Are you for or against the death penalty?

[beebella]

I'm for it

I'm against it

I'm conflicted about that, Bee

Something else

[Naydyonov]

I will say, I am pro-life. I also support the death penalty.

There are certain people, let's say serial killers as an example, who have denied others of life. Why should the life of the killed be valued less than that of the killer? — As in, the killer was allowed to kill his victims, but society cannot take retribution on him. If a man has killed multiple people, what's to say he won't again when released? Releasing him is a huge risk to the lives of other innocent people.
A killer has taken his own life and made it worthless. They've made themselves burdens on society: a mine waiting for a foot to step on it.

So my stance is the following:
All life is valuable, but however much you fuck with innocent people, so too should you be fucked.
In my view, the death penalty should be used sparingly and only in cases of overwhelming evidence, approved by a jury.
The alternative is to have a killer or rapist sit in prison 50 years until they die for crimes committed against individuals in society, leaching off society's taxpayers who pay for the killer/rapist's food, medical, housing, so on.
So now, not only has this person inflicted great harm on specific individuals in society, to a lesser, but still impactful level, harm on the victims' friends, families, acquaintances, but they now should economically harm society too?

The average cost per year of an inmate in US prison in 2015 was $33,274.
The cost of a prisoner serving a life sentence (25 years) is $831,850!! It's a cost with no benefit. Now, I'm a small-government type of guy, but I'd support redirecting $33,274 per year on healthcare, childcare, infrastructure, national defense, foreign aid, any day over spending this money to confine & support humans who have done unhuman acts.

People are all born innocent, even psychopaths. All their lives are valuable. It is their actions which determine how valuable they are as people.
People born with mental disabilities are burdens to society, but they had no choice in the matter. Criminals choose to take actions which make them burdens to society. This is the difference.
Helping a welfare-abuser become self-sufficient is to reach out one's hand to pick up a person who jumped on ice. Helping a person incapable of acting humanely is to reach out one's hand to help a person get up off the ground ignoring the knife directed at you in their second hand.

[NYCQuestions1976]

I only support the death penalty (when applicable) if there is indisputable DNA evidence and/or media (picture, video) evidence. Otherwise it's life in prison. You can't risk executing an innocent person.

I'm perfectly fine with people being against the death penalty as long as they don't use the "You're not God." argument. I'm not claiming to be God if I support the death penalty in a certain circumstance. I'm just trying to get the person to God faster.

[NYCQuestions1976]

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[Brainsbeforebeauty]

I'm for the death penalty... I believe part of the reason crime has gotten to the point it has is because too many times we mollycoddle criminals instead of punishing them for their crimes.
Criminals rights have become more important than victims rights.. But if you murder someone in cold blood or torture someone to death or brutally rape and murder someone, what rights should you have/deserve at that point🤷

[Wraith_Cemetery]

Exactly. I seriously don't understand those that oppose the death penalty. Are they really advocating for the rights of those that commit brutal rape, child molestation, and serial killers? They have forgone their rights the moment they took the rights of the innocent. They deserve no rights after their acts. Send 'em to the gallows.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@Wraith_Cemetery agree 💯‼️

[TonyMetal___86]

All stand up, judge brains muffins is entering the court room 😁

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@TonyMetal___86 not a judge.. Just a person sick of seeing the innocent suffer while criminals walk free, live a better life than those they victimized

[TonyMetal___86]

I agree spongy forehead, no innocent person should suffer a human life is precious our souls are priceless because they were given to us from god...

I promise when i bite your spongy forehead i won't make you suffer 😬😬

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@TonyMetal___86 kinda hard to vote someone if your teeth get knocked out🤔😈

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@TonyMetal___86 *bite

[TonyMetal___86]

My teeth are made from enforced steel and they will dive deep in the sponge 😬😬

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@TonyMetal___86 of you say so, I say you better put your dentist on speed dial😇😈😊

[TonyMetal___86]

I'm going to tie you up sponge so your crawl like a worm and so you won't be able to resist when i bite the sponge 😄

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@TonyMetal___86 cannibal

[TonyMetal___86]

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[Brainsbeforebeauty]

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[Lori11]

I believe some people can recover and be part of the society again, that's for minor crimes. For heavier crimes, I think it would be better to put them to work so they are useful. Death penalty sounded good to me because victims can "let go" and try to move on, but, what since the system isn't perfect, imagine all the innocent people being killed for something they didn't do.

