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  • Posted By: rockmanjohnstone @ 11/12/2007 1:26:56 AM

    I do bevlieve in the death plenatly, and those who comment murder or armed robbery sould be put too death also.

  • Posted By: Joey.108 @ 11/12/2007 1:26:33 AM

    I think all this talk of cruelty to murderes is insane. Perhaps we should leave the word "justice" out of the justice system because real justice is an eye for an eye bud! and these guys are getting off easy. This idea that hurting a murderer or causing a murderer some discomfort is bad and that letting them live is somehow helping them is pathetic do goody good wishy washy liberal minded frigen nonsense. Taking their body away from them is actually the best thing you can do for such a sinful soul, they go directly to hell, face the wrath of God, learn and move on. In a Godless society the sane are considered insane, so no doubt my advice will be considered retrograde, backward, primitive, not in line with todays enlightened and progressive social values-

  • Posted By: commuterdog @ 11/12/2007 1:23:31 AM

    I don't feel sorry for the murderer!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel sorry for the innocent man sitting on death row!!!!!!!!!! That may get his life snuffed out by a FLAWED JUDICIAL SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: cj_134 @ 11/12/2007 1:19:54 AM

    Ask yourself why you feel sorry for a murderer being executed? I'm sure a murderer didn't consider a victims rights or their feelings when they killed them. Good people execute murderes not because they wanted too. They execute them to rid the world of monsters like that! Once dead they can't come back and do it again ever again. Why have sympathy on a being that had no sympathy and remember they knew the penalty in advance if they got caught.

  • Posted By: javygt94 @ 11/12/2007 1:15:35 AM

    This is why crime will, never go away because the puniments are getting to be more accomidating for criminals. I believe in the death penalty for murders only!!! If u kill and get cought the punishments should fit the crime. Why should families that have lost a love one see that person get 5 yrs or more in jail were they get a free hotel room to sleeep, eat, and get stronger to commit a crime again in 5 or so years!!! Thats why the great lone star state of texas doesnt have a high crime rate (border jumpers dont count!!!) because poeple are scared of the death penalty... Maybe state that need this impact like florida, california, detroit, lousianna, ny should start doing the same thing... Thats why GOD gave us brains so we can make capable decision, what we can only kills criminals from other countries but not our own country which we live and love!!! Please people that say this is a GOD decision to make not our!!! Cry me a river!!! I hope u never lose someone to murderer, but if u do lose a love one to killer!!! I just wonder were ur decision on this matter stands after the fact!!!

  • Posted By: Joey.108 @ 11/12/2007 1:14:35 AM

    I think all this talk of "cruelty" to murderers is insane. Perhaps we should just take the word "justice" out of the justice system cause real justice is an eye for an eye bud, these guys are getting off easy!

  • Posted By: javygt94 @ 11/12/2007 1:14:25 AM

    This is why crime will, never go away because the puniments are getting to be more accomidating for criminals. I believe in the death penalty for murders only!!! If u kill and get cought the punishments should fit the crime. Why should families that have lost a love one see that person get 5 yrs or more in jail were they get a free hotel room to sleeep, eat, and get stronger to commit a crime again in 5 or so years!!! Thats why the great lone star state of texas doesnt have a high crime rate (border jumpers dont count!!!) because poeple are scared of the death penalty... Maybe state that need this impact like florida, california, detroit, lousianna, ny should start doing the same thing... Thats why GOD gave us brains so we can make capable decision, what we can only kills criminals from other countries but not our own country which we live and love!!! Please people that say this is a GOD decision to make not our!!! Cry me a river!!! I hope u never lose someone to murderer, but if u do lose a love one to killer!!! I just wonder were ur decision on this matter stands after the fact!!!

