Death Penalty : Final Word of Justice
I read my local newspaper this morning and found a report about the execution of Kenneth Boyd, who was the 1000th person to be executed by the state since the resumption of the death penalty in 1977. I was very disappointed about the fact that the death penalty was called a barbaric and arbitrary act, an immoral wrong doing of the state which spreads no justice at all. Pardon me?! Only a Liberal could have written that. I for myself am very pleased that this creature is dead now. He was a killer. A cold blooded killer which has brought so much pain and suffering to his victim?s families. Now he?s gone and he?s no longer any risk to any men, women or child out there. He no longer sits in his cell and costs our money! No way he can break out or even gets released by psychiatrist in order to find a new victim he can lay hands on. With his death the families of the victims can begin to gain the closure they need.
I spoke with many of my family, neighbors and friends and nearly all of them are in favor of the death penalty as nearly 2/3 of my fellow American citizens. Can we all be wrong? No we can?t and we aren?t. ?Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth!? ?Thou shalt not kill? you can read in the Bible! Who takes a life should get his life taken!
Now there are two statements in a pro or contra death penalty that you can read or hear all the time. ?But what if someone given death penalty is innocent?? and ?The death penalty is not deterring people from committing murder and other serious crimes. I found an opinion that really reflects my thoughts:
“If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.”
John McAdams – Marquette University/Department of Political Science, on deterrence
Please visit http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ for more info about this topic.
Kind regards,
Steven (Shelley’s husband)
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Shelley, if you were a true fiscal conservative, I’m sure you would understand that the death penalty is bad for America’s pocketbook. But since your brand of conservatism appears to be social conservatism, I’m not surprised at how clueless you appear to be on this issue.
On average, it costs $25,000 per year to house one inmate in a prison. However, since the Constitution guarantees due process of law, and the death penalty is the ultimate sentence, it costs much more in taxpayer dollars to execute a prisoner.
Because the Constitution guarantees due process of law, death row inmates have the right to appeal all the way to the US Supreme Court. Since most of them can’t afford to pay for their own lawyers, we pay for their lawyers with our tax dollars. Personally, I’d rather see a murderer rot in a supermax escape-proof prison than pay a bunch of lawyers to represent him or her in the courts for 20 years.
Thanks for this blog, better than the Onion.
An your supports for the troupes is appeciated by all dancers.
Of course.. I know that an execution is very expensive?
My idea is to make it cheaper. If the guilt of somebody is proven and he is convicted, take him in the cellar and put a bullet in his head. Cost: Maybe 1 Dollar. So what?
One way or the other, if you kill those persons you prevent that they break out of prison and harm even more people.. and we all know of often that really happens!
“Of course.. I know that an execution is very expensive? My idea is to make it cheaper. If the guilt of somebody is proven and he is convicted, take him in the cellar and put a bullet in his head. Cost: Maybe 1 Dollar. So what? One way or the other, if you kill those persons you prevent that they break out of prison and harm even more people.. and we all know of often that really happens!”
First of all, to execute someone without allowing them to appeal the case is unconstitutional. We’re talking about ending someone’s life, and that’s irreversible.
If you’re going to allow the death penalty as a criminal sentence, the constitutional concept of due process of law should allow the accused to appeal their case as much as possible. To do otherwise would be un-American.
“Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author.”???
Sounds like a huge cop-out to me!
Kind of like Bush Administration control of the media. We don’t want anyone to see real dialog do we?
Mike B. in SC
WRONG.
I approve every comment as long as nobody get’s threatened.
With liberals you have to be careful. They get extremely ugly when they know that they are gonna lose!
Shelly, you said…
“My idea is to make it cheaper. If the guilt of somebody is proven and he is convicted, take him in the cellar and put a bullet in his head. Cost: Maybe 1 Dollar. So what?”
My question to you is, would you be willing to pull the trigger on these people convicted by a jury yourself, or would you need someone else to do it for you?
Mike B. in SC
I think many men would be happy to have this job.. but if nobody wants to do it, yes, I would.
PS: My husband would LOVE to do it.
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The russians and the chinese are doing it, too. We should be able to learn from them.
Your blog is interesting, Shelley, but why are you so mean sometimes?
I mean what with this whole “Liberals like to threaten people” mentality?
Shelly, when I asked you if you would carry out the executions yourself, by taking them into the cellar and blowing the brains out of those people convicted by a jury and sentenced to death, you answered …
“I think many men would be happy to have this job.. but if nobody wants to do it, yes, I would.
