Death Penalty

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
If you give your government the right to execute - then with that right your government must bear responsibility that the right is not improperly exacted. 1:7 that's the ratio of people exonerated on death row to people executed, over the last 30 odd years in the U.S. There isn't certainty as to how many of those executed were actually innocent but legally guilty - I don't know the statistics or cases of posthumous exonerations - but even a 12.5% error rate to me seems too high.

Any error rate is too high, that's the problem.

It's such a risky road to go down.

OK...Chain gangs forever!!!!!!!!!

perhaps the debate of whether a government has the right to execure someone isnt the right argument

perhaps we should be looking at whether its the deserved punishment for people guilty of certain crimes

do the genuinely guilty deserve to die for crimes of equal measure to that of executing

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
If you give your government the right to execute - then with that right your government must bear responsibility that the right is not improperly exacted. 1:7 that's the ratio of people exonerated on death row to people executed, over the last 30 odd years in the U.S. There isn't certainty as to how many of those executed were actually innocent but legally guilty - I don't know the statistics or cases of posthumous exonerations - but even a 12.5% error rate to me seems too high.

Indeed. Any rate is too high.

Not to mention that black population who makes 12% of the whole USA population, makes 45% of people on death row.

OH, I'm sure someday a devise will be invented that would make telling a lie just impossible.....

The absurdity of the death penalty is that it murders people who are judged to be bad because...they are murderers. You reading this LOUD and CLEAR?

Well serial killers are bad...LOUD and CLEAR.

Anyone here on death row? The way the prisons are set up nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if death row inmates had access to high-speed Internet.

I hear their food is way better especially on fried chicken night.....At least that what the night guard told me as she locked up.

😂

Extra Crispy or Original Recipe? I at least hope the guards have the common courtesy to give you that option.

Originally posted by botankus
Anyone here on death row? The way the prisons are set up nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if death row inmates had access to high-speed Internet.

Well you evidently need to move AWAY from the TV adn go visit a prison, because you are utterly clueless about the state of the prisons.

I visited a prision visiting room once.....Lot's of heavy breathing going on in there when spouses come to visit...I was visiting with a friend who went to see their father....Just had to keep looking away.....bag

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Well you evidently need to move AWAY from the TV adn go visit a prison, because you are utterly clueless about the state of the prisons.

Sorry, I'll insert a [sarcasm] and conclude it with a [/sarcasm] next time. I'll do better, I promise!

No...only originial chicken they serve.... 🙁 ...But, hey Texas toast....

Yeah, I'll bet they have lots of Texas Toast on death row in Texas . After all, if you lead the nation in executions, your food had better be damn good!

Originally posted by botankus
Sorry, I'll insert a [sarcasm] and conclude it with a [/sarcasm] next time. I'll do better, I promise!

Please do...the way prisoners are set up these days, they even might take a break from their high speed internet and get out.

😂 For real!

Originally posted by debbiejo
Well serial killers are bad...LOUD and CLEAR.

So to educate serial killers that killing is bad, you kill them?

Oi! Oi! Orwell! Over here, please...

no, you kill them b/c they deserve to die for crimes against society...ie people more "innocent" than they are

Just wanna ask like, where in the hell you got that idea?

You have no right to decide that.

-AC