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For heinous crimes, esp. involving children, but also really sick, demented ones or repeat offenders, I think it's the right thing to do.
I think it's hard to draw where that line is. But I also think it's important to have the moral high ground. Add to that the grrater actual cost to taxpayers related to a death row inmante versus someone serving a life ter,. But probably to me the biggest issue are all the wrongful convictions. The work of the Innocence Project and similar groups show that there are a significant number of people incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. If that is confitmed years later, you can at least give the wrongfully convicted some of his/her life back. There is nothing that can be done if the person has been put to death. Also, I believe studies have shown y pretty consistentlthat the death penalty does nothing to deter crime.
Likely spent 3X the money to execute instead of life in prison as well. The death penalty really serves no purpose anymore. It's more expensive, it does not seem to prevent violent acts, and it's really just a misplaced revenge kill issued by the state who was not the party or family injured in the first place.
I don't see how killing someone 20+ years after a crime is suppose to ensure some sort of justice. Even if someone wanted "Revenge" I don't think most would consider 20+ years of waiting, and millions of tax dollars spent, and 20 years of life past that point some sort of revenge or get a wonderful feeling when the person is injected and dies in 5 min considering they are already in a cage and locked away, effectively ending their life already.
If Joe knew he was getting a bullet in the back of the head on the courthouse steps, I suspect folks might take killing somebody else just a bit more seriously.
Texas executed a man who killed his great aunt in 1999. I am not sure how I feel about this. There was a petition to stop the execution which included about 180,000 signatures including his own family who forgave him.
Part of me thinks that life in prison would be better off. I have mixed emotions about the death penalty.
He committed the crime. He paid the penalty. No problem with that at all.
And "no consequence" makes it so much better, right?
Well, we know of one murderer who will never murder again, don't we.
We know THAT person will never murder again. However, my idea is that we need to get the murders rates down. And it seems like the death penalty doesn't scare some people.
We know THAT person will never murder again. However, my idea is that we need to get the murders rates down. And it seems like the death penalty doesn't scare some people.
Texas executed a man who killed his great aunt in 1999. I am not sure how I feel about this. There was a petition to stop the execution which included about 180,000 signatures including his own family who forgave him.
Part of me thinks that life in prison would be better off. I have mixed emotions about the death penalty.
I don't have mixed emotions. He murdered her and paid the ultimate price.
Well done Texas!
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