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shouldn’t conservatives be cheering for lowering the number of death row inmates?

November 23rd, 2011 12 comments

instead of cheering high numbers.
why do conservatives consider Texas’s record amount on death row inmates as a win?
they beat every state at the record amount of murderers. that’s a pathetic lose you people are proud of. whichever state has the record amount of abortions certainly isn’t getting any cheers from the left. that’s a tragedy. that’s why we want to provide social programs. so people wont have to resort to murder and thief just to make it to the end of their life.

My opinion has nothing to do with conservative v. liberal arguments. It is based on the death penalty system in action:

For the worst crimes, life without parole is better, for many reasons. I’m against the death penalty not because of sympathy for criminals but because it isn’t effective in reducing crime, prolongs the anguish of families of murder victims, costs a whole lot more than life in prison, and, worst of all, risks executions of innocent people.

The worst thing about it. Errors:
The system can make tragic mistakes. In 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for starting the fire that killed his children. The Texas Forensic Science Commission found that the arson testimony that led to his conviction was based on flawed science. As of today, 138 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated. DNA is rarely available in homicides, often irrelevant (as in Willingham’s case) and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Capital juries are dominated by people who favor the death penalty and are more likely to vote to convict.

Keeping killers off the streets for good:
Life without parole, on the books in most states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending the rest of your life locked up, knowing you’ll never be free, is no picnic. Two big advantages:
-an innocent person serving life can be released from prison
-life without parole costs less than the death penalty

Costs, a surprise to many people:
Study after study has found that the death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. Since the stakes are so high, the process is far more complex than for any other kind of criminal case. The largest costs come at the pre-trial and trial stages. These apply whether or not the defendant is convicted, let alone sentenced to death.

Crime reduction (deterrence):
The death penalty doesn’t keep us safer. Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people without a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent.

Who gets it:
The death penalty isn’t reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn’t apply to people with money. Practically everyone sentenced to death had to rely on an overworked public defender. How many people with money have been executed??

Victims:
People assume that families of murder victims want the death penalty imposed. It isn’t necessarily so. Some are against it on moral grounds. But even families who have supported the death penalty in principle have testified to the protracted and unavoidable damage that the death penalty process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

It comes down to whether we should keep the death penalty for retribution or revenge in spite of its flaws and in spite of the huge toll it exacts on society.

HELP! WORRIED ABOUT MY SON…?

March 10th, 2010 5 comments

Im a little worried about my son. We live in Compton California which is notorious for gang activites and homicides, and I have been suspecting that he is affiliated with a Blood gang. He is friends with a kid whose father worked with Suge Knight (Im assuming you know who that is) back in the 90’s when Death Row Records was big. So this alone has alarmed me. I know my son isnt a bad person and I doubt he would do anything as far as taking someone’s life, but I have noticed something else that alarmed me.

He has always been good in school, particulary on assignments about history. He really enjoys reading and researching about people like Al Capone and people like that. So I know he is into reading history of this sort of thing.

But for the last couple of weeks I have been seeing that he is reading a lot about murderers. Jack the Ripper is someone he reads a lot about. And more recently he has really been reading a lot about the Columbine Massacre.

If my son was going to be involved in any type of criminal activity, Im positive in would be gang activity (not saying I condone it) and I am 100% sure he would never think of doing anything like what he is reading about.

But I am just wondering if living in a city where there is so many murders, multiple murders just about ever week, is that something that is increasing his interest on this type of thing? And could there be any type of connection at all as to why is he reading so much about these things?

Your son is heading for trouble if he is with any gang. I did a google search on average age of gange members. Only approx 13% of gang members are 24 or over. The rest are essentially children. Be aware that this doens’t mean they all grow up and get out of it. The majority of them just don’t live beyond 24.

The best thing you can do is take your son and move far away from the gang he is active in. You will probably need to get some professionals to talk to him so he doesn’t seek out more of the same kind of people to hang with.

One word of caution, he can’t just disengage himself and stay in the same community. It doesn’t work like that. I lived in a small town, My 15 year old son was telling me they were forming a neighborhood gang… As we discussed it further he told me they named themselves WSC. Well I knew that was a major gang and told my son about it. He decided he didn’t want to participate afterall. 3 days later I was having to make funeral arrangements for my son.

Please act as quickly and as safely for your son as possible. This isn’t something to play with.