Last 4 on Md. Death Row to Have Sentences Commuted

ABC News ^ | Dec 31, 2014

[ConservingFreedom]

Outgoing Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that he will commute the capital sentences of the state's last four inmates on death row to life in prison, saying executing them "does not serve the public good of the people of Maryland."

Two years ago, the General Assembly abolished the death penalty in the state, making the ultimate sentence in new cases life in prison without the possibility of parole.

That left four previously sentenced inmates on death row. [...]

[Salvavida]

We’ve become a Banana Republic. Unable to execute justice while our society collapses under the weight of our national sins.

[9422WMR]

Justice delayed is justice denied.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

"There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society that harm them; i.e. criminals"- F. Nietzsche

[Buckeye McFrog]

Odds are some liberal judge would have entertained an Equal Protection case claiming that since the state had now abolished the death penalty those 4 were being treated “unfairly”.

[Vision]

Do you have a source for that quote?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Go research Nietzsche’s works. I can’t give an immediate citation and I’m too lazy to go through his books. I simply remember it. In my opinion Nietzsche was one of the greatest historians of the nineteenth century. He is a hard read by reason of his style of writing. As a philosopher I don’t know as his reputation is not too good among the practitioners of the craft.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Go research Nietzsche’s works. I can’t give an immediate citation and I’m too lazy to go through his books. I simply remember it. In my opinion Nietzsche was one of the greatest historians of the nineteenth century. He is a hard read by reason of his style of writing. As a philosopher I don’t know as his reputation is not too good among the practitioners of the craft.

[seawolf101]

Free room and board for life plus medical costs and clothing.

[onyx]

Just enter the quote into Google and you’ll be sent to a PDF file for starter’s.

[MeshugeMikey]

outgoing governor ponders,,,parole for same perps

[Farmer Dean]

It makes no difference what the public good is,what about the families of their victims?What about closure for them.

[PLMerite]

Does that doofus still think he can be President?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Thanks. With Nietzsche the translation seems to matter. There was a scholar in the 1960’s whose name escapes me whom I follow. He wrote the article on Nietzsche for the 1960’s version of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

[GreaterSwiss]

This is disgraceful...

[onyx]

It’s such a great quote -— the depth of its sharpness.
Thank you for recalling it and posting it.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Now that I think about it the Nietzsche translator that I follow may be named Walter Kaufman.

[juggernaut]

To hell with the laws, to hell with the citizens, to hell with the courts, to hell with the families.

This speck has decided that ‘he’ and ‘he only’ has the wisdom and judgement determine what punishment should be exacted.

Disgraceful is right.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Just wait and see what happens on 1/19/2017...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I would urge everyone to read Nietzsche as an Historian and social critic. He explicated the past in an outstanding summary form and foretold the future brilliantly. The philosopher of history Spengler based a lot of his book “Decline of The West” on Nietzsche’s works.