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Do you support the death penalty?

Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime. Since the year 2000 71 of 1,617 prisoners sentenced to death have been executed.

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Yes
35%
No
41%
Yes
31%
No
22%
Yes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence
3%
No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence
1%
Yes, but the victim’s family should decide the punishment
2%
No, too many people are innocently convicted

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 @B32SQ6Fanswered…3 days3D

Yes, but only if the evidence is undeniable. My reason is that taxpayer money should not be wasted for a merely harsher form of punishment. Many criminals also find the death penalty worse, anyways.

 @9ZL6FBQanswered…3mos3MO

Life sentence(With torture and social stigma in case of violent crimes with chances of parole only under the supervision best of psychologists and psychiatrists)

 @9MCYFY2answered…9mos9MO

I think they should get mental or psychological treatment in jail and educate them for the betterment of the society as mostly uneducated people become serious criminals. Criminals who have committed financial frauds should be enforced to do some mild labour so that they would be employed in some way and their salary to contribute the recovery from the fraud

 @9JW7J48answered…1yr1Y

I dont support death penalty as i think is an easy way out and it gives too much power to the judiciary to set a standard for death penalty. How do they get to decide which convict deserved death penalty and which doesnt.

 @9FYF5BKanswered…1yr1Y

Used as a deterrent but never actually carried out. Terminally ill prisoners are allowed to choose euthanasia and it is published as a death penalty to scare people into abiding the law.

 @9D33VX8answered…2yrs2Y

No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence.

 @938ZLH3answered…3yrs3Y

No, but make it an option for offenders convicted of rape only

 @925D62Zanswered…3yrs3Y

Not in all cases , more in favor of torturous imprisonment for un reform able criminals and terrorist, human right should not be applied to them and they should be treated as Pile of refuse. But only in the rarest of the rare cases

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