Advocates calling for a repeal of the death penalty say the resources should be diverted from the death of the criminal to the victims’ families. This group is taking their case to lawmakers, who also have strong opinions.
Senate President Mike Miller will vote against the repeal.
“There has to be an ultimate penalty for somebody who commits mass murder,” Miller said.
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24 comments:
They got this one Bass-Ackwards.
Kill the criminals - save the babies!
The prisons are too full now with repeat offenders. If there is no death penalty, crime is sure to get only worse.
They took a life and they should period.They get to live even in confindment, Wrong! Wabout the victims familys? They a loved one taken away never to come back and the felon is cared for with taxpayers money.Politicans dontcare about nothing but themselfs.
An eye for an eye, let em die!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
They took a life and they should period.They get to live even in confindment, Wrong! Wabout the victims familys? They a loved one taken away never to come back and the felon is cared for with taxpayers money.Politicans dontcare about nothing but themselfs.
January 29, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Did you ever take an English class?
First and foremost the penal system in America has become a playground/country club because of self righteous persons, the ACLU and our legal community. That being said, you have to understand there are some very bad individuals in this world and ever so oftern you have to thin the herd. When there is no mistake the criminal committed the heinous crime, he'll have to pay.
Poor English aside 12:44 makes the Point, the Whole Point, and Nothing but the Point. What about the victim's family? They are representing the victim who will ultimately lose the last thing they had left-A Voice in the decision on the penalty for the SOB who did the most horrible thing ever and decided to end another human beings life.
It may be that a family decides the death penalty's not for them and ask that it not be imposed but the option should remain.
Prisons are "for profit businesses" that would lose funding if they put somebody to death. Can't have that!
Most of America's prison are now big business, feeding the bear.
ANON 12:55 You must be a FELON or DEMOCRAT complaining about someones English.
execute killers and you will not have repeat offenders. remember the two fireman shot not to long ago, well the killer killed his grandmother with a hammer. if he was executed for murder the fireman would still be alive.
Pro Life here, there is no other answer than to stop the death penalty. Any other position on the subject is not Pro LIfe.
3:38 why you repeat yourself? I thought all felons were democrats same as all democrats are felons! some just haven't been caught and prosecuted yet!
If you are in another profession besides the criminal justice system, I caution you as to make this decision. Would you like the criminal justice profession coming into your business and making policies that you now have to live by, of course not.
So please listen to what they have to say and look at their view with their experience in mind.
First point, you have the "eye for an eye" argument, meaning they took a life then a life should be taken, obvious point,
Second it is an invaluable tool, defendants bargain and save the system money, the victims family pain that could not be put into a dollar figure. They want to make a deal to get the death penalty off the table. Without that influence the system will suffer. It will, there it no doubt on this.
Third, for the other side, putting someone in prison for life costs less then someone with a death penalty. Stupid isn't it, death penalty cases have automatic reviews and appeals that costs millions and takes years if not decades.
Forth, I agree that there needs to be specific evidence in the case so there is not a chance that an innocent person is put to death. MD already has this, so you can rest assured that in MD if someone is put to death they did it. With that evidence cut one of the reviews save the money.
Please don't take this tool from already broken system. We need all we can get.
Pro life for murders is a "Pro Death" stance! You are promoting repeat murders and recidivist activity. Figure this one out, dude! There are people out there who are PROUD of their body count!
Yeah, go ahead, "Pro Life". I hope your house is next.
DIE!
"Shoot 'em, shoot 'em, shoot em'!
Anonymous said...
execute killers and you will not have repeat offenders. remember the two fireman shot not to long ago, well the killer killed his grandmother with a hammer. if he was executed for murder the fireman would still be alive.
January 29, 2013 at 4:21 PM
True!
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ANON 12:55 You must be a FELON or DEMOCRAT complaining about someones English.
January 29, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Democrats are felons!
The prisons are too full now with repeat offenders. If there is no death penalty, crime is sure to get only worse.
January 29, 2013 at 12:37 PM
They are full of drug offenders, parole violators, and other NON-VIOLENT crimes.
Recidivism has always been a problem in this country with or without the death penalty.
If there is specific DNA evidence, video evidence, confessions, REPUTABLE eye witnesses, then there may be a case for the death penalty phase.
Too many times, AFTER THE FACT, we have found people to be innocent after they are put to death.
Also, there is a pattern in law enforcement and prosecution to lie, fabricate evidence, withhold evidence, and other things, just to get a conviction, or knowingly get a false conviction because they didn't like the victim(innocent 'criminal').
I wonder how many surviving victims of homicide victims would push the button to kill the ones who killed their family members or whatever.
I am sure there will be some, but I am also convinced there would be more who would not want to push that button.
Having someone else do it for you is much easier and lowers the guilty feelings of having someone killed in your name.
I think perhaps we need the death penalty option, with stringent controls and qualifying factors in order to use it.
It should be used more as a deterrent and to avoid certain repetitions of deadly violence by the criminal.
It should NOT be used as revenge, pay back nor to further one's career.
@ 11:54
"They are full of drug offenders, parole violators, and other NON-VIOLENT crimes." They are full of VIOLENT crimes also.
"Too many times, AFTER THE FACT, we have found people to be innocent after they are put to death."
Ok, Name one?
"Also, there is a pattern in law enforcement and prosecution to lie, fabricate evidence, withhold evidence, and other things, just to get a conviction, or knowingly get a false conviction because they didn't like the victim(innocent 'criminal')."
Please again show me this "pattern", name the situations that made a pattern. Can you think of one?
Are you in jail or family in jail, because everyone is jail says the evidence was made up.
@3:20 AM
A quick google search of people exonerated of their crimes AFTER execution pulls up Johnny Frank Garrett of Texas, Wayne Felker exonerated by DNA evidence, Thomas and Meeks Griffin , Chipita Rodriguez was hanged in San Patricio County Texas, and Carlos DeLuna was executed in Texas. You asked for only one example, a 2 second long google search found 5. I would wager another 2 seconds spent looking would find many more.
May I also point out the irony, if not hypocrisy, of viewing murder or killing as immoral or illegal, and then administering it as a punishment.
Kirk Bloodworth from Cambridge was on MD's Death Row though his death sentence had been commuted to 2 life sentences when he was the first American to be exonerated by DNA evidence.
Bloodsworth was a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and that coupled with dishonest investigators lead to his arrest for murder and rape of a young girl in Baltimore.
Through DNA he was found to be 100% innocent of the crime and eventually the murderer was found through the DNA. Ironically Bloodworth knew the real murderer because the murdered had been incarcerated for something else and served his sentence in the same institution where Bloodsworth was being held.
WE are talking about MD not anywhere else, so Google search MD. MD law is being talked about change, where is the evidence for MD doing it wrong???
@1:15 AM
The post right before yours has an example of MD getting it wrong, and luckily catching it before he was executed.
We are talking about taking a life. I think that any cases where someone was executed... and then found to be innocent of the crime they were killed for, no matter where it happened, is relevant to the conversation.
If murder/killing is immoral/wrong, what does that say about capital punishment if a person is wrongfully executed? If the crime for murder is death, then who is punished/ie put to death for the killing of an innocent person that was on death row? We can't just simply say "oops, were real sorry about that" now can we? Do you propose we then kill the executioners who are clearly and unequivicolly guilty of murder?
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