[OlderAndWiser]

I have witnessed an execution. I am not opposed to the death penalty but I do have some reservations.

[BazookaTrouper]

I completely agree with the spirit of the death penalty, though my support for it wavered when it comes to it's application. For example Oklahoma has the death penalty, but the district attorney gave someone who committed familicide (Robert Bever) a plea deal where the death penalty would be taken off the table in exchange for life in prison. He took the deal, and now is trying to commit suicide in prison after experiencing years of prison rape.

The problem there is if someone was falsely convicted of a crime, they can be blackmailed into accepting a bad plea deal with the alternative being execution. If that execution takes place, and it turns out later that the person was innocent, then an innocent person can't be brought back.

In the UK there was a government inquiry in 1953 where the Conservative government outright lied claiming that Timothy Evans wasn't wrongfully executed for killing Geraldine Evans. When that government was out of power, it was discovered they covered up the truth in order to prevent the death penalty from being phased out.

But I'm still in favor of the idea of the death penalty. By getting rid of people such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Anders Behring Breivik, and Dylann Roof we would be just getting rid of a problem. I'm not one of those bleeding heart libtards who say "that's barbaric! Dylann Roof MIGHT change his mind one day!". But the government's track record of executing innocent people out of corruption or greed makes the institution behind the death penalty unreliable.

[Dennisjf12]

NO, our prisons are already overcrowded. Too many people are getting out doing the same thing they did before. These people don't care about killing a cop, a young woman, or a child. Or killing people in a robbery, they don't care about the life of another person & think nothing about killing him or her. And it's not just the people that kill during a crime. What about the people held hostage then killed because you had seen too much or did not get the money they wanted, or the people who sell drugs and the users are killed, the rape that goes too far. A person that kills often starts killing small animals. What about the parents who see this and think it's a phase and will grow out of it, or the parents who don't care, their child that killed at age 16 or younger? This is not the child's fault, it's the parent's fault, and they need to be put in jail too. We need to build more prisons, but where? Do you want a prison in your neighborhood? no one does. The companies that refuse to mix the shot to put that person to death, they never see what that person has done to all the people he killed. Why would anyone feel sorry for how a person who is put to death. When you look at all the people he killed and how he did it? If you do, you need to be shown what he did and how he did it.

[VanillaSalt]

I always say the only solution for Rapists murderers and child molesters is a bullet cheap quick effective and it’s a hell of a statement the more public you make it bigger the statement.


That being said I only believe in such things when there’s evidence that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this happened not for some stupid kid that hit a child because he was driving drunk or and accused rapist where there’s the consideration of consensual sex being turned around… A pedo bear is a pedo bear you touch a child you deserve to be castrated shot shot again and shot a third time children are the greatest gift we have there is absolutely no excuse for doing anything that may harm a child hell I’d almost argue that negligence is a good enough reason to shoot for is it hard to child

[Shizunk]

In general I disagree with the way prisons and punishment seem to work. But I certainly see no benefit in killing people. From what I heard it doesn't even save much money. And the additional discouragememt of crime is questionable.
Maybe I am influenced by how often the media talk about people who take their own life after commiting a crime as an easy way out.
Whether you want to punish or heal the criminal, or both, I don't see killing them as doing anyone a favor.
And I also even a slim possibility that someone may be killed despite being innocent is pretty scary.

[Anonymous]

If it's proven beyond reasonable doubt that the person is guilty then, yes, execution should be used. Everyone on here (mostly girls) keeps stating how there's so many people wrongfully convicted. The solution to that is to reserve capital punishment for the worst crimes and only when guilt can be proven. Plus, in terms of capital punishment, it doesn't happen as much as you'd think. Look at the list of those who have died by capital punishment so far, within the last few years. Most of those on the list were proven to be guilty of horrific crimes like mass murder, serial killing, violent rape etc.

People are so soft these days. Why wouldn't we execute those who are incredibly violent and irredeemable?

