04-18-2015, 12:16 PM
I wouldn't mind seeing the Death Penalty abolished altogether at this point.
It's so time-consuming and costly to try a capital case, I don't think the death penalty deters the criminally-minded from committing particularly cruel crimes, and there have been too many innocent people wrongly sentenced to death. I'm in the minority on this one though.
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I think Life Without Parole and harsher prison restrictions for particularly cruel criminals is probably a better (and more cost effective) option for society, but 2⁄3 of Americans still support the death penalty, even though the majority of them don't believe it's a deterrent.
Anyway, it's a state by state decision, not a Federal one and it doesn't look like a proposal to ban the death penalty nationally would be favored by the majority of the American population anytime soon, if ever.
It's so time-consuming and costly to try a capital case, I don't think the death penalty deters the criminally-minded from committing particularly cruel crimes, and there have been too many innocent people wrongly sentenced to death. I'm in the minority on this one though.
I think Life Without Parole and harsher prison restrictions for particularly cruel criminals is probably a better (and more cost effective) option for society, but 2⁄3 of Americans still support the death penalty, even though the majority of them don't believe it's a deterrent.
Anyway, it's a state by state decision, not a Federal one and it doesn't look like a proposal to ban the death penalty nationally would be favored by the majority of the American population anytime soon, if ever.