Debate on the Death Penalty?

Question

Debate on the Death Penalty?

Answer 1

Pro-death penalty: Segregation of violent inmates from non-violent inmates would reduce the number of fights/riots/etc. within the prison system.



Anti-death penalty: There's always the possibility that you're executing someone who's been wrongfully accused of murder.

Answer 2

Prisons are finished. Murderers up for loss of life penalty have not any experience of right and incorrect. households they have ruined won't omit them! Druggies, robbers and animal abusers have become WORSE therapy than murderers!! strengthen your hand in case you're at a loss for words!! circulate on your community library and look up 'loss of life penaltys on your state and different states' to get a actual theory of the priority. the folk who have actual evaluations can no longer substitute it. the folk who have not got households that have been permanetly broken are working the worldwide places and debating approximately it!! stable success!

Answer 3

So your for the death penalty, but have no clue as to why you should be against it?

*Cough - Cough* * Cracks Knuckels* Get ready to be schooled. Get a pen and paper and get ready for some heavy note taking.



The first person to die from execution was Captain George Kendall in 1603. Now since 1973 to present ( 37 years ) there has been more than 130+ plus people whom been exonerated from death row due to evidence such as DNA in which was not available at the time, and even today it is not readily available in more secluded areas. Also, new evidence was either found ( new evidence, with held evidence... etc. ) People were found to have lied under oath, eye witnesses made a false identification and the list continues. Now, between 1603 and 1973 is a 370 year gap. Wonder how many people were executed within that time line, wonder how many people could have been innocent. You should read up on an English judge named Sir William Blackstone, he has been quoted to say “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”



The death penalty has been found NOT to be a deterrent. Based off last years F.B.I UCR crime statistics, California which has the death penalty had 99,283 more violent crimes than New York, and had 1,194 more murders than New York. New York does not have the death penalty. I dont see a deterrent in those numbers, do you?



Death Penalty is far more expensive than life in prison.

The national average to house an inmate is hovering around $30-35k a year. Where as a typical death penalty case can run anywhere between 2million up 15million ( in which the Timothy Mcveigh case cost around 15 million ). So do the math, lets say someone at the age of 22 is sentenced to life and die at the respected age of 79. Thats 57 years he is in prison at the... lets say $35k a year plan, which would put the total cost at $1,995,000 plus tax. So yeah, more cost effective if you were to ask me.

Answer 4

Some pro material.







The death penalty is a just and appropriate sanction and it saves additional innocent lives.



ETHICAL/RELIGIOUS SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY



"Death Penalty Support: Religious and Secular Scholars"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penalty-support-modern-catholic.html



"The Death Penalty: More Protection for Innocents"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/05/the-death-penalty-more-protection-for-innocents.aspx



DETERRENCE



All prospects of a negative outcome deter some. It is a truism. The death penalty, the most severe of criminal sanctions, is the least likely of all criminal sanctions to violate that truism.



25 recent studies finding for deterrence, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation,

http://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DPDeterrence.htm



"Deterrence and the Death Penalty: A Reply to Radelet and Lacock"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/02/deterrence-and-the-death-penalty-a-reply-to-radelet-and-lacock.aspx



"Death Penalty, Deterrence & Murder Rates: Let's be clear"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/03/death-penalty-deterrence-murder-rates.html



INNOCENCE



"The Innocent Executed: Deception & Death Penalty Opponents"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/10/08/the-innocent-executed-deception--death-penalty-opponents--draft.aspx



"Cameron Todd Willingham: Another Media Meltdown", A Collection of Articles

http://homicidesurvivors.com/categories/Cameron%20Todd%20Willingham.aspx



The 130 (now 139) death row "innocents" scam

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/03/04/fact-checking-issues-on-innocence-and-the-death-penalty.aspx



COST



"Death Penalty Cost Studies: Saving Costs over LWOP"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2010/03/21/death-penalty-cost-studies-saving-costs-over-lwop.aspx



BIAS



"Death Penalty Sentencing: No Systemic Bias"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penalty-sentencing-no-systemic.html





Other Issues



"Death Penalty Polls: Support Remains Very High - 80%"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penalty-polls-support-remains.html



"Killing equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/02/01/murder-and-execution--very-distinct-moral-differences--new-mexico.aspx



A Death Penalty Red Herring: The Inanity and Hypocrisy of Perfection, Lester Jackson Ph.D.,

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102909A



"The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-penalty-neither-hatred-nor-revenge.aspx



"The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-penalty-not-a-human-rights-violation.aspx



"Sister Helen Prejean & the death penalty: A Critical Review"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/05/04/sister-helen-prejean--the-death-penalty-a-critical-review.aspx





More essays supporting the death penalty and refuting the anti death penalty claims



http://homicidesurvivors.com/categories/Death%20Penalty.aspx

http://prodpinNC.blogspot.com/

Answer 5

Killing criminals would also reduce spending.~

Answer 6

I’m against the death penalty but not because of sympathy for criminals. It doesn’t prevent or reduce crime, costs a whole lot more than life in prison, and, worst of all, risks executions of innocent people.



The worst thing about it. Errors:

The system can make tragic mistakes. In 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for starting the fire that killed his children. The Texas Forensic Science Commission determined that the arson testimony that led to his conviction was based on flawed science. As of today, 138 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated. DNA is rarely available in homicides, often irrelevant (as in Willingham’s case) and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Capital juries are dominated by people who favor the death penalty and are more likely to vote to convict.



Keeping killers off the streets for good:

Life without parole, on the books in 49 states (all except Alaska), also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending the rest of your life locked up, knowing you’ll never be free, is no picnic. Two big advantages:

-an innocent person serving life can be released from prison

-life without parole costs less than the death penalty



Costs, a surprise to many people:

Study after study has found that the death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. The high costs of the death penalty are for the complicated legal process, with the largest costs at the pre-trial and trial stages. The point is to avoid executing innocent people. The tremendous expenses in a death penalty case apply whether or not the defendant is convicted, let alone sentenced to death.



Crime reduction (deterrence):

The death penalty doesn't keep us safer. Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people who lack a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent.



Who gets it:

Contrary to popular belief, the death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. Practically everyone sentenced to death had to rely on an overworked public defender. How many people with money have been executed??



Victims:

People assume that families of murder victims want the death penalty imposed. It just isn't so. Some are against it on moral grounds. But even families who have supported the death penalty in principle have testified to the damage that the death penalty process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.