The Death Penalty?

Question

During the 1900's more than 400 innocent people were sentenced to death in the United States.

23 people were proven innocent after they had already been executed

It is an obvious conclusion that supporting the death penalty, after knowing the data, is to support the state sponsored murder of innocent people in order to execute the guilty.

Conservatives....It is acceptable to you to murder innocent people in order to execute the guilty?

That's the reality of it

If you do not favor murdering innocent people in order to execute the guilty....how do you justify your support of the death penalty?

Or could you explain why you think murdering innocent people in order to execute the guilty is acceptable


“After 20 years on the high court, I have to acknowledge that serious questions are being raised about whether the death penalty is being fairly administered in this country."
Sandra Day O'Connor,
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
(hardly a liberal)

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1999/02/scoop5.html?welcome=true

http://www.aclusonoma.org/death_penalty.html

http://www.fclca.org/edufund/dp-resource.html#insert1

Book -
"In Spite of Innocence"
"The ordeal of 400 Americans wrongly convicted of crimes punishable by death"
Michael Radelet

http://www.amazon.ca/Spite-Innocence-Pbk-Michael-Radelet/dp/1555531970

http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=25606

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/History.htm

To the person who posted 2nd

"400" is not a number in question to those who know the subject.

Got ya some links

Now answer the question coward

Answer 1

It is only wrong to terminate humans at the blastocyst stage. After that, after they have been fully formed and are given birth to, it is perfectly alright to neglect them and even kill them.

That is the right's air-tight argument.

Answer 2

I am not a conservative but my support for the death penalty is that there are some crimes which, by their nature, demand that the perpetrator be executed in order to be adequate punishment. Are innocent people executed? yes sometimes. Must we take extreme measures to verify, beyond reasonable doubt, that a person is guilty before execution? Yes, we must.
But in any case it is not murder when administered by the state. Governments are instituted for the purpose of imposing law and order and the punishment of evil. That's the reality of it.

Answer 3

I am for the death penalty, if you can prove scientifically using DNA samples that the person convicted of the crime actually did it.

DNA testing is a relativly new thing for law enforcement and some people were wrongly convicted. Where did you get your number from?

Answer 4

I am pro-death penalty but believe it has been abused just like anything else.

I would like to see it reserved for more appropriate cases such as terrorists, murderers who are caught in the act, and dictators who have undisputedly commited crimes against humanity.

I think its a much worse punishment to be sent to the supermax in Colorado and live out your life in isolation than to be killed by the death penalty.

Answer 5

I am Conservative and do believe in the death penalty. Today we have the technology by using DNA testing, something that didn't exist until the mid-90's.

If DNA can prove a person to be guilty, I say, goodbye.

Answer 6

Texas is wasting no time in whinning bleeding heart folks. Today they execute a former cop for murder, rape and sodomy.

Wonder if any of those on the list are innocent?

Answer 7

well today is not 1900 and can not be taken as an example of the opinions on the death penalty today. you are aware are you not that in 1900 true to the constitution you were only given on appeal. were as today appeal after appeal is given to all death sentences against the provisions of our constitution. in 1900 it probably took only one or two months to be executed after being sentenced. today it is nothing for someone to die on death row awaiting execution. most states it takes fifteen to twenty plus years to exhaust all the avenues of appeals before the sentence can be carried out. is this right that it takes so long at tax payer expense or should we follow the constitution and have only one appeal. i believe in the death penalty because the crime that got you on death row will be your last at hurting more people.

Answer 8

some bastards just deserve to die, and i'd sure as hell see a woman who drowned her kids die than pay for her life in prison.

the fact is, the fault isn't the death penalty, its the courts. maybe if a few judges pull their heads out of their asses innocent people won't die.

i agree that the capital punishment shouldn't be taken lightly, but abandoning it all together isn't a wise decision.

Answer 9

see there is the problem we try to point and lay blame on each other and whos a liberal and whos a conservitive.....but yet we as a society cant follow simple rules...drinking and driving....speeding ...violence against each other...
when we as a people can follow the simple rules then maybe these bigger rules will not apply.....therefore there will be no wrongful deaths......

Answer 10

I don't believe in the death penatly. My brother was murdered and I don't believe his murderer should be allowed to die. That's the easy way out. He should suffer.