Maryland Kills the Death Penalty
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Thank God we have a new topic. Didn't mean to use the G word.
Interesting....... I am personally in favor of the death penalty. I just feel that we need a deterrent. I am not in favor of the super high cost of warehousing convicts for 50 + years. I also think the appeals process should be done in 5 years. Maybe some see these positions as harsh. It's
just my opinion. I would rather spend tax dollars helping seniors buy medicine instead of paying for cable TV for felons. While I'm on a rant......I
would have non-violent prisoners cleaning up this country. Imagine a clean country.
I am completely in favor of studies to evaluate who is being imprisoned and why. I personally believe most people commit crimes because they are in a very bad financial situation. Will the south follow suit ? I seriously doubt it. I could see the entire north making that change before even 25% of the south does. Hell in Texas I'm surprised it isn't televised on public access cable.
Since we now have DNA technology, all prisoners should get that test before being executed. If it helps prove innocence or guilt. Most modern cases would have used that in the trial. If thre are disparities in racial sentencing....... then there should be a system to audit judges and their rulings.
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Do you think that Jodi Arias should get death?
How about Castro from the Cleveland kidnappings?
Pretty ..."heinious"... circumstances in both these cases. Arias has said that she wants to get death and has been found guilty in trial. Assuming that Castro is found guilty, should he get death as well?
How about Kermit Gosnell, the Philly late term abortion doctor who was found guilty of first degree murder?
Would it be ..."justice"... to put any or all of these to death? If a person believes in the death penalty, a good case for death can be made for all three.
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Pa. has one of the highest death row populations in the country,something like 211, since 1962 there have been 3 executions, one,Gary Hydnik (mispelling?) dropped all of his appeals and demanded to be put to death,his crime was a well documented crime ,House of Horrors, the pit in the movie Silence of Lambs was based on his crime scene, the death penalty in this state is a joke,I see nothing wrong with these types of criminals being cut off completly from society,jail house society as well,if there is a death penalty,then use it, it is a deterrent for the murderers to not committ another murder as they will be dead,it was not intended,I think anyway,to prevent a murder but to punish a particular heinous crime, does the Gosnell case warrant the death penalty,hell yes, but if given the sentence of death,he will not be asked to pay the ultimate price because #1 his age,#2 he won't outlive the appeals process. Jodie Arias, just another crime of passion murder,life without parole will be sufficient,the nut that shot up the Sandy Hook school, no, because the Constitution does not allow for the execution of the deranged, that will be of course be a good legal battle, if the people in authority called the death penalty what it is and not what it isn't and that would be #1 its not a deterrent #2, its the unltimate form of punishment .
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the death penalty is one of those topics that will always generate strong opinions on both sides of the argument ..
my opinion is that that there ARE some individuals who are a menace to society, and should be put to death for their heinous crimes ..
however ...
the death penalty is NOT an incentive NOT to commit a crime ..
surprisingly ..
it's actually cheaper to imprison a killer for the rest of his/her life than to execute him, due to the safeguards built into a legal system ..
the link below provides a few more details, that you'll probably find of interest:
http://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2011/11/kill-em-all-and-let-god-sort-em-out.html
the most relevant comment related to the death penalty was uttered by Sister Helen Prejean (of "Dead Man Walking" fame):
“Government can’t be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill”.
if you're old enough to remember the original Jefferson Airplane group, you may remember that their lead guitarist was a guy named Jorma Kaukonen .. this is what HE would say about the death penalty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkppeu7-Fs
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