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USA claims its 1,000th execution
The Statesman ^
| 12/02/2005
| Andrew Buncombe
Posted on 12/03/2005 12:24:13 AM PST by NapkinUser
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"partly because almost every state now has the option of life without parole...."
ALMOST every state?
To: NapkinUser
Why is this a big deal? Going back the same amount of time, you have a better chance of dying in a terrorist attack than being executed by the state...AND WE HAVE TERRORISTS IN OUR JAILS!
We are a merciful people...sometimes stupidly so....
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posted on
12/03/2005 12:47:31 AM PST
by
Tzimisce
To: Tzimisce
We are a merciful people...sometimes stupidly so...."There have also been 122 cases of prisoners [on death row] being shown to be innocent."
Run that one by me again will ya?
To: NapkinUser
Let's make Tookie Williams # 1,001.
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posted on
12/03/2005 12:55:04 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: NapkinUser
Oh Joy. While I'm a capital punishment advocate, I see no pleasure in this 1000th thingie. Let the little bastard die and be done with it, thats all. His execution doesn't ring my bell nor should it any other normal person. Although God Bless the family who went thru all the BS involved, and may Justice reign. Nuff Said ........
To: NapkinUser
Texas does not have the option of life without parole - there may be others.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:00:04 AM PST
by
Alissa
To: peyton randolph
1,002. South Carolina just executed #1,001.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:00:27 AM PST
by
NapkinUser
("Our troops have become the enemy." -Representative John P. Murtha, modern day Benedict Arnold.)
To: Alissa
"Texas does not have the option of life without parole - there may be others."
I thought I read Rick Perry took care of that a couple of months ago.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:01:41 AM PST
by
NapkinUser
("Our troops have become the enemy." -Representative John P. Murtha, modern day Benedict Arnold.)
To: NapkinUser
There have also been 122 cases of prisoners [on death row] being shown to be innocent. That's a left wing lie. Even where the presence of another person's DNA has been found, that doesn't mean the person on death roe was innocent.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:25:10 AM PST
by
NavVet
(“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
To: NavVet
They were just legally found not guilty. In other words the guilty bastards lucked out the second time. I may believe as high as two or three but they may or may not had something to do with the crime.
None of the victims that died were guilty.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:34:27 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS STATE CHAMPIONS)
To: NapkinUser
1,002. South Carolina just executed #1,001. I can live with it. Let's hope that Tookie can't.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:38:04 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: NapkinUser
To: Lancer_N3502A
I'm waitin' for Tookie. Me, too. And what's up with Mumia? Last I heard he was off death row although the prosecution was going to try to reinstate his capital sentence.
I guess this puts me over on the angry fringe, but I think the needle is way to easy for some of these folks. They are resigned to it and have nothing to live for anyway. Now a noose....that, as they say, concentrates the mind. It strikes terror. It gets their attention. I want to see major regret on their faces as they take their last walk.
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:58:21 AM PST
by
LK44-40
To: U S Army EOD; NavVet
There have also been 122 cases of prisoners [on death row] being shown to be innocent.
Not exactly. Innocence Project targets states where evidence is stored in conditions that don't protect DNA from degredation. Find a case that's 20 + years old, where the DNA has deteriorated to the point where it can't be matched up to the defendant, 3 of the 4 eye witnesses have died or disappeared and have the defendant recant his confession and all of a sudden you've got an "innocent" man on death row.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
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posted on
12/03/2005 1:59:30 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being" -Hillary Clinton
Has she started yet?
To: Forte Runningrock
She tried, but like most resolutions, it didn't work out so good. There's always next year tho'.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
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posted on
12/03/2005 2:50:41 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Owl_Eagle
This is basically my point also.
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posted on
12/03/2005 3:17:26 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS STATE CHAMPIONS)
To: shaggy eel
out of how many that are guilty?They were proven innocent ,great. No system is perfect.I believe in the death penalty and one appeal,one year wait then execute him.
To: NapkinUser
"There have also been 122 cases of prisoners [on death row] being shown to be innocent. Innocent? Or has there been simply a group of nitpicking law students and lawyers who have dug through old cases to find some flaw somewhere in the proceedings and then put this crap in front of a sympathetic judge?
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posted on
12/03/2005 3:38:16 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: NapkinUser
There have also been 122 cases of prisoners [on death row] being shown to be innocent
The libs always bring this up, but those 122 were not executed. They were either released or sent to population. The system works.
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posted on
12/03/2005 3:44:08 AM PST
by
Beckwith
(The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
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