{"id":6471,"date":"2011-12-30T00:42:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T19:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:05:03","slug":"how-do-americans-feel-about-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/how-do-americans-feel-about-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Americans Feel About The Death Penalty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the most telling thing about the \u201cHow do Americans feel About the Death Penalty?\u201d<\/strong> infographic is in the title itself; in the use of the word \u201cfeel\u201d. If Americans actually thought<\/em> about the death penalty then they would understand its necessity.<\/p>\n

Most arguments against the death penalty revolve around the \u201cfact\u201d that it is not a deterrent. We do agree with that–in its present form<\/em>. Today, people are not actually \u201ckilled\u201d or \u201cput to death\u201d as much as they are \u201cput to sleep\u201d. We aver that this is actually the preferred method of death for virtually everyone. It is quite appropriate that you simply go to sleep (preferably in your extreme old age after having a joyful life) and never waking up. This is how the death penalty is now.<\/p>\n

Moreover, many people sentenced to the death actually do die of old age, and the death penalty is applied very unevenly (witness the current news reports of Abu Ghraib, otherwise known as Chicago).<\/p>\n

Regardless, the death penalty can be<\/em> a deterrent. There are<\/em> such things as deterrents. Look at your own life. Have you killed someone, raped someone, or are a police officer? Assuming that the answer is \u201cno\u201d then it is because of your own ethics, your own sense of right and wrong, and hopefully inculcated in you by your parents. If you transgressed in some things then you learned the consequences of them. You can also observe the consequences of other people\u2019s actions. Witness what happens when others try to smuggle drugs into Singapore, Indonesia and other places.<\/p>\n

Those are <\/em>deterrents.<\/p>\n

Likes:<\/strong> A thought-provoking infographic. The \u201cDeath penalty versus life imprisonment\u201d section also provides a wealth of useful information.<\/p>\n

Dislikes:<\/strong> More people believe that the death penalty is being applied fairly. Of course, this was before the recent revelations about Chicago.<\/p>\n

The American public has grown slightly more uneasy about capital punishment over time, but more than 60% still support the death penalty. This infographic done in collaboration with GOOD, looks at how the perception of the death penalty has changed over the years.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the most telling thing about the \u201cHow do Americans feel About the Death Penalty?\u201d infographic is in the title itself; in the use of the word \u201cfeel\u201d. If Americans actually thought about the death penalty then they would understand its necessity. Most arguments against the death penalty revolve around the \u201cfact\u201d that it is…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> How Do Americans Feel About The Death Penalty?<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}