Quote:#1. Too many innocent people are executed.
the use of DNA testing has brought about a new type of evidence which I think has caused some older convicted criminals to be proven innocent...but do you think this is still going to happen a lot today? Im SURE we will still convict innocent people, but what im saying is, these people wont be detected in the future because there wont be any new sources of evidence to go back and look over the cases with. so whether they are innocent really doesnt matter, because they are never going to get released anyway...ive heard prison isnt a very nice place to live, and i know theres nothign unpleasant in death, so might as well just kill em.
Quote:#2. It's an easy way out for the offender. If someone did something bad enough to get the chair, then I'd rather see them rot in jail for the rest of their days.
you want the innocent people to 'rot in jail' for the rest of their days as well? jail certainly is worse...but the law is NOT about emotion and it is NOT about revenge...people who think this way are disrespectful to our country. the law is there to keep order. the purpose of prison is to protect people from criminals on the street, not to torture them. if torture were the purpose, we would have racks and other torture implements. and you called ME sick for not being anti-hunting!
Quote:#3. It costs the taxpayers much more to kill them than to keep them alive.
this fact should cause us to make executions and the court system cheaper, not to put more people in jail. keeping people in jail is just a burden to society, even if it is less expensive for a certain duration of time, the principle of people paying to support criminals incartcerated for life is ridiculous. imagine some woman gets her husband murdured, she gets a low paying job and barely earns enough to get by on her own, and she makes even less money because some of it goes towards feeding her husbands murderer who is in jail.
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