The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
It violates the right to life.
It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.
"Barbarians. That's what we have become. We kill each other and instead of mourning the tragedy, we want the state to satisfy our bloodlust by killing the offender...we must learn to deal with these people in our midst - punish them, but do not become them."
From 1976, when executions were resumed, until 2002-JAN-1, there have been 749 executions in the US. About 30 to 60 prisoners are currently killed annually, most by lethal injection. About two out of three executions (65.6%) are conducted in five states: Texas, Virginia, Missouri, Florida and Oklahoma. Texas leads the other states in number of killings (256 killings; 34% of the national total). There were about 3,690 prisoners sentenced to death in 37 state death rows, and 31 being held by the U.S. government and military. 7 About 1.5% are women.
The United States is one of the very few industrialized countries in the world which executes criminals. It is one of the few countries in the world which executes mentally ill persons, persons with very low IQ, and child murderers (i.e. persons who were under 18 at the time of their crime).
When asked whether they prefer to keep or abolish the death penalty, about 60 to 80% of American adults say that they want to retain capital punishment. Numbers vary depending upon the precise wording of the question asked by the pollsters. When asked whether they would like to see executions continue or have them replaced with a system that guaranteed:
I am a catholic and I think that its wrong since in the bible it says that one must love himself and everyone else, and talks about love and peace, but I am not against it because of my religion or what the bible says, I just think that it’s a very cruel act, specially for such a civilized and developed country like the united states.
Even though they only use electrocution and lethal injection, its still horrible to kill another human being since you will just be as bad as him.
There is also a big chance that the victim is innocent like a book I read about an innocent man on death row, who managed to survive and tell the story.
Criminals, if so, should be put in a jail, since if they are found not guilty they can always release him, but if he dies then that’s an innocent you have killed.
