Death penalty is wrong!
Over 120 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence.
Many had already served over 2 decades on death row. If we speed up the process we are bound to speed up the process.
Once you execute someone then the case is closed, but if the person you execute is innocent then, not only would you feel guilty but the real criminal is still out there.Posted by: Jen2It is wrong.
You won't learn a lesson if you're being executed. Sometimes the innocent will be killed. Prison is way worse than death. People might have a horrible childhood which makes them do what they have done in life. This is just cruel. No one should get hurt. We're all humans here.
It is wrong
Capital punishment is a waste of people's lives and sometimes can kill the innocent. Its not right to kill someonethat is innocent. Many people who work the death penalty have to live with the regret of knowing that someone innocent died and it was their fault. It will not make people proud. Capital punishment is wrong.
Yes it is wrong
Capital punishment is wrong because i believe that punishment is something that is given to make the person realize his mistake and repent over it.But the capital punishment is permanent living no room for repentance.So i truly beleive that no one has the authority to take away anyone's life except GOD himself.
Posted by: achsahYes,it is morally wrong
Because i believe that punishment is something that is given so that a person turns from his wrong way and repents over it.But this capital punishment is permanent and it leaves no room for repentance. So i truly believe that no one has the right to take away anyone's life.
Taking innocent lives
I'm my opinion nobody deserves to be killed no matter what crime they have committed. Right not we don't have the resources to be 100% sure that a person has killed or not but if in say 10 years after a person was put to death it was then found that they were innocent their life can never be given back. Life imprisonment can be sentenced and of the convicted is then found innocent they can be released from jail, ok they can't get that time of their life back but at least they can continue it and begin again.
It's morally wrong!
If we can't rape rapist, then why can the government murder murderers? The United States is a country that claims to have ‘liberty and justice for all’ and should not accept the death penalty as a consequence for a poor decision made by an individual. Murder is wrong, and so is capital punishment.
People can be innocent
Some people probably hate someone and has the money to lock them up and have the money and would never give up to make that person suffer for they enjoy it,also everyone deserves a second chance, also your showing your dark side because the family that the boy or girl belong to the reputation decreeses
We are them.
Although they more than deserve it, we are stooping to their level in taking their life. Are we not just as guilty as them? It is not our place to play God and decide who deserves death. (FYI, do your research. Capital punishment is more expensive than life without parole)
It isn't okay
It is not right to murder, even if the person you murder has committed a crime that is morally wrong. Everyone deserves a rite to life no matter what the circumstance. Every person is still human and it iis still wrong to kill others. Killing someone who has committed a crime makes you a killer as well.
Who is the community to decide whether someone should live or not.
A bunch of judgmental people trying to play the role of a deity and killing murderers making the people that vote for death just as bad as the killer or rapist. Who is the community to decide whether someone should live or not. Who is the community to decide whether someone should live or not.
The state is no better than it's people.
A state/government is not a infallible institution and can never be expected to make better moral choices than it's people, as it is, in the end, only people that is the state/government. Killing is morally wrong, whether done by an individual or a bunch of individuals calling them self a government.
Posted by: No_Moral_HighgroundImpractical, Risky, and Immoral
It's impractical because pre-trial and trials costs over the course of decades on death row is much more expensive than life imprisonment.
It's risky because so many innocent people get released from death row after decades of investigations. The state is prepared to kill these innocent people!
It's immoral because when we kill those who have killed others, we become murderers ourselves.Killing a killer to show killing is wrong?
Hypocrisy at its best. Ridiculous cost . Wrongful convictions, with death penalty, you're almost certainly down, although appeals do occur. We haven't the slightest clue of the number of wrongful executions. Furthermore, isn't it sadistic? We're in the 21st century, a killer may have killed, but that is none's right to convict another to death.
Yes, it is morally wrong
I as others think we do not have the right to put to death another humane being. But I also do not think we have the right to cage a human being for life. I do agree we should jail certain people for life as the crime calls for exclusion from society for life. But I do also believe the jailed should have the right to end his or her life in this case. I think this is only fair.
