What do you do with the dead guy that is proved innocent later.

I have no problem with capital punishment if there is no doubt whatsoever of guilt. One can sit on death row for many years filing appeal after appeal.
What's worse capital punishment or spending 30, 40 years or more locked up?

I take offense at the government calling capital cases "The people vs john doe." Because quiet frankly I am one of the people and I want no part in the state sanctioning and carrying out grieving families revenge for them.

I know they're sad and looking for closure but killing the murderer won't bring them closure, closure is a myth anyways, the final stage of grief is not restoration or healing but acceptance-it will ALWAYS hurt.

I've lost somebody dear to me myself in a senseless accident which was her best friends fault. I don't think getting back at Jennifer (that was her name) will bring me peace about what happened to Cara.

I know it will always hurt. There will always be a hole inside me that she used to fill.

This is why I don't really believe in capital punishment and don't really want the government to assume it has my endorsement or support in killing anyone in my name.

it isn't given out uniformly and takes forever to deliver the sentence

they are more likely to die of old age than being executed

it's too expensive and takes too long

and there is no way to correct the sentence once it has been carried out

For select crimes, certainly

addeneum: I don't believe the state should be in the business of facilitating revenge for grieving families no matter how intensely people might want them to be. justice = / = revenge.

I support restorative justice as an alternative..

mistypetal think I have answered the same question on this site before my answer is no to capital punishment mistakes do get made people have been wrongly convicted if you order the death sentence on a person who was later innocent

Im in two minds simply coz i think our prisons need to be harsher and stricter. But equally then that brings a whole load of other problems. And I say this because being confined and being bored and is more a punishment then death.

Is that another word for tax? :)

That's a really tough one. Your initial emotional reaction is to rid the planet of the scum that just preys off others with no care, but then, what if you get the wrong person?
One person killed in error, makes society no better than the scum you're trying to eradicate.

For some crimes. The method should vary depending on the crime too. Child abusers should be shot out of a cannon for example.

I think everyone in Washington D.C should be punished!! 😏

Only god has absolute moral authority..
And we are all sinners who deserve death