I have to write an essay on the Death Penalty, and I was just wondering what you all thought about it.

 

To be honest, I'm not really sure what to think about it myself...

 

Have any of you ever read or watched "Dead Man Walking?"

Well there's no death penalty in Australia, so I don't have that much of an opinion on it. But I think if someone's killed a lot of people, like Gaddafi for example, then let them have it.

Well me living in AMERICA, We aren't allowed to give Cruel and Unusual punishments, But DEATH is Cruel AND Unusual ;A;

There's no Death Penalty here in Brazil, so I don't know very much if it's good or not. But in my opinion, it would be better if here had Death Penalty, because in a survey, it was stated that Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world D:

 

I think they should apply Death Penalty only to Serial Killers or very dangerous criminals.

Well me living in AMERICA, We aren't allowed to give Cruel and Unusual punishments, But DEATH is Cruel AND Unusual ;A;

 

Death isn't cruel, some would actually find it liberating, and it sure as hell isn't unusual. I can turn on the news right now, somebody some where is probably dead.

 

Personally, the Death Sentence should be used more often. Why should I spend tax dollars to provide food, water, and a place to sleep to all the scum of the earth?

 

Firing squads are the cheapest and most humane way to kill a person, bullets only cost a few cents and given that they fly faster than the speed of sound, the person being executed wouldn't even hear the guns fire as he would be dead by the time the sound reached him.

 

And lets not forget that 3 to 8 rifle bullets hitting you at once is going to kill you. Even if they all hit you in the foot the sheer force of all those bullets hitting you at once from close range is enough to stop all body functions.

Death should be up to God.

I don't believe in the Death Penalty mostly because the justice system is very flawed.

Honestly, it WOULD be a good thing, but many innocent people have been sentenced to this because the legal system messes up. So personally, I believe that until they can perfect the system, they shouldn't be using it yet.

the death penalty it really all depends myself i think it is a good thing to have under the right reason like cereal kill who have killed like three people or more and who plan to never stop they shouldnt be let off cause when there free they'll just go off doing wrong again

No, its wrong to kill people. You do not kill people unless it is absolutely necessary to kill someone, like if you are defending yourself and it is your last option. You aren't making the world better by killing people who kill people, you are just adding to the problem.

For me most of the time I would say it's wrong. However sometimes there are people that make mistakes in their lives that put innocent people in danger, most everyone deserves a chance at change but some people go so horribly wrong that it is a danger for them to be alive at all. That's why we need it I understand if people don't agree with it but someday without you even realizing it, it could save your life.

No. If they have Death Penalty, the person doing the crime would rather get a death penalty than be tortured in jail. So I think no. But instead, they should do Chinese water torture

The Death Penality is right, Mainly because most terriorist's/ cereal killers/ pedos/ and what ever there is out there doing crimes then to jail for some years do end up doing more crime, now if the death from someone was because they were defending themself thats diffrent but if someone has more crimes against other people he/she should be put to death, even if death is cruel and is not unusual, It should happen. It would put more fear into those that do crimes and make them think before they do knowing they might be put to death than just going to jail for 20+ years or life. But as a lot of people would see it to be wrong probebly won't happen. I wish it would

The Death Penality is right, Mainly because most terriorist's/ cereal killers/ pedos/ and what ever there is out there doing crimes then to jail for some years do end up doing more crime, now if the death from someone was because they were defending themself thats diffrent but if someone has more crimes against other people he/she should be put to death, even if death is cruel and is not unusual, It should happen. It would put more fear into those that do crimes and make them think before they do knowing they might be put to death than just going to jail for 20+ years or life. But as a lot of people would see it to be wrong probebly won't happen. I wish it would

 

First of all it's serial killers

not cereal

and second of all I kind of agree with you

 

The death penalty is not cruel and unusual. They're not using the electric chair anymore, and now THAT would be cruel if something were to go wrong (like the sponge was wet enough and the person was left there for minutes screaming while his skin burned and was electrocuted, opposed to like how they're supposed to die instantly from the charge frying their brain' but they're using injections mostly.

 

Again my beliefs of the death penalty is that it shouldn't be put in action until there are no flaws in our system.

 

But the death penalty is fair. If it was to given more frequently to serious offenders (not to everyone but people who murder someone maliciously, pedophiles, rapists, serial killers) it may possibly scare others from making the same mistake??? That's just my thought.

 

Anyways I'd rather see a guilty murder dead than 5 innocent victims.

If you do something to harm the entire country for something so stupid then yeah.

