How do you feel about the death penalty

[father of 4]

Just wondering how some of you feel about the Death Penalty? Below is my thoughts.
I have heard a lot lately about people opposing the Death Penalty stating it is cruel and unusual punishment. My question is how can people even think this. These offenders are on Death Row for a reason. Most are convicted of such heinous crimes that we can not even bare to speak of. Texas uses the most humane methods to execute these men and women so that they never feel a thing, and people are condemning the State of Texas as well as other States who have the Death Penalty for being inhumane. Some may say, What if they were wrongly convicted? With the DNA today, that happening is not likely. The ones opposing the Death Penalty wish for life without parole instead. My question is, Did these men and women on death row ask their Victims what they wanted? Were their Victims given the choice? The last time I checked, it cost approx. $45.00 per day, per offender in TDCJ (Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice), so lets do some math. Lets say a 20 year old murders a whole family and instead of the death penalty, the Courts are lenient and give him life without parole. If he lives to the average age of approx. 65 years old, it will cost the State of Texas, or should I say me and you, $739,125.00
The T.L. Roach Unit in Childress, Texas houses over 1300 offenders. That alone is a cost of $58,500.00 a day and $21,352,500.00 a year. So now that you have seen our average cost per day and year, what is your opinion on the death penalty?
The cost per offender is the cost of Employees of TDCJ, food, clothing, electricity, etc. all added up and divided up per offender. That is where the average cost per day comes from.
Gordon Melton

[mperry]

The only problem I have with it is that it takes to long to carry it out. We help support the scum on death row for years. I think if their is a chance they are not guilty then they get one appeal and that's it. If they are guilty without a doubt carry it out within days not years.

[bentpole]

The only problem I have with it is that it takes to long to carry it out. We help support the scum on death row for years. I think if their is a chance they are not guilty then they get one appeal and that's it. If they are guilty without a doubt carry it out within days not years.

I'll agree,The courts of appeal takes way to long, but there is alot of money to be made off of it. Lawers can & do charge by how much time that is spent on a case,If they pick up the phone & make one 5min-call that is charged as an hour min-,The cost is unreal for each death row inmate, A cost that WE are paying. So like you said.If they are guilty do it in afew days.
I heard the other day that the U.S. has more people on death row than any other country in the world. So ask your self why? MONEY,MONEY,,,,,JMO,

[Marshrat]

The only problem I have with it is that it takes to long to carry it out. We help support the scum on death row for years. I think if their is a chance they are not guilty then they get one appeal and that's it. If they are guilty without a doubt carry it out within days not years.

We are on the same wavelength here. I have been saying that for years. I also say have public executions like in the old west so the up and coming criminal will see what is in store for them if they cross the line.


Warren

[boat49]

The only problem I have with it is that it takes to long to carry it out. We help support the scum on death row for years. I think if their is a chance they are not guilty then they get one appeal and that's it. If they are guilty without a doubt carry it out within days not years.

My thoughts exactly. Anyone on death row over a week has overstayed their limit in my book.

[backtocrappie]

The older I get the more against it I become.

I don't defend the guilty as much as I worry about the innocent. It's become a task to free many innocent people serving life sentences and death sentences. DNA evidence is releasing a lot of people who are victims of a very poorly run justice system.

Mike Nifong is forever etched in memory as a railroading liar of a prosecutor who was gladly and knowingly shafting a group of young and promising men on charges of rape. HOW MANY Nifongs are on the loose today? How many Nifongs have we employed? How many Spitizers are currently Governors? How many Mayor Barry's are there and will be? Don't even get me started on judges. I still can't get over the shooting of a 5 year old boy, killed by police who were taking pot shots at a snake in a birdhouse.

I have many doubts about our "justice" system. I think they evoke the lynch mob mentality in the public and use it to their favor for personal gain.

If you really want to cry, and be broken hearted. Just Google terms like "freed by DNA evidence" "released on DNA evidence" "DNA evidence proves innocent" it's an endless list.

I used to be all for the death penalty and I used to say an eye for eye. But as I look back through history I suddenly realized I had no business saying anything at all.

[Miller]

Mike Nifong is forever etched in memory as a railroading liar of a prosecutor who was gladly and knowingly shafting a group of young and promising men on charges of rape. HOW MANY Nifongs are on the loose today? How many Nifongs have we employed?

Great point, there is alot of people out there with a ax to grind. But, the cost to taxpayers to keep these killers locked up and the ways these people brutly murdered people makes me wonder if killing them is just the way it needs to be. But, I guess I also don't have a family member on death row. So it is easy for me to think this.

[Luke77]

If you really want to cry, and be broken hearted. Just Google terms like "freed by DNA evidence" "released on DNA evidence" "DNA evidence proves innocent" it's an endless list.

On the other end of the stick, that should also mean anyone convicted during the present for killing a family of 3 should be executed because modern DNA analysis can prove it.

[father of 4]

Backtocrappie you have a point but the point is in the past. What I mean is exactly what you said about DNA. Now DNA is so refined, it is next to impossible to convict an innocent person.

[backtocrappie]

Backtocrappie you have a point but the point is in the past. What I mean is exactly what you said about DNA. Now DNA is so refined, it is next to impossible to convict an innocent person.

theres just one small problem here.

People are still being released for crimes they were convicted on 20 even 30 years ago.