The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
I am against the death penalty.
I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.