No

It's unfair to the victim who's been severally damaged by the act and the family who have to support the victim in healing

I believe that prison and living with your guilt is a worse punishment than death. Wrongfully convicted people have received the death penalty which is unethical. It is not up to us to decide when to end another persons life

Doing the time for the crime will always outweigh taking someone’s pain away through the death penalty

Why should they escape from punishment fro their crimes? If their crime is severe enough to considered the death penalty, why can't they suffer life in prison watching life pass them by?

why should rapists, murders, and people who commit heinous crimes be allowed to live. They have taken a life / caused serious mental harm to others.

If they are sentences to death penalty they have an easy way out of their punishment and death is never a good solution. Instead the criminal should be sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole as then they'll actually be paying for the crimes they commit

People can be incorrectly convicted of crimes. The justice system isn’t infallible. I don’t believe in it for actually guilty people either, imprisonment is enough of a punishment to me.

It has been widely proven and agreed upon that the rehabilitation of any inmate instead of punishment of one gives them the opportunity to reintegrate into wider society when their sentences are up.

We do not have the right to take anyone’s life no matter what crime has been committed. Two wrongs do not make a right.

No matter how close to perfect a legal system is it is reliant on human judgement and interference, there is no system that has never wrongly convicted someone. Supporting the death penalty means supporting the death of some innocent people irreversibly so that other people can be killed

Even if someone had committed such a heinous crime that had warranted the death penalty, would it not be an easy way for out to give them the death penalty rather than making them suffer in jail. It also allows for a solution if they were wrongly convicted, while if they had been given the death penalty the truth may come out too late.

they shouldn’t take up space and money that could be used to rehab less bad criminals instead of keeping alive scum

In serious cases with undeniable proof, such as serial killers or violent criminals who repeat crimes when they get out of prison, they should be killed. They are a danger to society and do not deserve a 3rd chance.

In the same way we have the pro choice argument for abortion, if an adult believes they want to end their life in a medical, controlled way, they should be allowed. I believe it should follow medical supervision and be available for someone who’s quality of life is almost non existent but should be pre-agreed in case of emergency.

Look at the US and the number of people who a) are wrongly convicted and b) subsequently pardoned post-death penalty. And speaking of the US, the death penalty hasn't deterred anyone from crime

The Birmingham 6 were wrongly convicted on the basis of false confessions and faulty forensics. Had the death penalty been in place they would undoubtedly all have been hanged. Many seemingly sound murder convictions have been overwhelmed. For the state to kill innocent people is not justice.

When a person has committed and act as horrendous as the murder of a child or the rape of a defenseless person, for example, and the evidence for this is extensive, absolute, and undeniable, this person has shown that they are nothing but a detriment to society. To even imprison them for life leaves open the possibility of their eventual freedom, whether through legal avenues or otherwise. As long as such people continue to live, they pose an ever present danger to the rest of society. Also, for the financial conservatives out there, keeping someone imprisoned is a constant strain on taxpayer resources. If they are executed, then they cease to be so.

No crime should be punishable by law. It’s unethical to play god and financially it is wiser to serve life sentences.

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Death is a permanent solution that cannot be overturned. In the case of someone wrongly convicted, if evidence arises years later there is no way to right the wrong. I also believe those truly guilty should not be given the satisfaction of death and should live with what they have done

They committed a crime that is valid of death penalty and therefore do not serve any benefit to this country.

Those who knowingly take a life and have considerable evidence against them should not be allowed to have the chance to live a life and should have theirs taken

#1: For the extreme and very serious cases where the death penalty could be imposed, the criminals should be punished and made to serve time in high security prisons rather than getting out of it via death.
#2: No one should have the right to decide whether or not another person lives or dies.
#3: The criminals family members are likely to be seriously negatively affected by their family member / loved one receiving the death penalty, therefore possibly continuing a generational cycle of trauma, bad mental-health and criminal activity.

Helps overcrowding, helps get rid of people who will never see the light of day anyway, cleans up the world

I believe for horrific violent crimes the death penalty should be used where there ia undeniable evidence that the person committed the crime. That's justice. We shouldn't be using tax payer money keeping people who commit horrific crimes such as rape, murder, abuse etc.

I don’t have any data but I strongly believe a person’s environment has such an impact on them. We are constantly being put against eachother and put in awful situations and never been given the opportunities to better ourselves from the lack of mental health institutions and careers and education that i feel like the result of a capitalist society means destroying eachother too. Everyone has reflective thoughts and I belive just being in prison is enough punishment

Marginalized groups are more likely to be falsely prosecuted of crimes. There‘s a higher likelihood of them getting the death penalty, and even in extreme cases I don’t believe the power of execution to be put on the state - even if rehabilitation isn’t an option. Additionally, in many of the systems it’s actually more expensive to give someone the death penalty than continue to jail them, and this comes out of taxpayers euros.

the methods in which the death penalty is carried out is unethical and can use drugs not approved by the FDA. the percentage of innocent people killed by the death penalty was at least 4% according to the innocence project in 2014.

No one necessarily deserves to die and I feel it's better for someone to spend their life in prison rather than death.

sometimes people just need to die, and i personally think that if a murderer lets say- sexually assaulted someone and than killed them, they should experience the same faith

Too many people are found to have been wrongly convicted years after the crime, and we should never risk sending an innocent person to be executed.

too many people have died from wrongful imprisonment for it to be okay for someone to have that power over someone. let them rot in a cell till they're 109. make them regret it every day for the rest of their lives

I think anyone who has done something bad enough to merit the death penalty will suffer worse fate in prison than death anyway. Death penalty is an easy way out in those cases.

I don’t believe killing a pedophile is punishable enough. I think someone who’s done something bad enough to earn a death penalty should live the rest of their lives in dismay and shame. Therefor if I had to sentence a pedo I would have them chemically castrated and on every watch list for a country mile.

No one can trust the justice system enough to decide death. Especially when it has been shown many times that black people have been wrongfully killed due to the death penalty.

I shouldn't have to convice someone that a state should be ending the life of people based on a crime.

It’s an easy way out, plus how can you say murder is a horrible thing and then go on to sentence someone to death. Contradicting oneself no?

it cleans up the world, why spend our tax money on keeping horrible people alive when they're never going to see the light of day again, how can they cause so much pain and be let live, if they killed someone or may people, how is it fair that they continue to live.

Countries shouldn't decide who lives or dies. Especially amongst their own population. Dealing out death penalties means "Oh were gonna get 1 wrong every once in awhile. Eh it's a learning process." We can exist in a world where a bunch I'd murderers are in a cell, we can exist in the world where innocent people are killed through a system they had no part in as well, but I'd rather not.

Because the decision by the courts is more ideal is a higher power that represents a state, not the victims family who will normally present Hatrid or high emotions towards the perpetrator.

I honestly simply do not believe an eye for an eye is a good way to live? And we are no better than the murderers if we murder them.

There would be no real justice if someone convicted of a serious crime is simply taken of life immediately. Their beliefs and feelings on their actions remain the same until the moment of their death. A prison sentencing allows time to realise the effects of their actions.