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What do you think of the death penalty?
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Asked 3 years ago
by NadiaDarbane4ever  United States |
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[1 point] 3 years ago by deleted user Replywhat else do you want me to say?
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[3 points] 3 years ago by deleted user ReplyFunny that Americans, who don't trust their government to provide universal healthcare, are happy to give judges and politcians power over their very lives.
Very few people commit capital offenses in their "daily lives".
It's relatively easy to support harsh penalties for doing something you don't do.
Agreed. It shows the mentality of the population towards violence as whole, they dislike violence but are condoning extreme measures it to stop it.
We don't give them power over our very lives. We give ourselves power over our life. If you know that if you kill someone that you will be put to death, then isn't it your own fault that you are facing the death penalty?
You say that "...you know that if you kill someone that you will be put to death..." Untrue - if you are CONVICTED you could be put to death. Big difference. You're making the incorrect presumption that everyone executed by the government is guilty. Judges, police, lawyers, juries all make mistakes and can be corrupt; evidence can be falsified.
Ok now you want to take it to the very rare situation. It's not like innocent people get the death sentence all the time. With the forensic science technology we have in this day and age, you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning, and winning the lottery in the same second, then you would have getting sentenced to death when you did not commit the crime. I don't think the American public worries that they could be put to death for a crime they did not commit. I know I don't!
Put yourself in the shoes of a criminal. If you committed a crime for which you could be put to death, would you allow yourself to be captured alive?
Yes, it is not uncommon for people to be wrongfully convicted here, and that is just for crimes of violence. At least four hundred people have been freed on DNA evidence in the past couple of decades. One can only assume that in cases in which the DNA evidence was lost, disposed of, or never taken (the majority) the wrongful conviction rate is similar or greater. And certainly some of those have been executed in the past forty years.
Sometimes it takes YEARS to be freed even after the DNA evidence clearly demonstrates innocence, and is backed up with a confession by the actual perpetrator. The law enforcement attitude is that the system worked as it should because a jury convicted, so guilt or innocence is irrelevant. I have actually seen tape of a D.A. saying exactly that.
The odds are probably a lot higher that if you are a murderer you won't be executed. Many states in the United States don't even have the death penalty, and most murderers either cop a plea, get sent to prison, get away with it (several instances where they go to Mexico who doesn't extradite).
The US does not extradite either.
Hate sells better than love, which is why Hitler's philosophies have influenced more lives than Christ's.
Christ's words:
Matthew 22
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
QED
Sad isn't it, how some of the peaceful Christians do not practice what they preach.
i am not american, i just live here.
i agree. it depends on so many things, actually. i would say, it doesn't concern me, but i do care about it.
I didn't select any of the options, rather I believe that no one has the right to take someone elses life.
I think the death penalty is wrong because the bible tells me so. One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not kill," so even if the state is the murderer the murdered person is just as dead. And since new DNA techniques have found some people on death row are innocent and in some cases DNA tests have even found the real murderer, for the state to take a chance, just basing their case against the condemned on the opinions of but 12 jurors, many of whom just want to get the case over with and out of long deliberation -- so they can get back home to their families, ...well, it is obvious there will occasionally be miscarriages of justice. A conscientious person would recognize this fact and would not support the death penalty because they know the life of one innocent person is worth saving. And, odds are good, as corrupt as some courts are, probably many more than one innocent life would be saved.