To Those who oppose the Death Penalty ?

I oppose the death penalty, not because I have any sympathy with murderers, but because far too many people in countries all over the world have been convicted of murder, who were later discovered to have been innocent.

Those in places with no death penalty have been released, and given enough compensation to live the rest of their lives in modest comfort. Those wrongfully convicted people who spent many years in prison convicted of the sort of crime that turns other prisoners against them, so they had to endure years of bullying as well as being in prison deserve very generous compensation indeed.

Nothing could be done for innocent but convicted people who had been executed.

Executing even one innocent person is just too horrible in my mind.

I completely agree with you. There is no possible way someone like that deserved to live, so I'm glad he took his own life. And you're right, our tax dollars are going to criminals locked up in jail who get 3 meals a day, get to workout whenever they want, and I've also heard that they get free cable. While there are good people living out on the street who can't even get one meal a day. Now, not everyone should have the death penalty. Just the people who raped someone, and the people who killed someone. Unless they killed someone in an act of self defense. It's pretty self explanatory. But I guess we worship the devil because we want bad people to die. -____- Religious whack job..

Trial for capital punishment cases and their appeals are well documented to cost more than sustaining an inmate for life. Check your facts before you rant.

And yes, I agree it was best he took his own life.

There is an idea that to force a killer to spend their life behind bars, locked in a small room without hope of liberty & mulling over their horrific crime, is punishment enough.

Which is typical of someone of stable mental capability to believe.

But killers are insane, either a little or a lot.

Hoping they're suffering thinking about their crime is way too much assumption & not enough proof to convince me.

Hardened criminals have admitted they enjoy going over the pain they've caused.

It gives them power. Power over their victims & definitely power over the family/friends of their victims.

We need to take their power away & take their life.

Put them out of their misery & save money wasted keeping them alive, fed, warm, medical care, etc etc.

People who oppose the death penalty do not understand that it costs tax payers over FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS a year for EACH incarcerated prisoner per year. Not including the court fees that are paid by the citizens as well.

Do the math. It's billions of dollars a year that us working class people have to pay to keep a murder alive. It makes no sense.

The last time I checked, a 9mm round cost about a buck (unless you reload, then it's about 25 cents).

toss in 10 bucks for the cardboard casket and your done

$11 is still more than the mutt is worth, but it's a whole lot cheaper than keeping him warm, dry and fed for the rest of his sorry life.

Devoted death penalty opponents want murderers to live, no matter the cost, in blood or money. See Innocents More At Risk Without Death Penalty , below.

The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents

Dudley Sharp

The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives.

Anti death penalty arguments are either false or the pro death penalty arguments are stronger.

The majority populations of all countries, likely, support the death penalty for some crimes (1).

Why? Justice.

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES

Of all endeavors that put innocents at risk, is there one with a better record of sparing innocent lives than the US death penalty? Unlikely.

1) The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-penalt...

2) Innocents More At Risk Without Death Penalty

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/innocents-mo...

3) LIFE: MUCH PREFERRED OVER EXECUTION

99.7% of murderers tell us "Give me life, not execution"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/11/life-much-pr...

MORAL FOUNDATIONS: DEATH PENALTY PT. 1

1) Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.". "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral."

2) Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52.

3) Theodore Roosevelt: " . . . among the very rare occasions when anything governmental or official caused me to lose sleep were times when I had to listen to some poor mother making a plea for a criminal so wicked, so utterly brutal and depraved, that it would have been a crime on my part to remit his punishment.".

4) John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct).

5) John Locke: "A criminal who, having renounced reason... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security." And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Second Treatise of Civil Government.

6) Billy Graham: "God will not tolerate sin. He condemns it and demands payment for it. God could not remain a righteous God and compromise with sin. His holiness and His justice demand the death penalty." ( "The Power of the Cross," published in the Apr. 2007 issue of Decision magazine ).

7) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgments are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State." (The Social Contract).

8) Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566).

"Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/02/01/murder-and...

"The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-...

"Moral/ethical Death Penalty Support: Christian and secular Scholars"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penalt...

"The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation"

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-...