CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Controlled Opposition said:
Yes, but there can be other factors, such as prosecutors over-charging. In criminal defense most anything can be considered a victory. Having multiple charges dropped or reduced are all considered victories.
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It is in the interest of the courts and prosecutors to negotiate terms with the perps. It unclogs the system. If they were to prosecute every case, they would shut down the court system. It has NOTHING to do with race or income.

Many cases end when a jury has been selected and the guilty party decides it would be better to negotiate than to go to trial.
 
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The death penalty is going to end. The right has forced America to drag its feet on this issue for decades and avoid the inevitable. They are incredibly stubborn. In the end you're just delaying. It is not an effective or practical practice in the modern world. That's just the facts.

If you want to have a quick death penalty, which would be useful as a deterrent, you have to not give a shit about executing innocent people. In our nation which is governed by rule of law, that is unacceptable. So we thoroughly examine and reexamine and reexamine each death penalty case over like two decades before the execution actually happens to weed out as many innocent people as possible, and we still execute innocent people occasionally. But a death penalty with a two decade delay like that in which we weed out as many innocents as possible is useless as a deterrent anyway, and the forcibly hurried investigations due to the obvious time sensitive nature imposed by the death penalty makes them incredibly expensive.

The penalty only continues to exist for one reason, because it just makes some people feel good. Because they are stubborn. It is the sign of a decadent and decaying society that they were able to block the inevitable for so long, that they were catered to rather than the rule of law, reason, and justice.
 
White privilege is real said:
The death penalty is going to end. The right has forced America to drag its feet on this issue for decades and avoid the inevitable. They are incredibly stubborn. In the end you're just delaying. It is not an effective or practical practice in the modern world. That's just the facts.

If you want to have a quick death penalty, which would be useful as a deterrent, you have to not give a shit about executing innocent people. In our nation which is governed by rule of law, that is unacceptable. So we thoroughly examine and reexamine and reexamine each death penalty case over like two decades before the execution actually happens to weed out as many innocent people as possible, and we still execute innocent people occasionally. But a death penalty with a two decade delay like that in which we weed out as many innocents as possible is useless as a deterrent anyway, and the forcibly hurried investigations due to the obvious time sensitive nature imposed by the death penalty makes them incredibly expensive.

The penalty only continues to exist for one reason, because it just makes some people feel good. Because they are stubborn. It is the sign of a decadent and decaying society that they were able to block the inevitable for so long, that they were catered to rather than the rule of law, reason, and justice.
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If the alternative to the death penalty continues to be "life in prison without the possibility of parole"...

...and we abolish the death penalty...

...we will have become a MUCH MORE barbaric society than we are now.

That is something the anti-death penalty people have GOT TO DEAL WITH...or you are going nowhere.

Executing people because they are a danger to society may be a bit barbaric...BUT keeping people caged forever because they are a danger to society...is fucking barbarism on a cosmic scale.

THAT is the problem with all this "do away with the death penalty" nonsense.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
So once again, you have nothing; except for a "guesstimation" :good4u:
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:lolup::rofl2:

Heard back from the National Academy yet, shit-for-brains?

In your letter, did you remember to inform them that there used to be big bugs and big plants millions of years ago? (Shit, that knne-slapper is never going to get old!)
 
domer76 said:
:lolup::rofl2:

Heard back from the National Academy yet, shit-for-brains?

In your letter, did you remember to inform them that there used to be big bugs and big plants millions of years ago? (Shit, that knne-slapper is never going to get old!)
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So once again, you have nothing; except for a "guesstimation". :D
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
So once again, you have nothing; except for a "guesstimation". :D
Click to expand...

:lolup::rofl2:

Heard back from the National Academy yet, shit-for-brains?

In your letter, did you remember to inform them that there used to be big bugs and big plants millions of years ago? (Shit, that knee-slapper is never going to get old!)
 
domer76 said:
:lolup::rofl2:

Heard back from the National Academy yet, shit-for-brains?

In your letter, did you remember to inform them that there used to be big bugs and big plants millions of years ago? (Shit, that knee-slapper is never going to get old!)
Click to expand...

So once again, you have nothing; except for a "guesstimation". :D
 
According to Google: "In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution." It seems that they have plenty of time for appeals and proving innocence. Exonerations before the sentence is carried out is not a measure of innocents executed.
 
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