This is my greatest unease with the state killing people:
Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says - Yahoo! News
A terrible travesty of justice that should give everyone pause.
In a better scenario, the victim would have dispatched the thug during the commission of its crime.
The decisions are why you are paid the Big bucks...This is my greatest unease with the state killing people:
Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says - Yahoo! News
A terrible travesty of justice that should give everyone pause.
THIS is why I'm believing more & more that the State shouldn't be in the business of killing people (unless they're literally caught red-handed)
DNA evidence is exonerating people all the time - as new technology emerges.
I don't trust the government to balance a checkbook, so it makes no sense to trust them to decide who needs killin'.
Rick Perry is proud of the hundreds of lives that he ended on his watch. And Republicans cheered fanatically at the thought of state-issued death.
I wonder how many of them were innocent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocKFSLsZnUo
At least one that I know of and likely more than a few others. Fortunately, a couple have been saved from wasting their lives behind bars for crimes they didn't commit. The Innocence Project has been hard at work in Texas for the last few years.Rick Perry is proud of the hundreds of lives that he ended on his watch. And Republicans cheered fanatically at the thought of state-issued death.
I wonder how many of them were innocent.
"The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we excecuted a few innocent people more often."
Edward Abbey
It happens. Sometimes speeders get tickets and they are not really speeding.
I for one support the death penalty and will continue to do so as long as abortion on demand remains the law of the land. Once we end that form of state sanctioned killing, we can begin working on abolishing the other. It's all about baby steps, no pun intended.
Offered IMHO ofcourse.