[TheorionMage]

If someone is convicted of some behavior SO heinous and antisocial as to WARRANT high security LIFETIME incarceration, WHY burden the law-abiding taxpayers typically $65.000 yr per felon, to lodge their 'no parole' worthless ass in a high security penitentiary? Perhaps even harvest their usable organs in partial reparations to the society they abused~

When an attractive pet becomes incurably dangerously ''rabid' we DON'T allocate resources to lodge it as a potential risk to others, for the remainder of its lifetime!
We humanely EUTHANIZE it!
THAT is the 'price' of ethical society.

[Novacane]

I am against it unless it's like mass murder, that is the only time that I will ever be for it. But besides that, I think that the death penalty should never be an option for crimes. There have been times when people have serves numerous years of jail time and were later found innocent, what happens if they would've gotten the death penalty? It's like they say there are 3 sides to every story your side their side and the truth so who knows whenever we get the truth unless a lot of investigation has occurred but even then so many people have been left as criminals when they didn't commit the crime. There are crimes people do that are just awful but that doesn't mean we should just result in killing them, it's inhumane, we would only be reducing ourselves to the likes of them.

[Agape93]

All for it. Some people can't be rehabilitated and some shouldn't be given that chance. Plus who wants to be the one to tell a rape victim that they should be happy to pay for their rapist to live for the remainder of their sentence, which may or may not be for life. I mean how fucked up is that?

[Agape93]

@GirlsAskGuys

@PrettyPriya don't remove it. I want admin to see it.

[TonyMetal___86]

Miss agape a victim is a victim and it doesn't matter if he/she is a rape victim or not...

For example, a criminal who enters a school full of innocent kids and starts shooting at them randomly and making a massacre is a true demon!

[Outofthegrey]

I'm of the opinion that if you stick your dick in a baby you should be executed.

There are no counterarguments about mistakes and second chances that deter me from my conviction that some people prove they are a greater danger to society and the innocent than their life is worth.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Death penalty just means a swift death.
If a person has got death penalty, he/she must have done crime of that magnitude.
For a death penalty, my take is to have such a death tool in which the guilty would be begging to just kill them. A swift death would be doing them a favor here.
I am for it.

[Aerissa_Jade]

I am for it, but only if DNA evidence is involved to prove it was really them. Many of the wrongly put to death people were before DNA was involved.

If that is not involved, life in prison. The problem with life in prison though is that many people with life, still get out. If anyone wants to get rid of the death penalty they need to fix the problem where life in prison doesn't actually mean that.

[Diodoro]

In very specific circumstances where we know someone murdered another. 100% without a shadow of a doubt that it was him and 100% without a shadow of a doubt that it was murder.

If you have to work to determine either of those two things then in my mind death penalty is off the table. We have enough technology now to be able to know and in cases we do I believe in death penalty

[The_Maphio]

There are rules for detention in case of any and all types of crimes. But when somebody does something REALLY fucked up, and is also proud of it, off with'em. Those can't be redeemed, and thinking otherwise would mean that sooner or later a psychopath with homicidal tendencies is going to roam the streets again.

[CuriousJC]

I hate my life so much that sometimes I prefer I that I want to die. It doesn't make sense to go to prison, and eventually one of the inmates tries to kill you when you're not looking especially when they treat you like a their own personal slave owner. I rather take the death penalty than spend 25 to life in prison.

[spartan55]

I'm conflicted on it. There are definitely people who have no business walking this earth, and should face the death penalty. However, there have been quite a few inmates who were on death row, and were eventually found innocent. I know our justice system isn't perfect, but I don't know the solution.

[Ms_Vanderquack]

There are way too many fucking people on the planet. We should absolutely start offing the ones who aren’t worth sharing space with. Pedophiles, rapists, human traffickers, shit like that.

[DizzyDesii]

Im not for it. It is what it is but i personally dont want to be the one responsible for ordering someones death. I agree that people deserve jail time and physical punishment like a good ass whoopin but i dont want to be the one saying they deserve death

[MCheetah]

100% for it. The world is overpopulated as it is and we don't need taxpayer money going to pedos and rapists in a prison. That can be for the burglars and bank robbers and what not, but some people deserve to die.

[SlightlyEccentric]

I support it but fully acknowledge it is a dangerous sentence that needs to be given with 100% conviction. Meaning, if there is doubt about the guilt of the condemned, then it should be withheld. If the guilt is airtight on the condemned, then yes absolutely do it.