No Mr. Boyd the proper word is not revenge, it's punishment.
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I wonder who spent the time to keep track of this.
Well, this certainly reverses the party hats.
When a milestone of death is reached in Iraq, conservatives pray for the families and somberly acknowledge the courageous sacrifice of our soldiers and Marines, whereas the Democrats jump for joy, shout the number to the rooftops, and calculate their chances for election success.
On the other hand, when a milestone for the death of cold-blooded murderers is reached, conservatives whoop for joy that the victims' families have (finally) received justice and closure, while the Democrats hang their heads and cry for the killers.
Weird world.
And all of the hand wringing by the left fails to take into account the 37,000 kids have been murdered since 1976. I therefore consider 1,000 as not even close to what the number should be.
To Mr. Boyd:
Goodbye, turd.
Anybody going to remember him as that? Don't think I will. I sure don't remember #100 or #500, for instance.
"US carries out 1,000th execution"
B o o H o o
Other than Tim McVeigh, who else has been executed by the feds? Anyone, anyone...
Now that Arnold won't hafta deal w/ wearing that moniker, shouldn't that take a small load off his shoulders, thus making it a lil easier for him to say "NO" re: granting clemency for Tookie Williams? Does anyone have an idea which way he is leaning on this issue???
I hope Arnold will get the anti-death penalty folks REALLY P.O.'d by making Tookie Williams execution PUBLIC!
Seems strange that New York State (NYC), Maryland (Baltimore), Michigan (Detroit), New Jersey (Newark), Illinois (Chicago),D.C. (Washington), and California (LA and Oakland) have so many murders and yet only account for 16 of the 1,000.
I've long held the belief that the death penalty provides little deterence to murderers, but looking at this I am currently reexamining this belief.
As I stated on a previous posting....they should have released a ceiling net of balloons over #1000
Mass. still has no Death Penalty. There have been motions to bring it back, but to no avail. A referendum passed, IIRC,
but the state legislature shot it down somehow. More recently,
Gov. Mitt Romney's attempt to bring back a watered down
death penalty also went down to defeat by the state
senators & reps.
There was a murderer a couple years ago, Gary Lee Sampson,
who might be executed in Mass.--but only because his crimes
fell under federal jurisdiction (carjackings involved?).
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!
hmmm...Alabama's got some catching up to do :(
On case anyone is interested, I saw an interesting article ar DUmmieland on the notable #1000 execution. I do not know how in the hell the guy got his post in there. He made referance to Dems being against the death penalty but in favor of abortion and reffered to women as "bitches". The few early morning DUmmies responding could not figure him out. I predict he will be banned in minutes. So look quick before it is gone into the memory hole.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1960663
We in Virginia could have had the 1000th, but no, that loser Mark Warner had to hand it to NC, a state hardly deserving of the honor since it has only executed 38 to VA's 94 since the death penalty was reinstated.
If you look at it in terms of executions per average population over the time span in question, tiny Delaware actually executes people at a higher rate than Texas. Yet Texas gets the bad rap from the liberals.