Posted by: GailCapital punishment is morally wrong.
I believe it's morally wrong because you can't take someone's life away. I believe that if the state kills someone for killing someone else, then you're just building a chain and the same things will happen over and over again. I don't think that doing this will keep other people from committing crimes. People don't have the right to take someone else's life.
Yes, it is morally wrong.
Yes, I think that capital punishment is morally wrong. I have thought this for many years. I think that capital punishment is simply state sanctioned murder. I don't think that two wrongs make a right. Moreover, there are many cases where innocent people are put to death, which I think is just awful.
Yes, capital punishment is morally wrong
Yes, I believe capital punishment is morally wrong. Humans should not be subject to destroying other humans and especially executing them. We were not made for this. Capital punishment should be outlawed because of the inhumane punishments it promotes. There are other ways to deal with humans other than capital punishment.
In the United States capital punishment is morally wrong because of how we impose it.
In the US our Constitution guarantees "due process of law" to all citizens. Yet there is no equality in how we choose who will be subject to capital punishment. In the states that have the death penalty the decision if an alleged murderer will face capital punishment is often the sole decision of ONE person, the District Attorney, with no oversight or judicial review.
How do we morally justify giving a one man life or death power, without any review? We can't. Capital punishment in its current form is an moral abomination.If you trade an eye for an eye the whole world will be blind
The state does not have kind of biblical control over life and death that the religious right loves so much. Capital punishment has never been proven to result in a decrease in crime, and the cost of it negates any financial advantages one might obtain from it. It's barbaric and the amount of people who have been killed and afterwards proved innocent is appalling. Nobody is ever that sure, and individuals we are sure of should be both rehabilitated and studied to find what went wrong. As soon as the murder is committed society has failed, and another death will only cause more tragedy.
Posted by: Numidious
No, capital punishment is right.
We see that if the health of the whole human body demands the
excision of a member, because it became putrid or infectious to the
other members, it would be both praiseworthy and healthful to have it
cut away. Now every individual person is related to the entire society
as a part to the whole. Therefore if a man be dangerous and infectious
to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and
healthful that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good…
(Summa Theologiae, II, II, q. 64, art. 2).
This is from the book of Saint Thomas Aquinas a popular image of the church. Even he himself stated that it right for it can prevent and cure the society.No it is not morally wrong.
Capital Punishment's moral issue for some people is the fact we argue about the 'right to life' or 'value of human life' this is all true however if criminals take life from someone else then I believe this instantly takes away their right to life. The value of this said criminal's life also decreases because how can we value someone's life who sees fit to bring it upon themselves to take another person's right to life, so justice should take their's.
There are no alternatives.
The purpose of prison is to rehabilitate with the intention to reintroduce the prisoner into society as a productive, law-abiding citizen. In cases where this is not likely to happen, capital punishment is the answer. I suppose you could just keep them in prison forever, but that seems like an unnecessary financial burden.
Posted by: QuanNo, it is morally right
People argue that it is inhumane for someone to be executed, but yet they forget about the murderer's victim. Was it humane of the murderer to kill an innocent person? I don't think so, especially because the victim was most likely killed in a more violent matter. Why should tax payers pay for the health, housing, and food of a criminal? There are hard working people out in society that barely have enough to feed themselves or their families. There are also hard working people that don't even have health insurance because they can't afford it, but yet these criminals get it for free?
Eye for an eye
If a human being is allowed to murder without severe punishment, then other people will see murder as allowable. If someone murders another human being, then it is completely just to eliminate that person from society. In my opinion, public execution is great for society, people will be less inclined to murder, when they see how serious the punishment is.
No, capital punishment is not morally wrong.
No, I do not believe that capital punishment is morally wrong, and that it is a plausible deterrent to crime to stop those who may commit a murder. I believe in the old adage "an eye for an eye" and if you are willing to take someone else's life then you must be ready to surrender your own.
