Anyone who denies the deterrent effect of the death penalty is a fool.
Inhuman monsters like the two creatures that murdered Kelsey’s sister deserve to be put out of their misery.
One other thing that pisses me off, is how some lib thinks they are all smart when they say “You belive in the death penalty but not in abortion”. Obviously they don’t belive in somethign we call “Due Process”. The Murderer took another person’s in cold calculated blood and as such is GUILTY of taking another life with intent to do so. While a Baby is innocent.
It is simply a matter of punishing the guilty who have taken something that can neverbe returned once taken, and that is LIFE.
I never knew this about that poor girl. Now, not being very religious, how can God let this happen to anybody?
I don’t know why I assumed he was a liberal, but I find that he is a Republican. Hopefully a conservative one.
The Bible? That’s just so First Century (and older). What relevance can it have now? /sarc
Of course legal penalties don't deter 100% of crime...any more than doctors' advice deters 100% of lifestyle stupidity.But punishments,including the DP,surely deter *some* crimes.That is when they're surely (and swiftly) meted out.
Sometimes people can get so passionate that they verge into bad logic and bad theology.
There was nothing in the Noahide or Mosaic law that declared the execution of Christ to be a righteous act on the part of Pilate. Isaiah 53 describes it as “oppression.”
This is not to address other considerations, but going too far weakens the power of your case.
Lois Lerner must get the needle...... asap
Genesis chapter nine has never been amended or repealed.
And its executive command was given to all mankind, via the sons of Noah, not just to Christians or Israelites.
Glenn was eligible for parole in 2014, but on July 30th, he was denied parole with his request deferred for three more years.
Jun 2010:
A man serving three life sentences for a string of murders in 1975 was denied parole today and will remain in prison at least five more years.
A parole board at Four Mile Correctional Center in Canon City denied parole to Michael Corbett in his first parole hearing in eight and a half years. This is his fourth denial
Society has the right to protect itself by executing dangerous persons when it chooses. Therefore the death penalty is legitimate, even if the pope condemns it.
Probably the two most important things that need to happen for capital punishment reform are first, for states to create a provision in their law that capital punishment sentences are not to be limited by means, when more than one means is available; and that the firing squad is a legitimate means of execution at the option of the state.
That is, sentences are just for execution, and the means of execution are entirely up to the state to determine.
The second, and more important thing, is for conservatives to become chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the United States House Committee on the Judiciary.
From this position, with the assent of their committees, they can determine what the criteria are for death penalty appeals, and strongly limit the ability of federal judges to overturn death sentences or to direct lower courts to not execute.
Likewise, they can limit the timetables of appeals to just five years, that all appeals must be accomplished within that time. To do this, all death penalty appeals will automatically be moved to the head of the docket, and judges will be limited to a total of 3 months of continuances: one month for the defendant, one month for the prosecution, and one month at the discretion of the judge.
Excellent article.
For those who advocate life in prison as a fit punishment should review the tapes made by mass murderer Richard Speck. Speck tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses in 1966 and was condemned to death. His death sentence was overturned and he was sentenced to life in prison. In 1996, video tapes featuring Speck were released showing explicit scenes of sex, drug use, and money being passed around by prisoners, who seemingly had no fear of being caught; in the center was Speck, performing oral sex on another inmate sharing a huge pile of cocaine with an inmate, parading in silk panties, sporting female-like breasts (allegedly grown using smuggled hormone treatments), and boasting, "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd turn me loose. Speck died in prison, but obviously had no remorse for his crimes nor really was being punished for them.
How many times have I heard of Grammer’s substance abuse? Ten, twenty, fifty...?
Now I hear the rest of the story.
For some reason I’ve always wanted to like the guy.
There is something wrong with a society that tells us of Grammer’s errors over and over, but never tells us of what a terrible thing happened to his sister and him.
Now he has to go confront this man over and over and over again. That’s justice?
Folks talk about how much it costs to put someone on death row.
I don’t care how much that costs. This costs more.
bkmk
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6868754
Kelsey is interviewed about the murder of his sister.