PS: My husband would LOVE to do it.”
Somehow, your answer makes me doubt your sincerity about being willing or able to scatter their grey matter, but for the sake of argument, lets say that you would.
As these people scream and beg for their lives and proclaim their innocence, could you still pull the trigger, knowing that several of them actually are innocent?
That’s what the debate about the application of the death penalty really comes down to Shelly, and I don’t think you could do it. There is no certainty of guilt established by a trial by jury or even endless appeals. Innocent people are still being put to death.
If you told me the truth when you said that your husband would LOVE to have the job, well, all I can say is you must both be lots of fun at social gatherings.
Thanks,
Mike B. in SC
Yes. I would do it. A real republican must be able to fulfill a death sentence.
Shelly, would you also be willing to torture a confession out of prisoners and use that as justification for the death penalty?
Mike B. in SC
As our president said: We don’t torture.
Every activity we conduct is within the law.
On the other hand I would be willing to do everything necessary (within the law).
Shelley,
So you think the citizens of North Dakota (where there is no death penatly) aren’t real republicans, even though they solidly voted for Bush both in 2000 and 2004?
Jaxebad
Sorry. I don’t know enough about the situation in ND. I can’t comment.
It’s a simple situation.
1. North Dakota does not have the death penalty.
2. North Dakota is very Republican; the last time the state voted for a Democrat for President was in 1964.
What do you make of this?
Jaxebad
What does this proof, please?
I never said that all republicans are perfect.
So, they got it all wrong, what do you want me to say?
I’m with Shelley on this one: It’s the liberals who are the torturers making the guilty prisoners languish on death row for possibly thirty years – now that is what I call a torture. Wouldnt it be more humane to (as shelley suggests) just shoot them in the head.
I know whining liberals recon that occasionally an “innocent” man will be put to death, but surely that strong deterrant will save more innocent lives than would ever be lost by a mis-trial.
I personally do not belive America has ever wrongly sentenced a man to death; Were that the case our leaders would have granted them clemency. Even if the people on death row were not guilty of the crime they are accused of, most probably they have commited other crimes and deserve to die anyway.
We have the world’s best legal system, and last time I looked every single man on death row has been convicted by a jury of American citizens. What could be a fairer test of innocence than trial before a jury of God-fearing Americans?
Finally, if in the unlikely case that our courts wrongly convict a man then all we are doing is bringing them to heaven sooner. If you dont believe me, read Jesus’ sermon on the mount. The innocent have nothing to fear but eternal salvation.
If they were as innocent as they claim to be they would be delighted that their brief period in jail is a small price to pay for an afterlife with our Lord. A truly innocent person would not be afraid.
Here is my suggestion:
I think we should lower the bar for the death penalty: We should have the death penalty for every crime listed in the bible as a capitol offence. It would be the quickest way I know to stamp out sin and reduce prison population at the same time.
What do you’all think?
What about the innocents? If just one innocent person dies due to this BARBARIC and medieval style of punishment – you, as an advocate of the death penalty is a MURDERER! Thank your god for me that such a penalty doesn’t exist in my country!
Shelley,
If you shot a convicted murderer in the head,as you yourself said you were prepared to do, that was later found to be innocent, would you be prepared to die as a murderer in the same manner? Which would be true beyond reasonable doubt.
Just asking
Shelley,
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You are anti-abortion/pro-life, right? I suppose the reason is because you hold all life as sacred, right? If all life is sacred, then how can you support the death penalty? That doesn’t seem very Christian of you.
I think Bible is so clear about death penalty!
For example, we can read on John, chapter 8, verse 6 that Jesus himself save a prostitute from “death penalty”. The Jesus’ pardon is not only for “good guys” ;) (it would be so uneuseful). Jesus already took our death penalty.
God gave us life, that’s not to humans to tell when we can take it. Don’t forget that He is the only Judge.
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Doesn’t seem complicated to me.
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It only applies if you pretend to kill a Republican,
because for Sherley every single human being that was murdered by death penalty was a ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?democ-rat???
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Correct. Death penalty is a crime, isn’t it?
I thought you were a christian.
All life is sacred but if you choose to take someones life then you forefeit all rights and should have yours taken from you.
It’s that simple, one appeal and that’s it. The family of the victim should have first refusal on carrying out the punishment.
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