Also in prison alot of people kill for revenge so lets say you put a rapist in a cell with a man who killed the guy who raped his sister and they say how they got there.Im sure the rapist wont last very long.
In all honesty I don't think any legal action will ever be 100% satisfactory for everyone involved. Some people want people to die for things like identity theft or killing their loved one because they were driving drunk. The death penalty should remain an option because it's necessary in extreme cases. But we should definitely be INCREDIBLY cautious with what we classify as one of those extreme cases. Death is final. Therefore the death penalty should be the last option looked at.
Sadly are government doesnt take extreme care with those cases otherwise the innocent wouldnt end up there.Although i love our nation...since when do we use death as a last resort?
I read a story where a man with years of military training sat up in a clock tower. He was trained to be one of the best snipers there ever was and people who knew him said he used to be a nice guy. He sat in the clock tower and was shooting people from hundreds of yards away. Random and innocent people. At the time, cop's weapons couldn't be shot accurately all the way to the top of the tower, so the shooter had a lot of time to kill. He left a suicide note that said he did not want to do it. Everything in him did not want to kill innocent people, but he was being forced to. He said he couldn't explain it, he thought something was wrong in his head. In the note he asked doctors to examine his brain, because something was just not right. After awhile, he shot himself in the heart to stop anymore innocent people from dying. In the note he said that he would shoot his heart to preserve his brain. When doctors examined his brain, they found a large tumor pushing on the area responsible for morals and judgement. Even though he died, was this man guilty? What if technology was advanced enough for it to be fixed? If he had lived, did he deserve the death sentence?
That's why if the people involved in the case are doing their job they shouldn't convict someone if there's even a shadow of a doubt that they're not guilty. I think it's definitely a tragedy if someone gets sent to death when they don't deserve it, but that's not really the fault of the death penalty that's the fault of the legal system at the time and the people involved in the case. The same thing happens to people being put in jail for life and dying there and then we find out that their innocent. But that's really a plausible reason to say no one should be put in jail for life in case their not guilty. If there's a chance the suspected citizen is not guilty then lol why are you putting them in jail? Why are you exploring the death penalty?
They also have a Thing Called Life Without the possibility of parole, And since they have That The death penalty should be abolished. Ive debated this topic in many debates, and people will understand, if you want revenge which is always not the best dont have the offender killed just have them rot in prison. If someone has life without parole they would rather die, prison is Not at all Fun. (I've been there b4). Making someone Suffer and give then life to think about what they have done will kill a person even if they don't Care, they would still rather die but most people dont have the courage to commit suicide in prison. Btw megan I was the one who said "killing people to show killing people is wrong"
An innocent person a 99.9% better chance of getting out of prison then making it of the death penalty before judgement day
I believe death penalty should remain. They should just look more into a case before they put a person on death row as some cases have occurred where they have put to death innocent people because the case wasn't completed.
Well this was about it being abolished altogether. So my stance is that it shouldn't be abolished but it should be used in the "there's nothing else we can possibly do with this person" scenario. Maybe it's because I don't like dying but I wouldn't even want someone who killed me to get the death penalty. Like I hope they get thrown in jail or put in some mental institution but taking their life certainly isn't bring me back to life. We'd just have two people dead instead of one. And I honestly think everyone's life is valuable even if they're the crappiest people on the planet.
Fully agree with Neo! A friend of mines...or associate more like went to prison for grand larceny.He tried to cut his wrist and bleed out but the dumbass failed and cut straight across and lived.He was put in a suicide cell and bashed his head in the wall to kill himself because his bed sheet kept ripping when he tried to hang himself.Prison is worse than death far better and more effective punishment than death.You cant think about what you've done dead.
As great as that sounds alice thats not the world we live in.As long as deathrow stands innocent people will die.We dont live in a world where death and weapons are a last resort.
After looking through the comments I see vast majority agree that the death penalty should stay intact and I see where each individual is coming from. For example "An eye for an eye", was mentioned by someone. I understand the reasoning, in some way I feel the same, literally "feel" why it would be best to choose to end the lives of those who have slaughtered the innocent. But that feeling I get comes stems from rage, anger & a sense of helplessness that someone's life was taken so unfortunately by bloody, uncivil hands. But the good person inside me, the little Jimney Cricket (Conscience) still tells me it is wrong. It is wrong to take a life. Point blank. No one on this earth has the right to decide whose life can be taken away. We can try to justify it, but in the end its still wrong. You cannot justify murdering a person....because they murdered another person, that makes you the exact same as them. Its completely hypocritical, just like hitting a child as punishment because they hit another. No lesson is learned, only that it was after all okay to murder & lay your hand on another. (Metaphor) Corrupt societies first makes thieves then punishes them. The best punishment served is to allow that criminal to live the rest of their lives with the burden of their own guilt. Death is an easy way out and most of them accept it with a smile on their lips. What was also mentioned was some do not feel guilt, but I'm sure "Rotting in prison" for life would be punishment enough. The death penalty "seems" to be the proper way to deal with such heinous crimes but in reality that would only be bestowed so that the murderer could not commit the crime again. So sentence them to life, in prison, for taking another life. I personally believe in karma, and karma will come through in addition to other punishments served by said criminal. So again, I understand where everyone is coming from, however you cannot punish someone for commiting a crime that you will ultimately commit yourself. Its hypocritical. (Not YOU in general) For those of you who don't want to read this whole thing..... I'M AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
And to the person who said remaining in jail for all eternity to rot or go insane is better than giving them death because it's a worse punishment, that's just really just as cruel as the people who WANT people to die. That sounds like you want to torture not punish. It sounds inhumane and it makes me worry that maybe the people dishing out this so called justice are deep down just as twisted as the person they're trying to "punish." Any legal action should be in the name of justice not vengeance. Sure that may not always be achieved but there should be a better chance of it happening than there is now.
We seem to believe everyone has a choice in how they behave or what they choose to do simply because we have that choice but for some people they genuinely don't have that choice. I had a friend when I was younger who was raped when he was a child...shortly after turning 14 he told me had "thoughts of children" in the worse way...he sought therapy for years he was constantly plagued and troubled by what he felt... He killed himself because he didn't want to do the same thing that happened to him to another child... Some would say good riddance that it's a good thing he killed himself...but he was my friend... We have no idea what others go through or their pasts or their brain chemistry that makes people do what they do. To believe everyone has a choice and that they're not sick in some way for doing such an atrocious act is ludicrous. That doesn't mean that people don't have responsibility for their actions. But does mean that the system fails us at times...and to believe we have a airtight system that filters good from bad is bull. Anyone who's been through the system knows that the system fails us constantly. Why should it be any different with this?
You say allowing someone to rot and get what they deserve in prison is inhuman yet say death penalty should stand.Killing is more inhumane than torture because we have no right to choose who lives and who dies
@jessa I infact did not read the whole thing, and I am sorry, But your point is good . whoever wrote "an eye for an eye" that was created by the code of hammurabi which was used ver long ago and that was because they didnt have the technology we have today and if you still believe that phrase should still exist you have not really put much thought into life. In thoes times if you stole Your hand would get chopped off should that still exist? If someone thought you were guilty back in that time they would throw you in a lake if you drowned you were guilty if you survived you were innocent. What sense would that make if we still uses thoes methods? There is a reason why we have a news set of rules not the old ones, and also thoes rules were for the middle east not This country. Just my opinion once again.
I was the one who wrote eye for an eye... Go read back I believe it's ridiculous and wrote so when I said it.
@cherry im sorry for not reading what you have posted its just she made it seem like you were. Agreeing with it. I fully understand now.