Do you agree with the death penalty?

I agree with it in that sometimes there should be punishment for the sake of punishment. I don't think it deters crime, not in the least.

No, I am not a supporter of the death penalty. Something like 4% of people sentenced to execution have been found to be innocent.

Since the legal system has flaws, no judgment this final should ever be handed down.

Yes I agree if someone has taken a life they should pay with their life.

No. No one should have to take another person's life unnecessarily.

While I will agree that some criminals commit crimes so horrible that they don't deserve to live, I have problem with myself at least killing them or putting them up for death. Also the many instances of the "guilty" being found innocent after the fact. I couldn't live with the guilt of killing an innocent person. Separate them from society and punish accordingly, for life if applicable, but leave that criminals KARMA to a higher judge, a higher power. Killing a disgusting person will not bring back the life they took. More comfort can be found knowing that the person who killed your loved one will forever pay for their crime. You can smile a bit thinking of them eating a bologna sandwich while getting hit in the back of the head by other in-mates in a cold "lunch room" while you are enjoying a good dinner at the steakhouse. Smile a bit while you and your family of loved ones are gathered in the front room watching the game in front of the fire on Thanksgiving while the person who took you loved one way is shivering in small cell hungry and cold and wishing to whatever God will listen that they wouldn't have done wrong, they want to go home, they want a hamburger, a man/woman to be with, etc. IMO - their suffering in prison will be much more deserved suffering for them than the death penalty. :)

Yes why keep these people alive?

I'm very ambivalent about it. On one hand, if someone brutally murders another human being, I have no problem with the state taking their life as punishment. On the other, I think that there needs to be equal application of it across the board or it needs to be done away with all together. For instance, person A shoots their neighbor, can't afford legal representation so is appointed some overtaxed public defender, and is sent to death row. Whereas person B strangles their girlfriend to death, but his wealthy family hires a high power attorney and his sentence ends up being 22 years - a case which actually happened where I lived a few years ago. And I also have a problem with the death penalty being legal in some states but not others. Either it should be legal everywhere or abolished.

I did at one time, but now seeing so many convicted criminals on death row being found innocent through DNA testing.

I'd feel terrible putting an innocent person to death while the real murderer is out their laughing.

I'm sure my answer is a violation

and I apologize if it triggered anyone

Yes, but only for the worst criminals who have no hope at rehabilitation.