I'm glad we're finally talking about this. It's been a long time since the death penalty could even be discussed. May the moratorium lead us to abolish the death penalty. Finally.
A well considered POV and I am sure many will agree with the author, however, I disagree and believe justice is still better served by the death penalty, for the victims and the those who wish to see real and true justice; Not endless incarceration (with possible eventual parole).
If the death penalty is too slow to enact upon convicted offenders then we should try to fix it so the delays are not drawn out. We can fix the Death Penalty, but we should not eliminate it.
My family is a victim of a senseless unsolved random murder to a 60 year old family member and also brutal injury to an 87 year old family member (both women). Both victims were completely innocent and at home (baking) at the time of the senseless unsolved attack by what appears to be a random stranger. We want Justice via the death penalty when/if the killer is arrested and convicted.
We do not want to see this person incarcerated as the author does. I do not believe the people arguing against the death penalty have been directly impacted the way our family has. I speak for the victims, the families of loved ones.
I also believe if the death penalty is abolished you'll see much more vendetta style attacks in an effort to avenge the dead, and nobody wants that. The death penalty offers an alternative to 'taking care of the problem' outside of the criminal justice system.
Aside from the bloody & terrible faux "morality" of the death penalty --which I vehemently oppose-- On a simple factual basis, it is FAR more expensive than life imprisonment. Why spend that extra tax-payer money? Seems dumb. Plus, stuck in prison w/ no chance of parole is arguably much worse than being handed a quick exit by the State.
Oh, and then there's all the innocent people that have died, wrongly accused. Worth it? No.
I'm against the death penalty for the usual reasons but my biggest reason is that I find it to be a far less terrifying alternative than life in prison.
For the truly horrible, let them slowly rot away and think about their mistakes. Most of our capital crimes should instead have a maximum sentence of life in prison with NO possibility of parole. Perhaps we should even have live feeds available of the criminals slowly losing their sanity in their tiny cells. Now that would be deterrence.
What about Byron Scherf? He's the inmate from Monroe prison who brutally murdered a corrections officer while serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
He -- appropriately -- got the death penalty. There is no issue whatsoever about his guilt. Executing him will ensure with absolute certainty that he never kills anyone again. Should we just sentence him to life -- again? How will that ensure that he will never kill again?
After listening to a mother and a father of murder victim argue against the death penalty for the man convicted of the murder of their daughter at the sentencing hearing....I bow my head in awe at the grace of god.
If the death penalty is too slow to enact upon convicted offenders then we should try to fix it so the delays are not drawn out. We can fix the Death Penalty, but we should not eliminate it.
My family is a victim of a senseless unsolved random murder to a 60 year old family member and also brutal injury to an 87 year old family member (both women). Both victims were completely innocent and at home (baking) at the time of the senseless unsolved attack by what appears to be a random stranger. We want Justice via the death penalty when/if the killer is arrested and convicted.
We do not want to see this person incarcerated as the author does. I do not believe the people arguing against the death penalty have been directly impacted the way our family has. I speak for the victims, the families of loved ones.
I also believe if the death penalty is abolished you'll see much more vendetta style attacks in an effort to avenge the dead, and nobody wants that. The death penalty offers an alternative to 'taking care of the problem' outside of the criminal justice system.
Oh, and then there's all the innocent people that have died, wrongly accused. Worth it? No.
For the truly horrible, let them slowly rot away and think about their mistakes. Most of our capital crimes should instead have a maximum sentence of life in prison with NO possibility of parole. Perhaps we should even have live feeds available of the criminals slowly losing their sanity in their tiny cells. Now that would be deterrence.
He -- appropriately -- got the death penalty. There is no issue whatsoever about his guilt. Executing him will ensure with absolute certainty that he never kills anyone again. Should we just sentence him to life -- again? How will that ensure that he will never kill again?