Democracy and the death penalty
   have ranged from the formal scrapping of capital punishment in five
   opinion remains clearly in favour of the death penalty, with around 60%
   how his wonkishly expressed opposition to capital punishment in a
   camp. The case against the death penalty rests on several arguments.
   than 100 prisoners exonerated from death row since capital punishment
   There is the problem of the arbitrary application of the death penalty.
   the presence of the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Politicians
   Americans support the death penalty (though that support has fallen
   against the death penalty, the abolitionist camp has not done so well
   In every Western democracy that has scrapped the death penalty,
   abolition of the death penalty a condition for membership of the club,
   politician running on a platform of restoring capital punishment would
   the death penalty even though majorities of their voters support its
   And here opponents of the death penalty who support direct democracy
   a fresh attempt to abolish their state's death penalty. Two of the four
   advocate of the death penalty, in part because her own son was murdered
     I have studied the death penalty for more than half my lifetime. I
     was passionately in favor. Always I have concluded the death penalty
     Because death penalty proponents have no other way to defend this
     Because the death penalty was so popular during the time I served as
     believed the stakes went far beyond the death penalty itself.
     Capital punishment raises important questions about how, as a
     believe, that the practice and support for capital punishment is
   to a personal dislike of capital punishment while bowing to the
   that they ultimately view the death penalty as a moral issue.
   That has to be the right approach. The death penalty must be a moral
   believe that even if the death penalty were cheaper and proven to be a
   Court abolished and reinstated the death penalty in a matter of a few
   block capital punishment until he left office, when it was reinstated.
   against the death penalty is strong and getting stronger. But there is
   How about a death penalty without Due Process? How about the invocation
   Please help me change the death penalty system. Go to whitehouse.gov,
   I'm somewhat ambivalent to the death penalty. I have no problem with it
   capital punishment. I find the others to be rather flakely and almost
   myself reluctantly opposed to Capital Punishment
   reform can we even begin to tell the worth of a death penalty and where
   death penalty to violent rapists, and jack up our rate of good kills.
   4. The death penalty, as it is applied in the USA, is overly expensive
   death penalty, it is a flaw of our justice system and perhaps all
   2. Setting aside the death penalty, the state routinely kills people
   changes. If all types of state-sanctioned killings, the death penalty
   Instead people focus on fighting the death penalty simply because it is
   a far crueler and more terrifying fate than the death penalty. If our
   has very good reasons for seeking the abolition of the death penalty
   death penalty, that's an understandable position for a liberal
   more pressing moral aspects to the death penalty than the comfort of
   the death penalty is right or wrong (and all I'll say on this is, if it
   death penalty, because so many alternatives are available.
   WHY the death penalty is wrong. Your post and their answers points to
   Death penalty is not for revenge, it is a message to potential
   Also, death penalty definitely stops hideous crimes. If it can't,
   death penalty can't stop crimes is like to say that the western
   person who supports the death penalty has his or her own reasons for
   For all its faults, the death penalty is the ONLY way to give society a
   Death penalty is wasteful. Hardened murderers and rapists should be put
   transplants. Unlike death penalty, most organ donation is not lethal,
   your organs back. You really can't reverse death penalty. In addition
   is better than pointless death penalty, no? At least, criminal saves a
   face death penalty. Those can not be corrected, and life without parole