Do you think the death penalty should be totally abolished for prisoners?

Question

I am aware that in certain American states it still exists. And I was wondering... does it really make a difference if prisoners are sent to die?

OneViewpoint · Accepted Answer

Tell me the death penalty is not a deterrent to other violent offenders in the future. OK, I acknowledge that. It's not a great deterrent for people who are seriously mentally ill.

Tell me it's not what a civilized society should do. OK, now I have a problem. Let's say you have a serial killer like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, or Gary Ridgway. Multiple murders in some cases spanning decades. These are psychopaths. They can never be reformed. They can never be released back into society. Why pay to house and feed and clothe them? Provide healthcare to them? Educate them? For decades. Remove the threat and reduce the burden on taxpayers. Some people are not worthy of public support. They have demonstrated that they can never function in a free society.

If we shouldn't send those assholes to Hell, then we shouldn't target despots, cartel kingpins, fascist heads of state, military juntas, religious theocracies, inbred monarchies, people indoctrinating child soldiers, human sex traffickers, tribal genocide, organized crime, the people behind blood diamonds, the motherfuckers in the Epstein files, or the capitalists trying to rule the planet.

Warning: There may be a lot of overlap in many of these categories of people qualifying for the death penalty.

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

I know there might be some people who do live at much better places on this earth, and might not see the death penalty as necessary or deserved, or any other objection they might have...

but at least here in Texas... it's common for some of these prisoners who are/have been in death row/mutiple life times, 30+ year sentences, who have escaped, went out on parole... or released as "reformed and no longer a threat to society"

and the very first thing they did (or second thing) was to look for the family of those they wronged and kill them to... or just go on random kill sprees, and repeat the same or worse offense

and that's the one reason why, Texas continues the death penalty...

also... death penalty and multiple lifetimes are often given to a prisoner, not because they did commit a gruesome crime, but multiple ones, and many of them... from inside the prison because they either murdered even more and viciously too inside the prison, but also targeted people outside... from prison

and so, they are just deemed not compatible with society... and to that point, even

Taurus_Woman · Accepted Answer

This topic is widely debated, and there are strong arguments on both sides.

People who support removing the death penalty argue that it is irreversible, and no justice system is perfect. If an innocent person is executed, the mistake cannot be corrected. They also point out that its application is not always equal, as factors like legal resources or bias can influence outcomes. In addition, life imprisonment is seen as a way to protect society without taking a life.

Those who support keeping it believe it can serve as punishment for the most serious crimes, provide a sense of justice, and offer closure for victims’ families.

Because of these concerns, especially the risk of wrongful conviction, some countries have abolished it or restricted its use, while others continue to apply it under strict laws.

petitedollbabee · Accepted Answer

No. There are people that will repeatedly commit the same crimes when released from prison. They never learn their lesson and they’re given a chance to make new victims.

I do believe that the punishment should match the crime. Crimes like petty theft, drug possession, fraud etc.. they don’t deserve the death penalty.
But murderers, rapists and sex offenders - yes.

Zack-Bann · Answer

I say being back “death by combat”
If someone is sentenced to life but the victim insists on the death penalty they can fight it out in a sand pit with swords and shields.

But even if the convicted wins he still goes to prison, so that we don’t give a free pass to stronger criminals

And maybe allow the victim to name a champion to find in their stead as well.
That way you can have an agency that contracts out executions by combat by selling the services of an avid swordsman.

I know I’m going too far in my imagination on this one 😅

SeekerOfTruth007 · Answer

No, it should not be abolished. iN FACT, we should be putting all murderers and rapists to death. I HAVE NEVER seen any evidence whatsoever that any murderer or rapist ever truthfully repents of their crimes. a

on the other hand, falsely convicted people should have A RIGHT to sue AND prosecute everyone involved in their false conviction, STARTING WITH THE DA AND THE JUDGE and jury.

If you falsely charge and convict anyone of a capital crime, you should go to prison for the rest of your life. That sHould be a LAW. In the Bible, there is actually a law called the "four-fold penalty" for false accusation of any crime. If you falsely accuse someone of a crime and get caught falsely accusing, you owe the defendant 4 times what you thought ot punish them with. If you falsely accused someone of a capital crime, you were put to death.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

I don’t think it deters the crime unfortunately. I looked up the statistics on this to double check and it doesn’t seem to prevent anything more than the states that don’t have the death penalty. The bigger thing for the people that advocate for it is they think that some of these folks just deserve it. I am torn on this because, I don’t want to have a death penalty, but if someone killed a family member of mine in cold blood, I could understand why someone would want them to suffer the same fate. Deep down i think it is barbaric and punishing them to a cell for the rest of their life is worse. Who cares how much it costs taxpayers. That’s true suffering to lose all freedom in a non resort style prison.

