Capital penalty / punishment
are you for or against it? and why?
do you think we need it in lithuania?
it depends on situation, but in all cases I don’t think we should judge…hawever I think capital penalty is needed for such insaint person like petraitis or people like him…I can not imagine other sentence given for him…
but do you think that in petraitis case this is the best solution? don’t you think that it’s a too easy punishment for him …he killed so shouldn’t he suffer for it his whole life?
All of us will suffer, he won’t! Because we will pay taxes. And he will live without any problems whole his life… 
I don’t think we need capital penalty in Lithuania.We aren’t killers,right?Don’t you think we can sentence people who isn’t blood-guilty?That’s why we live in a country,where there are law and order!
I’m not a killer, but I’m totally disagree with you…
- There could be killed insn’t people by capital penalty. For ex.: person is accepted guilty and is being killed using the capital penalty. After some time some new evidence appear, or the real criminal confesses his crime. What about that?
- It’s much worse for criminal to wait for death all his life without any hope, than die cleanly and suddenly, without any regreting and understanding what he did.
The answer is NO for capital penalty.
well well well…
i’m FOR penalty of death. although not always. only in really serious cases, like serial killers, maniacs of worst of all, people who took part in genocide of jewish people. they deserve it.
The capital penalty isn’t the solution of problems. I think it isn’t nessasary. Now there is not good system of punishment, sometimes punishments are very silly.
to be corect supporting a criminal whole his life costs less then one capital punishment! one punishment costs 3,2mln$ and supportment of whole life 65000$ so what is better?
from one website -
Money is not an inexhaustible commodity and the state may very well better spend our (limited) resources on the old, the young and the sick rather than the long term imprisonment of murderers, rapists etc.
Anti-capital punishment campaigners in America sight the higher cost of executing someone over life in prison but this is (whilst true for America) has to do with the endless appeals and delays in carrying out death sentences that are allowed under the American legal system where the average time spent on death row is over 11 years. In Britain in the 20th century the average time in the condemned cell was less than 8 weeks and there was only one appeal.
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and from another website -
At the end of 1992 State and Federal prisons reached a record high of 883,593 prisoners. This record means that approximately 1,143 prison bed spaces are needed per week due to overcrowding. To put this in an economic prospective, on the average each prisoner cost $22,000 per year, and the cost of new construction averages almost $54,000 per bed (AAE "Prison" ). The 883,593 prisoners are costing the American taxpayers approximately $19.4 billion plus another $61.7 million for the construction of the 1,143 spaces needed. Why should we, the tax payers/the victims, support these criminals? It’s true that not all the prisoners are hard core, but in 1992, 2,575 prisoners – all murderers – were sentenced to death (BJS 5-93). 31 (one female) of the 2,575 (36 female) murderers had been executed during 1992. This is the largest number of people executed for any year since 1976 (BJS 12-92). By executing these murders, the American tax money could be used for something more useful. Thus the economy benefits from the death penalty. Plus, it helps lower the prison population by the number executed.
The average time a death row prisoner has to spend in jail until the death sentence is carried out is about nine years and six months (BJS 12-92). It’s more economical to keep them in prison for those nine years and execute them, rather than give let them spend their life in jail, taking up space and tax money. Those who argue that it’s more expensive to execute a prisoner don’t look at the overall picture. Suppose the Amount A equals the amount of money to support one prisoner per year ($22,000) and Amount B equals the cost of the execution (negligible). We are talking about paying Amount A times the nine years spent in jail plus Amount B for the execution plus the cost for new construction during the nine years (total is approx. $690,000), as opposed to paying Amount A times an average of 60 years the prisoner would spend in jail plus the cost of new construction during an average of 60 years (total is approx. $4,560,000). Even if the prisoner spent 20 years in prison the cost would be approx. $1,520,000.