Should capital punishment be abolished

[Driver 47]

I'm pretty sure a bullet to the head is quick and painless. But gunz R bad so we can't just "Choot 'em!".

[forsheamountain]

Utah hasn't shot up any garbage bags since Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010.

[mgforshort]

The only reason the death penalty is so expensive because we are giving civil rights to mass shooters and serial killers caught in the act. The Chinese do it quick and cheap.
If we already outsourced our good jobs and factories I don't see why can't we send our mass murderers over there so we don't hurt the feelings of certain apologists by doing the deed in-house.

[FlurryCat]

Originally Posted by Valley Native

Everything you listed pertaining to why capital punishment is expensive could easily be eliminated, and would be a non issue if we simply returned to swift & effective punishment. If a cold blooded murderer is found guilty, there should be an immediate death sentence equivalent to how the murderer committed his crime ... no lethal injections, no appeals, or any of that nonsense. This method would be pretty damn cheap compared to housing them for a lifetime in prison.

If you could fix the system to get prosecutors more interested in the truth than their record, and maybe some parity in sentencing, I'd be on board with a streamlined system. Until then, one "Oops, too late now!" is too many, and there have been quite a few.

Originally Posted by Valley Native

Also, when deviant killers are given essentially the same kind of euthanasia as a beloved pet, there's definitely something wrong with the criminal justice system.

So you want them to suffer. I'm not gonna offer an opinion on that, but the Constitution is pretty clear on the subject.

Public executions are the sign of a sick society.

[VTsnowbird]

Merged into existing thread on capital punishment.

[Rachel NewYork]

Closed for moderator review, as per Great Debates rules.