Use of the Death Penalty as punishment for capital murder and sex crimes.

Thank you for your kind words at the beginning I personally am for the death penalty but I thought it would be interesting to go against it. So now here is my counter argument. So first of all I want to thank you for leaving a source for your evidence about crime deterrence. "many hard criminals are put in prisons together. So, would it be fair to a person convicted of a marijuana possession charge to be placed in a jail cell with a convicted serial killer, who could easily kill the marijuana trafficker? No it would not, so the only way to truly prevent a killer or sex offender is to be rid of them. " Yes well while I might be wrong the prison system is set up in 3 major types. Local and county prisons, which hold lower crimes and are the first buildings to get new criminals while they are being processed. These prisons hold people for things like neighborhood disturbances and minor assaults. Then there is the state prison system. There are two subdivisions of this system, low security state penitentiaries and high security state penitentiaries. Low security state prisons are where they house criminals who have done pretty large crimes but have not been repeating offenders. Criminals in these places are minor drug dealers and major assault crimes. While I know in my state that Illegal Marijuana dealing can bring at most a few years in a low security state prison and one large fine I can't be completely sure about the rest of the country. High security prisons hold the people who have murdered, raped, and sold drugs on a massive and dangerous scale. Though again the high security state prisons are then broken up again. Te top layer is the mental health ward. Where they house the mentally ill or people who have been deemed dangerous to themselves or others. Then there is the medical holdings. This is where they keep prisoners who have either injured themselves greatly or has been injured in some way. Then there is what correctional officers call floors 1-4. Floors 1 and 2 hold prisoners that are just about to get out and have been deemed by on site physchologists that they are mentally fit to be around other inmates. This floor would most likely hold the repeating marijuana dealer you were speaking of. Anyone who has committed a dangerous capital crime or is aggressive in any way are not allowed on these floor's. Then there is floors 3 and 4 this is the place where they keep the bulk of the people who have committed capital crimes. They have 6 hours out of their cells and can have contact with people in the 6 hours. Then there is The Advanced Segregation unit, this is where they keep the aggressive and hostile inmates that cannot be around other inmates. SO in most likeliness people with low crimes are kept in different areas than the murderers. Though you may be speaking about the people who have committed 3 or more felonies that may or may not have been actually serious nd they are being held in the federal correction facilities. While it is highly unlikely that a marijuana dealer who has not been part of a major and dangerous gang is in a federal prison I guess it is no impossible, and I would truly have the greatest sympathy for that person. Because federal prisons are where some of the worst of the worst go. And they are more likely to be dangerous as you have stated. But then they would keep the marijuana dealer who unluckily has used up his 3 strikes in a more safe part of the prisons but if you have evidence against this please do tell, I would always love to learn more about it. Now to address your argument that we just need better doctors and personnel to handle these procedures. You are absolutely right if they keep the death penalty then we should go through major changes with the docs to make sure these prisoners die humanely. Lastly I would like to argue your analogy of the professionals killing these men are just like soldiers and should not feel bad and know what they did is right (please correct me if I'm wrong and I am misinterpreting it) Studies have shown that soldiers are being plagued by depression and PTSD. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... and most studies have shown that there is a high correlation between depression and PTSD with suicide.http://www.ptsd.va.gov... and if you go down a little on this website you will see that 15% of people with clinical depression commit suicide http://www.save.org.... Not only that but correctional officers have shown to have higher PTSD rates than veterans http://www.healthcentral.com... But I don't feel comfortable or honourable just pointing out counters to your arguments so I will as well bring some more arguments so that you have a chance to as well counter next discussion. The truth is, we don't know two cents about the effects of capital punishment on our corrections officers as well as the jurors or judges. Because we as humans have empathy, even towards people who have wronged us. It is one thing that makes us amazingly unique. We have not fully studies the emotional and mental strain capital punishment brings to the people who have to watch and come in contact with a person for potentially years like officers of corrections do. Even though I am for capital punishment both my parents became correction officers, and they both suffer from paranoia and anxiety and depression, and many people in that system have committed suicide or became mentally unstable. Capital punishment not only effect the criminal, but the judge and juror, the officers, and the executioner. We need to properly give these innocent people treatment and study this sadly unstudied topic before we can keep punishing the innocent that were sworn to protect us.