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Join Here. * About + How Answers Works + Points & Levels + Community Guidelines + Leaderboard + Suggestion Board + Answers Blog * Ask What would you like to ask? ____________________ Continue * Answer * Discover What are you looking for? ________________________________________ Search Yahoo Answers Advanced Search 1. Home > 2. All Categories > 3. Politics & Government > 4. Law & Ethics > 5. Resolved Question movado212 movado21... Member since: February 06, 2008 Total points: 243 (Level 1) * Add Contact * Block Resolved Question Show me another » Why is the death penalty a good thing? Write one paragraph on why the death penalty is good. In your own words NOT from sources. In your own words about 3-5 sentences long. * 3 years ago * Report Abuse IFRAME: http://dmros.ysm.yahoo.com/ros/?c=d3c11d5b&w=498&h=250&ty=noscript&tt=W hy+is+the+death+penalty+a+good+thing%3F&r= eric by eric Member since: April 19, 2011 Total points: 494 (Level 2) * Add Contact * Block Best Answer - Chosen by Voters I get the feeling that I'm doing your homework. Regardless its a subject I feel strongly about so I'm going to answer your question. The death penalty has a lot of good aspects. For one thing just by having that option available lowers the amount of violent crimes. Look at the crime rates in states that have the death penalty on the books vs the ones that don't. There is a very large difference. Typically the fear alone of being sentenced to death is enough to keep most people from committing heinous crimes. This is a basic simple answer on the subject. There are however many more in depth answers I could give. * 3 years ago * Report Abuse 100% 1 Vote * 2 people rated this as good * 0 stars - mark this as Interesting! * Email * Comment (0) * Save + Add to My Yahoo + Add to Del.icio.us + RSS * There are currently no comments for this question. * You must be logged into Answers to add comments. Sign in or Register. Other Answers (4) Show: [All Answers____________] Go * aida by aida Member since: July 14, 2007 Total points: 110,347 (Level 7) + Add Contact + Block There ARE some arguments in favor of the death penalty (but I don't buy them), but if someone spells them out for you, you won't be using your own words but those of a source. If you can't think of anything good to say about the death penalty, think of what others have said in its favor (prevents murderer from doing it again, cheaper than life imprisonment, closure for families of victims), and then cite those arguments and ANSWER them. + 3 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes * smsmith500 by smsmith5... Member since: February 19, 2007 Total points: 130,908 (Level 7) + Add Contact + Block The person convicted never does the crime again. + 3 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes + 1 person rated this as good * Vader by Vader Member since: February 14, 2011 Total points: 10,199 (Level 6) + Add Contact + Block There is nothing good about it. Not our job to kill people, no chance for redemption. + 3 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes + 3 people rated this as good * Josh by Josh Member since: October 28, 2010 Total points: 868 (Level 2) + Add Contact + Block Answer hidden due to its low rating It's not. The Death Penalty is a thing of the past. Capital punishment is 2-5 times more expensive than keeping a prisoner in jail for the rest of their lives because of all the legal procedures and court payments. It also doesn't serve as an effective crime deterrent, as all states that have abolished the Death Penalty have an equal or lower rate of homicide than those with capital punishment. But the most important thing is that no one should have the right to end another human's life. Putting a criminal to death because of anger and revenge will not accomplish anything. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." In terms of the Death Penalty, the U.S. is far behind the rest of the world. Most countries have abolished or are in the process of making capital punishment illegal. After all, "why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?" Conservative hypocrites. 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