Not in Canada no.

Although I wouldn't be opposed using capital punishment in heinous crimes such as terrorism but considering the cost and amount of effort it would take to bring it back, it's probably not worth it.

My country's president wants to re implement the death penalty. I don't agree with him, though.

My state does have it, has used it three times in past forty years (97, 99, 08) that I could find. Not used often and the ones in 99 and 08 the people volunteered for lethal injection.

As a Swede, no, of course we don't have it.


I voted "no" in the poll; the death penalty always struck me as uncreative. The absolute worst criminals deserve something more special in return for their actions. I would recommend public humiliation, followed by immediate ostracism by stripping them of their human rights. An easy way to distinguish such a criminal from the rest of the population would be a tatoo or some form of enforced clothing. Then we simply let mob justice take place as the people are free to treat this criminal however they choose, just like he carelessly treated his victims.

Perhaps the people are forgiving and sympathetic. It may be that this criminal manages to live out the rest of his life completely untainted by the masses, but the shame and constant fear of retribution will linger until he has drawn his last breath.

Yes and if the crime is serious like mass murder they need to be killed immediately.

US, yes it does. Although some states have outlawed it.

I live in Japan, and while I'm moderately in favor of death penalty, I don't think the low crime rate has anything to do with death penalty. As you wrote, it's not a sentence for stealing something, In fact most murders and rapes would not get you a death penalty, it's very limited, mostly to serial killing, horrible crimes, etc. To put it in perspective, there is about 1000 murder a year in Japan (that is very low) and no more than a few sentences a year.

By the way, there are a lot of reasons why Japan has a low criminal rates, and I believe one is a very conservative and punishing system regarding sentences, prisons, police rights. Death penalty is just a consequence of that.

Canada. No. We used to. Up until the 60's I think.

i am for the death penalty but as it exist in the US it does not work to prevent crime but it does work well as a negotiating tool for prosecuters

The main reason the death penalty does not work as a deterent today is it takes so many years between being sentenced and actual administering and relative to the number of crimes comitted that are eligible for the death penalty, it is quite rare and infrequent that it is actually used

Honestly public hanging would work far better as a deterent-

I live in the US, specifically in Texas. Unsurprisingly, I support my country's use of the death penalty. There are some out there who are just not worth trying to save (like the guy who repeatedly slammed a 5 month old infant against the sidewalk... Fuck 65 years, just kill him).

Keeping a person incarcerated is expensive, and I'd rather not have my tax dollars feed and clothe monsters that I would personally pass the death sentence on.