Do you believe in death penalty

Do you believe in the death penity?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 42.4%

  • No

    Votes: 8 24.2%

  • Only for certain reasons

    Votes: 9 27.3%

  • other

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
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I ask because I was thinking about things that you are against till it happens to you type of stuff.
I use to be against the death penity till my uncle was horribly murder Thanksgiving night in 2004.

Feel free to list why you picked the answer you did..

let's be nice to other opinions and views.
 
Wow... I'm really sorry about your uncle. :hug: How old he was? If it's personal, I'll understand.
 
A bit so young to me. =/

Can you tell me why do you support the death penaty? Me curious.
 
KarissaMann05 said:
A bit so young to me. =/

Can you tell me why do you support the death penaty? Me curious.
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I support it now b/c after sitting in the court room for a week listening and seeing pics of the details behind that horrible night. They were family friends (well we all knew them and my uncle and them where friends) showed up at his house that night thinking he wasn't going to be home, the details are too horrible to go into, but the basicly killed him and then stole his music equipement and left him there. These people at the time was 18 and 19 years old they did it to sale the stuff to get drugs. The will spend the rest of their lives in prision (no chance of getting out in Arkansas) so I believe instead of spending millions of our tax dollars to feed and shelter these people for the next 50 or 60 years put them to rest. It's hard to explain but that's the best I can do
 
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I usually would say no to death penatly because nobody deserves to be killed for a reason but when you hear/read in the news what some killers do than it is difficult to just let it go and let them live *peacefully* in jail.

Then I could also just scream from the top of my lungs just knowing that he/she (the killer) gets food every day because of the taxed I pay every month due to my job... *sigh*. But that's the way it is.

I can't really explain why or when death penatly should be enforced on somebody. Killing one person? Two? Ten?... No matter what it is difficult and I would never be able to sentence somebody to death even though I inwardly might have this feeling of wanting them dead more than anything else in the world. I wouldn't stand having somebody's life on my mind.

Death penality only exists because people kill people for no specific reason...

I'm between two stools here...

JL

PS. I'm sorry to read about your uncle :hug:
 
chris' mom said:
instead of spending millions of our tax dollars to feed and shelter these people for the next 50 or 60 years put them to rest. It's hard to explain but that's the best I can do
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Allowing a prisoner to spend life in prison is cheaper than the death penalty.

"Total cost of death penalty is 38% greater than total cost of life without parole sentences. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002)"

United States Death Penalty FAQs

Religious/ethical grounds aside, I'd prefer that they spend a life in prison to contemplate their actions rather than have it all ended with a shot.
 
I voted yes. The old code of "a eye for an eye" makes sense to me. If you kill someone, you shouldn't benefit by a life of free food while sitting in prison.
 
It would be depend on SITUATION. If murder or raper or child molester then yes. Rest will no...

Right now almost all or maybe all prison are full and crowd. And we pay taxes to prison etc. Hard to explain on AD though. But I tried my best. I'll keep read and see if any other member that I may agree with or not.
 
Yup, only for some reason, such as murder and rape.
 
I voted other. Not because I am against the death penalty for heinous or unconscionable crimes but but because I believe better use could be made of the criminals by society.

What bothers me is that once convicted of a crime such as murder the criminal is only deprived of their freedom of movement. They retain other rights which are inimical to the interests of society as a whole.

Example: Many psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, behavioral specialists, journalists, wanted access to Charles Manson -- They felt many things could be learned from him that could benefit society and help to prevent similar events in the future. But Manson had the right to pick and choose who he would or would not talk to.

I do not believe the convicted criminal whose crime was monstrous should have that right. I believe a panel should be appointed who would determine who would have the best chance of producing viable results for humanity and giving those people access to question, test, etc. the prisoner and the criminal should have no say in the matter.

In this way we might be better able to understand crime, prevent crime, and catch criminals faster and with greater certainty.
 
I support death penalty only in cases that are beyond resonable doubts. I am abit leery of putting someone to death and only to find out that he is innocent all along.

Chris' mom, I am sorry about your uncle.
 
Mockingbird said:
Allowing a prisoner to spend life in prison is cheaper than the death penalty.

"Total cost of death penalty is 38% greater than total cost of life without parole sentences. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002)"

United States Death Penalty FAQs

Religious/ethical grounds aside, I'd prefer that they spend a life in prison to contemplate their actions rather than have it all ended with a shot.
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Berry said:
I voted other. Not because I am against the death penalty for heinous or unconscionable crimes but but because I believe better use could be made of the criminals by society.

What bothers me is that once convicted of a crime such as murder the criminal is only deprived of their freedom of movement. They retain other rights which are inimical to the interests of society as a whole.

Example: Many psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, behavioral specialists, journalists, wanted access to Charles Manson -- They felt many things could be learned from him that could benefit society and help to prevent similar events in the future. But Manson had the right to pick and choose who he would or would not talk to.

I do not believe the convicted criminal whose crime was monstrous should have that right. I believe a panel should be appointed who would determine who would have the best chance of producing viable results for humanity and giving those people access to question, test, etc. the prisoner and the criminal should have no say in the matter.

In this way we might be better able to understand crime, prevent crime, and catch criminals faster and with greater certainty.
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which is precisely why it takes a very long time to execute death penalty prisoners. The government doesn't take it lightly when it comes to executing a life. They had to be ABSOLUTELY sure of it. I do think they need to reduce the waiting period because the longer the death penalty man is sitting in his cell, the longer victim's loved ones must suffer.

This is never an easy subject to talk about. :(
 
chris' mom said:
I ask because I was thinking about things that you are against till it happens to you type of stuff.
I use to be against the death penity till my uncle was horribly murder Thanksgiving night in 2004.

Feel free to list why you picked the answer you did..

let's be nice to other opinions and views.
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oh no.... I'm deeply sorry about your experience. I voted yes and many of ADers know my strong stance on it. We've had quite some threads dedicated to death penalty debate and all have ended up being locked.
 
Personally, I'm all for putting murderers to death HOWEVER legally, I am against death penalty. Our justice system is imperfect and unequal. Notice the unusual high rate of black murderers compared to white murderers? There's a huge difference on treatments of ethnic groups. And we have many innocent convicts executed and that's wrong.
 
Seems to me support for the death penalty would increase in proportion to the great advances in the areas of forensic sciences, reducing the possibility of executing those innocent.
 
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