Capital Punishment: Is it ever justifiable to exectute criminals?

Hmm I think it is justifiable but only in the worst of cases. I think we need to have it, because there are some people out there who are better off dead and not safe around people. But I do think it's too extreme in places like Texas.

Well the worst that can happen if death penalty is imposed is place an innocent man to it. That is the worst that can happen in a judicial system and it is highly possible that these things will happen and that is why I am not anymore supporting death penalty. Although I see them as a big deterrent in curbing the crime rates down, I feel that our judiciary system will always be fallible and can commit mistakes along the way.

The death penalty is a cruel and barbaric anachronism that has no place in a society that considers itself enlightened. It does not work as a deterrence and only serves one purpose, that of revenge. It is expensive; it costs more to execute a person than it does to keep them in prison.

The whole criminal justice system needs to be reexamined and repaired because it doesn't work but a good first step would to eliminate the barbaric and sadistic use of the death penalty. A nation can not be considered to be civilized that continues to murder it's citizens as a part of it' criminal justice system

my country exercises capital punishment.

A kidnap case is an almost 99% death sentence.
Smuggling of drugs over a certain weightage also warrents the death penalty.

The above 2 are the most outright cases for capital punishment. To me, yes capital punishment is important (in regards to the 2 cases above).

Kidnapping is no laughing matter to both family and victim. If the kidnapper was to be set free, who is to say which other family would be terrorized yet again. And yes, the same goes for drugs.

Yeah I think it is justifiable in some places.. USA is a open minded nation and they can understand the situation if that said law of death penalty is implemented. More reason to come in further discussion I think and it can discuss under the state itself.

I think it is justifiable. There are cases that call for it, i mean they just scream for the death penalty. About 100 miles from where i live a man threw his children off of a bridge. The smallest child was not even a year old. They found this baby about 80 miles from where he had threw these children off of that bridge. He is in court now. His excuse for doing this was he thought his wife was going to divorce him. None of these children asked to be thrown off a bridge, none of them were even old enough to try to defend theirselves. Crimes are getting worse everywhere. The death penalty may not scare anyone into not committing a crime but it will keep them from doing it again. The criminals are now killing people over nothing, just so they can't be identified.

I have serious questions about capitol punishment. We can't ever know unless the person was caught on video, and maybe not even then because videos can be altered, that the person actually did it, and if we find out that they didn't, we can't undo it because they're dead. At least if we lock them up for fifty years, we can let them out. We can't give them back those fifty years, but they are still alive. That being said, I admit that there are some people who we do not want outside among other people as they will probably harm the other people. This is why life without parole is a possibility. I am in favor of life without parole for people who do really heinous things. However, state involved murder is another issue.

If it is proven beyond a doubt that someone is guilty of a crime punishable by death, and lately with DNA and Forensics, the odds of an innocent person being punished are pretty slim, then yes, the death penalty needs to be enforced.

There are too many people in this world taking someone else's life and thinking nothing of it. They are put in prison and given 3 meals a day, a chance to get a college education (usually law classes to work on getting released.) and later released and they do it again, either to see if they can get away with it or just to go back to prison because their life was alot easier in prison than in civilian life.

Enforce the dealth penalty, quit pampering these criminals and catering to them. There are plenty of other people that could feed their kids, house a kid and get them an education with the money that we pay in taxes to keep these people comfortable.

There would be alot less crimes committed if there were any kind of consequences.
We spend less money on a US Soldier than we do someone in prison.
Homeless families, families without food, kids without immunizations, kids not getting an education.

Taxes - Keeping one in prison??
Taxes - Educating, feeding children??

Where would you like your money to go?