According to Amnesty International, by late 2008, 138 countries were capital punishment abolitionists in law and practice. The capital punishment sentences are on the decline in the US. Do you think the US should abolish the death penalty?
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Ghost of Vietnam, your facts are untrue. A prisoner's college degree is not paid with taxes. Ever Read more.
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Yes. We're the only developed nation that still uses it. C'mon!
C'Mon yourself,,Jpan and china are also not only developed nation's but highly advanced in the aspects of technology and LOW CRIME Rates that the united states do not even have a dream of being close to.Not only should the U.S.A. keep the death penalty,It needs to enhance it's use of it by executing hundreds a year on death row instead of merely a dozen or so.Talk about a severe drain on taxpayers wallets and resources,A Death Row inmate in the united states can get a "FREE" college education at the expense of law abiding citizens,Costing upwards of $200,000,,Even if their sentences were commuted to life in prison,what exactly GOOD is going to come of a convicted murderer having a masters degree ? Talk about " C'Mon",,YOU C'MON and kick some common sense into gear here !!
Ghost of Vietnam, your facts are untrue. A prisoner's college degree is not paid with taxes. Every state is different but in my state, the local university has a special endowment for prisoners, it does NOT come out of taxes. And because we have so many prisoners, very few are eligible. Fortunately, we do not have the barbaric death penalty in my state but we do have life without parole, which is a death penalty. And even life without parole doesn't exist in other developed countries, and their crime rates are much lower than ours. We have more prisoners in our prisons than any other country, 1/4 of the world's prisoners yet we are only 5% of the world population. We don't imprison people to keep crime down, studies show that's not the way to curb crime. We do it because it's a lucrative business.
But you obviously don't understand the benefit of a person who has been sentenced to life without parole because you've been taught to be cruel. It's how our system continues to be cruel, with the recruitment of soldiers like you. Prisoners' lives continue, and every day is just as much a day for them as it is for you. Being provided something positive to do, something they probably didn't have before going to prison, something that if they and all of us had, would probably have prevented the crime, gives them some hope.
But we are a hopeless society, that's the source of our crime, we are a hopeless debt strangled population that thrives off incarceration. Every one of us, including you, is a sitting duck for this travesty.