  • Posted By: commuterdog @ 11/12/2007 1:12:44 AM

    Hey parole4a, here in Atlanta (red state) we have a man on a capital murder trial because he shot some sherriffs deputies in court!!! He is guilty as hell!!!! However, because they have opted for the death penalty it puts a whole new spin on how the trial is to be handled so that it is above board when it comes up on appeal!!! Which by law it has to!!!!!!!!!!!! I believe at least two times!!!!!! The state of GA has spent several million dollars for defense attorneys and they have not even sat the jury yet!!!!!!! It is supposed to be a several month long trial!!!!! They could have gone for life without parole and he would be done. Several million dollars houses alot of prisoners. This guy hasn't even had his trial yet!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Mr. SP @ 11/12/2007 12:55:39 AM

    The possibility of being executed for a capital crime might cause some would be criminals to have second thoughts.
    I'm in favour of the death penalty in cases of murder where no mitigating circumstances are present. Even in the law the Lord gave the Hebrews states that anyone that strikes another so as to make him die must be put to death.
    A three strikes law also finds favour with me. The thire major felony is the criminal's last felony as the criminal should be executed within three months of conviction.

  • Posted By: Beau de Malte @ 11/12/2007 12:48:43 AM

    Whatever anyone may feel or think, it all boils down to your own perspective of who GOD is and what he expects of us - I do not believe that GOD plays chess with the people of this earth. We are here for a reason and that reason is to find out which of us are worth to enter the kingdom of HEAVEN. I am not a fantastoically religios guy but I do believe that the laws of this world are flawed and money can buy a person innocence and also frame the innocent. For this reason alone I will never agree with the death penalty. Even with DNA - there are flaws as DNA can be put into a crime scene very easily, in fact I would go so far as to say that with DNA criminls now have a great tool available to them to frame or distract investigators away from them, Killing by death penalty is wrong since even if just one innocent is killed, then it is wrong. - death is final and can never be reversed. Final judgement is always GODS right and not ours.

  • Posted By: commuterdog @ 11/12/2007 12:30:53 AM

    The problem with hangin them the next day is alot of juries are wrong and then you just killed an innocent victim. Our court system is flawed and that has been proven over and over!!!!! How many innocent people do we have to kill before we realize that the death penalty is not the answer!!!!!! It's a good thing some of these death row inmates were there for 20 years, because DNA and faulty "eyewitness" testimony has now cleared them of their crime. It is better that 1,000 guilty go free before one innocent is found guilty!!!!! That is the basis of our justice system and the death penalty goes against that mantra!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: turnkey261 @ 11/12/2007 12:33:38 AM

      i don't believe that it has ever been proven that an innocent man or woman has been put to death has it?

      • Posted By: swoods03 @ 11/12/2007 12:38:52 AM

        No, it's never "been proven" because : There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved. :

  • Posted By: witchnurse1 @ 11/12/2007 12:38:45 AM

    I work as a nurse in the Florida prison system. The death penality is the easy way out. Give them life and don't let them out.

  • Posted By: witchnurse1 @ 11/12/2007 12:35:51 AM

    I work in the state of Florida prison system as a nurse. Death is the easy way out. Give them life and don't ever let them out.

  • Posted By: Parole4A @ 11/12/2007 12:34:58 AM

    First of all as mentioned we now have DNA evidence, so from here on if a person is convicted or pleads quilty and the DNA proves he or she has commited the Murder then yes the Death Penality should be carried out within 60 days. Did they give their victims a choice to die or not? beeding heart , christians the Bible says " IF YOU TAKE A LIFE YOUR LIFE SHALL BE TAKEN" And don't say that was before Jesus came, it was and still is "God's Law" I would rather spend $1000.00 to execute a murder than $750,000 to house him or her for 30 years. I think what people are saying who disapprove of the "Death Penality" is the person who commited the murder is worth more than the person who was murdered. In doing so you approve of Murder but not paying for the crime. I had a brother who spent 15 years in prison for a crime, did he deserve it ? hell yes he did and if he would have commited murder, I still would have felt the same way towards the death penality, he commited the crime pay for it with your life. All these reglious fakes who oppose it , get real death is a reality, if 'God wants to forgive than fine let man carrie out the Law"

  • Posted By: Lexy Baluca @ 11/11/2007 10:05:12 PM

    If the U.S. wishes to been seen by the rest of the world as anything but the Roman Empire 2.0 then it needs to move away from the 'might is right', 'eye for an eye' belief system that seems to dictate its foreign policy and its internal system of justice. For western nations that have abolished the death penalty, the very concept of a state apparatus for the killing of human beings is abhorrent. I think that in the next 50 years the U.S. will look back on its liberal use of the death penalty in the same way that it now reflects on legalised slavery and segregation.

