Posted on 11/11/2005 4:49:43 PM PST by Graybeard58
How about life in a cell, no TV, no windows, no outdoor/indoor exercise, a slot for food and a copy of the Bible?
I agree with that. Just no death penalty
Thanks for the reference points!
Only a very small minority of people who are convicted of murder are sentenced to die, and even fewer of those are actually executed. Are the rest "unpunished"? For the most part, their lives are far less comfortable than those of the men on Death Row.
You'd hope not.
Indeed. LOL...
I wish a few senators on the left side of the aisle would quit moving too. Sheets Byrd and Corpuscle Head Kennedy among them.
Agreed. 15 years at how much per year cost wise? Whatta waste.
Of course it isn't. Only a fool would come to that interpretation. Otherwise, everywhere there is persecution you'd simply "turn the other cheek" and be persecuted willingly and acquiesce to every little bit of threat.
I think if a person commits a murder...he/she deserves to die. I feel that is the only way that justice is served.
Unfortunately, too many states have given up the death penalty. If the person knew he could die for killing someone, it might deter some of them from committing the crime.
I am armed and prepared to protect me and my family...I will take the choice away from the state. If someone has the intention to hurt me or my children, he/she will not face a jury, he/she will face his/her maker!
About 60,000 per year, per prisoner!
What a waste is right!
Good grief! People support whole families on that amount of money.
Even if the death penalty does not deter some people, it is at least the best guarantee around that they will never do it again.
Texas has a new law allowing the jury to impose a real life sentence with no chance of parole.
I'm still very ambivalent about the death penalty. My last change of mind was after the break out in Texas, with 5 men escaping from the Kenedy jail. A policeman was killed before they were recapture.
It's never right to do wrong in order to do good, but it is right to remove a threat to other life. The death penalty is one of those hard cases. I hate the fact that some men and women are and always will be real threats to the life of innocent others.
And I do pray for the guards and other prison workers.
Well, we're a long, long way from anything like that. Check to see what percentage of murderers are sentenced to die in the states that rely most heavily on capital punishment. It's a tiny handful. And it's by no means those who have committed the most heinous crimes. (Here in Georgia, in fact, the most frightening murders are committed in the Atlanta area, but juries in the two most populous counties here almost never sentence anyone to death.)
Somehow, I manage to support my family on a lot less than that...but then I don't need hired guards, cooks, etc...
Absolutely...a voice of sanity!
Yes, unfortunately we are a long ways from that now. It use to be common knowledge...if you killed someone, you would hang. Or, you would meet the business end of a family members firearm!
We need to get back to those ways.
You'll find a few people who agree, but not the majority. So you'll have to settle for a few executions in a few states, while most murderers get other punishments--some really quite light. I guess you think that's better than nothing, but it hardly qualifies as "justice."
Execution of convicted murderers is not revenge. It is justice.
victim's arnt we all....
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