Why the death penalty is wrong

I am against the death penalty, we are supposed to live in a "civilized society", how civilized is it to kill?

I know what you mean. When I was in highschool we had a little debate in my class about the death penalty about 10 people participated. Anyways I was the only one that was not religious. And I was the only one fully against the death penalty. The one that claimed she was most religious was the one that was the most for the death penalty.

True but we would be wasting money feeding and hosting prisoners that would have been executed otherwise.

I completely agree with you, i dont know about molesters getting the death penalty, but I completely agree that murderers should get the death penalty though

on the contrary. i think that one or two innocent lives lost are worth miles more than the savage satisfaction some ppl get out of executing one man to justify the death or another. it just doesn't make sense to me that because someone commited murder, then that person should, in turn, be murdered. how does that solve anything?

But who is to judge that a persons life is not worth the money to feed and hold them in jail?

Society.

possibly innocent victims of a flawed system...

i believe in the death penalty, but i also beleive it is open to human error, as in the damned justice system, corrupt officers and lawyers and judges.
the death penalty...hmmmmmm...why is charles manson still alive? i could name alot of others PROVEN guilty BRD, who certainly do not deserve to walk among the living.
how can YOU BE ANTI DEATH PENALTY AND PRO-ABORTION? f***ING REDICULOUS.

I guess you could be right (about whose life is more important) but I don't think people's tax dollars should be spend on sustaining prisoners.




Not all people who are executed are innocent. The majority are probably guilty of the charges brought upon them.

I can see how this does seem odd. Killing a completely innocent live and letting a guilty one live. To me abortion is just preventing a life from ever happening. I mean isn't that the same as a condom or the pill just a little later. Nobody is affected by an abortion except the mother (granted she does not tell anyone). Where as killing someone who had lead a life effects countless people.

that's exactly why the death penalty is wrong. because you can't be SURE whether troy davis or any of the others are innocent or not.

Nobody said they were all innocent. i said "possibly innocent". and the fact that the majority are PROBABLY guilty; that's just not sufficient odds for me...