Where do YOU stand on Capital Punishment?
First and foremost, I’m not seeking statistics, due to the fact that I have meticulously researched the Death Penalty, from the beheading of John the Baptist by order of King Herod for questioning the King’s desire to court his brother Phillip’s wife, Herodius..(because the wifey and daughter WANTED to have the king as their own)…to the recent overturning of the Supreme Court decision to allow Capital Punishment for Sex Offenders. What I’m looking for is your DEEPEST emotions….your true feelings about this facet of Justice in the United States. Any stats I quote are as accurate as possible….directly from sources such as the Uniform Crime Reports published by the F.B.I., as well as info I obtained by contacting the United States Department of Justice…..if you avoid the real question, and thrill me with your opinions of HOW I FEEL…I will rate you low, block you…and most likely reduce myself to a low level of distaste I don’t care for.
NOW FOR THE TRUTH>>>BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR FINAL DECISION…….
1. Each year….roughly $66 million tax dollars are spent to house, feed, clothe, medicate, and supply oxygen to the roughly 3,000 inmates presently under sentence of death in U.S. Prisons. For ythe average inmate, it costs approximately $22,000 a year….(which astounds me, because prisons are designed from the ground up, from the food, to the living quarters, to be as cost efficient as possible…in some instances…perilously close to in-humane conditions including but not limited to faulty plumbing which goes un attended for years…to food your dog would turn his nose up at.
2. Since 1976, when the moratorium on Capital Punishment was lifted, over 120 individuals have been exonerated and released from death row after new evidence proved innocence…or prosecutorial misconduct, lazy detectives, or unreliable witnesses were unearthed.
3. At the trial level, Death Penalty cases generate roughly $200,000 in legal expenses that the offender is, of course, not going to be responsible for…..especially if convicted….much more if the individual files personal restraint petitions (a facet of Habeas Corpus Law) and appeals.
4. 15 states, New Jersey being the most recent (2007), have abolished Capital Punishment altogether….My own native state of Michigan did so on March 1st, 1847….becoming the first English Speaking Territory to abolish Capital Punishment….as on of its first acts of Legislation as a State. On more than one occasion, a few of Michigan’s largest metropolitain areas have held national records for murder rates. Hmmm…I smell a rat.
5. As of 2006, the last publication of the Uniform Crime Reports until September 2010, there were 13,435 Non-Negligient Murders, 25,535 Forcible Rapes, and 87,252 Sex Offenses in the U.S….the Total number of Index Crimes (Murder, Rape, Robbery, Assault, Theft, Motor Vehicle Theft, Burglary, and Arson) was at 14,380,370. "Yay Mommy, they’re gonna have to build yet another Prison on that State land me and Billy play on"……….Imagine that
6. Some cases of National fame…such as "The Green River Killer" result in Life Sentences for guys like Gary Ridgeway (Dude killed 48 people THAT WE KNOW OF!)…while others, crimes of passion and those teetering on the edge of self defense, have ended the lives of individuals who killed for a "justifiable reason".
MY PROPOSAL-
Okay folks…we all know this country has seen better days…those of you who don’t must live in a cave, or be wealthy enough to not give a flying rat’s arse. Perhaps we should take the $66 big ones away, Kill the killers, the rapists, the pedophiles (unequivocally guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, of course) and apply it to something worthwhile. Maybe Pedophiles and Rapists ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEY SEEM…MORALLY AND SOCIOLOGICALLY UNACCEPTABLE ANIMALS WHO SHOULD BE SLAUGHTERED. I could go on and on…if you read the 22 page dissertation I wrote (limited amount of pages thanks to my instructor) you would be sickened….I know I was. China has alot of Capital crimes….running a Prostitution ring or Taking Bribes ( ask Zheng Xiaou…former head of their Food and Drug Administration)…..Why is the U.S. so concerned with treating these individuals as if they merely stole a car, or robbed a bank with a damn licorice pistol? My idea is….Murderers deserve an eye for an eye….
