The Death Penalty: Executed Killers Deserved Mercy… and Received It.

The Houston Courant ^ | 12/22/2020 | B. Vasoli

[The Houston Courant]

Joe Biden supported capital punishment unvaryingly over his 36-year Senate career. He helped enact legislation that expanded the practice. As veep, he served a president who (on paper) backed the death penalty, and not only for homicide. Still, because of Biden, the current spate of federal death sentences consummated under President Trump will be the last for years at least.

Now publicly against the death penalty, the president-elect has done a glaring turnabout, albeit in lockstep with America’s governing class. The total of all executions in 2020, state and federal, is 17—lower than any yearly sum in almost three decades, despite Trump’s late move to carry out death sentences. New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire, and Colorado have all abolished their death penalties in recent years. The governors of Pennsylvania and California both refuse to sign death warrants.

All was so quiet for so long on this front, Trump’s move put death-penalty abolitionists into a state of acute shock. The law decided these convicts may die for their crimes. The justice system decided they must die. To some folks, none of that meant they would die. It would be unconscionable.

What makes their deaths—10 thus far—so horrific? It isn’t the possibility that any of them might be innocent.

[metmom]

SO many bleeding heart liberals say they oppose the death penalty because an innocent man might be wrongly executed. And that is a risk if Harris is the DA.

However, the hypocrisy of their position is that if (the possibility of) innocence is why someone should be spared the death penalty, then how do they support abortion?

What crime has the baby committed except existing?

[Vigilanteman]

What crime has the baby committed except existing?

A baby is inconvenient and it might impede the mama from acquiring more stuff and political power, the two things that matter the most to libtards.

[Salvavida]

It sounds to me like RULES OF EVIDENCE need to be examined, not the death penalty itself.

[escapefromboston]

I don’t trust the government or our legal system enough to fully support the death penalty , though I don’t lose any sleep over some murderer getting fried.

[SkyDancer]

How much mercy did they show those they killed, sometimes horrifically.

[Red6]

I agree 100%.

The exact percent is debatable.

I would argue somewhere between 95%-98% of all abortion is mere convenience.

A child would interfere with: school, career, and ones social life. Plus the child is an economic burden and possible commitment that is hard to get away from. It is much easier to kill this child than to carry it to term and give it up for adoption. Since American culture is all about convenience, kill it.

Then give some money and your support to an environmentalist cause or homo agenda and feel good about yourself. That’s easy - just give some money vs. carrying the responsibility of a child and having a commitment that is hard to get away from.

[G Larry]

Romans 13

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

2 Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval;

4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.

[Gay State Conservative]

I love the quote from one of Ron White’s concerts...”if you come to Texas and kill someone we will kill you back.That’s our policy”.

[DPMD]

“Joe Biden supported capital punishment unvaryingly over his 36-year Senate career.”

And he still does...for Trump, his supporters and any republican.

[yesthatjallen]

It sounds to me like RULES OF EVIDENCE need to be examined, not the death penalty itself.

No one should get the death penalty based on circumstantial evidence. An example would be O J Simpson. While all the evidence implies he is the murderer without multiple witnesses, video, confessions, finger prints/dna on the murder weapon etc. it cannot be established he was the killer.

Compare this to the Tsarnaev brothers (Boston Marathon Bombers).

All the evidence was there and they were seen on video at the scene of the crime. Everything they did after the bombing pointed to them being guilty.