Posted on 09/30/2024 5:05:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On September 24, the state of Missouri executed a potentially innocent man. Marcellus Williams was convicted in 2001 for the crime of murder. Yet over time, with the help of the Innocence Project, doubts had arisen about his guilt and the legitimacy of the legal process used against him. In any case, the merest shred of doubt should have been enough to spare Williams' life.
Yet the truth of the matter is that Williams' life should have never been on the line in the first place.
The death penalty in America is a policy past its sell date; it's time for it to end. It does not solve or prevent crime, or bind up the emotional wounds of victims or families. It is punishment for punishment's sake; a kind of performative vengeance.
Advocates for the death penalty say it represents justice. But in reality they are simply describing the feelings human beings have when they see pain inflicted on someone they believe deserves it. Hundreds of years ago public torture and executions elicited these same feelings.
Most Americans today would deem public spectacles in which individuals are hanged, drawn, and quartered to be immoral or barbaric. Yet for some reason many draw a moral distinction between the modern method of death by lethal injection, and methods of the past.
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actually he didn’t kill anyone.
Mr. Kennedy looks like he just exited el tren de aragua.
Trying to make it sound like those who want justice are as cold blooded as the one who kills their victim. I’m not buying it.
Right. It isn’t a deterrent because they wait 20 years or more to carry it out, if they ever do. If they carried it out swiftly after a fair trial, it WOULD deter violent criminals, and if it didn’t, we wouldn’t have to pay for their three squares a day.
“Donald Jerome Shea, also known as “Shorty” (September 18, 1933 – August 26, 1969), was a Hollywood stuntman, actor and murder victim. The location of his body was discovered in 1977, eight years after his death. Manson Family leader Charles Manson and members “Clem” Grogan and Bruce M. Davis were eventually convicted of murdering Shea. Tex Watson was a possible participant in the murder, but was never charged”.
But...who knows?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shea
Just redefine it as a postatal abortion. Then the libs won’t make a peep!
When I was taking Comp 1 in College we had to grade each other's papers.
This one *IDIOT* wrote that the death penalty was bad because people who were given the death sentence were more likely to murder again.
The federal government should reserve the death penalty for terrorists like Osama bin Laden.
Marcellus Williams was as guilty as sin. Those who suggest otherwise are either il-informed, or liars
You can complain all you want but the truth is :
IT STOPS PEOPLE FROM MURDERING OTHER PEOPLE.
The concept is lost on the Left/socialist/marxist/ communists mind and heart and thought and allegiance ..THAT’S HOW SICK THEY ARE.
Incarceration doesn't do any of that. Neither does community service. I guess we should just let them go... but that doesn't meet his arbitrary and idiotic standards. What next, Solomon?
Potentially innocent people don’t belong incarcerated. It means there’s doubt about guilt, and if new evidence exists of the person’s innocents, then a new trial is in order.
Unjust is whrn there is corruption, and law isn’t obeyed. At the federal level, a person on trial is judged by a jury of hìs/her peers. The goveŕnment doesn’t proclaim guilt, or determine whether the guilty one receives the death penalty, or a life sentence. The jury of ones peers does. The litmus test is extremely extensive, the paperwork is huge. And then, the guilty has an appeals process to work through.
I have no idea what this idiot is trying to prove, but he’s definitely a dumba$$.
He doesn’t have a clue how survivors feel because if he did, he might say something different..IF he was a reasonable person and not a dumba$$.
needs to be expanded and implemented within a day of sentencing!
executed a potentially innocent man
We kill 1 million annually....by their parents
Let’s start with them since it is so easy, even a court case is unnecessary
Fraud denial.
No, the legal standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt."
Regards,
That's actually incorrect.
Executing the perp guarantees that he will never commit another heinous crime.
Regards,
Respectfully, I disagree.
States should be allowed to have the death penalty, if they choose. For one thing, it can be used as leverage. For example: the Green River Killer agreed to disclose the locations of his missing victims as part of a plea bargain, where he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Second, the death penalty prevents future murders from being committed by that same person. Murderers in prison have killed guards and other prisoners while in prison, and some have gone out and killed again after their release from prison. Also, some crimes are particularly heinous, and the death penalty should be available to be used in those cases.
Bet he supports killing innocent babies though.
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