Is it ok if the Death Penalty is just for making us feel better?

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It certainly doesn’t stop crime or save us money. It’s actually 10 times the cost if you factor in appeals in court. We already have proven the innocence of several put to death. So…

ctcghvuv · Accepted Answer

It would make me feel better seeing a hard core criminal spend life behind bars without parole than put to death. Life in prison is definitely worse than death.

888theGreat · Accepted Answer

It is murder by groups like abortion. Choose life never death.

RingOfFire · Answer

I love how the left always comes up with an argument against the death penalty saying it is so expensive. The reason is so expensive is because THEY throw in all kinds of monkey wrenches to screw up the system to make it that way.

Well guess what? There is no price tag on maintaining a safe country. The number one job of government, and arguably the only legitimate job of government, is to keep citizens safe from foreign invasion and from criminals within. And the Democrats are doing NEITHER, yet have managed to spend more of the citizens' money since they got power than any other two year period in US history.

Screw that. You commit a violent crime, you die. Makes perfect sense to me. We need to clean up the sewer.

This maggot that that hero killed on the NY Subway last week beat up a 67 year old woman and gave her brain damage. He kidnapped and assaulted a 7 year old girl. He was arrested over 40 times. If the damn Democrats won't get this mutant off the streets then we need more heroes like this brave Marine who will. He probably saved lives that day and now HE is the enemy according to these stupid lefties. If that subhuman animal didn't want to die, he shouldn't have threatened to kill people. Is that asking too much?

PS the same is true of that George Floyd asshole who broke into a pregnant BLACK WOMAN'S house with a gang of his fellow marauders and held a gun to her belly telling her he would murder her baby and her if she screamed while the other mutants ransacked her home looking for drugs and money (they didn't find any). The only reason I think that animal was mistreated is that he didn't get the death penalty sooner.

You commit a violent crime, you get the death penalty. Oh what a terrible violation of justice!

Exterminatore · Answer

I favor the death penalty only where it can be 100% proven who did the murder. Like video evidence or something of that nature. Can’t bring an innocent person back from the dead, so there’s no way to fix such an error.

However in cases where it can be absolutely proven who the murder is, no 15 appeals over a 35 year period.

Also no lethal injections. Hang ‘em or firing squad. Do it publicly for as many who want to attend so they can see 1. Fitting justice is administered, and 2. A reminder of what will happen to those who are found indisputably guilty of murder.

For those found indisputably guilty of many murders, like serial killers I favor public crucifixion. Let the punishment fit the crime.

jshm2 · Answer

Except, it isn't.

The death penalty is more for the family/relatives of the victim to get closure, than the general public to feel "safe" or "better".

What you're also forgetting is that states who have given up the death penalty now opt instead to give victim compensation. So not only do you get a jackass in jail for the rest of his or her life; but you also get the pleasure of paying the family of his victim (s) from the public purse as well. Only if they are White of course. Few Blacks/Hispanic qualify.

Levin · Answer

Death Penalty
The death penalty is a crime committed by the society against a single individual, who is helpless. I cannot call it a penalty, it is a crime.

And you can understand why it is committed: it is a revenge. Society is taking revenge because the man did not follow the rules of the society; the society is ready to kill him. But nobody bothers that when somebody murders it shows that man is psychologically sick. Rather than sending him to imprisonment or to be executed, he should be sent into a nursing home where he can be taken care of – physically, psychologically, spiritually. He is sick. He needs all the compassion of the society; there is no question of penalty, punishment.

Osho

MORPHEUS_12 · Answer

What would make me feel better is if they didn't allow these people to sit on death row while these people waste taxpayers money to appeal there case. Their room, board and medical care cost a lot of money. I absolutely think they should bring back the electric chair, which was invented by a dentist. Those people that criminals murdered did not have a choice to die humanely. Don't tell me well God will punish that person at the end. That is of no comfort to a family who has been torn apart because of a heinous act.

