Should the death penalty be allowed?

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67% of users

The death penalty should be allowed because those who kill innocent people should pay for it with their own lives.

The death penalty should be allowed as an acceptable punishment for those who kill innocent people. Taxpayers should not have to pay for a killer to spend the rest of their lives not working, watching cable tv, and working out. The killer took an innocent life and should not be given any of the privileges and luxuries that they took away from the victim.

Yes BouncyWalter37
The death penalty should be applied, because it is a just punishment for horrific crimes.

The Christian Bible has the solution, "an eye for an eye". Let the punishment fit the crime. If you take a life, you forfeit your life. Some criminals are so far beyond any hope of redemption that the only way to control them is to terminate their life. If a terrorist is sentenced to life in prison, he will only recruit more terrorists from the prison population. Executing the terrorist would be a nice way of saying, "mass murder is not acceptable in our society".

Yes JamieM

33% of users

The death penalty should not be allowed, because killing is wrong.

The death penalty is an inhumane form of punishment that is not fit for a civilized society. It is never the right of any person to kill another person, unless in self-defense, which the death penalty is not. The risk of wrongful convictions alone should be enough to have the death penalty entirely outlawed.

No TwoVic

The death penalty should be allowed because those who kill innocent people should pay for it with their own lives.