Capital Punishment

[Operational needs]

Capital punishment....for or against.

Arkansas Executes 2 Inmates, a First for Any State on One Day Since 2000

Arkansas executed two prisoners, three hours apart last night.

 

[It will be fine]

The state should not take life.

 

[moreluck]

The state should not take life.

How do you explain abortions from federally funded Planned Parenthood? Babies have lives clear of crime.

 

[BrownArmy]

How do you explain abortions from federally funded Planned Parenthood? Babies have lives clear of crime.

How much Federal money goes to abortions?

Take your time...

 

[BrownArmy]

Not a fan of capital punishment.

Aside from my moral objection, the death penalty doesn't seem to deter crime, and ends up being more expensive than 'life in prison'.

What's the point?

Seems to me, life in prison is a worse punishment in either case.

 

[rickyb]

How do you explain abortions from federally funded Planned Parenthood? Babies have lives clear of crime.

then your not in agreement with capital punishment?

 

[rickyb]

which other developed countries practice capital punishment ?

 

[Poop Head]

Eye for an eye!! I think people that commit heinous crimes against other humans (murder, rape, etc..) should be executed/punished in the same manner as said acts. And quit flushing our tax dollars down the drain by keeping scumbags alive

 

[BrownArmy]

Eye for an eye!! I think people that commit heinous crimes against other humans (murder, rape, etc..) should be executed/punished in the same manner as said acts. And quit flushing our tax dollars down the drain by keeping scumbags alive

Except it ends up costing the taxpayer more to prosecute death penalty cases, so...

 

[Poop Head]

Except it ends up costing the taxpayer more to prosecute death penalty cases, so...

Yeah with the bull system in place now. Someone pos child rapist/murderer found guilty? Take him out back, rape him with a stick and shoot him in the head the same day. Much cheaper.

 

[BrownArmy]

Yeah with the bull system in place now. Someone pos child rapist/murderer found guilty? Take him out back, rape him with a stick and shoot him in the head the same day. Much cheaper.

Innocence Project - Help us put an end to wrongful convictions!

 

[rickyb]

if theres no other developed countries which practice capital punishment, then this may be another example of america bveing the only country practicing uncivilized policies like being the only country with no paid vacation time by law, the only country with no paid maternity leave by law, etc.

 

[oldngray]

Eye for an eye!! I think people that commit heinous crimes against other humans (murder, rape, etc..) should be executed/punished in the same manner as said acts. And quit flushing our tax dollars down the drain by keeping scumbags alive

While I am for capital punishment the Biblical concept of an eye for an eye is usually said with the wrong meaning. It does mean proportional punishment but more as a limit, such as no more than an eye for an eye. Intended to restrict the escalation that could lead to wholesale slaughter.

 

[Poop Head]

Innocence Project - Help us put an end to wrongful convictions!

I'm assuming that's some article on how many wrongful death sentence convictions there have been or something. I'm talking about the kinda guys found with multiple bodies in their backyard and . I don't think there is any reason to shelter and feed these people for many many years.

 

[oldngray]

I'm assuming that's some article on how many wrongful death sentence convictions there have been or something. I'm talking about the kinda guys found with multiple bodies in their backyard and . I don't think there is any reason to shelter and feed these people for many many years.

Its more inhumane to stick them on death row for 20 or 30 years before you decide whether you will execute them.

I don't think it should be done in most murder cases but there are definitely some so extreme I think its warranted.

 

[Operational needs]

which other developed countries practice capital punishment ?

Who cares? We're talking about THIS country.

 

[BrownArmy]

I'm assuming that's some article on how many wrongful death sentence convictions there have been or something. I'm talking about the kinda guys found with multiple bodies in their backyard and . I don't think there is any reason to shelter and feed these people for many many years.

Yes, there have been multiple exonerations after the fact, sometimes posthumously.

As well, there are repeated indications of defense misconduct - in the backstory of one of the recent Arkansas executions, Ledell Lee's defense lawyer was drunk, a member of the prosecution was having an affair with the trial judge, the police screwed up the investigation, Mr. Lee was probably mentally impaired, etc.

It's not clear that he was guilty, but now he's dead, because Arkansas needed to get rid of their expired 'medicine'.

Smells like justice to me!

 

[BrownArmy]

which other developed countries practice capital punishment ?

China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea, Vietnam, and Libya.

We're in good company!

(I left out Yemen...is that a developed country?)

 

[rickyb]

Who cares? We're talking about THIS country.

exactly! we have nothing to learn from other countries which dont do anything better than us around the world

 

[Poop Head]

exactly! we have nothing to learn from other countries which dont do anything better than us around the world

You keep winking like you're making a point...