Pedophiles deserve to take the Long Black Train as well, however, a touch of punishment applied to the motivational parts of their bodies involving a blowtorch and a 4,000 p.s.i. Power washer should preclude the "conductor" sending them on the ride to Purgatorial Peace……..and rapists should see the same fate…….
I WILL READ AND CONSIDER ALL ANSWERS…AND LOOK AT THEM FROM THE POINTS OF VIEW OF THE MASSES, HOWEVER…MY OPINION SHALL NOT DEVIATE FROM ITS PRESENT COURSE OF VIGILANT LOGIC……I TRULY LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY……35YRSINTUITION
VERY FUNNY SHATTER…..HAD THIS QUESTION INVOLVED SYMANTICS AND DOUBLE TALK….YOU MAY HAVE GOT A BEST OUT OF IT.
DEAD PARROT….YOUR INTELLECT PRECEDES YOUR IRRATIONALITY…HOWEVER…I SAID NO STATS BECAUSE I KNOW ALL OF THEM……THEY HAVE BEEN PROCESSED BY MY HIPPOCAMPUS….AND COMMITTED TO LONG TERM MEMORY…UNTIL 2010, THAT IS. LOOK AT IT FROM ALL ANGLES, FRIEND…..MONEY, PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE U.S., AND HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO HAVE YOUR KID KIDNAPPED, DEFILED, MURDERED…AND DISCARDED LIKE RUBBISH……THERE WAS A COMPLIMENT IN THERE SOMEWHERE….BTW…..FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME. AND I MUST APOLOGIZE FOR ALL THE TYPOS….PASSION GIVES ME HAPPY FINGERS….ESPECIALLY WHEN I’M TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING SO ABSOLUTELY CONTROVERSIAL AND COMPELLING…….GOOD ANSWER THOUGH DPS……I RESPECT THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS…..I JUST DON’T BUDGE FROM MY OWN DUE TO THEM.
YUP..read the Bible cover to cover twice….not impressed by copies and pastes….but I did like the Old Testament better than the New…..if my blood had to be shed by man because I shed the blood of another for a transgression unforgivable….so be it….God Knows Me…..HE is still molding an imperfect lump of clay after 35 years…….and I share the name of Moses’ brother…..you know..the articulate one who never killed any Egyptians….
If someone has been arrested, tried and found guilty of a capital crime and the sentence is death, it should be carried out.
This BS of keeping someone on death row for years and years is an injustice to the low-lifes victims.
Do it.
If someone has been arrested, tried and found guilty of a capital crime and the sentence is death, it should be carried out.
This BS of keeping someone on death row for years and years is an injustice to the low-lifes victims.
Do it.
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To answer your real question, I agree with the death penalty and feel it should be carried out within one year with one appeal. And I would add drug dealers to the list for capital punishment.
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I would say that I would stand on the middle of the L in capital because it looks the most supportive but the T is also an option.
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I love how you don’t want a bunch of statistics, but offer everyone else "THE TRUTH." With that said, I AGREE with you 100%.
So fine, I won’t quote statistics. I’m against capital punishment because 1) I don’t believe that the state has any more right to take a life than an individual. In fact, I think the state should be held to an even higher standard; 2) our laws are not based on an eye for an eye, or to seek revenge for a victim’s family. It’s based on justice, and there is no argument that can show how taking one life for another is justice.
Do I feel bad when someone like Ted Bundy is put to death? Hell no, but that’s not the reasonable side of me. It’s the irrational, and it’s not what I’d like to base a justice system upon.
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judged by 12 found guilty sentence should be carried out within the hour done wasted enough time and effort on them!
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I think I’ll side with God on this one.
Gen.9:
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
[6] Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Num.35
[16] And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
[17] And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
[18] Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
[19] The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
[21] Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
[30] Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
[31] Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Acts 25:
[10] Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
[11] For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
Rom. 1:
[28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Rom.13
[1] Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
[2] Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
[3] For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
[4] For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
[5] Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
[6] For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
[7] Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
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