Eye for an eye. A life for a life. Basic definitions; a criminal raping a child and leaving her to maladapt to life and develop abnormally is liable to capital punishment. This is decided by judge and can be overrulled by jury.

noooooooooooooooooooo. neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. humans do not have the right to decide who lives and who doesnt. jail for life is the worst we can do. which is way worse than the death penalty anyways

I think that it's more painful to be in jail forever than to have someone end your life...so I don't think the death penalty is any good...

Yes. It has a powerful deterrent effect IF the appeals process is fair and efficient without allowing for ludicrously long stays and the cost is not onerous on the state. As far as the "right to decide who lives or dies" goes, the person who is eligible for capital punishment already made that decision, at least in the U.S., where capital punishment is only available for murder convictions (and, ostensibly, treason). Of course, SCOTUS has put the whole death penalty issue at issue, so the point may b moot here. BTW, it costs on average 20K a year to keep persons ( who, if death penalty eligible have committed the most heinous crimes imaginable, likely in the most heinous ways imaginable)incarcerated. 20K a year--that you pay for--for the rest of their lives. That does not include the cost of inmate-generated lawsuits.

Definitely not.

We say an eye for an eye and then say bring it back for rape????????That's not like for like.

Putting people down like in the same way we do with animals makes us as sick as them.

The Saudis do have the right idea though with chopping off hands for shoplifting. We could extend that to rape and chop off the obvious bit.

Lifetime imprisonment or death are not the solution.