Should death penalty be legal in nowadays for cruel crimes?
Today capital punishment or death penalty is legal only in a few countries. They are:China, Byelorussia, USA, Japan, South Korea, Iran and etc. In my opinion a lot of other countries ought to legalize death penalty for violent crimes and for treason. I think it is vital to show criminals that sometimes a law can be cruel to them too. Some people do really cruel crimes like pedophilia and they are not punished in a fair way. Those kind of people usually destroy a little girls lives. Consequently pedophils deserve death penalty. Then maniacs who killed more than 3 people should be punished in this way. There is statistics about pedophilia in USA:
Child Molester Statistics
"The serial killer has the same personality characteristics as the sex offender against children"
-Dr. Mace Knapp, Nevada State Prison Psychologist.
• "There are 400,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, and an estimated 80 to 100,000 of them are missing. They're supposed to be registered, but we don't know where they are and we don't know where they're living.
- Ernie Allen, President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrento co-anchor Hannah Storm on The Early Show
• The most serious and chronic offenders often show signs of antisocial behavior as early as the preschool years.
- (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) (was in Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Nov 1998 OJJDP: U.S. Department of Justice)
• Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest children
-CNN Specials Transcript #454-Thieves of Childhood.
• Nearly all the offenders in sexual assaults reported to law enforcement were male (96%).
- Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• Overall, 23% of sexual assault offenders were under the 18 and 77% were adults - Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• 40% of the offenders of victims under age 6 were themselves juveniles. A similar proportion (39%) of offenders of victims ages 6 through 11 were also juveniles. For older juvenile victims, the proportion of juvenile offenders dropped to 27%.
- Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• 29% of child sexual abuse offenders are relatives, 60% are acquaintances, and only 11% are strangers.
-Diana Russell, The Secret Trauma, NY:Basic Books, 1986.
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• More than 1/2 of all convicted sex offenders are sent back to prison within a year. Within 2 years, 77.9% are back.
-California Department of Corrections.
• Recidivism rates range from 18-45%. The more violent the crime the more likelihood of repeating.
-Studies by the state of Washington.
• 3 in 10 child victimizers reported that they had committed their crimes against multiple victims: they were more likely than those who victimized adults to have had multiple victims.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.
• Like rape, child molestation is one of the most underreported crimes: only 1-10% are ever disclosed.
-FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
• The behavior is highly repetitive, to the point of compulsion, rather than resulting from a lack of judgment.
-Dr. Ann Burges, Dr. Nicholas Groth, et al. in a study of imprisoned offenders.
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I think there are several reasons for making the death penalty legal. First of all, the statistic of murders is becoming higher in the world. The criminals may use an indulgence, which is taking place in many countries, and commit really tough, cruel crimes. Secondly, I think that rapists and kidnappers, who are found guilty for a lot of serious murders must be charged with a capital punishment. That can be really useful lesson for other murderers and scare them not to do such kind of things. So I support Anuarova's opinion on this very topic. First of all, the statistic of murders is becoming higher in the world. The criminals may use an indulgence, which is taking place in many countries, and commit really tough, cruel crimes. And this justifies state-sanctioned slaughter...how? That can be really useful lesson for other murderers and scare them not to do such kind of things. Deterrence theory? That relies on the naïve view that murder, to criminals, is a rational behavior that is put through logical contemplation and cost/benefit analysis. Additionally, it relies on the unsubstantiated premise that murderers, in addition to being completely rational, objective, unbiased, and un-emotional (which is a ridiculous notion to begin with) generally view death as such a significant step up in severity from lifetime imprisonment that they do not commit the crime. - In reality, murders are emotional actions. And studies of the DP and Deterrence theory have yielded no correlation, or no evidence that crimes are deterred. I believe that deterrence theory really works. If not, how can you explain that the conditions in China, where there are really strict types of punishment, are better referring to the number of crimes? I'm not telling that it works for all people, but for some of them it does. Everyone differs from others. It's not the only way to decrease the number of crimes for sure, but somehow it may be useful. I'm also telling that the capital punishment is expected to be used on those who commit very cruel and serious types of crimes. Actually I think that death penalty is really right solution of this problem. Because a many years in a jail is not enough for criminals who made cruel crime to children. Today the number of this kind of crimes isn't decreasing. It means that prison is not helping to decrease the number of pedophilia in the world. On the contrary it is increasing. Then for example if we take China. Capital punishment is legal in China and you see results. They haven't got a lot of maniacs like other countries have. People just respect law and other people. Then they know what will happen with them if they do something really bad. 2
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Oh, absolutely! Now, I will say that for the death penalty I really need to see direct evidence, preferably caught on tape, or a number of uncompromised eye witnesses. I have more of an issue with the death penalty if the case is circumstantial. But when there's no doubt as to the guilt of the accused, I actually believe in a swift and public execution. And I think we should call off school for a few hours and take all the kids down to the town square and let them watch as the criminal hangs (or is shot). And I don't mean that in a sick sadistic kind of way. But I think it's important for society, especially children to be able to see justice. And when the child is older and half in mind to kill someone, maybe the memory will flash through his mind of the hanging man. And maybe he'll think twice. 1
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I think the death penalty should only apply to crimes against children, because they are still growing and experiencing life, and while yes someone else is too, they know it is a hard fact of life that they may possibly be killed. I do not like anyone to die, I wish we would learn that murder is just outright wrong, but I think sitting in a jail to rot is worse than death. 1
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While I would generally agree that it's a tragedy that so many sexual criminals are still on the loose, and that we should devote far more resources to finding these people, I do not believe in the death penalty as being a better solution to lifetime incarceration. Killing someone legally, not in the defense of your own life, is a contradiction to the outlawing of murder. It is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is always a herald of hubris when too much of it is present. This is because violence begets violence. The only way to reduce violence in our population is for it to be culturally unacceptable to kill someone in the defense of your own life, and our culture is greatly effected by our government and propaganda. The propaganda that tells us the death penalty is right, that tells us that killing is justice, when it is not justice, only leads to more people believing that killing is right, when it never truly is unless it is in the defense of your own life. A much better punishment for child molesters would be the surgical removal of their reproductive organs followed by lifetime incarceration. Upon being proven guilty, of course. 1
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If all of the legal hurdles, currently associated with the death penalty, are removed, then we should have a death penalty because it would be cheaper than keeping them in jail for life. However, currently the legal hurdles are so expensive that it is cheaper to keep them in jail for life. Also, if it does become legal, we should sell tickets to the event. Might as well make some money while we're at it. And finally, we can maximize our profits if we allow the convict a chance to get away. It would make the whole event even more exciting and we would be able to charge more. Like the Colosseum in the old Roman days ;) In my way of thinking death penalty must be legal for cruel crimes. There are too many reasons and I will try to list the most important of them: 1. Capital punishment is the most secure protection from the criminals. 2. Execution somehow can influence on outlaw's willingness to commit a crime. 3. Society do not need to pay taxes for keeping offenders, especially who was sentenced to life imprisonment. 4. Government helps the victims to satisfy a revenge, making a fair trial and paying criminals to the pain they have brought. 1
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