California is having problems with its death penalty. It hasn’t executed anyone since 2006, when a federal court ruled that its method of lethal injection was improper and could cause excessive pain. The state spent five years coming up with a better method — and last month, a judge threw that one out too. One indication of just how bogged down California’s capital-punishment system is: the inmate who brought the latest lethal-injection challenge has been on death row for 24 years.
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Firing Squad instead!!!
ReplyDeleteBring back the firing squad... bullets are cheap
ReplyDeleteHere is a better method where no one feels pain, 12 gauge shot gun to the head!
ReplyDeletefor once it would be funny to see headline grabber say "Why The Death Penalty Is Slowly Dying". then you open the story and its one word..."liberals".
ReplyDeleteI say kill the SOB's. All these bleeding heart liberals think it is cruel and unusual punishment. What about all the innocent people they raped and killed. And they did nothing to deserve it. Don't you think their deaths were painful. Some even tortured for hours. I am sure you might feel differently if it was your wife or daughter that was murdered,
ReplyDeleteTo claim that killing a person is immoral and criminal, then to punish the killer by killing them, makes the person implementing the punishment immoral and criminal by default.
ReplyDeleteFrom a moral standpoint the death penalty is inherently immoral.
Let's look at it from a deterrent viewpoint. Does the death penalty deter crimes that warrant the punishment? The answer is no. So we then have to ask, is it moral?
Lastly, the financial burden on the taxpayer to keep a person on death row, or to actually kill them is astronomically more costly than keeping them in prison for life. Financially, it makes no sense, so again, we have to ask, does this make sense, is this moral?
Is it justice? or mere revenge? and is Revenge moral?
It's interesting, at one time I was pro death penalty, until I had to participate in a debate relevant to capital punishment... where I chose to argue for it. After researching, and gathering all relevant data/information... not only did I change my mind on it... but so did all 8 other participants on my "team" who held the same "pro capital punishment" stance.
It's o.k. to disagree with me... but I recommend if you support capital punishment to ask yourself why, and to do some research on it. I think you'll be surprised.
6:01 PM
ReplyDeleteWow. An intelligent response. Refreshing.
The criminal justice system in this country, as a whole, does not work.
With DNA testing we are finding more and more inmates that are unjustly locked up.
Prisons are big business. There is a lot of money to be made in that field.
And does locking anyone up for 'x' number of years really do anything positive?
Granted, there has to be some kind of punishment or there would be chaos. Merely putting someone in prison solves no purpose. Minimal deterrent. And except for life sentences, they WILL be released some day.
While they are in there and under state control, they should be educated, trained for employment when they are released.
Most people balk at that for any number of different reasons. But their refusal to take positive steps to try and stop criminal behavioral only serves to bolster recidivism.
A never ending cycle that only ends when the criminal dies or is never released to commit more crimes.
This is a very vengeful society. They take pleasure in crushing people.
Would you rather someone be educated and trained when released to be better prepared to be a productive member of society, or, someone who has sat in prison for years, decades, with nothing to do but pump weights, hate, be abused and abuse others and plan revenge when he gets out?
History has proven the latter.
6:01: BS!
ReplyDelete6:36: Near BS!