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Where do YOU stand on Capital Punishment?

February 22nd, 2010 6 comments

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.

Should Texas Repeal/Review its Death Penalty because of the new wave of people freed due to DNA?

January 20th, 2010 4 comments

Texas killed 78 inmates last year, that is more than one a week. They refused to honor the Supreme Court suggestion on a moratorium on killing the mentally impaired. Most of the other states have either repealed or put a moratorium on the death penalty while they review all cases that hinged on DNA and a record number of people have been freed after being wrongfully convicted. Texas is not actively looking at reviewing cases where DNA or circumstantial evidence could free a inmate. Is this fair? I am not advocating freeing those who are guilty and believe that in most cases Life without the possibilityof parole is sufficient. BUT should we take the chance of killing innoncent people rather than admitting there maybe a mistake? The justice system is not set up to kill the innoncent, but instead protect them.

The death penalty is there for a reason and I support it. I do think that with new evidence-DNA-you should have a right to appeal your sentence. And I do believe that a lot of poor people don’t get the same treatment as those with $ for a good lawyer. On the other hand I have known people that are so evil they do not deserve to live among other humans and when they commit "that" crime they need to know that if they are caught and proven guilty, they are going to die. You don’t do a simple murder and get the death sentence, you have to do something heinous. Look at it from the victim’s viewpoint instead of the criminals. . .it will give you a whole new viewpoint about who really has the rights and who doesn’t.