Stop the Death Penalty: Worldwide Abolition Now

Thank you to NuttyPope and pouyo3 for your thoughtful comments.

Now I suggest you actually watch the video.

I totally agree with you 100% Pouyo3

Why should we waste taxpayer money on keeping child rapists and murders alive? For that reason alone I support the death penalty. I don't want to pay medical care and food for a sick perverted child rapist who obviously doesn't value life at all.

Exactly, those people WANT to die, that's why we should put them behind bars, FOR LIFE! That way, they will suffer MORE, and it will stop many criminals.

Let me put it to you guys this way:
'If you kill another human life in a country that you know has the death penalty is that not technically committing suicide by killing someone else?'

It's my belief that once upon a time the United Kingdom was feared among many countries because of the discipline and respect we used to once have.
Nowadays there are so many 'politically' correct ways of dealing with issues that we seem to now reward bad behaviour and I have to honestly and say we've made a big mistake!!

I am all for the death penalty and clap my hands towards the United States for in my view the right to punish their most horrid of criminals with death is justifiable!

Anti-death penalty groups are always saying 'it's a violation of the prisoners human rights' -- but what about the human rights of the murdered and their families!? - Who looks after them? -- No one does because we all too busy ensuring the murders 'Human Rights' aren't being violated -- God forbid!

It's very interesting to see many people's views here but ask yourself one very fundamental question. If a criminal killed one of your family members, were punished by impressments [if caught], and then released a few years later all on the tax payers' money does that sound like an affective and right judicial system?

two wrongs don't make a right.

all my numbers come from innocence project . org .

The very fact that it takes people to donate of their time and expertise to get these innocents released is evidence that the system has flaws. why would you then acknowledge the flaws, but then do nothing to change them? it makes no sense to me to say, "OK, we could fix it, but lets not." that doesn't fly with me, not when all we have to do is pass a few more reforms that would increase conviction accuracy.

the masses are largely ignorant of how unsophisticated a criminal trial can be. some lawyers are great, but public defenders are over worked and sometimes don't give a damn. more often, an innocent becomes a prime suspect by eyewitness ID and faulty lineups. a lot of studies have been done on this subject so i won't get into them but procedures should be changed.

my position is not at all that the DP is inhumane or brutal, that's a moral argument and society should dictate according to their conscience. my position is that if people knew the systematic flaws in the system they would do like Ill. and NJ. have done and hold off while they fix things up. I'm a 2nd yr law student and by no means an expert, but i've learned enough about the system to realize we can make it better and we should before we execute people.

lavil: I think your numbers are overstated; I'll go with the stats provided by "ma7799" below.

Are wrong people sometimes convicted? Yes; no system can ever be made perfect. Your position is that since the system isn't perfect it must be abolished. Guess we should abolish Social Security also, because there are some people that cheat the system...it's not perfect.

No, lets ensure DNA testing is done where possible. Also, the average convict spends 8-15 yrs going through MANY appeals.

Yes, the solution is to not convict innocent people.