How do liberals call the death penalty "murder" but, abortion is called "choice"?

Answer 1

My thoughts exactly. And to the second answer "Does the Baby have a choice do me murdered" No! Does the murderer have a choice not to murder? YES!

Answer 2

This topic is too important to turn it into a liberal thing. Here are some verifiable facts about the death penalty- that conservatives and liberals are learning about- all pragmatic.

Re: Victims families
The death penalty is very hard on victims’ families. They must relive their ordeal in the courts and the media. Life without parole is sure, swift and rarely appealed. Some victims families who support the death penalty in principal prefer life without parole because of how the death penalty affects families like theirs.

Re: cost
The death penalty costs far more than life in prison. The huge extra costs start to mount up even before the trial. There are more cost effective ways to prevent and control crime.

Re: Alternatives
48 states have life without parole on the books. It means what it says, is swift and sure and is rarely appealed. Being locked in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day, forever, is certainly no picnic. Life without parole incapacitates a killer (keeps him from re-offending) and costs considerably less than the death penalty.

Re: Possibility of executing an innocent person
Over 120 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. Many had already served over 2 decades on death row. If we speed up the process we are bound to execute an innocent person. Once someone is executed the case is closed. If we execute an innocent person we are not likely to find that out and, also, the real criminal is still out there.

Re: DNA
DNA is available in no more than 10% of murder cases. It is not a miracle cure for sentencing innocent people to death. It’s human nature to make mistakes.

Re: Deterrence
The death penalty isn’t a deterrent. Murder rates are actually higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it. Moreover, people who kill or commit other serious crimes do not think they will be caught (if they think at all.)

Re: Who gets the death penalty
The death penalty isn’t reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but rather for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was sentenced to death, let alone executed??

Opposing the death penalty doesn’t mean you condone brutal crimes or excuse people who commit them. According to a Gallup Poll, in 2006, 47% of all Americans prefer capital punishment while 48% prefer life without parole. Americans are learning the facts and making up their minds using common sense, not revenge or an eye for an eye mentality.

Answer 3

The death penalty is administered only after (a) trial on the question of guilt, (b) a second trial on the appropriate punishment, (c) an automatic appeal to the state supreme court (or whatever the highest criminal appeals court is in that state), and (d) the opportunity for habeas corpus challenge in federal court. An abortion is administered if the mother decides to abort the fetus. Obviously the fetus is not afforded counsel and an opportunity to be heard. It has done nothing.

Answer 4

Hmmm....ok, how do I explain this. A foetus can't survive on it's own, right? It needs a uterus to survive. That uterus has to belong to someone and people have choices! A person who has been born who grows up and murders someone needs to be punished. The death penalty is considered legalised murder and if the person who carries out the death penalty of a murderer kills the murderer then isn't he also a murderer......(phew)?

Answer 5

Personally, I do not define a foetus before 20 weeks as a human being since it cannot exercise free will in any way. I object to the death penalty simply because mistakes have been made, are being made and will always be made. Statistics show that the poor (especially the blacks) are more likely to be executed since they cannot afford the best lawyers.

Answer 6

They are misguided just like the person who said a baby doesn't have a soul until it takes its first breath.. Not in any Bible I've read..
Like they said people don't choose to get the death penalty.. Yes they do, by committing that crime. The only choice a baby has is to die in agony inside a person as they rip it apart...
Typical liberal reasoning... God bless 'em they think they are right too, that's the saddest part of all.
I guess by Sydney's reasoning since a child need's a parent and their home to survive, they have the right to kill the child?

Answer 7

Because a person you are about to kill is a person. A fetus is not a person. The vast majority of abortions are done before a fetus can feel pain (no central nervous system) - can't think, can't feel, can't talk, can't make decisions - is that a person? And when it comes down to the fetus or the woman's life, how could you justify picking a fetus, knowing all that?

Answer 8

How do Republicans claim that human life is sacred but support the death penalty?

Answer 9

A baby doesn't have a 'soul' until his first breath. Haven't you ever read the bible? When does a sperm and an egg even start resembling a kid? Better question, since when did men start worshipping their sperm in civil law? Or hope to?

Answer 10

Because liberals worry themselves sick about the "rights" of criminals, and how criminals are treated, but they do not care about the innocent victims.