If the death penalty is inflicted because of DNA evidence and other forensic breakthroughs, I don’t have a problem with the verdict. “Some people just need killin’ “.
What absolutely ticks me off is when some murderer is nailed with the above evidence, he can still cop a guilty plea and get life with no parole or worse yet, just life (i.e. 7 years and if you find Jesus your’re out). Again,”Some people . . .”
To those who say that they don’t want to play God by voting for the death penalty, I say that you still are, by condemning another innocent to death at the hands of this murder when he gets out. “Life with no parole” can be commuted, as was done by a vengeful Illinois governor not too long ago.
My further argument is that the death sentence does not mean the perp will be frog-marched outside and immediately shot. He will spend the next 20 years on death row filing appeals and perhaps getting a new trial 10 years later when eyewitnesses have died off or have dimmed memories.
Think of a murderer as a cancerous cell running loose in the body of Society and act as a white cell should you be on the jury.
