Is it possible?

Is it possible?

Of course.

What do you think, people actually think?

With their brains?

Not from what we have observed.

Good question.

I am pro-choice and against the death penalty. So, yes, it is possible.

Abortion is a medical procedure. It shouldn't be used as birth control, but rather should be safe, legal, and rare (any chance we can employ some decent sex education and get away from the ridiculous "abstinence only" that doesn't work?).

The death penalty is barbaric and the practice should be stopped.

Pro choice is OK if the decision to abort is made very early in special circumstances. When mature women continually use it, as another form of birth control, I do not agree with the medical decision.

I do not condone capital punishment, there have been too many mistakes made and too much bias of death of minorities and challenged individuals.

I think to rot away in a cell for life 23 -7 would be worse than death anyway.

I have never thought about it but to be prolife and for the death penalty could be possible

Sorry Charlie...you aren't going to get 'a prize' for this one...you're just trying to stir up the hornets nest a little...the ding-a-lings who are for abortion want their cake and eat it too...everyone in their right mind knows that when a person 'permits' (doesn't use precautions...for whatever reason...too drunk, too stupid, too self-engrossed in their own pleasure, etc) impregnation, that person 'forfeits' their rights in favour of the unborn...any other option is simply asinine...and the problem with the death penalty is that far too many INNOCENT people have been executed even when witnesses were present (and they were wrong), or a ding-a-ling confesses (and they didn't do it)...and besides, folks, God is the only One Who should give or take...now, for the umpteenth time...go back to your corner and stop stirring up trouble...lol...

Yes to both questions. Many people support the death penalty because of fears that dangerous criminals will be released into their communities and because they aren't yet aware of how the death penalty system actually functions.

Looking at the way the death penalty has actually functioned, I have come to oppose it. Not on religious grounds but on pragmatic grounds. When you look at the way the death penalty system actually functions, you realize that the only purpose it serves is retribution or revenge.

129 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA, available in less than 10% of all homicides, can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reliable study shows the death penalty deters others. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t.

Life without parole, on the books in 48 states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending 23 of 24 hours a day locked in a tiny cell is not a picnic. Life without parole costs less than the death penalty.

The death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison, mostly because of the upfront costs of legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people. (upfront=before and during the initial trial)

The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?

The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members have testified that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. Speed up the process and we will execute innocent people.

Sources:

Death Penalty Information Center, www.deathpenaltyinfo.org, for stats on executions, reports on costs, deterrence studies, links to FBI crime stats and links to testimony (at state legislatures) of victims' family members.

FBI http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_04.html

The Innocence Project, www.innocenceproject.org

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/COcosttestimony.pd... page 3 and 4 on why the death penalty is so expensive

http://www.njadp.org/forms/signon-survivor.html for statements of victims’ families

Ah... you have hit on one of the many word-games our society loves to play with the important issues dividing the two parties.

Great question. And you're right, they are both murder. But one is the murder of an innocent child that did not ask to be conceived, and the other is the legal killing of a person that volunteered for the punishment by committing a heinous crime.

possible to be prolife and for the death penalty ?? now that I think of it, maybe

if mathematic isn't an opinion then to be prolife and for the death penalty

I thinkto be prolife and for the death penalty