Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.