There have been 50,000,000 abortions in the United States since 1973. How many executions have there been?
Posted on 11/11/2009 8:09:41 AM PST by bestintxas
"The General Assembly today adopted... a moratorium on executions to be established in all States that still maintain the death penalty..." United Nations.
"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death... I feel... obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed." Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, appointed by President Nixon and author of the Roe v Wade decision.
"I cannot say it more eloquently than Justice Blackmun... I must act... today I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates... I will sleep well knowing I made the right decision." George Ryan, former (Republican) governor of Illinois, now serving a prison sentence for corruption.
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Us morons on the street, beaten robbed, raped, murdered, have a different view.
The answer w/o reading the article is YES.
The vile criminal is dead.
There have been 50,000,000 abortions in the United States since 1973. How many executions have there been?
Never i the history of America has an executed person ever harmed another living soul.
I will sleep well tonight knowing that the Beltway killer is now where he belongs.
These liberal morons won’t pay for your Granny’s hip replacement but they will spend 60K a year for 70 years to keep CHARLIE MANSON alive...
The incidence of recidivism after execution is very low.
Yep, them prisons is jes’ full of people who didn’t do it.
Works 100% of the time. ...not one crime committed after execution of sentence.
I am sure there are many more families who wish the PUKE had gotten what he deserved before they killed their loved one.
When they get life they have all day and night to plot on getting out. . . . .
Somewhat more than 50,000,000.
My thoughts exactly. Does a criminal deserve to live more than a pure, innocent, defenseless child? This IS a death penalty, but the truly innocent don’t get the luxury of a trial, they just get to die. Awful.
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Every person or scientist that has ever studied the use of punishment agrees that the immediacy of punishment that links it to the infraction is necessary component to correct behavior.
I hardly think an executuion 15-25 years post murder would qualify under that definition.
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The liberals have always framed the debate whether or not the death penalty deters crime.
A more appropriate question: Does the punishment fit the crime?
Back in the 80’s CA Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird nullified our death penalty and those on death row had their sentence converted to life. Many of them eventually were paroled.
Rose Bird was recalled by the state voters along with several othe CA justices.
Personally, however, it would be far more effective as a deterrent if there were still public beheading or hangings. Yes it would be gruesome. But the punishment for premeditated murder would be obvious and certainly affect the murder rate.
Don't believe me? Consider all the plea agreements that take place that involve “taking the death penalty off the table.” Criminals don't want to die.
Does the death penalty work?
Absolutely. And for people who were brought up to be CIVILIZED, it's a deterrent.
But there's always the feral animals that respect nothing, so for them the DP is their final deterrent.
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