Sevenpointfive · Answer

i chose no but it needs an explanation. if they did the crime then yes for death. but if you don't know then no. i realize that a lot of innocent people died but we are past that. I hope they sued the shit out of the government (i mean the taxpayers)!

as for prison... i've never been. i would assume it's awful. death is too quick. plus, death is always around the corner in prison. i think prison life sentences are enough.

Rockstarrrrr · Answer

Death penalty is what makes you think before committing horrible crimes.. when you can murder and torture multiple people and you know you'll be physically untouched just spend the rest of your life in prison, you know.. ALIVE... Then those horrible crimes become just things happening...

Anonymous · Answer

The only reason the Death Penalty isn't a mere tiny fraction of the cost of paying $35,347+ a year for the rest of their life to imprison them is the artificial cost imposed by the court.

We are perfectly capable of killing and burying someone for a less than a few thousand dollars.

As such it is extremely dishonest to even pretend the Death Penalty is no the least expensive option.

Our corrupt court system is arbitrarily astronomically expensive.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

It has a zero % recidivism rate. No more prisoner on guard violence. We need more of it. It's not expensive to execute someone. It's the 40 years they spend on death row that's so expensive.

TheThingALing · Answer

That's not all it's used for.
Consider Malaysia. If you get caught with drugs, the punishment is the death penalty. Because the risk is too great, they don't have drug problem. So it serves as a deterrent as well

Jackblue · Answer

It wouldn't be more expensive if we reduced the right of appeal that people on death row have. It takes years of paperwork to gain authorization to put a person to death. Whether it can deter crime is open to debate and would need to be studied in the context of countries like China who use it more freely, not in the US where most criminals can expect to die of old age before actually being put to death.

Quackthulu2 · Answer

Which is why we should bring back hanging, firing squads, or the guillotine. Much more cost effective.

Stoner710 · Answer

No, it’s just because that’s what that monster deserves. I would say it’s unjust to keep somebody in prison for the rest of their lives just end it who cares the criminals anyway.

Agape93 · Answer

Oh absolutely worth it. I've even written to my Senator flat out stating I'll do them for free if they'll keep the government off my back. Bullets are cheap.

ShadezMcgee · Answer

For it. Cost effectiveness probably nowhere near the amount it takes to house every felon that isn't given the death penalty.

TracyF · Answer

Some freaks need to die. And all rapists and child molesters should be put to death. Anyone who says otherwise is defending rape and child abuse.

zagor · Answer

In most cases I'm against it, but yet the thought that Ted Bundy isn't growing old sitting around beating off to the memory of the girls he killed does make me feel better.

Anonymous · Answer

I don't think it's cost effective and does not act as a deterrent so it is purely down to retribution which has some meaning to some but not to me.

Dargil · Answer

The death penalty prevents repeat offenses/offenders 100%. I feel better about that.

NYCQuestions1976 · Answer

I support the death penalty, but it should only be considered in appropriate premeditated cases where there is video and/or DNA evidence. Otherwise it's life in prison.

najekim · Answer

The main reason why it costs so much to the time it takes from sentencing to execution. There have been inmates on death row for decades. One year max should be the target.

exitseven · Answer

it does stop crime. The person that gets the death penalty is almost sure not to reoffend.

Juxtapose · Answer

Justice should be rehabilitation, not revenge. That being said, if someone kills my mom I'm still going to want to tear their insides out.

Anonymous · Answer

It's actually about punishment. Stopping crime is for police.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Some crimes are so heinous that the perpetrator's continued existence is an affront to civilisation.

Unknown29 · Answer

It’s about accountability. You kill, you get killed. And yes, that does deter future crimes.

Anonymous · Answer

Problem is making things costly Just let Robert Maudsley roam the wing, job done

KrakenAttackin · Answer

I know the death penalty is a hell of a deterrent for me.

WalnutButter · Answer

Yes..

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