How can capital punishment be moral?

It isn't. It serves only retribution and revenge.

I’m against capital punishment 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, 140 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 capital punishment

Costs, a big surprise to many people:

Study after study has found that capital punishment 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 capital punishment 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. Capital punishment is no more effective in deterring others than life sentences.

Who gets it:

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 capital punishment process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Victims:

People assume that families of murder victims want capital punishment to be imposed. It isn't necessarily so. Some are against it on moral grounds. But even families who have supported it in principle have testified to the protracted and unavoidable damage that capital punishment process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

We can't. Let them get away with murder without laws there would be anarchy.

Cleveland 11/17/12

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is how its done in this Country,.!? Good Rules,.A good working Knowledge of the Right,..and Pre-

fers doing the RIGHT thing,.?!!

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LAP of Luxury,.And, they escapes from Punishments,.! Maybe,.they'll get a slap on the WRIST,.!

The other unfortunates,.not so well liked by the Country's favorites,.gets HAMMERED,.etc,.?!!

So Capital Punishment be a JOKE of some sort,.?!!

Eliasis Yahwehei ( The Main Man )

Capital punishment is not moral, and it illegal in my country.

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind".

The state has no right to murder citizens.

I don't think it's justice too. I believe that every criminal can be reformed but it takes too damn long plus if you won't kill him an angry family member might do the job for you.