I do not agree that inmates should have the option to take their own life, that is a form of suicide, and is just as much injustice.

As mentioned in the debate link below, until we can cure homicidal, antisocial, rapists and murderers, all we can do is protect society by removing these individuals.

Some people in this world are sick and they DO deserve to die. Society doesnt accept these kinds of people and it will only create unsettling tension if they were still alive. Murderers, rapists, ect. that are completely engulfed in crime probably can not be "cured" by treatment. Why should we waste tax dollars to keep these creeps alive? So they can eat, sleep, and cause more trouble, even in jail. Jails are becoming more overcrowded than ever. NO, dont criticize the justice system (even though it is flawed, but thats another debate) for prosecuting too many people. The simple solution to keep the jail numbers down is execution to the people that truly deserve it.

death penalty ensures that the murderer will not kill again.

capital punishment is just an appropriate punishment for the most heinous of crimes.

the punishment of these murderers has been earned by the pain and sufferings they have imposed on their victims.for some crimes,death penalty is the only punishment available.

execution cannot truly represent justice,because there is no recompense to balance the weight of murder.this isn't just to punish the person responsible for the crime but to assure that the victim's family has comfort.

so what who cares if you feel like it is vengeance.

It's avenging the innocent children that pedophile killed.

We shouldn't be wasting our tax money on these guys.

We need to be spending our tax money on more important stuff.

No it costs more to keep them alive forever.

& if it is expensive to kill them then it should be cheaper.

What is the point of keeping them alive forever?

it doesn't do us any good. It just uses up our tax money that we worked hard for. & if we execute them then we won't have to worry about them raping & killing innocent kids anymore.

Also if we keep them alive forever that will give them more time to escape.

WTF does that mean?

We need to stop wasting our tax money keeping these child murdering pedophiles alive forever.

Then that would cost thousands of our tax dollars!

What is the point of keeping them alive forever? it doesn't do us any good. Keeping them alive forever gives them more time to escape.

If we execute them then we won't have to worry about them raping & killing any innocent kids ever again.

Jailbreaks rarely happen fag. Obviously you watch to many movies fag. Prisons have so much security you cant button your pants without someone watching and the jaws of life wouldnt cut through their prison bars fag.

actually it costs more to kill someone then keep them alive for 50 yrs

I believe there is nothing righteous about killing someone in the name of justice, when it is actually vengeance.

I actually think, the most humane way around the problem, is to let the felon decide. I picked this side only because I think most would choose this side.

It costs up to 50% more to give someone the death penalty than letting them live out their life in jail. Also, I find it to be nothing more than a revenge tactic, and a way to leave more space in prisons. It doesn't matter if the culprit is dead or still alive, what they did is irreversible.

An eye for

leaves use all Blind.

Who are we as humans to decide whether another should live or die. We are basically committing the same sin as we are reprimanding. Sure, I know some people are sick and will never change with psychological treatment. And when those people commit sick crimes that are unforgivable to society, they may deserve to die. But I think giving someone the chair or injecting them to die is kinda helping them. Its an easy way out of jail. Some people in jail for life want a way out, they attempt suicide regularly. Helping them die is helping their wishes. After all, in jail, specifically death row, youre not human. You are told when to talk, walk, sleep, eat. There is nothing you can control by yourself, except of course, when to escape through death. (suicide).

it would be worse to them if they where 24 had a life sentence and he lived to a 100

Is it fair to kill humans just because it costs money? Is money suddenly more important than human life? I was taught human life is the most important thing in the world. Maybe I learn wrong....

First death sentence is just motivated by revenge, without it having any real justifiable reason. Putting a man in jail is as effective towards preventing him from committing further crimes as is killing him.

Secondly, when you kill a man, you kill him. You can't revoke death so if you killed him wrongly, you still killed him. I doubt a man or woman is very useful when dead.

Oh please let's not even talk about society. Society didn't accept live-in relationships when they were a new concept. Society is yet to accept homosexuality. And you are asking me to trust this society. yes these people have killed people. Horrible things but does the haloed society have to do the same to them??? Kill them? And are tax dollars more important than the life of a man?

Putting them in jail for life also ensures that they donot kill again doesn't it? Unless you account for jailbreaks, in which case, people will escape regardless of there being the death penalty. A person who is to die a week later will obviously escape if he can today.

In judicial administration, there are basically three types of punishments awarded to people who have committed crimes: the first is what are known as "reformative " punishments, in which the purpose of the punishment is to enable the criminal to reform himself. Punishments here would be in the form of community service,jail sentence etc..; the second is what are known as retributive , in which the punishment is in the form of public lashing, cutting off hands or legs etc., which is expected to work as a revenge and should satisfy the person against whom the crime is perpetrated; the third is what is known as "deterrent" punishment, whereby the object of the punishment is to deter any other person from committing similar crimes. Death penalty is usually a deterrent punishment, and it can be argued that many would be criminals would be deterred from committing the crime when they know the penalty that would meet them is their death.

Whether death penalty should be available as an option in a society or not, depends upon the sensitivity of the society to the criminal acts. If some people in that society feel it is "worth it " to commit a crime, because they can serve some term in prison and come back into the society, then it may be necessary to put the fear of life ( death sentence ) into such people by showing that others who have done such crimes have been put to death.

The question of whether death sentence should be allowed to continue or not, is therefore dependent upon the society and in general a society that has evolved as a "civilized" society would not need such punishments.

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I started a debate about a week ago and have entered into another debate on the same topic, this will be the third. In all three i make the same agruments.

Personally I think the Death Penalty is getting off easy. Given the choice of having to spend my entire life in prison or the Death Penalty I'd choose the Death Penalty any day of the week.

Another reason I would not favour the Death Penalty is, it costs on average $90,000 dollars a year however it costs near $37 million dollars to execute a person.

If it was a simple and cheap procedure I'd perhaps agree however when a state is paying $37 million for one execution I simply cannot agree with.

It costs $90,000 dollars a year to keep someone imprisoned, it costs $37 million dollars for an execution. It wastes far more money killing them because what punishment are they recieving, none really. They get 'put to sleep' there's no punishment or suffering which they deserve, life imprisionment with no chance of release can.