Posted on 03/07/2009 8:05:51 PM PST by EveningStar
After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong:
Money.
Turns out, it is cheaper to imprison killers for life than to execute them, according to a series of recent surveys.
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In essence, outside of Texas and a few others, a death sentence is nothing more than a life sentence because they never can get around to executing them.
It really has nothing to do with money...it has to do with the successful efforts of those who want to see the death penalty abolished in holding up the execution and foisting the cost on the rest of us. That is their strategy.
You gota love this logic. We worry so about those we need to dispnese with. Maybe we shouldn’t?
BS!
And Texas has the proper counter strategy.
Could be (soon) reworded as:
“Turns out, it is cheaper to not buy guns and ammo than to assert one’s rights”
The Libs have clogged the Death Penalty and next they'll use these same tactics against Gun Owners, Manufacturers and Sales Outlets. Just more of the ‘Change’ that is in store for us all.
It’s more expensive to execute because the ACLU and other organizations refuse to allow justice to take it’s natural course.
We could use the same reasoning to trash abortion. The state spends way too much money to keep up the practice. So stop already.
> It really has nothing to do with money...it has to do with the successful efforts of those who want to see the death penalty abolished in holding up the execution and foisting the cost on the rest of us. That is their strategy.<
Ya got it. Once I saw AP as the press source, I knew they’ll take out the violins and bore us to tears with liberal music.
How about a 30-06 to the head= $1.50, 6 covicted felons digging a 6 foot deep hole and 6 bologna sandwiches= Priceless!
Time for victims family's,citizens groups to bring law suits for denial of justice,causing pain and suffering,violation of their civil rights,Rico ect.use the lefts own tactics against them.
Guilty.
Take them out behind the courthouse and shoot them in the head. What's that cost? .75 maybe.
Buy a rope and you can reuse it over and over. Find the nearest tree - no need to build a gallows.
But as always, don't mess with Texas!
Only because we let them live for 15-20 years on death row exhausting appeal after appeal.
For the cut-and-dried clear cases where we KNOW someone murdered someone, we give them one week to get right with God, and then two bullets in the head.
For the cases that are not as so cut and dried and are more circumstantial, we give them 1-2 years max for appeals, investigation, etc. Then they get a final week and two bullets in the head.
Men and women. Gender means nothing.
...and it’s even cheaper for the judge merely to waggle his finger at them, tell them what they already know they did and were just were convicted of; tell them not to do it again, or he’ll be forced to lecture them for disobeying his orders; then turn them loose.
Ask the Brits!
Well, the price of ammo hasn’t risen THAT much! What is wrong with these people? Why are ALL of our “leaders” morons?
Haha, universal agreement, this is something I see rarely lurking on FreeRepublic.
There must be a way to expedite the cases where there is no doubt as to the homicide’s guilt. If there is doubt, I have no problem with appeal after appeal, but in instances with multiple corroborating witness or photographic/film evidence or repeating upon repeat offenders, justice should be swift and final. And two taps to the head, preferably delivered by victim’s family members, I think justifiably can be claimed as just what the Just One orders.
All in all, it should all be sorted out in less than a week in those lucid cases, nevermind thirty years of appeals living comfortable life on death row; this is the handiwork of relativists and democrats and the rest of the moral morons.
Yeah because people in prison for life who INSIST that they did nothing wrong NEVER file appeals.
If it is wrong to execute one innocent man, then how can you imprion an innocent man for LIFE among hardened criminals? There is a quality of life issue.
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