HawkPerception · Answer

If someone raped, tortured, and killed your loved one or any innocent person for that matter, do you think jail and potential rehabilitation is fine? Is it fair that your loved one or innocent person was assaulted and traumatically affected or dead while that evil is allowed to live?

If anything, I'm annoyed that there aren't more death penalties, like in the cases of Iryna Zarurska or Bethany McGee.

MrOracle · Answer

in my opinion, it should only be available when there is certainty that they have the right person. DNA evidence, video evidence, being caught in the act, or a confession. But if someone has committed crimes so serious that they qualify for the death penalty, it should be used.

Lliam · Answer

I'm for it as long as the crime was egregious and there is not a shred of doubt about guilt. And in cases like that, I don't think the death should be by lethal injection. That's too expensive and humane. Just hang them. Hell, there are genocidal monsters like certain Israelis, who should be impaled or drawn and quartered.

NaultD · Answer

"Those who hunt monsters see to it you yourself don't become a monster. For when you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes back."

It's imperative to protect justice and everyday people from this abyss. A degree of separation from individuals bias while keeping it close to a jury of peers is important.

lilBigPotato · Answer

I'm against it. First I find it very difficult to judge what crime is worth a death penalty and which one isn't.

Second, mistakes happen. Once you kill someone, you can't undo it if it turns out that they got the wrong person.

And lastly, rotting for the rest of your life in jail is worse than death in my opinion.

InknKink · Answer

Anyone convicted and sentenced to a duration that would exceed their expected life span should just be sent immediately to death row and be executed in an expedient manner. Anyone not on death row should be put into indentured servitude for the duration of their sentence. Go from cage to work and nothing else.

I don't believe all life is precious.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

It's already abolished here.

And I fully agree with the spirit of abolition, I think it should be no one's job to kill someone sentenced, for any reason at all. And I also think it's taxpayers' role to pay for life imprisonment of those Justice sentenced to long term jail time. Just like it is their role to support national infrastructures such as education, healthcare, unemployment income, retirement income and all the things brought by social market.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

No, I think they should bring it back!! Who the fuck wants someone like that living near them after they get out? Other than for psychological study, why are we keeping people like that alive for 50, 60, 70 years? They killed someone so we pay for their room and board for the rest of their life?

Mike_Hum · Answer

this is very tough call. On the one hand, the state can make mistakes and appeals for death penalty cases can cost millions.

on the other, there are people who commit crimes so heinous - like Joshua Gilliam & Ronald Lynch or serial killers, or Magan Richmond, Tasha Stringer, and Kathryn McMullen who don't deserve to breathe any more.

genericname85 · Answer

poersonally i strongly prefer a moral of principle. if killing another human wrong, then it is wrong in every circumstance. like in my mind, justice doesn't work by doing something bad to a bad person. cause that way you make yourself guilty of the same thing you're trying to punish the person for.

darkcloud1945 · Answer

With them gone, we do not have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep them alive, give them medical care, clothes, and house them at all. If you want, you can contribute to your murderer's, rapist, child molesters' comfort by contributing to their commissary bank. Just look at sanctuary cities and states, the bad people are out of jail before the cops finish their paperwork, sans NYC, and the state

Snakeyes7 · Answer

I uses to be against it and am still cautiously for it, but now I think it should be for murderers and there is undeniable proof. The murderer of Iryna Zarutska should have gotten it but he's not only out on the streets again after clearly demonstrating that he is a psycho, the mayor of Charlotte is trying his best to memoryhole the murder by getting rid of that massive mural of Zarutska.

Twalli · Answer

I think it depends on whether or not you view death as a significant deterrent. The whole idea of prisons and such is to serve as a way to deter people and contain them if it doesn't deter them. Is execution enough to deter people from committing crimes that warrant the death penalty?

goaded · Answer

Yes, it should. Yes, it does make a difference. It costs a lot more to process all the appeals than it does to simply feed and house the convict in prison (and there's that whole "oh, new evidence shows he was innocent" thing).

Mark_Est · Answer

No, it should be for terrible crimes, like murder, stealing from people, false accusations, frauds regarding taxpayers money etc. Of course they need to be proven by huge amount of evidence

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

I'm against the death penalty but after reading, seeing and hearing what's happening in this world, i believe that the death penalty needs to exists sometimes...

