In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court rules by a vote of 5-4 that capital punishment, as it is currently employed on the state and federal level, is unconstitutional. The majority held that, in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, the death penalty qualified as “cruel and unusual punishment,” primarily because states employed execution in “arbitrary and capricious ways,” especially in regard to race.
It was the first time that the nation’s highest court had ruled against capital punishment. However, because the Supreme Court suggested new legislation that could make death sentences constitutional again, such as the development of standardized guidelines for juries that decide sentences, it was not an outright victory for opponents of the death penalty.
In 1976, with 66 percent of Americans still supporting capital punishment, the Supreme Court acknowledged progress made in jury guidelines and reinstated the death penalty under a “model of guided discretion.” In 1977, Gary Gilmore, a career criminal who had murdered an elderly couple because they would not lend him their car, was the first person to be executed since the end of the ban. Defiantly facing a firing squad in Utah, Gilmore’s last words to his executioners before they shot him through the heart were, “Let’s do it.”
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Well we have certainly become more advanced and civilized with the recognition that capital punishment for heinous crime is unfair and not nice. //SARC OFF//
Utter psychotic nonsense that can only be concocted by persons; living in fantasy land or a hermetically sealed bubble, feeble minded, on drugs, or plainly demonic.
There is, however, capital punishment that is just perfectly fine , even encouraged and celebrated by the same morons, sociopaths, and Devil-worshippers.
Military members sent to “Bringing Them Democracy” actions being killed for no reason other than the caprice of Evil Fuckers and their tool politicians and flag officers.
Capital punishment for patriotism and love of country. No due process.
How about the civilians, many of them children, who happened to make the mistake of living or going to those areas where helicopter gunship, artillery and missile strikes were “servicing the target”? Tough luck. Oh, no due process.
Innocent person(s) knifed, shot, run over or killed by some other method, by a cold blooded executioner who for whatever reason – ideological, sociological, theological – wanted to slaughter the/those innocent people.
Capital punishment for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. No due process.
Slaughter of the innocent unborn via “a woman’s right to “healthcare”” with late-term, and now up to the moment of birth, being just fine with legislators, judges and politicians. Execution without any due process.
Capital punishment for being composed of human DNA and attached to a uterus. No due process. At all.
So a question begs to be asked looking at these instances of capital punishment without ANY due process, just the occasional wringing of hands or a rare sting of conscience: just what kind of people are we when true killers are not properly punished and the innocent can receive state sanctioned capital punishment without any due process let alone remorse?
A pathological people who have obviously reached the terminal stage, that’s what kind.
The ‘death penalty’ is declared unconstitutional in 1972 in criminal cases.
Then, one year later in 1973 the ‘death penalty’ is re-instituted for the innocent.
Unfortunately, for those who escape the fate of abortion, the sentence imposed
becomes involuntary servitude and brain washing for a duration of 12 years or until the age of 16,
which ever comes first.
May God have mercy on your soul.
It is NOT appropriate for government to take the lives of the citizens. It most certainly IS appropriate for the victim’s families to exact justice, but that is NOT how cases are adjudicated. The victim or their family is only a means to an end for the government. Vengeance is what gets the government “off.” Meanwhile, the family is left wanting, and paying all the bills as taxpayers.
Restitution is what EVERY case should be about…not retribution…though retribution may have its role. Keeping government’s hands off the kill switch is a right and appropriate move. Prosecutorial misconduct/lying/hiding of the truth, etc. is legendary. Prosecutors get ahead in their careers with convictions, NOT is uncovering the TRUTH. There is far too much incentive, and far too little punishment, for these criminals. The judge, the jury, the DA, and in many cases, the public defender, are ALL paid by the state. The case is “the state versus….” despite their being a victim. The goal of NO case is the truth, but simply to convince a jury of one side or the other. Until this changes, and until the incentive for lying is gone, taking the life of someone should NEVER be the outcome (unless the murder is witnessed by at least two un-related individuals). It is simply not worth the destruction of freedom and liberty to allow otherwise.