“There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.”
― Dinesh D’Souza, Letters to a Young Conservative
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
― Val McDermid, Killing The Shadows
“I don’t wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I’m the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards”
― Charles Manson
“Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.”
― Vittori Alfieri
Chicago999444 says:
The death penalty is certainly warranted for certain vicious crimes, but it’s useless as a deterrent if your justice system has become a lottery where a murderer might get the DP, but also might get “life” with parole after 10 years, or might only get 5 years, or walk free altogether, just because some corrupt judge thinks the life of the victim wasn’t worth consideration.
This happens too often here in Cook County. One judge let a man guilty of a fatal shooting walk free, even though the jury found him guilty, because the victim was another gangbanger. The “just let’m kill each other off” attitude has enabled Chicago gangbangers in thinking they are laws onto themselves, with results we can see in our appalling homicide stats.
A punishment only functions as a deterrent if it is applied impartially and across the board for a particular crime. Now, I would absolutely support the DP for any murder of a child, or any murder that involves rape or torture as long as the perp could be proved guilty beyond any doubt. I believe most murderers could easily be found guilty by that standard, given the advancements in forensics.
However, if the DP can only be applied once in a while and on whim, then let the mandatory punishment be life plus 150 years, with no possibility of parole. And limit the number of appeals. Whatever punishment there is, should be certain to apply no matter who commits the crime.
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25th October 2012 at 10:24 am
sunshine guerilla says:
Its all too expensive, low flying flights over the Congo, fire them out without slowing. We can throw the Congolese $10,000 a man or even better, a flat fee to the appropriate official of $10,000.
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25th October 2012 at 10:40 am
Eddie says:
The only problem I have with the death penalty is that we have a documented history of convicting and killing the wrong man, too many times.
Our legal system is too biased toward accepting eye-witness testimony, which has been proven time and time again to be extremely unreliable.
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25th October 2012 at 11:21 am
Stucky says:
Three reasons I might be against the death penalty;
1)- DNA technology; Hundreds of “convicts” have been proven to be innocent over the last several years.
2)- Spending the rest of your life in a tiny jail cell … bored to fucking death and eating shit food … is worse than dying. (At least to me it would be.)
3)- I don’t think there is definitive proof that a death penalty deters crime.
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Three reasons I might be for the death penalty.
1)- Life in prison often does NOT mean life in prison. Eliminate parole!
2)- The cost to taxpayers paying thousands upon thousands of dollars to house, feed, and care for these thugs.
3) Murder is murder ….. even if the State does it.
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25th October 2012 at 11:29 am
JIMSKI says:
At one point in the 90′s Turkey said they would take any prisoner of the USA for 7 bucks a day. 7 bucks a damn day. We should have like 3 people in federal and state prisons and the rest in Turkey.
And yes I saw Midnight run.
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25th October 2012 at 1:01 pm