Do you agree with the death penalty?

for a child murderer yes, if they had any decency theyd offer to do it themselves anyhow

No. And what if there is an innocent person on death row, and he/she gets killed? What justice has that served? None! Except we are murderers just like the accused on DR. I used to think it was okay when I was younger, but now... I just don't think its right. The system is fucked up so much, I am witnessing it first hand.

Yes I do, for crimes such as rape and murder.

Yes and no. I think it definitively has to be there, but it shouldn't be an option all of the time. For example, I know this was a long time ago, but look at Ted Bundy. He killed 40+ women, and when he was in jail, he escaped TWICE, and killed more. If they hadn't put him to death, he would have escaped yet again and kept killing more people. I think they did the right thing by putting him to death, because by doing so, they saved lots of innocent women from getting brutally murdered.

But it should only be used in cases like that, not on so many people. That I think isn't the right thing to do, especially if the evidence is circumstantial.

Death Penatly for harsh crime is better than having our money go to feeding and sheltering criminals for a life sentence

Hey Americans remember Casey Anthony she deserved the death penalty and did she get it ... No

No, definitely not!!

Our jails are overpopulated, cost a shitload of money, and "rehabilate" very few. Not to mention that we have a backlog of criminals on death row filing appeal after appeal....It doesn't take a degree to figure that if you committ a crime and get a slap on the wrist, you will do it again....if victims could speak from beyond the grave, I wonder if they would advocate life or death for their murderers....nonetheless...I believe in the death penalty...I also believe in life in prison without possibility of parole EVER as an alternative (all states should exercise this option to the maximum potential)....

No. No-one deserves to be put to death. It can't undo the crime, and it doesn't deter criminals.

the death penalty is for criminals
who have commited very high crimes.
its a capital punishments for those who
have done above and beyond crimes.
with no regret and with the audacity
to create the crime.

I will not say there should or should not be a death penalty, because "should" is an absurd word to me. "We", "our", and "us" are equally absurd. There is "me", and then there is "everyone else". "Will" is a trustworthy word, and is also simple and primordial. Even a dinosaur can understand "will". "I" "will" be careful not to lose my life, and "everyone else" "will" do as they "will", and perhaps that means killing each other. It doesn't matter what I think about the death penalty. Futile. Absurd.

Yeah those sick fucks need to die, if someone is killing good people for no reason, they should be put down.

Yes. The man that punishes severely, punishes least.

In the last year, the U.S. has overturned the sentences of a FEW people on death row because they're "getting around to comparing old DNA evidence." Assuredly, we've put more than a few to death already that were actually innocent. I think the death penalty is still a option, but the evidence should have more definitive weight to it...

i think we need to start public execution back up start selling tickets it will help with the bull shit economy, also clear up death row a little faster so we could stop paying taxes to feed people waiting to die. i think they should also start doing it to sick people like rapists and pedophile!

No, it is not our say on who gets to live or die

No, we can do worse things than putting someone to death.

Fuck yeah, they need to relax the rules a little and show it on TV too. That might actually lower the US's murder rate for once.

no way, the "death penalty" is actually killing people. Why is it socially acceptable to support this?

Two wrongs do not make a right. Personally, I believe life in prison is a much worse punishment than the death penalty. Why? Because you spend you whole life in jail... waiting for your death.

In some cases yes.

Rapist:Kill them
Serial Murders:Kill them
Child molestors:Kill them

Drug Cartel leaders:Hire them to bust other gangs

Of course I do. For many crooks, death is the only suitable punishment should they repeat their crime over and over again.

absolutely!

I believe it should only be acceptable when someone has a life sentence to have a choice to get a death penalty instead.

Anyways in Greece there's no death penalty legally but once in prison child rapists or murderers are killed by the other prisoners in a matter of hours.

I'm in two minds.

I agree that some people deserve to die - those people who torture and murder people for their own gratification for example, whether it be the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs or Harold Shipman.

But I don't believe it to be the place of the government to kill out of revenge for victim's families.

Perhaps it'd be better to simply make prison for the worst offenders that much more unpleasant - for example, hard labour, or total solitary confinement. Make it so it's a very uncomfortable existence.

Of course I do. But only for murder(s)

Don't ask yourself simply "Do you agree with the death penalty?"

Ask yourself "If someone you knew and loved was murdered for no good reason would you want the assailant dead?"

and if the criminal in question kills your own mother woudl you support the death penalty?

I seriously believe in it.

Yes, but it needs scrutiny.
It gets scrutiny. The appeals process can take 20-30 years, so there is a lot of scrutiny which goes into it.
But the scrutiny I am talking about is different.

I would be against the death penalty if and only if there was a way to guarantee that people who committed the heinous crimes that deserve the death penalty would stay in prison the rest of their lives.

I also think that prisons need to be like they were in the 1930's and before. Hard labor, busting their backsides working outside all day long on chain-gangs. Have these prisoners, of course supervised, by guards on horseback, (On horseback so that if they attempt an escape the guards can chase them and tire the prisoner out before the horse is tired out.) Build the new prisons. (This would help with overcrowding and cut costs to construct the prisons.)

Prisoners should not have TV, radios, or anything electronic, outside of simple devices like electric shavers. Prisoners should only have the right to eat if they work hard, freedom from getting beaten up by others. And a place to sleep in their cell unless they merit a trip to solitary confinement.

Persistent trouble makers in prison ought to be culled out and separated. I think solitary confinment like what can be seen in movies like Shawshank redemption and Alcatraz ought to be revisited too.

I do think there needs to be more stratification between different crime types. Murderers, Rapists, thugs etc should not be locked into the same prisons as people who swiped something or who have embezzled money.

I think that for truly sick individuals, there ought to be a revisit of lobotomies. Use this for serial killers, child molesters and the like.

I think the only reason that the death penalty is something I still agree with is because I do not believe that prison life is tough enough for habitual criminals to be a deterrent and modify their behavior.

If life with no possibility of parole was a guarantee, and not the travesty of justice where one can get out in 5 years or some other paltry fraction like it, on good behavior, then I would be against the death penalty.

Make it harsh and deterring and make those who live their want to get the hell out so that maybe they might think twice about their crimes afterward.

If the crime is hard enough or maybe they should just have a harder punishment...

only if the person is actually guilty.