Execution

Execution as a form of punishment?

  • I think execution should be a form of punishment

    Votes: 15 60.0%

  • I do not think execution should be a form of punishment

    Votes: 10 40.0%

  • Could care less

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    25
I voted no. It's barbaric and doesn't do anything except exact revenge. Revenge has nothing to do with justice.

If someone does something that bad, then we should put them away forever, no chance of parole, no privileges. Besides, we don't do it very well in this country as it stands. There are too many innocent people on death row (even one would be a tragedy) and the cost can be up to 10 times the amount of life in jail. Not to mention tying up the courts for so long that it takes away from other cases that need attention.

So in a nut shell, No... it's barbaric, it cost too much money, ties up the courts and resources.
 
RecklessTim said:
I voted no. It's barbaric and doesn't do anything except exact revenge. Revenge has nothing to do with justice.

If someone does something that bad, then we should put them away forever, no chance of parole, no privileges. Besides, we don't do it very well in this country as it stands. There are too many innocent people on death row (even one would be a tragedy) and the cost can be up to 10 times the amount of life in jail. Not to mention tying up the courts for so long that it takes away from other cases that need attention.

So in a nut shell, No... it's barbaric, it cost too much money, ties up the courts and resources.
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You don't think you contradicted yourself there, do you?

Putting someone 6 feet under costs less than keeping them in prison until they die.
 
TheOriginalJames said:
You don't think you contradicted yourself there, do you?

Putting someone 6 feet under costs less than keeping them in prison until they die.
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I would have thought the same thing... but sadly it doesn't work that way.

A Duke University study found... "The death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life." ( The costs of processing murder cases in North Carolina / Philip J. Cook, Donna B. Slawson ; with the assistance of Lori A. Gries. [Durham, NC] : Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, 1993.)

"The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total is incurred at the trial level." (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988).

"A 1991 study of the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of appealing capital murder at $2,316,655. In contrast, the cost of housing a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is estimated at $750,000." (Punishment and the Death Penalty, edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum 1995 p.109 )

"Florida spent an estimated $57 million on the death penalty from 1973 to 1988 to achieve 18 executions - that is an average of $3.2 million per execution."
(Miami Herald, July 10, 1988).

"Florida calculated that each execution there costs some $3.18 million. If incarceration is estimated to cost $17000/year, a comparable statistic for life in prison of 40 years would be $680,000."
(The Geography of Execution... The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America, Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood 1997 p.6)

Figures from the General Accounting Office are close to these results. Total annual costs for all U.S. Prisons, State and Federal, was $17.7 billion in 1994 along with a total prison population of 1.1 million inmates. That amounts to $16100 per inmate/year.
(GOA report and testimony FY-97 GGD-97-15 )
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If someone killed one of my family members, Id rather see them rot in hell in jail for the rest of their life. Execution is getting the easy way out. I would cross my fingers that they would drop the soap every single day for the rest of their life.
 
I guess the main reason I do, is about 3 yrs ago my husbands 21 yr old cousin got shot in the back of the head. The guy who "supposedly" did it has been going around bragging about it. I was told by a good friend of mine who is a Hot Springs police officer that he is bragging. But he has still yet to be arrested. They dont have "enough" evidence to arrest him. He obviously is proud of himself if he is bragging about it so I guess I feel like he deserves to be put down too.
 
I've never changed my position on execution:

Fry 'em! 6-month time limit. Sentence is death; 6 months to carry out the execution. "Death Row" is a joke and has been for decades.


And, if it could be done, torture them the same way they tortured their victim(s); kill them the same way they killed their victim(s).
 
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