Another polite-on-the-fence-Canadian here. I am generally against the taking of a life, but I understand the enormous cost of keeping an inmate in prison for life. If a state democratically supports the dealth penalty, I feel it should be a more humane method. The prosecuted often still has family and friends that love them. A beheading punishes all psychologically. Kill them quietly, quickly and effeictively and move on.
I agree to a point. But what about the case of murderers that torture their victims and drag out their deaths. Those people had friends and family that loved them too and it was very psychologically scarring.
Karma has a point, I think no matter how you look at it it be different in ever ones eyes at a point of time
Guess im the wrong guy for this thread. I fully support injection and even belive in some cases the electric chair would be more appropriate. In acts of terrorism or basically any crime done unto a child thats not even enough. My 3¢
Absolutely it is scarring, but a democratic society has no influence on a sociopath's actions. Why would we want our government to stoop to the same level.
Actually, the average cost of life in prison is cheaper than the average cost spent on the process leading up to the execution. My question, Is the death penalty a 'punishment'? Or, is it a 'deterrent'?
Why should I pay taxes for some scumbag deserving death to be comfortable? I want them to feel pain really, to squirm like the people they hurt did. I would be fine if they reused the same rope for hundreds of executions. If they deserve to die then they do not deserve a cup of tea and some cake on the way out.
Hmm, I have heard otherwise but let's say the cost is big for both, we should find a way of reducing the cost of dealing with low lifes.
Is the death penalty truly punishing if the criminal never feels the repercussions? The pain of execution, then (arguably), nothing. In this way it is a deterrent?
I swing my full support to capital punishment. I have had countless debates about the death penalty with my peers and to be brutally honest they seem to have the same outcome, I bring up Wesley Allen Dodd, a brutal serial killer whom prayed on adolescent boys, and he kept journals and accounts of what he did, because this is a kid friendly game I'm not going to share excerpts with you directly, however if you do not support capital punishment I beseech you to read Dodd's accounts after doing so tell me you don't support the states decision to give him the death penalty (in which he himself chose the gallows). I know Dodd is not every person in death row however do your research you'll find many like him and you will begin to understand these people don't deserve to live nor should they. It is not an eye for an eye, capital punishment is justice for families whom have had every thing ripped from them in the worst possible way imaginable.
I don't see why they don't just use one bullet to the brain lol. Maybe use an anaesthetic to knock them out, then pop one in the head. Saves money, and time. Edit: or one bullet to the heart.
Maybe just do it like they do livestock, a pneumatic spike to the brain. However, let's be honest capital punishment by way of ninja..... *mind blown*
I don't believe in painfully executing the guilty. That's not how civilized societies operate. As for painlessly executing someone, that's an entirely different matter. I don't think the death penalty is a deterrent, and it shouldn't be used as such. The death penalty should be used on the most heinous criminals as a form of closure for the victims. In all of this, the victims are the ones who need to be made whole. Some people say, "taking a life for another life will not make a person whole" As I've never been touched by the type of horrible tragedy that would warrant such decisions, I can only say that the determination of what makes a person whole and what gives closure is different for each person, and such broad statements claim a "universal truth" for the families of the victims should be avoided
Ok, im surprised this hasnt been said yet. Two things: 1: some people are immune to anesthesia 2: some people are proven innocent during the appeals process while on death row I believe people ought to have the rest of their lives to make a case for their innocence. Some guys were released after spending decades in death row. Do i think some people deserve to die for their crimes? Absolutely 100%! But not at the expense of even the remote possibility of taking an innocent life. Its a sign of our imperfect criminal justice system. Taking an innocent life, imo, is the worst thing that could happen in "modern" society.
If the person did something wrong to be able to get the death penalty I think he should suffer killing him is to easy. Why not just chop of his foot and wait for gangrene to set in or he should have to get a hot coal up his butt every night . When people do something to receive the death penalty they should not be given the free pass of death