drugs do so, because it's a good business. There are plenty of depressed people who want to unwind from it all to escape their troubles. Of course, those who get into drugs at a younger age do so out of fear of being excluded, because being alone in our society is suicidal.

The real problem is the goverment taking bucket after bucket to catch the leakage, but not having the sense to fix the pipe.

The death penalty is the easy way out of the crime they should get the same suffering they gave

On one hand, I feel it should, because that way the people who were wronged and their families are safer. But on the other hand...who are we as a people to say when somebody lives or dies? And of course we have to take the innocent people on death row into account. If somebody innocent gets killed by our legal system, then that makes us no better than the common murdurer on the street for taking a life ; so they'd suffer for no reason and there'd be no way to right the wrong. Our technology is advanced, but not THAT advanced, to the point where its perfect. Things slip through the cracks all the time. And honestly, in certain situations, I think that death is the easy way out. Its a far worse punishment to have to sit in a cell and rot all day, knowing that you can never be free and that its your own fault, than to get the easy way out : death. So yeah. Kinda mixed up about that one.

It is legal - just depends on where you live.

I am all for the death penalty but there has been cases where people have been wrongly convicted. I know its a small percentages but there is many people in jail who didn't commit the crime they are accused of. That's the only instance where I wonder if the death penalty is something that we should choose, or we are just playing god

I always agreed with this, but then I wonder if I killed someone by accident or was accused of killing someone, I wouldn't want to die. Sometimes I would say the family who lost the person, should really decide if the killer should be killed or not.

I think it would be a good idea for it to be legal, but at the same time it could be problem. I mean, sometimes people who aren't even guilty are on death row, and nobody finds out that they aren't guilty until so many years later of them wasting time in prison.

Yes. If the person inflicted severe damage upon an "innocent" for absolutely no good reason, they should at least be served the punishment that they inflict.

I am in a quandary, however, about what to think about governments (who conscript soldiers to fight bullshit wars and) who perpetrate the same evil against the innocent.

I don't care whether it is legal or not. I personally will never kill someone.

yes the death penalty should be legal, don't you think that life in prison without parole is cruel and unusual punishment thus breaking the constitution. People should not be kept in a cage like an animal, if they commit a bad enough crime for life in prison without the chance for parole then they should be allowed to take the death penalty

What's the point of killing them?

...also should point out that, despite consensus of American public, rapists, including child molesters, are not subject to the death penalty. Over 70% of Americans, including myself, believe it should be, but it never will.

it's a waste of our tax dollar to keep them in jail for a long time.. if any of you's wanna support him while being in jail, go for it.. i say the electric chair!