NoDecision · Answer

It could be a deterrent to murder, but only if it is carried out in a short amount of time, not after 20 years. Ask any mother who has had their child murdered.

LatinaXv7 · Answer

I am truly divided about this.. on one hand, it’s like an easy way out for them they don’t really get to suffer.. on the other, it’s like why do they deserve to live if their crime was so cruel and take up space in this world. Economically, they should not be living rent free, especially those who have repeatedly committed crimes.

SofaKingsMart · Answer

If you were wrongly accused of a crime and facing the death penalty, would you be confident that the current justice system would get it right and you’d be found not guilty?

I do not have such confidence

Dargil · Answer

Some crimes are so heinous that the perps deserve to have their lives taken away.

Miristheiss · Answer

No, keep it. Just do not use it for circumstantial cases. Only for cases where they were caught red handed and guilt is not in question.

Anonymous · Answer

Does it make a difference to strangers? Does it make a difference to the family of the victim? Does it make a difference in deterrent effect? Does it make a difference in the cost of caring for that prisoner for the rest of their lives?

spartan55 · Answer

It costs the tax payers a ton, but what doesn't nowadays. That being said, there are certain people that should not be roaming this earth.

molonski2 · Answer

Yes of course it should , in any civilized society , we moved on from State sanctioned killings years ago.

douride2 · Answer

In my opinion pedophiles & child rapist should be put down. Then again am a little bias on this subject of child rapist & pedophiles. Just to answer the question I am not against the death penalty for certain crimes.

Calyptomaniac · Answer

There are some egregious crimes people where people who commit them don't deserve to live anymore

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

I think the death penalty should be abolished period. I hate the idea of the state having the legal authority to kill people

Brady · Answer

I think it should b used only in these three cases:
1. The person admits 2 the crime.
2. There's proof which is needed in America.
3. The person wants it.

That wy. if there's a mistake n the person's executed it's not the law's fault.

strateguy632 · Answer

france already tried that. murder RATE increased so need more death penalty.

exitseven · Answer

No, if anything it should be expanded to include child rapists and drug dealers whose customers ha e died

BCRanger10 · Answer

No. It should remain in force for murderers.

najekim · Answer

IMHO, a person shouldn't be on death row for more than two years before the execution is carried out. Gives time for any appeals and such. By the end of the following week would even be better.

Staximus · Answer

If there's no question of their guilt, there's no need to keep terrible people alive. Why keep them alive? So they can do more bad things to people? Fry them

slatyb · Answer

Yes, I do, as it has been in all countries of the European Union.

katiesmuff · Answer

No I do not as there are some who really deserve it and should be excuted.

Anonymous · Answer

Absolutely not, I'd double down, more please I want courtrooms where the box floor can open on a button controlled by the judge and send the criminal scum down a shaft headfirst into a concrete floor

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I support capital punishment for certain limited circumstances. It should be rare, but available.

Kelley1 · Answer

In modern societies where mandatory appeals can take years and cost a fortune, it doesn't matter.

itsannalee · Answer

It should be do more for pedo, rapist, corruptors. etc

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, because I believe life in prison without parole is worse. The death penalty is also more expensive in the USA than just incarcerated somebody.

FreyaRed · Answer

No. We need to introduce death sentences again for violent crimes.

LazerBean · Answer

Absolutely not. Not only should every state have it, but it should be used more often.

Shiprex · Answer

Yes. It's perhaps worth offering it for murderers but it woul solve no problems.

AgentG111 · Answer

Absolutely Not! There are humans who don't deserve to be on earth.

Still-alive · Answer

Yes 100%. im more in favor of stronger lengthier sentences.

Cidknee · Answer

I must say no. Not for vengeance but as a deterrent.

Jen_oic · Answer

@thegreenyogi  I’m totally 💯 against the death penalty, nobody should be allowed to take a person’s life away. Only GOD has the authority to take away their life.

RedInnocent69 · Answer

Yes. The state isn’t good at getting things right

msc545 · Answer

Yes it is barbaric and it has no deterrent value and for those reasons alone should be abolished.

Godihateyou · Answer

I think the death penalty should be expanded to anyone that breaks a law.

Horsegirly2001 · Answer

I think we should bring it back in the uk.

Agape93 · Answer

Nope

Pterodon · Answer

Nope

Anonymous · Answer

Nope.

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