Do you support or oppose the death penalty? This is a three part question.?

Yes, I am completely in favor of the Death penalty.

In my state, there is only one crime punishable by Death; First Degree Murder. I am fine with that. I also see that on Federal level, Treason, and Sedition are deserving capital offenses.

( Don't forget when the Constitution was drafted in 1787, there were almost 100 crimes punishable by Death in the United States. The founding fathers didn't have any problem with that, or they would have outlawed capital punishment in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. )

I am personally familiar with cases where inmates serving life without parole for Murder have Murdered people in prison. There is no reason to subject Prison officers, staff members or even other inmates to the risk of death at the hands of someone who has NOTHING TO LOSE. I don't care if there might be those rare occasions where an innocent person gets executed. They are few and far between, and in return for the safety of the rest of society, I will take that chance. Wouldn't you take that chance if you thought it would prevent the Murder of a member of your family? Besides, I have witnessed our Court system for 40 years, and I have seen far more Guilty people walk free.

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I like your favorite quote, ""People sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." I have been one of those "rough men" in the military and in law enforcement for nearly 45 years. I spent 12 years as a Homicide Detective, and I believe in the Death penalty, applied after a fair Trial and a finding of Guilt beyond a Resaonable Doubt. And I don't give a damn about "Social Media Polls" I live in the real world.

No I am not in favor of the death penalty people can get wrongfully convicted and once the sentence is carried out it is impossible to ever compensate that person or their family. Military desertion it is kind of hard to want to serve a country that you do not want to serve and why should anyone serve the us military desrting the military is a minor offense that person whould never be there if they deserted and if there was a draft then that person should have never have been there.Treason is a broad crime no not for treason if I join another countries military that is not enguaged against hostilities against the united states then I should not be shot sedition no that is just disagring with the government espionage no that makes you no better than a dictator. You cannot force people to serve their country and expect them to do a good job not everyone wants to be in the US military and not everyone asked to be born in the united states. Since there is no such thing as being a hundred percent guilty unless a person were at the crime scene you do not know if that person is guilty or not. Deserters why should people fight for a country that they do not wish to live in or protect and since when does a person belong to the government why cant women be drafted and put into frontline service. The death penalty will cause more problems than it would solve. Sometimes you have to have intelligence leaks it exposes corruption which is not acceptable. Once you take someone elses life there is no bringing them back and that means if you got something wrong you deserve to suffer the consequences for being wrong and that includes compensating the wrongfully accused victims family. Not everyone was born to be a soldier and not everyone wants to be a soldier for the us some do better believe it or not in another countries military.

For the worst crimes, life without parole is better, for many reasons. I’m against the death penalty not because of sympathy for criminals but because it doesn’t reduce crime, prolongs the anguish of families of murder victims, costs a whole lot more than life in prison, and, worst of all, risks executions of innocent people. The worst thing about it. Errors: The system can make tragic mistakes. As of now, 141 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated. We’ll never know for sure how many people have been executed for crimes they didn’t commit. DNA is rarely available in homicides, often irrelevant and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Keeping killers off the streets for good: Life without parole, on the books in most states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending the rest of your life locked up, knowing you’ll never be free, is no picnic. Two big advantages: -an innocent person serving life can be released from prison -life without parole costs less than the death penalty Costs, a big surprise to many people: Study after study has found that the death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. The process is much more complex than for any other kind of criminal case. The largest costs come at the pre-trial and trial stages. These apply whether or not the defendant is convicted, let alone sentenced to death. Crime reduction (deterrence): Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people without a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent. The death penalty is no more effective in deterring others than life sentences. Who gets it: The death penalty magnifies social and economic inequalities. It isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. Practically everyone sentenced to death had to rely on an overworked public defender. Victims: Like no other punishment, it puts families of murder victims through a process which makes healing even harder. Even families who have supported it in principle have testified to the protracted and unavoidable damage that the death penalty process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative. It comes down to whether we should keep the death penalty for retribution or revenge.

No.

There are a lot of reasons why I don't support it. One of the main reasons is a risk of someone being innocent. Sure, there is a lot of evidence to see if someone is innocent or guilty, but there is no doubt, that in some rare instances, someone who is innocent can appear guilty because of a combination of factors, while they are really innocent and just are unlucky. Even if someone agrees that a person who is guilty deserves it, what about the risk that someone is innocent and the circumstances just appear a certain way? It's not a risk worth taking.

Yes, it is true that with a person being sentenced to prison for a long time can be innocent, but that is not as bad as an innocent person being sentenced guilty with the death penalty. For those who claim that there are some situations where a person is definitely guilty....

A policy can seem wrong in some situations (such as someone being undeniably guilty), but a rule/law involves not just one case, it must take into consideration the other situations. Rules/laws, involve a situation/type of situation in general, not just one case, and they can't be changed because of one situation that happened, such as someone seeming guilty in a case. The rule must always apply. Even if someone is obviously guilty of something, if you make a rule based on that, the rule will apply to that situation on a large scale, always, not just that one case. If that law applies to cases on a large scale, it is likely that an innocent person might be deemed guilty, and the death penalty just isn't worth risking in that situation.

Also, I feel the death penalty is immoral even if someone is guilty, and also, a long time in prison is more of a punishment.

1 yes

#2 There are some people that do crimes so heinous that they do not have the right to live among human beings. For those crimes the law decides someone can get the death penalty, each case must be examined carefully before the death penalty should be applied. But applied it should be when warranted. To your list I would add those crimes that are deemed heinous...to me that means anything where the crime has been taken to the extreme such as very brutal and cruel.

1. Yes

2. When DNA, video evidence is shown that the person being accused actually committed the crime of Murder, rape.

3. Some people are just plain evil and harm others just because they want to. These people do not think about the lives that they are taking or ruining. If more people were put to death for crimes now, people would possibly commit less crimes in the future.

I think that murders, rapists, and child molesters are far worse than any drug user or drug dealer.

1. Yes

2. murder of another individual, treason, murdering the unborn, military desertion, espionage, driving while intoxicated resulting in loss of life, abuse resulting in death of the elderly, or minors.

3. The why is simple. No human being has the right to take another life I agree, however, one forfeits that right when they do the same to another. I might add that the appeals process is broken. If one is sentenced to death, there should be a speedy appeal, and not a process where natural death occurs while in prison.

1. No

The worst thing about it is that innocent people sometimes get convicted and sentenced to death. You can't reverse an execution.

The death penalty system has other flaws:

It doesn't reduce violent crime.

It costs a whole lot more than life in prison.

It doesn't even apply to the worst crimes, but to defendants with the worst lawyers.

Life without parole is available in 49 states (all except Alaska.) It means exactly what it says, and spending the rest of your life locked up, with no hope of ever being free, is no picnic.

Advantages: lower cost than the death penalty

if someone serving LWOP turns out to be innocent, he can be released.

1-Yes

2- Murder and infamous crimes like treason or terrorism

3 - Because some people commit crimes that are so bad that they deserve to forfeit their lives for it. I am tire of all the wimps who answered NO. If I tortured and killed their kids, they would want me dead. Rightfully so..

1) Yes!

2) First Degre Murder

3) There is a zero recidivsim rate among people who have been executed