[pissant]

That's too bad. I was hoping for a 30 year high.

[Man50D]

By coincidence recidivism is at thirty year high. ;o)

[Gay State Conservative]

What percentage of convictions for first degree murder committed in states with the DP result in a DP? That's the most important question here.

[Brilliant]

Notice that crime rates are up for the first time in years.

[amchugh]

"Since the death penalty was reinstated, 123 people have been freed from death row after significant questions were raised about their convictions — 14 of them through DNA testing, according to the Death Penalty Information Center."

It always surprises me how gung ho people are on the death penalty. Some people seem to have absolute faith in the criminal judicial process even when those same individuals don't trust the government to do anything else correctly, and/or do not trust judges to rule correctly on the constitutionality of legislation.

Or is it that you all feel that the occasional sacrifice of innocent men is necessary to keep crime in check?

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Before you commit murder, be prepared for a 10 min medical procedure in the Operating Room.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

What folks don't realize is that the left has been propagandizing the mostly phony issue of "innocent" convictions precisely to defeat the death penalty and to undermine the criminal justice system. It has been a very successful campaign. Many many folks believe that there are many many innocent men in prison, which is untrue.

There are very few cases where a convict's absolute and objective innocence is demonstrated.

The only question, really, is whether the few genuine instances where it is an actual fact can support the sweeping pov of the leftists who are more interested in undermining our society out of hatred for America.

Doesn't matter much anyway because, in addition to their mostly phony "innocence" projects, they have waged a more effective campaingn to eliminate the death penalty.

They have made death penalty cases into financial sinkholes, where the budgets of local district attorneys and of states are the true target of their litigation.

Like a lot of leftist thinking, it is based not on the truth or on fair dealing. It is driven by the fundamental liberal/leftist principle, that the ends justify any means. (Strange, that is the same fundamental principle held by mohammed-worshippers.)

Leftists/liberals have, once again, defeated something not on the merits, but on their ability to attack on a totally irrelevant basis: this is, the cost of prosecuting a death penalty case.

[festus]

reflecting what some experts say is a growing fear that the criminal justice system will make a tragic and irreversible mistake.

Kill em all and let God sort it out.