Death Penalty

I believe the death penalty does help prevent crimes a little. Its just thank we can never really be sure. There are crimes and murders still being committed even with the death penalty out there so people can argue that it doesn’t. All we know for certain is that the victims of the death penalty will no longer be committing any more crimes. But in reality that isn’t insuring enough. And the death penalty isn’t scaring shop lifters, bad drivers, or drug dealers into a crimeless life. They cant even be touched by the death penalty and those are the crimes that are being committed the most.  Maybe If every crime was eligible of the death penalty THEN id say it would help prevent crimes. Everyone would be too scared to do anything! As for the families of the crime victims.. I don’t think they should be able to chose if the murderer gets the death penalty or not. All they would have going through their minds is revenge. Most families would give the death penalty to any and all murders and that wouldn’t be fair at all just because their emotions would be all up in a bunch. And the families should definitely not be able to pull the switch that ends the prisoners. That’s not something that should be put in the hands of a regular citizen, a government official or some type of law enforcer should be held responsible of doing so.

ICB Blog 2: Does The Death Penalty Prevent Crime? (Kevin)

The death penalty does not always prevent crime from happening in the country, at least not today, because if it did then criminals wouldn’t still be doing the crime that gets them sentenced to it. One person getting executed for comitting crimes should be an example to other people but, these crimes are still happening daily. Yes the death penalty stops the person who was killed by it from commiting crimes but it does not nessesarly deter the minds of other criminals nor their intentions. A lot of people commit crimes on impulse without thinking or caring about the consequenses of their actions. The death penalty is more of a punishment for a criminal than a way to scare others anyway.  Fear of the death penalty may cause a few to hesitate committing crimes but defiantly not all. Another reason why the death penalty does not prevent crimes is because the justice system does not enforce it as much as they use to. Today If a criminal commited a “Death Penalty” worthy crime such as first degree murder but the judge only sentences him to some years in prison then it would not put as much fear into the society and people that commit the crimes because they know that they would not lose their life and have a posibility of getting out of prison.

Death Penalty (Jamilex)

Does the death penalty help prevent crime in our country? Death penalty doesn’t stop preventing crimes from happening. There is still going to be crimes happening in my country either way. I say either way criminals will not stop doing crimes because they are still doing them. They will never learn to stop and how if they want to do crime they will do it.  Should families of crime victims be allowed to administer the death penalty? I don’t think that the families should be the ones to administer the death penalty. How about is someone you love family member and your pulling the switch. I think that if someone is convicted of murder and sentenced to death that a professional who has been trained properly should be the one who to pull the switch. I know that families might be very happy to get revenge but I think that they should leave that to the authorities or someone at least. Its like if they want to kill like that person who murdered his family member and they want to pull the switch then their doing the same thing the guy did its like their doing the same thing that the killer did. I think that death penalty is not going to do nothing good at all and its not going to solve problems at all. 

Death Penalty (Sofia)

I don’t think that the death penalty helps prevent crimes in this country because when you are doing something wrong, you don’t really think about the consequences. Especially is you are angry. Usually when a person is angry, they don’t think straight. We only think about getting back at the person or situation that is causing ones anger. I think a person reflects on ones actions after they made a wrong decision and are facing the consequences. Most of the time people regret the decisions they make when they are mad.

            I don’t think that the family members of the victim should not interfere with the convicts at all. I think the family members should be at, be a part of the trial, and hear the sentence but I don’t think they should have a say in anything that happens to the prisoner. I don’t think so because then they’d be doing the same thing to prisoner did to them. Like the prisoner also has a family. The victim’s family knows what it feels like to have a loved one hurt or killed so they shouldn’t do that. And also because that only opens the door to hate and negative feelings towards people, and that only makes a person bitter. And what if the prisoner’s family wants to do something against the other family. And it’s a war that’s never going to end. I think they should just let the police take care of everything. That’s why they are here for right?

Death Penalty (oscar)

    Does the death penalty help prevent crime in our country? The death penalty will help prevent less crimes in our country. Because lets say you go and rob a bank and you don’t get away with it and you get captured, you will face the death penalty. And the next person who decides to do the same crime or a different crime will maybe think twice before making any actions. But in the other hand I don’t think the death penalty will make a difference because a criminal will not care about other peoples life. Eventually he/she wont care about their own life. So it wouldn’t make a difference if you are a cold blooded person. The families of the victims should not be allowed to administer the death pentalty because that would make them also a criminal.  They would have in their conscience knowing that by their decision they have caused the death of a person.  I don’t believe that the family would jump up and down with joy after seeing the person that victimized their family put to death. Families of victims know that taking the life of the criminal is not giving back their loved one. Only one more family will suffer. In addition the criminal has to pay while he is alive, for example serving at prison. I know that some families prefer the death penalty, but they still will feel some guilt in supporting the killing of a person, even if that person was a criminal.

Death Penalty (Sarai)

Death Penalty

Death Penalty does not stop crimes from happening. Crime happens everywhere and is obviously not something new to this world. It has been done for many years and it is a topic that people are very concerned about. Criminals will keep on doing crimes as long as they know that they will get away with it. If they ever get caught then they will suffer the consequences, but still till today there are numerous criminals that have not been caught. Lets just hope that in the near future there might be better technology so we can locate criminals’ easily.

            Families should be allowed to administer the death penalty or their relative if they want to. If they do not want to, the prisoner will get to choose the death penalty he wants. Also if the family had the option of being the one to pull the switch that ends the prisoner’s life, then they could decide to do it. The prisoner and his family will have a chance to see each other in a room to get all their thoughts of how the death penalty will be.  The family members will receive at least 40 minutes to spend time with their loved one. There the family will get the chance to say any last words they have for the prisoner. Besides, this will be the last time they will ever see each other.