Death Penalty in the 21st Century (states, federal, support, citizen)

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Houston3

"Putting a murderer to death isn't going to bring me peace of mind."

The families of the murdered person really don't care about your peace of mind.

"But have you ever ask why people murder other people?"

We didn't get a chance to ask the guy that tried to kill my daughter by stabbing her six times.... A police office shot and killed him before he finished trying to kill her.


"Wisconsin have very low violent crime rates compared to Texas"

The Houston area has almost as many people as the whole state of Wisconsin, Maybe that has something to with it. What do you think?

Wisconsin has 5 million people. South Carolina and Mississippi have one of the highest violent crime rates in the USA and those states have only about 3 million to 4 million people a piece.

I am sorry about your daughter getting murdered. That man was wrong. I have nearly come close to death at the hands of someone else as well because I survived a mugging one night. I still have my stance on the death penalty.

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

Wisconsin has 5 million people. South Carolina and Mississippi have one of the highest violent crime rates in the USA and those states have only about 3 million to 4 million people a piece.

I am sorry about your daughter getting murdered. That man was wrong. I have nearly come close to death at the hands of someone else as well because I survived a mugging one night. I still have my stance on the death penalty.

My daughter lived but was in the hospital for a week.

You stance will get another person killed someday!!!!

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Houston3

My daughter lived but was in the hospital for a week.

You stance will get another person killed someday!!!!

Really? Then who?

[RVlover]

Originally Posted by Rita Mordio

Studies have gone around in circles trying to prove whether or not the Death Penalty is an effective deterrent in the modern world. Some show that it is effective, while others do not.

Do you feel that the Death Penalty is an effective deterrent to crime? Why or why not?

The Death Penalty WOULD BE a useful deterrant IF all States would execute Murderers asap after the crime is committed on the innocent. Murderers have put no value on anothers life , and hence should not be allowed to live in society even if its behind bars. There is no place for them. The problem in America , is, the Legal system is not tough enough on Murderers and if you have alot of money, you can basically buy your way out . Im all for hanging in public to get the message firmly across that Murderers will not be tolerated . Keeping a Murderer behind bars for 15 years before execution is a travesty ; allowing a Murderer to do 10-20 years before releasing him is a heinous crime in itself.

[hypbmxgurl]

Yeah i do think it works.. Look in the old days though when it was an eye for an eye. I think they should kill the person the way they killed the person. It would work much better that way!!

[Memphis1979]

I can only support the death penalty, in the cases where there is 100 percent no doubt that the person did it. I mean even an unreasonable doubt.

You know, men like Ted Bundy, or Dahmer, or the guy from the Virginia State school shootings, guys like that. Men that we know they did terrible things.

Men like, Scott Peterson, and others of his ilk, I can't say for a fact that he did it. So, he should be locked up for life, and not be executed.

JMO

[skel1977]

China executes more people annually except maybe Singapore or Iran per capita annually than any other country. They have less crime per capita and about 5 times more people. Maybe we should think about harsher penalties for crimes in the USA because it seems to be working in China.

[mb64282]

Does anyone remember that movie, "The Life of David Gale"? What if we've executed an innocent person? What about the whole, 'better a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent person be convicted' or something like that. I mean, we know we've wrongfully convicted people, people get out of jail all the time from advances in DNA testing. I have a hard time swallowing the idea that before that we didn't mistakenly kill innocent people. I think the death penalty is one of the sickest things about the criminal justice system, it's so barbaric. An eye for eye means 'a view for a view,' Why do people use scripture to say it's alright to kill people? Christians especially, I think Christ is a good example of proving society has wrongfully executed someone. I'm not saying if someone hurt my family I wouldn't wish them death, I probably would, but I would trust society to be more 'stable' in that moment morality wise in my moment of grief.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by skel1977

China executes more people annually except maybe Singapore or Iran per capita annually than any other country. They have less crime per capita and about 5 times more people. Maybe we should think about harsher penalties for crimes in the USA because it seems to be working in China.

Sweden doesn't have the death penalty, and neither does Switerland and Germany, those nations have lower crime rates than the USA.

[Greatday]

I have personally witnessed an execution (at the request of the victims family).

IMO, the death penalty is effective

The executed inmate will never have the opportunity to kill another innocent child.