It would seem that more tears are shed for the murderers than for their innocent victims. It is hard to feel that justice is being served by a life sentence for some or even most murders. If you take the property and infringe on the freedoms of others, you stand to lose your own property and freedoms. If you take the life of another, it seems perfectly reasonable that you lose the right to your own. The severity of the punishment must match the severity of the crime or else justice is not served. The number of murders since 1976 is staggering at a mark well over half a million! The number of executions is less than 00.18% of the number of murders. That's not 18%, but .18%. Additionally, the number of people who were on death row falsely (I think this site says it is 120 or more) is a small number if we put it in perspective. Even if we say that for every 2 people murdered since 1976, there is only one person to be prosecuted and sentenced, then only 00.04% of those people were the wrong people. If we stretch the numbers even farther and say there is only one murderer for every four murders and that there are 400 innocent people on death row, that is still only .29%. Or in other words, 99.7% of murderers will either not be put on death row, or will be there, but are guilty. Innocent people on death row is a reason to improve the system, not a reason to do away with the death penalty. One of the best reasons for the death penalty is, that person can never harm or kill anyone ever again.
(-We stand by as thousands are murdered each year, We let the murderers live, and we legalize the murder of our unborn children)
Friday, December 02, 2005
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Utah must be one fucked up state if the people out there shed more tears for convicted criminals than crime victims. However, I believe that's just another baseless talking point spread by rightard idealogues like yourself. Kind of like your gross misconceptions about evolution and the public school system. Conservatives believe in less government, and less power in the hands of government, and yet you wish to ensure that they have the ultimate power of life and death over the governed. Apparently you love the government so much that you are willing to risk the lives and freedsoms of innocent citizens to an imperfect legal system. Innocent people get convicted of crimes from time to time (see Ruben Cantu), and you would allow our government to punish those people. As a matter of fact, you applaud it. That's sick. You right wing fundies are a pathetic joke. You bluster support for wars in which you are too cowardly to serve. You hide behind the apron strings of the government, and shake your finger at whoever Dear Leader tells you is an enemy of the state. Grow the fuck up before one of Chimpy's partisan hacks erroneously points his finger at you.
"Cowards edit comments. Marines never do."
Although I doubt your math, I like the notion that there is a 00.04% chance that you'll end up on death row.
I am doing an editorial for my Language Arts class on the subject of capital punishment, I just wanted to say that this article shows exactly what i have been searching for! I completely agree with everything you have stated!
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