What is your opinion of the death penalty?
Do you think a group of jurors, who may be biased, have the right to decide whether someone should live or die?
What do you think about the fact that it often costs taxpayers more to fund a death penalty program than to jail a convict for life?
Do you think killing someone for a crime, no matter how heinous, is much different than committing a crime?
Is it fair that only some people who commit first degree murder are sentenced to death? Do you find that arbitrary or do you find it just?
If you don't know a lot about the death penalty or don't have a strong opinion about the topic, feel free to go to www.deathpenaltyinfo.org and read a little about it!
Thanks,
Kaitlin Nelson
13 comments:
Honestly, I think the death penalty is unjustice. It is terribly wrong that one murderer gets the death penalty, while another one walks away after 20 years in jail. Murder is Murder. Clearly, Murder is wrong, but I cant help but think the death penalty is hypocritical. Its like a parent who smokes telling their kid that cigerates are a waste of money, and cause health problems. In reality, shouldnt the person who provides the death penalty be punished for doing the same thing the convict did.. Killing? I understand that there is justified murder, but how is it justified if its not equal treatment for all murderers?
~!~cassandra griffith~!~
The death penalty should be banned, because killing is not the answer; you should waste the killer's time in jail for taking away somebody else's life. Also, mistakes can be made; the person being sentenced may be wrongly accused. So then the state kills an innocent man?
The death penalty seems a lot like murder. What right do people have to decide whether someone lives or dies? And, when you consider that not everyone who commits a certain crime is punished the same way, the death penalty becomes even more unjust. Sometimes it seems like it's the luck of the draw with the justice system. Morally, I believe that it is far better to give someone a life sentence than to break out the death penalty on them--especially if it costs less money!
I think the death penalty should be abolished. People have been executed that we now know didn't commit the crime.I'm sure our sciences will continue to provide better ways of detecting a guilty person that we haven't discovered yet, and more innocent people will be found on death row, especially those that are poor and couldn't afford the best attorney. Even if we have the right person, it dosen't make the act of taking someones life right, in my opinion. It never settles the score. Life without parole to me is a better way of serving justice. I will say that my feelings are based on a detatched frame of mind, and I can imagine how someone who has lost a person they love to a horrible crime could feel otherwise. I can't fathom the torture the families of the victims go through.
When talking about the death penalty there seems to be more of a foucus on the fact that the prisoner will be killed instead of a foucus on the victim or the killer himself. The fact is that there are people in the world who can not function in society and will always be a threat to anyone around them.
These individuals that deserve the death penalty are those that no amount of rehabilitation will help, and would be a constatant threat to others while this futile effort is being exhausted. So what needs to be asked is if it is worth risking the lives of others to keep alive someone who holds no value for human life?
-Matt
I am not quite sure about this topic because I feel that a person who does a terrible crime should be giving the death penalty. I think that we should not just go and kill innocent people.But I also feel that if you do a tremedous crime then yeah you should be punished. If we did not have some kind of penalty would have people who are just sitting in jail.
Katherine Schluter
I think there should be a death penalty that works. only for those who without a reasonable doubt have committed these crimes through confirmed confession and DNA.I don't think a biased jury has the right to decide whether someone should die. I believe that should be the judges decision after wieghing all the evidence. I believe the cost for housing a deathrow inmate is just a way for the state to justifie more taxing of its citizens.I don't find it just or fair that there is some that commit some of the most heinous crimes crime in one state don't recieve the same pnishment in other states but every state differs when it comes to capital punishment.
George
My opinion of the death penalty is that there should be one. Maybe someone that is thinking about murdering a person will consider the consequences. I think that someone that planed and wen't through with a murder should be executed. People that admitt to killing or are caught with the smoking gun are the ones that should be executed. If there is reasonable doubt then it shouldn't happen. I think they should reorganize the system if it cost more to execute than to feed,and board them for life. Something is wrong with that system. I feel that all people should be prosecuted the same.
My opinion of the death penalty is quite simple. I don't feel like it should be in effect.who gives the courts the right to take another person's life? If a person was on trial for murder, what lesson is taught if the courts turn around and murder...Again? The lesson should teach the perpetrator that if you crime, you will do the time.
goooood topic Kaitlin! I can go back and forth about this one. I honestly dont believe in the death penalty because of THE WAY THEY USE IT! They can give someone convicted of first degree murder the death sentence but then there are rapists and child molesters that get less than seven years in prison. The death penalty is a hard one to discuss because as much as I want to say that I dont agree, I do. I just wish a rape victim, a molested victim and murder victim can all get justice and be at peace instead of certain crimes being hand picked and chosen for the death penalty. Its just how the system is set up, and its confusing and racist.
I think the death penalty is killing and wrong in it's self. i think they should be make the killer suffer in jail all those year instead of just killing him. i don't think jurors should be the one's to tell someone they should live or die. I think it would save everyone more money just to keep them in jail. One reason i don't like the death penalty is because sometimes when they convict someone of a crime sometimes they are throwing a innocent man or woman in jail and then if they get the death penalty they are killing a innocent person IT'S WRONG.
I feel that no one should decide whether someone should live or die besides god. Just like it is a crime to kill someone, it should also be a crime to sentence someone to death. The only advantage, i guess, is that it might make the person stop and think before killing someone or making a crime. But if that person is crazy enough to actually kill someone they probably wouldn't care about any death penalty.
~Jamie~
I think that if you have killed another person in cold blood you should be put to death of course there are exceptions, and not everything is black, and white, but that is what I believe. As far as Cassandra’s question about the person who kills the killer being charged with murder. I believe they refer to him in the bible as the Revenge of blood.
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