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re: EDIT: 50/50 was 1 down, 7 to go..No 3 down,1 to go 4 still around! Death Penalty...
Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:30 am to Razorback Reverend
Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:30 am to Razorback Reverend
I think I'm pretty much to the point where I think the death penalty shouldn't be an option. The fact that innocent people are mistakenly killed OCCASSIONALLY makes it an illegitimate form of capital punishment. No American citizen should ever be collateral damage in pursuit of justice. Kinda back to the days of, "I'd rather let 1000 guilty men go free than let 1 innocent man rot in prison." Except - I'd rather let every last guilty 1st degree murderer spend the rest of their lives in prison than take the chance that we'd execute someone that was proven to be innocent down the line. Add in the element of cost and I don't see how a state can afford to take the risk, or how the citizens can stomach a government being so cavalier with the most important thing on earth.
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:02 pm to ocelot4ark
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No American citizen should ever be collateral damage in pursuit of justice.
There goes our military
Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:07 pm to Razorback Reverend
In.
And also let's not forget Kenneth D. Williams, another death row inmate slated for execution before getting a stay.
He killed a UAPB cheerleader and was serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole when he escaped from prison and murdered a farmer near the prison. LINK LINK All told, he was responsible for the deaths of four people including confessing to murdering a man the same day he murdered the cheerleader. Yet some question why we should ever have the death penalty.
And also let's not forget Kenneth D. Williams, another death row inmate slated for execution before getting a stay.
He killed a UAPB cheerleader and was serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole when he escaped from prison and murdered a farmer near the prison. LINK LINK All told, he was responsible for the deaths of four people including confessing to murdering a man the same day he murdered the cheerleader. Yet some question why we should ever have the death penalty.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:09 pm to Litigator
People should always question the govt, that's why the 2nd amendment exists
Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:17 pm to piggilicious
Equal pay, bitches
Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:30 pm to Pigfeet
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Equal pay, bitches
My best gal friend- who's also a hottie btw- makes more than probably 99.9% of the men I know.
I make more than most where I work- but I am family so by damn I better.
The only time I knowingly made less than someone for an equal job (and I had experience and helped train them) was when I was at acx and I knew simply because the person printed their payroll info off on the group printer and I happened upon it accidentally. And that person was a black gal, so...
You honestly better be treating me equal tho- or I punch back much better than that dirty dread head.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:40 pm to piggilicious
The death penalty wouldn't be as expensive if it was administered in a more timely manner.
If they are going to be on death row for 25 years, then yeah, get rid of it.
Five years from original guilty verdict gives plenty of time for appeals and decreases the length of time the convict is incarcerated which generates the savings vs a life sentence.
Always get a chuckle at the posters with the opinion that the death penalty is preferred by the accused over a life sentence. Just not using the ole noggin in coming up with that pearl of ignorance.
If they are going to be on death row for 25 years, then yeah, get rid of it.
Five years from original guilty verdict gives plenty of time for appeals and decreases the length of time the convict is incarcerated which generates the savings vs a life sentence.
Always get a chuckle at the posters with the opinion that the death penalty is preferred by the accused over a life sentence. Just not using the ole noggin in coming up with that pearl of ignorance.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:44 pm to Razorback Reverend
Eye for an Eye...I would have volunteered to be a witness
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:01 pm to Razorback Reverend
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whew, the lady from Ch 7 KATV who witnessed the execution seemed to be very shaken when she came to the camera to give her report.
tough shite for her - then don't watch it
I wouldn't want to see it either
Sounds like she's trying to become part of the story
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:02 pm to piggilicious
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My best gal friend- who's also a hottie btw-
Pics or gtfo
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:31 pm to Pigfeet
I'm going to have to agree with Pigfeet for once...
Posted on 4/21/17 at 3:35 pm to oklahogjr
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Five years from original guilty verdict gives plenty of time for appeals and decreases the length of time the convict is incarcerated which generates the savings vs a life sentence.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 3:48 pm to sugatowng
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for once
#fakeNews
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:07 pm to Pigfeet
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I for one think the death penalty is an easy way out for these bastards, but cruel and unusual punishment is against the law.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 6:58 pm to Columbia
it'snot used eoguh and it is not harsh enough. If you rape and kill someone, burning someone alive is not curel and unusual punishment imho. i am extremely pro death penalty. some people do to deserve to live.
Posted on 4/24/17 at 2:18 am to Pigfeet
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There goes our military
I should have said, "civilian." And individual justice/liberty.
Posted on 4/25/17 at 7:01 pm to Razorback Reverend
thread title needs an update
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:05 pm to gthog61
Time to get this 4th one tomorrow
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:32 pm to Pigfeet
Hopefully.
Then we need to get to the rest of them without undue delay.
Then we need to get to the rest of them without undue delay.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:23 pm to Litigator
I feel they had this figured out millennia ago but I'm not sure how to implement it now. If someone has done something so heinous they have to be permanently banished from society then do just that. Banishment is by far the most elegant solution as long as it's permanent but I'm not sure how to accomplish that in the modern age. Maybe ship them all to North Korea? If you could permanently banish criminals you would have no cost, no moral issues of the state deciding life/death. The criminals would have no opportunity to infect society with their ideas or offspring. No interviews or book deals. No internet marriages or fan clubs. They are gone with no notoriety.
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