Personally it depends. In my opinion, the death penalty should only be used if a person is a serial killer of if they have comitted a serious felony.

I live in Brazil, so we don't have it here.

 

But I think the government should begin to think about putting it in our criminal system.

 

Things are just getting worse and worse There's just too make innocent people getting killed!

 

If you turn the tv on here, you'll see in one journal that like, 20 people have been killed, or are seriously injured. It's getting nowhere. People are afraid of going to the streets and not coming back to their homes anymore.

 

If they used the death penalty, things would, at least, appear to be better, because it wouldn't be any idiot teenager that kills his girlfriend, and then is killed. People would have a bigger chance of surviving.

 

So, yeah, I'm completely in favor of Death Penalty.

I believe that it is useful, but it should be used in only extreme crimes such as (serial) killings and rape (especially of minors by adults)*. And even then, only when it is be proven beyond reasonable doubt that they are guilty.

 

*Maybe more that fit the category. I just came up with two off the top of my head.

 

You know, it is ironic. I was just thinking about stuff like this. I think To Kill a Mockingbird might be the first book to ever really change my views on something...

I say if you take a life, your life should be taken as well. http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.png

 

(on a small unrelated note, I hate guns since using them is the easiest way to take a person's life :angry: )

well i agree with the death penalty. lets say your a killer. you killed 2 people, and you only get a 20 year sentence, and you serve, say 13 years. randomly, you kill 4 people this time. it doesnt matter if those 4 other are strangers or not, you killed them. then you should be put to death.

now, lets say your a rapist. you raped 1 person. you did your sentence, and your free. now, if you raped more people when you got out, and killed one of them, then they should be put to death.

well i agree with the death penalty. lets say your a killer. you killed 2 people, and you only get a 20 year sentence, and you serve, say 13 years. randomly, you kill 4 people this time. it doesnt matter if those 4 other are strangers or not, you killed them. then you should be put to death.

now, lets say your a rapist. you raped 1 person. you did your sentence, and your free. now, if you raped more people when you got out, and killed one of them, then they should be put to death.

 

Actually, usually murderers get life sentences, not a small 20 years so that situation is kind of iffy, but there's also the chance of the person escaping.

also, rapists don't get penalized nearly enough, they definitely need more drastic sentences

Actually, usually murderers get life sentences, not a small 20 years so that situation is kind of iffy, but there's also the chance of the person escaping.

also, rapists don't get penalized nearly enough, they definitely need more drastic sentences

 

well were i live theres different types of murder degrees, so that gives you different prison sentences

You know, I'm torn...

 

I agree with Fred in a way. Why should MY hard earned money go to these lowlife scumbag criminals who rape, steal and murder to get food, water and clothes?

 

Then I think, who is ANYONE to say when someone's life should end? Makes you no better than the person who killed the person they did to land them in jail.

 

Then I think, well, it's the "The Boondock Saints" where you're killing for a good reason. (Killing is wrong, but if you saw the movie you'd understand)

 

Then I feel like death is too "easy" at the same time. Let them suffer. Let them sit in a dirty, damp cell with rapists, murderers and others of their kind. They have to live in their own personal hell for the majority of their lives. Drugs, being raped in the bathroom (ever hear the expression "don't drop the soap?" lol it's awful but it does happen in jail), getting beaten up by other inmates, sometimes even murdered… Let them suffer and rot in their own personal hell.

 

So I'm kind of torn on the topic, ya know?

the death penatly goes against the whole idea of what a jail is supposed to do.

I don't think people deservse to die but that;s just my opinion i can see why people should die but what if you get death penatly for something to don't do.

Death should be up to God.

 

This right here ^

No one deserves to die. Everyone agrees killing someone is wrong, its murder. And just think, by giving someone a death sentence takes away their chance of changing and regretting what they've done as well. Then there's the falsely accused people too.

This right here ^

No one deserves to die. Everyone agrees killing someone is wrong, its murder. And just think, by giving someone a death sentence takes away their chance of changing and regretting what they've done as well. Then there's the falsely accused people too.

 

You,you me friend are smart and very,very true.

This right here ^

No one deserves to die. Everyone agrees killing someone is wrong, its murder. And just think, by giving someone a death sentence takes away their chance of changing and regretting what they've done as well. Then there's the falsely accused people too.

 

The falsely accused and the mistakes that have been made are the only reason that I don't like RIGHT NOW

If they changed somethings so it'd make it that no one innocent was convicted, I'd be like 'GO FOR IT'