Comments on: Calif. could end the death penalty in November
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- We have been through this before.
You can house feed, and coddle the roaches in the kitchen, or you can eliminate them. That is your choice.
I prefer to eliminate them, and not have to house, feed, and coddle them. - Reply to this comment
- A man kills two two women and a child, cuts up their bodies up and stuffs them in a tree. He then kidnaps the surviving child, rapes her and keeps her locked in his attic. Another man kills an inmate in a prison fight. Who dies? The second man.
We only kill the people who plead innocent. If you embrace your guilt, and save the state the cost of a death penalty case, you live.
As long as thats the case, there should be no death penalty anywhere. - Reply to this comment
- California has become a state where justice isn't really justice anymore. Why is it that other states can carry out their death sentences in a expeditious and humane way while California seems to be stuck in the mud. The death penalty in California has proven to not be a deterrent to heinous crimes at all because people sentenced to death know that the chance of actually getting put to sleep is almost nonexistent. They know that they can live a country club life on death row without having to worry about paying the ultimate price for their crimes and will almost certainly die a natural death.
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- I won't vote to repeal the death penalty. However, democracy and the rule of law have been butchered by the legal system that allows endless challenges and pays for excessive legal fees. The rule of law system is routinely reduced to manipulation by whatever special interest group wants to do in the court system. We live in a society that mocks and scoffs at law. But none are worse that the those of the legal community, They manipulate everything to achieve their own ends at the expense of the rule of law and everyone else.
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- It is also about the many individuals who have been wrongly killed with the death penalty. The article didn't cite all the people cleared and released from prison and death row by new evidence, particularly new DNA evidence. We can safely conclude that through the years the government has executed a lot of innocent people, but no statistics exist. That's because when there's no one to free, there is no reason to test.
See, it isn't really about killing the guilty. Why would anyone much care about that? It's about killing the not guilty by accident or negligence. In a few cases, you can even find prosecutors who will not act to prevent an execution even when they know a person is not guilty. And in Florida, one local prosecutor conducted capital murder trials against two defendants in separate trials at the same time. From his standpoint, he had the evidence to execute two regardless of the fact that only one could have done it. - Reply to this comment
- Why is it that the criminal element wins and society loses? Murderers should be executed within a specified time period regardless of the appeals process.
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- Californians would be nuts to eliminate the death penalty. It should always be an option for the state to ecexute criminals who commit heinous crimes. Perhaps California needs to ask itself why other states such as Texas and Florida can ececute many more people without expensive and protracted appeals. If nothing else, those already on death row in California should not benefit from a change in the law.
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- They act like there are only 2 options. Why not streamline the appeal process or change the law regarding the appeal process?
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