That's only because the justice system is broken. A swift injection - that's all that's needed once a person has been proven to be guilty beyond doubt.

For it and for a wider range of crimes prisons are far to expensive to run and a 9mm in the back of the head is cheap. Hell with another 2.8 billion+ people coming over the next 85 years a Judge Dredd future is guaranteed.

Also fuck deterence the death penalty makes it a certainty that a criminal can never commit a crime again especially with how many get out whether by parole or escape to offend again.

It is very easy NOT to commit murder, terrorism, rape, sexually assault a child, kidnapping etc.  So why shouldn't we get rid of scum. 

I'm always amazed about the ridiculously simple view of the World some People have...

Wow it´s really disgusting how some of you people think

if they deserve it then yes. if its murder or rape and their is undeniable evidence then they deserve to die.

well it's probably cheaper, but that's the only positive I can find versus tons of reasons that speak against it.

So you are for that people who commit murder should die, but I assume you are against the death sentence because undeniable evidence will never be possible, only "beyond reasonable doubt" which has shown to be the cause of numerous innocent people being murdered by the state.

I believe in an 'eye for an eye' and that the punishment should fit the crime. But its not as straight forward as that either.

The short version, is yes I do believe there should be a death penalty. But with caveats, primarily that there should be NO shadow of a doubt of the crime they are accused of committing. Needs to be hard evidence.

I will also go a step further though, if a person goes into the street and stabs someone 30 times till death (and its proven beyond a shadow of a doubt) that person should be strapped to a chair and stabbed 30 times till dead himself. Being killed by lethal injection is not to me a punishment that fits said crime. Why should he get to have a nice peaceful death without the pain and suffering he/she caused to others?

It's not, at least in the US where there's pesky things like "appeals" and "due process".  Don't know about other countries that still have it, but I imagine most aren't quite so concerned with prisoner rights.

Plus most criminals get released much earlier than their sentence for good behaviour.