Posted on 06/02/2015 7:22:57 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Evidence of the country’s much-vetted shift to the political left is the strengthening and spread of the movement to abolish capital punishment, that relic of barbarous times when we struck off people’s heads for, you know, social revenge. Sort of like what ISIS does. As we don’t want to be like ISIS, or the remaining repositories of organized revenge, such as Iran, we need to cool it on capital punishment.
So, in part, goes the argument that Nebraska legislators adopted in overriding their governor’s veto of a bill to abolish the death penalty. Nebraska got a lot of publicity at the time because there wasn’t much else going on besides the Texas floods and also, because of Nebraska’s being a “red” state, its action might be seen as auguring great change in the near future: a movement from revenge to mercy.
It is hard to be against mercy, whose quality, Portia tells us, is not strained but droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. Clarence Darrow made a similar, and successful, argument in behalf of Leopold and Loeb, the killers of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Everyone favors mercy — in the abstract.
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Ah. Don’t remember Charlie Starkweather? You would if you were alive in 1958, when Starkweather, helped by his 14-year-old girlfriend, murdered a mere 11 innocent Nebraskans.
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It's taken America longer to excecute Nidal Hasan than it took us to take down Hitler.
These many chickensh!t states like Massachusetts with the Tsarnaev brothers and North Dakota (my home state) with a murdering piece of garbage named Alfonso Rodriguez are so bloody proud to wave their Not-In-My-State little peacenik placards.
But they are also always the FIRST to run the to federal courts and clamor for the FEDERAL death penalty when a vicious crime occurs.
Screw Nebraska and its sham Republicans.
While we’re at it, screw our convoluted leftist system of courts.
Agreed!
In Kansas, our Supreme Court, in a fit of petulance, negated the death sentences of the Carr brothers. Look up what they did and, if you’re a Kansan, let your reps know what you think of reforming our judicial selection scam.
How is capital punishment any more “barbaric” then having someone serve a life without parole sentence in a Federal supermax penitentiary like in Marion, IL or Colorado where someone is confined to a closet sized cell 23 hours a day with no windows? I don’t see either as barbaric if the facts of the case are appropriate, but I think life in a supermax would be closer to barbaric than death. You reap what you sow.
Lots of people at the time said Carole Fugate should have been strapped in Charlie’s lap and they could have both been fried together. If anyone deserved the death penalty, it’s these two.
It’s not the people of Nebraska who are the problem here. The majority wanted to keep the DP. It’s the damned “conservative” reps we elected in good faith who “voted their conscience” instead of the will of the people.
Piss on their conscience.
“Carole Fugate should have been strapped in Charlie’s lap”
Seem to have heard the sentiment in a song lyric somewhere. Yes, I know by who, and the name of the song.
I was born, raised and educated in Kansas. I remember one year there was a total of 8 executions in the US. Kansas nailed 5 of them. Hickok and Smith (of “In Cold Blood” fame) that killed the Clutter family, York and Latham that went on a cross-country killing spree, and the KU student that went home one week-end and killed his family.
York and Latham killed several people but made the mistake of killing one in Kansas. They were tried and convicted in Kansas because Kansas was the best prospect for execution.
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