Posted on 02/21/2022 6:22:13 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
capital punishment is an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct. This function may be unappealing to many, but it is essential in an ordered society that asks its citizens to rely on legal processes rather than self-help to vindicate their wrongs..."
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I'm thinking of this UBER driver in Penn., mom to 4 kids. Needed uber money, pleaded for her life. It's happening.
Not a coincidence, but not a singular cause either. Society is sinking lower as it abandons its moral religious principals and admits more and more criminal illegal aliens inside its borders.
*Capital punishment, still on the books in 24 states, continues a long fadeout.*
In this world the US is one of the few left. Critics point to the only others: China, Iran, and South Africa(during apartheid).
We have too many wannabe incarcerateds out there. They are getting the go-ahead to break all laws, not just the capital crimes. Life imprisonment(without bail) is a non-starter. It’s never carried out. At some point it becomes cruel and unusual, depending on who’s in office. Is banishment an option? I’m thinking of cost control and just getting these animals out of our way. Every society has to deal with their criminals. Some countries have low crime(Japan)-wouldn’t want to live there.
When you allow Satan’s animals to run free in the world - you suffer the consequence of their deeds!
This is a poorly written article by someone who has never done research. Look at a list of the (bleep) hole countries that still have capital punishment versus the civilized countries that don’t have capital punishment and get back to me. Japan is the only country I have any respect for that still have capital punishment. Why trust the government to determine who dies and who doesn’t?
Since the 60's, the destruction of the family and elimination of God are the two most impactful issues that are destroying our society and country.
It all started with Miranda and the suspects’ rights. Never mind the dead victim.
It costs millions(legal) to administer the punishment. I still say banishment to an island penal colony staffed by 3rd world types who work cheap. It’s like a cruse ship with no frills. We gotta get these people outta sight and outta mind. Too much going on in the penal system for (non)advocates to exploit.
Hear hear!
I say declare California a penal colony. They already have the third world workers needed and I’m sure Newsom would love to be the warden. Build a wall around it and let fly.
Capitol punishment used to happen within 40 days of the crime. Now it is 20 or more years. I still remember the 1960s when outgoing state governors would commute all death row inmates to life in prison.
The murderers of Presidents got executed within 40 days of the crime.
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13
11 When a sentence against a crime isn’t carried out quickly, people are encouraged to commit crimes.
The rate of recidivism among murderers who have had a capital sentence properly administered is 00.0000000000000000000000000%.
I disagree. Government has not just proven itself incompetent in carrying out CP, but radically extends the life of those sentenced to die, usually the “worst of the worst”. Alternatively, what *does* substantially raise the number of those villains who are executed is gun liberty.
For example, police responding to a disturbance call find a maniac holding a bloody butchers knife standing over the bodies of a family as he plunges the blade into a cadaver, police are then *required* to arrest him, beginning an at least 20 year free form legal dance.
However an armed citizen seeing the same thing may choose to carry out CP “on the spot”, ridding society of a monster and without wasting at least $2m. No lawyers, no appeals, no liberal judges opposed to CP by whim. He can argue his case before Saint Peter. Or Cerebus, as the case may be.
So think about it. How many monsters by the inefficient government, vs. how many by honest citizens?
Been this way most of my long life. People confuse speculative prison conditions with justice. They also deliberately withhold facts from heinous crimes in the media.
We saw the death penalty vanish back in the sixties and seventies and when in came back it was giving them gas, and the libs bitched about the gas.
*Capitol punishment used to happen within 40 days of the crime. Now it is 20 or more years.*
That issue has to deal with an innocent man possibly being put to death .
My solution to that is simple: If he has a rap sheet a mile long the executioners then have an excuse to be wrong. Good for the gene pool, a la Travon.
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