I am in full support of it, even being a liberal. This is just one extreme example of why I support it. 68 times? That's just sickening, and the fact that their children were there when he did it? WTF is the matter with people? http://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...8/1350?Title=Death_penalty_raised_in_stabbing I say find him guilty and then just shoot him. The appeals process is a waste of time and money. And my number one reason for supporting the death penalty? Richard Allen Davis: http://www.bonestamp.com/bonestamp/images/Celebs/Richard Allen Davis of Polly Klass Fame.jpg He kidnapped a little girl from her bedroom in October 1993, and then after killing her, he dumped her body less then 2 miles from my home, along the side of a freeway. That picture above is him after sentencing, before he was lead away by the guards.
I'm a supporter of the death penalty, but only in extreme situations. If someone murders someone else, then that person should be put to death. It's the old philosophy of "an eye for an eye." However, for everything else, I think a prison sentence is sufficient. In the past, I was a supporter of the death penalty because I thought there would be lower costs, as opposed to keeping the criminal in prison for the rest of his or her life. However, I'm pretty sure there have been studies that have proven that it costs the same amount of money either way, simply because of the appeals process.
At this point, I think it's what you deserve if you end up in that position. I don't believe in reintroducing prisoners into society. Bad people are bad people, they had their chance. It's not like it's not clear that you aren't supposed to kill or hurt others, if you can't understand that you aren't supposed to be in our society anyway. The only people I'm worried about are those who have to go through the whole procedure of the death penalty as a job. That must be horrible.
I used to be for it, but lately, DNA technology has been getting better and better, there have been several cases across the country of people on death row or serving life sentences who were wrongly accused and jailed, being cleared by DNA which is something like 99.999999% accurate. So now, except in the most extreme cases where you have a killer who admits what he's done, is proud of it and has absolutely no remorse whatsoever, I'm against it. Too much room for error. It's bad enough we have been jailing people who are innocent, but it's even worse that we've been killing them (and yes, I'm sure there have been people executed who really were innocent)
I say if their convicted, with DNA testing and ect or whatever. If they're found guilty and what they had done involved 2+ murders in a midly or more grusome way (torture, corpse-rape, dismemberent, chemical breakdown, dumping into river in a bag/pieces ect ) then yes.
I pretty much agree with Todd. I don't think it's as black and white as "If you kill someone you deserve to die".
I don't really agree with it in an "eye for an eye" sense. That is, just executing straight up murderers. But for more extreme cases (for example serial killers), I'm for it. Australia stopped executions a good forty years ago, mind.
I don't agree with Death Penalty at all. Just post here if you wanna know why I don't agree. I'm too lazy to type at the moment, unless absolutely asked to do so.
I am for it and to add to it, prisoners on death row should be given limited appeals too. You take another human life then you should lose your rights as a human as well.