    • Posted By: Widgit @ 11/11/2007 10:13:19 PM

      Liberal use of the death penalty?? You must not be up on what is happenin'. Most just die of old age. They just sit there. We are NOT liberal with it. Also, how about we send the perps to the front lines during war?
      Any society that cherishes itself and respects itself......protects itself.

      • Posted By: Lexy Baluca @ 11/12/2007 12:32:29 AM

        Is there statistically significant evidence to support that the death penalty stops people being murdered in the first place? Surely life behind bars means offenders are out of the community at large and cannot re-offend. Also, given that evidence arises indicating they are not guilty, they can be released at a later date. State sanctioned execution has nothing to do with safety, and has everything to do with vengeance.

  • Posted By: Parole4A @ 11/12/2007 12:31:59 AM

    First of all as mentioned we now have DNA evidence, so from here on if a person is convicted or pleads quilty and the DNA proves he or she has commited the Murder then yes the Death Penality should be carried out within 60 days. Did they give their victims a choice to die or not? beeding heart , christians the Bible says " IF YOU TAKE A LIFE YOUR LIFE SHALL BE TAKEN" And don't say that was before Jesus came, it was and still is "God's Law" I would rather spend $1000.00 to execute a murder than $750,000 to house him or her for 30 years. I think what people are saying who disapprove of the "Death Penality" is the person who commited the murder is worth more than the person who was murdered. In doing so you approve of Murder but not paying for the crime. I had a brother who spent 15 years in prison for a crime, did he deserve it ? hell yes he did and if he would have commited murder, I still would have felt the same way towards the death penality, he commited the crime pay for it with your life. All these reglious fakes who oppose it , get real death is a reality, if 'God wants to forgive than fine let man carrie out the Law"

  • Posted By: CREATIVE SEED @ 11/12/2007 12:28:29 AM

    If there were a way to put a capital murderer away for life and keep him there until he dies by suicide or natural causes then I would support aboloshing the death penalty. But there isn't. More and more people now know that ANY system of jurisprudence in the world can be subverted by lawyers with enough resources. Therefore, let's re-introduce the guilitine. Except for observers, it does not constitute cruelty. (We can make it totally non-observable.) And if performed enough, it won't be unusual. A potential murderer's or rapist's fear of having his or her head separated from their body would cut these crimes drastically. Ours is the freest nation on earth--perhaps in history. Unfortunately, freedom allows murderers to exist also. Between the lines of all the verbal sophistry advocating against the death penalty lies a false sentimentality. The only antidote to this false sentimentality is a clear-tinking SENTIMENT to protect what is best for our nation. It is the sentimentalists who are the murderers. Not the surviving family of victims who desire that justice be carried out as capital punishment.

  • Posted By: turnkey261 @ 11/12/2007 12:28:00 AM

    That seems like a good idea, NOT! We would not have a death penalty for long that way. It would take about two weeks and we would kill an innocent person. Don???t get me wrong I feel where you are coming from but I also have a strong sense of right and wrong. The due process of law has to be adhered to in these cases more than non death penalty cases. Once you kill someone that was innocent it???s all over, but give someone time and then new evidence comes to light you just let him go and give him some money!

  • Posted By: CREATIVE SEED @ 11/12/2007 12:26:05 AM

    If there were a way to put a capital murderer away for life and keep him there until he dies by suicide or natural causes then I would support aboloshing the death penalty. But there isn't. More and more people now know that ANY system of jurisprudence in the world can be subverted by lawyers with enough resources. Therefore, let's re-introduce the guilitine. Except for observers, it does not constitute cruelty. (We can make it totally non-observable.) And if performed enough, it won't be unusual. A potential murderer's or rapist's fear of having his or her head separated from their body would cut these crimes drastically. Ours is the freest nation on earth--perhaps in history. Unfortunately, freedom allows murderers to exist also. Between the lines of all the verbal sophistry advocating against the death penalty lies a false sentimentality. The only antidote to this false sentimentality is a clear-tinking SENTIMENT to protect what is best for our nation. It is the sentimentalists who are the murderers. Not the surviving family of victims who desire that justice be carried out as capital punishment.

  • Posted By: turnkey261 @ 11/12/2007 12:21:48 AM

    where do all the typos come from they were not in what i posted!!

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