Friday, October 22, 2010
Death or Life
Most of the comments that have been made about the death penalty have been mostly positive except for the opinion of some. Some believe that the death penalty is wrong because the criminal is getting murdered for committing murder. In my first blog, some skeptics believed that "two wrongs don't make a right". Well I still believe the death penalty should be used, slightly modified, like in my last post, but still used. "A 13 year old girl was shot to death in South Carolina by her neighbor who had already served ten years of a life sentence for murdering his half-brother." If the criminal had been put to death for murdering an innocent person in the first place, this young girl would have never died. The death penalty could do away with the criminals who walk the street, waiting to strike again. Towns, and cities will be safer to live in. It would not be used for revenge but for safety. With altercations to the way criminals are put to death, the cost of the death penalty would be an astonishing amount cheaper than life in prison. Those who kill the innocent, deserve to be killed themselves.
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This is a great topic choice, however I do not agree with your last statement "those who kill the innocent, deserve to be killed themselves." because this doesn't really serve the victim's family justice. This is the way it is seen to me, the victim wasn't given an exact date as to when his/her life was going to end, therefore he/she did not have the chance to say his/her farewells. So why give the offender an expected date, this would give him/her a chance to say his/her farewells. I, therefore, feel that an offender should not be given a date as to when his/her life will end, they should be given life sentence.
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ReplyDeleteYour title certainly intrigued me to continue reading your post. You undoubtedly did your research; all of your blogs include comments from various sources. Unfortunately, I entirely disagree with your argument. I do not feel that executions have any place in a civilized society. The death penalty is a remnant of the earliest days of penology, when even more atrocious corporal punishments were accepted.
ReplyDeleteMy opposition to the death penalty surely does not come from any sympathy for convicted murderers, nor am I trying to rationalize their decisions. On the contrary, I believe that murder demonstrates a lack of respect for human life. For this very reason, no society should have the right to take a life. Murder is murder, regardless if the State is committing the crime. No system could possibly be capable of deciding fairly, consistently and infallibly who should live and who should die.
Did you know that since 1973, approximately 6,000 people have been sentenced to death? Are you also aware that during that same period, 69 people were released from death row with substantial evidence of their innocence? In actuality, the rate may possibly be considerably higher. Astounding efforts are normally needed to free a death row inmate, and most inmates do not have those extra resources available to them. This is because “the death penalty is discriminatory and is often used disproportionately against the poor, minorities and members of racial, ethnic and religious communities. It is imposed and carried out arbitrarily.” (http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/myths-facts/facts)
You have made quite a few comments that don’t have evidence to provide their clarity. For example, you stated, “life imprisonment is ‘tens of millions of dollars cheaper’ than executing a criminal on death row.” There have been hundreds of studies done concerning the cost of the death penalty - and not one of them proves that the death sentence saves money. In a study done in North Carolina, the death penalty costs them $2.16 million more than a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. You also say that, “they deserve to die, and not sentencing to death will only give that person another chance to commit the same crime."According to EDPN, in Texas, the death penalty costs around $2.3 million, nearly three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a maximum security jail for forty years. Yet Texas still has one of the highest murder rates in the country. (https://www.msu.edu/~millettf/DeathPenalty/)
There is also a good chance that because I just wrote a five paragraph response, you might not even be reading this anymore. But to (finally) conclude, if you are reading, I’d like for you to consider the following. Whereas you are very gung-ho for the death penalty, have you thought about the suffering of the murder victim’s and the murderer’s family? Or perhaps the energy that could be better used to fight against violent crimes and assist those affected by them?
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ReplyDeleteI find it very amusing to see the different answers that generate from this topic. My views have pretty much always been the same all the way through this blog. Therefore, i disagree with Mr. Jenkins and his view on the subject. Mr. Jenkins, you mean to tell me you would rather have a criminal stay alive costing the working man to pay for his food, clothes, and shelter just so he does or does not say goodbye to his family? Im sorry but that just doesn't seem very logical. It cost roughly $25,000 to keep a single criminal in prison a year. Now from the research I have done yes, that is cheaper some how than lethal injection. So it is an obviously simple conclusion, we need a cheaper death penalty. I also read that two thirds of criminals are back in prison within a year. So obviously the life altering altercation of prison life is really making an impact on criminals. I just think the prison system is too lenient with the punishment from criminals.(http://law.jrank.org/pages/5002/Capital-Punishment-COSTS-CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT.html)
ReplyDeleteThe blog caught my attention because I feel that the death penalty is wrong. There are always certain things that happen that you wish you could but cannot prevent. To say that just because someone was convicted of a crime does not mean they are guilty. The death penalty does not really give the opportunity for people to prove their innocence's. When you think about someone on death row you, you automatically associate them as guilty which can be a mistake. Several cases in the court system has been overturned by eyewitnesses seeing the wrong person at the crime scene. So those who are on death row and wrongly convicted don't even stand a chance. I think the death penalty should be done away with and people should just serve life sentences.
ReplyDeleteThis topic is extremely controversial and will always be controversial. I personally believe that the death penalty is just. However it must be deemed appropriate before carried out and revenge should not play a factor in this. Pre-meditated murder is a crime that would be deemed appropriate for the death penalty in my opinion. This is a great topic to blog on because there are always going to be different perspectives on this argument. I agree with you 100% that we should keep capital punishment and use it when deemed necessary.
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