In one of my calsses we had a discussion about our views on the death penalty and where we stood with it and why. We had to pick sides and try to convince other people to come over to which ever side you were in favor of at the moment. This went on the whole calss and I wondered what everyone here had to say about it.

I am personally in favor of the death penalty depending on the crime. If the court believes that that person should have the death penalty as a punishment and the jury agrees on it than I think it should happen. I do wish we could get rid of it but would the tax payers be willing to pay more money to keep a criminal in jail for the rest of their life? Someone said we are one of the few countries that still have the death penalty. I don't know how true that information is but it's just mind boggling! The amount of people going to jail and what not has been increasing a bit lately. I think if we keep the death penalty people may fear the consequences and possibly this could help decrease crim rates?? haha I don't know. Just a thought :]