Opinions about the Death Penalty?

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What is your opinion about the Death Penalty?

In my opinion, this is a really good punishment, I think if someone murders two or more, they should be executed, I would hope that this punishment should be renewed/allowed in New Zealand
(Man slaughter does not count)
This is a weird thing to talk about, but opinion would be appreciated
This is not a joke or a troll question, this is a serious post, comparing opinions

Why do you think it's a really good punishment?

There are some horrible people in the world, it's nearly every day when I hear that a family member kills his family, normally the kids aswell, which is the worst type of crime, when children are the victims of crime such as murder or molesting etc, that ruins the life of the child and the family's, one way to find peace is if the murderer or molester dies, my keyboard is lagging on my phone I will finish this off tomorro

Well, this topic is also difficult do discuss worldwide. There is huge differences between cultures and legal systems across the world.

I live in Denmark.
When committing homicide intentionally, you are sentenced to 5 years to life. A life sentence in Denmark is maximum 16 years, depending on the situation. The longest sentence of life, were 32 years. (Palle Sørensen killed four cops, in 1966. In 1998, he was pardoned and is now a free man and is currently 89 years old)

In some situation and it need to be extreme, I would agree with the death penalty, however the cost of it is tremendous.

To actually sentence someone to death, we would all agree that we needed to be damn sure of the convicted persons guilt. And making sure of this, makes it really expensive. In Florida, an average execution from start to finish cost 24 million dollars. In Texas it's 2.3 million, but still 3 times higher than the cost of prison for life. A study in California showed that USA have used 4 billion dollars on the death penalty since 1978.

Death penalty is also really not good as a prevention of crime. It's difficult to relay to your mind that you are going to die, if you do something specific. And most homicides are spontaneous and done by people that know their victims. The thought of our own death in that spontaneous moment would not change anything.

But none the less, good topic. I did attend a course on my degree last semester called Criminology, and it was actually really interesting. To discuss matters such as death penalty and "who do we punish in general". But also a lot more about why do people do crime. In my mind, we are better of investing in preventing methods than increasing punishments and introducing death penalty.