Why do liberals take the predator's side in murder?

Question

In Florida, a predator kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered a girl. John Couey deliberately committed the act against a 9 year old girl, Jessica Lunsford. It was very difficult but the prosecutors got a conviction and a death sentence for this low-life white trash animal.

The ACLU and other liberal groups oppose the punishment and will continue to attempt to commute Couey's death sentence. It will take years and a small fortune to get justice. The people who oppose Couey's fitting punishment are reprehensible.

All liberals are not against the death penalty but every advocate against capital punishment is a liberal, including an overwhelming % of criminal defense lawyers

If Couey had killed, murdered, raped and tortured your child wouldn't you cross the line to punish Couey, if you could?

What would you say to the liberal group like the ACLU who wants Couey given a pass?

Why do liberals support the ACLU? Is partnership in socialism worth it?

Answer 1

The disease of liberalism causes the believers to oppose things they normally would be against. How else can you explain liberals never wanting criminals punished and opposing the victim.

Liberals are very embarrassed when confronted by cases like Jessica Lunsford, the liberal position is undefendable.

The disease of liberalism is to oppose anything that is linked to capitalism. Capitalism is bad, so laws to support capitalism is bad, so if conservatives are for something, they are always wrong because capitalism is bad..... the cycle runs in circles.

Answer 2

ACLU does not side with Couey. Remember the guy who gave Couey and his meth addicted co-hoots a pass was a republican judge in Florida. Stop spinning if anything this is a low-class southern republican environment that produces the likes of Couey and his co-hoots. But that is petty political generalization also.

I support the Death Penalty but in no way do i support the death penalty under our current legal system. Couey should be dead and it shouldn't cost us tax payers so much.

Answer 3

It is completely untrue that everyone that is against the death penalty is a "liberal". There are millions of Catholics who, under most definitions of the word, would be considered quite conservative that are against the death penalty, as that is the official position of the church.

Believe it or not, many *true* conservatives (those in the traditional Goldwater mold) also support the ACLU. That is because the ACLU defends the Constitution of the United States. However, in today's Bush-Cheney-Gonzales-Limbaugh-Coulter Republican party, the Constitution gets in the way of their goals, such as torture, the suspension of habeas corpus, the weakening of the separation of church and state, etc. This is why it has garnered the wrath of so many right-wing pundits these days.

Those on the right who just like to label the ACLU as a "liberal" organization find it convenient to forget that it has come to the aid of hard-core right-wingers such as Rush Limbaugh and Oliver North when their rights had been infringed upon.

I'm not familiar with the case to which you refer, so I can't really comment on their involvement with that case. I just wanted to give you a little perspective from the other side.

Answer 4

There are two reasons to be against the death penalty.

First, most liberals are against the death penalty because they feel that it's immoral, that it's wrong to respond to violence with violence, or that society as a whole is to blame for the 'problems' that make a criminal commit crime in the first place. Personally, I feel that's a bunch of rubbish. Most killers are immoral pieces of human excrement who are totally responsible for their own actions.

Second, other people - including a LOT of criminal defense lawyers - are opposed to the death penalty because they are aware of the horrible flaws in the criminal justice and death penalty systems.

In the few years that DNA testing has been available, well over 200 people convicted of the types of crime that typically carry the death penalty - rapes and murders - have been proven to be wrongfully convicted after obtaining DNA testing, sometimes up to 20 years after the original conviction.

Given that there is DNA evidence that CAN be tested in less than 5% of all murder cases, 200 people exonerated by DNA testing out of that 5% means that there's at LEAST 20 times that number of people - 4000 people - in prison convicted of murders they didn't commit, and there is no convenient blood or sperm sample to test to prove it.

THAT is my objection to the death penalty. It's not that I object to executing murderers - I don't - but that I object to executing the innocent, and that DOES happen. Heck, one guy in Pennsylvania was executed for murdering his wife, who turned up alive a few years later - she'd just left him for another man.

Richard

Answer 5

While I agree with you on this case, he should be tortured and then killed, and I agree that the ACLU is useless, I disagree with you about a lot of your rant. First of all, I know a lot of people that are not liberals that oppose the death penalty. And calling my wife reprehensible pisses me off. She is nothing close to a liberal but believes we don't have the right to put someone to death. To say that just shows you are a closed minded person. Ever been on a murder jury? I have. If you think it is easy to get 12 people to agree to take someones life, even though they agree they are guilty, you are mistaken. I saw grown men and women cry because they just couldn't do it. So, you have a right to your opinion, but don't think you know what the rest of us are, or think.

Answer 6

There are broad generalizations and assumptions here.

There is a very thoughtful article in this week's Newsweek about capital punishment which I urge all to read. It can be found at http://www.newsweek.com/id/69546.

As the author points out, conservatives and prosecutors are beginning to shy away from the death penalty. The Supreme Court is going to review lethal injection.

It's not just the liberals, it's everyone...

Answer 7

Obama is a Democrat, and is siding together with his occasion. specific, abortion is homicide. a number of those fetuses for sure sense soreness whilst they are killed. asserting that the little you are able to still stay in poverty is not any excuse. If it have been, then why don't you pass into orphanages and merely initiate killing little ones? they are specifically destructive.