I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
I don't believe we should allow thousands of violent felons to be released early from prison, nor do I believe we should reduce sentences for violent offenders in the future.
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.