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George Will: Abolish the death penalty
The Washington Post ^ | September 28, 2018 | George F. Will

Posted on 09/30/2018 3:06:59 PM PDT by EveningStar

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To: DoughtyOne

[ F U G W

Someone comes along and dismembers your wife, children, mom, dad, sibling, or other family member or friends and associates, you can weap for the perp all you want.

Don’t expect me to.

Purge society of these animals. ]

Just as long as we have tacos and kebabs, instead of boring European food, then I am sure we can overlook someone slaughtering our daughters... Just ask that one idiot in Iowa...


21 posted on 09/30/2018 3:23:29 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: EveningStar
Capital punishment is withering away because the process of litigating the administration of it is so expensive, and hence [?] disproportionate to any demonstrable enhancement of public safety...

(Question mark added to quote.)

Dear Mister Will:

The above statement from your piece is completely fallacious.

A is simply not related to B.

At all.

.

22 posted on 09/30/2018 3:24:35 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: EveningStar

The problem is a system that allows lawyers to drag put the process for 30+ years. Never happens in Texas.


23 posted on 09/30/2018 3:24:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: EveningStar

It’s official (if it wasn’t already): George Will is done. Finito.


24 posted on 09/30/2018 3:26:08 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: EveningStar

How quaint, a NE liberal feigning caring for black people...if he cared, he’d protest outside a welfare office against workers who get raises when they get more dependents...instead of helping get off dependency. He’d be singing the praises of Booker T Washington, Thomas Sowell, and Walter Williams...instead...crickets.

George Will has never had a black person over for dinner and the only one on his property is likely working in the yard or picking up his trash cans.

What a loser, eh!


25 posted on 09/30/2018 3:26:17 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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To: EveningStar

Do we still have to be subjected to ‘Will’s Swill’.

I thought George Will and Bill Kristol had eloped and were spending an extended honeymoon on Fantasy Island.


26 posted on 09/30/2018 3:28:14 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: EveningStar

I think we should abolish death row..

Anyone sentenced to death should leave the courtroom, be executed and planted.


27 posted on 09/30/2018 3:29:36 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: GraceG

I’ll second that.


28 posted on 09/30/2018 3:31:17 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: EveningStar

George Will is wifty!


29 posted on 09/30/2018 3:31:58 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: EveningStar

“George Will: Abolish the death penalty”

George Will quotes Earl Warren to advance his “conservative” agenda.

Impeach Earl Warren. Impeach George Will.


30 posted on 09/30/2018 3:32:23 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: TaxPayer2000

More nonsense from the Village Idiot.


31 posted on 09/30/2018 3:33:05 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: EveningStar

Maimonides argued that unless you have 100% certainty of guilt you must not impose the death penalty. In his day this usually meant banishment as there was no real method of life imprisonment. Today we have that luxury. It is why I do support capital punishment but there must not be any doubt at all and this criteria should rise above reasonable doubt.


32 posted on 09/30/2018 3:34:07 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: EveningStar

Maimonides argued that unless you have 100% certainty of guilt you must not impose the death penalty. In his day this usually meant banishment as there was no real method of life imprisonment. Today we have that luxury. It is why I do support capital punishment but there must not be any doubt at all and this criteria should rise above reasonable doubt.


33 posted on 09/30/2018 3:34:07 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: EveningStar

Hey dummy, Will. You do understand that the DP is a great bargaining chip? For example, they offered to take the death penalty off the table for the Green River Killer if he lead them to the remains of some bodies because the families wanted their loved ones back.
Also in cases where the people did the crime it’s used to make deals to save a ton of money for trials. “You’re looking at the death penalty, but if you tell us what happened we can negotiate” etc.

This is the babble of an elitist who doesn’t get the real world.


34 posted on 09/30/2018 3:34:58 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: EveningStar

So he did it but Will says we shouldn’t kill him for it.

Bullshit. He knew what he did when he did it. The fact they claim he doesn’t understand it now doesn’t mean a damn thing.

Fry his ass.


35 posted on 09/30/2018 3:36:17 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats Hate America)
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To: EveningStar

I want that “The Will” gets his willy whipped off with a weed wacker!


36 posted on 09/30/2018 3:36:34 PM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: EveningStar

If someone Murders my Family and ends up getting Life, I will do whatever is necessary to move them to up to the next step in Punishment.

Of course, getting the Death Penalty is pretty much the same Punishment. Can’t remember the last Murderer being Executed in CA, especially with the likes of former AG Harris and the new Commie Bastard that replaced her.


37 posted on 09/30/2018 3:37:52 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: JME_FAN

Support for the death penalty is a mile wide and an inch deep. If life imprisonment meant what it says support for capital punishment would go down big. Trump should get in front of this.


38 posted on 09/30/2018 3:39:53 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: EveningStar
Not only should keep the death penalty but it should be expanded to include other crimes...like narcotics trafficking.. And do it within six months of conviction..
We should also bring back the penalty of heavy labor... And for those who like the gang thing, well how about 10 to 15 years on the chain gang...
I'll bet it would do wonders to bring down the crime numbers...
39 posted on 09/30/2018 3:40:12 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: EveningStar

For several months I watched “Court TV”.

I have come to doubt the American judicial system. I have seen juries make stupid decisions either way. If I were an innocent man being tried for murder by a jury, I would be terrified.

I still think there are some crimes where death is the only just punishment.

On the other hand I have seen some of those cases where the “Innocence Project” finds innocent people who are not innocent at all.


40 posted on 09/30/2018 3:42:16 PM PDT by yarddog
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