The whole title was too long for the Free Republic posting page, so I have copied it in full below.
Families of the condemned feel punished, too
After executions, relatives of killers experience grief, guilt, ostracism.
Gee, I wonder how much money was spent figuring THAT out.
Cry me a friggin' river.
(Not you Paleo)...
Those families do not deserve to have their murderous thug family member kept alive for their sake.
Sheeeeeeesh.
Well, your article is certainly going to cause a lot more people to barf tonight than over intoxication.
Of course the families of the people these murderous scum killed don't feel grief or suffer loss. If their families get grief and lass also, so much the better. Makes you want to barf when they paint themselves as victims. Where is the outpouring of the MSM for the families of the people who were murdered, the real victims? They don't count I guess, only the families of the scum bag killers.
Uh, no we don't. They need to accept the fact that one of their family members did a horrible and unspeakable act and get over it.
Pee-uuu. I don't feel sorry for them.
In Quin or Han China, the perp would have been executed together with his "three sets of relatives" both on his and on spousal sides. So much for "grief, guilt, and ostracism".
Criminals might want to think about this before they go out killing, raping and pillaging. Their "families" might even want to jump in and remind them. Other than that, these pinheads need to stop their whining. If the victim's families don't want these maggots executed, that's fine. I want them executed so they won't make me a victim or a family member of a victim.
"When somebody says, 'How did your husband die?' and you say, 'Oh, he was executed by the State of Texas,' their hand leaves you and they walk away as if you are contagious with this death penalty disease," said Christina Lawson, whose husband, David Martinez, was executed last year for the rape and murder of Kiersa Paul, a 24-year-old University of Minnesota student, on Austin's Barton Creek greenbelt in 1997.
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Kiersa Paul could not be reached for comment concerning this "death penalty disease" phenomenom.
Huh. Isn't it obvious that the relatives of executed murderers suffer?
I don't understand WHY this article was written.....
News flash: The sun sets in the west.
Meanwhile, I wish more states would move to execute murdering thugs at a faster pace.
Texas seems to have a pretty good record.
Robert Meeropol was 6 years old when his parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. He has dealt with his grief by becoming an activist and serving as a voice for children of the condemned.
"This had a profound affect on my life," said Meeropol, 59, of Easthampton, Mass. "It left me with a kind of suppressed rage and anger about what happened that didn't really have an outlet."
An activist? He's a barking, gibbering, howling, shrieking Hate America First-Blame It On Bush lunatic who has been fouling this country with his bile nearly his entire life.
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I'm sorry, but I can't seem to turn my sympathy button on. I am saving those feelings the the real victims!
How cruel of the families of murder victims to selfishly think only of themselves and their grief.
I don't give a rat's maracas.
The Social Contract is as old as civilization. The tribal urge is strongest on the weak, the ignorant and the marginally socialized. Educating them is is like fertilizing a rock.
We are all subject to the same rules. Deaths are regretable. Conscioulsy killing another is intolerable.
The choice of comforting the innocent victims is paramount. Killers are not enabled all on their own.
Zero sympathy here. As an argument against the death penalty, this argument is, if anything, a reinforcement of my expectation that capital punishment will always exist where deserved.
James Reid?
He earned his lethal rejection:
In February 1998, James Edward Reid was sentenced to death for the capital murder, attempted rape, and attempted robbery of 87 year old Annie V. Lester in her home in Christiansburg in October, 1996. Lester was beaten over the head with a can of condensed milk and stabbed 22 times with scissors. Reid was 51 years old at the time of the crime.
And his sister? I am sure she understands that he earned his death for killing a defenceless little old lady.Its her own fault she cannot accept it.
BTW the national news papers are full of this,"Families of the Executed Suffer Too" bull shite. Looks like the moonbat anti=capital pnishment mavens are emboldened by the Dem congessional "takeover".
