1ºI have nothing to do with criminals. Not at all.
The suffering of the affected families is certainly unbelievable.
But how many wrongful convictions have been carried out in the long history of the death penalty?
Because a right-wing judiciary wants to make a name for itself in various states.
And especially the governors.
And under the current incumbent, John Kevin Stitt, you can see that particularly clearly.
Citation: “Oklahoma's proposed series of executions follows similar sprees in Arkansas in 2017 and by the US government under the Trump administration.” End. That says it all.
Presumably he wants to be at the service of his supervisor, the “great Führer”, who is infatuated with Hitler.
With the death penalty, the US is in a line of totalitarian states.
2ºI think you sympathizing bunny huggers need to educate yourselves on why these lowlife pos get death instead of life. Stop with the argument that it costs more to kill. What is costing taxpayers is the rights these animals have after the get behind prison walls. Free education, food and a lot more amenities that the person they killed doesn't get. Try factoring things like excessive court appeals that Ray Ray gets because he gunned down a teenager over a $100 weed debt. You people make me sick trying to protect these parasites. I say we don't use the death penalty enough in this country.
3ºSo just because they were sentenced to die, just because they were terrible people who did awful things to other people, we have to make sure their ending is sweet and soft. Or maybe we just let them linger in jail for 20 or 30 years on death row because you know let’s not rush things…no I think Oklahoma is doing things right and maybe if a criminal isn’t executed in the most pain free way, it will actually deter people from committing a horrible crime…
AND FOR THE RECORD: IM NOT TALKING ABOUT A QUESTIONABLE CONVICTION. IM TALKING ABOUT DNA/EVIDENCE/CONFESSION TYPE GUILTY VERDICT.
4ºWhat gets me about justice debates is how swiftly religion is intermingled. If God made everyone in his or her or their image(s) then why do we have so much crime? Why so many incarcerated for heinous acts? If it’s not God that creates murderous intent and sloth and lying and cheating and pedophiles and so on then perhaps it’s human nature… we’re all shivering frighten beings and we want what others have when we want it and we kill or steal or maim for it no matter the cost. If not human nature then perhaps our societies help create these monsters.
No matter how you look at it, humans are God’s greatest failure because we didn’t know what to do with what he created in the first place, we continue to repeat our mistakes no matter how many religious minds or philosophers or intellects bring their solutions to the table. We screw it up the longer we are here and I suspect he’ll be glad when we’re gone.
5ºLori Smith - Unless the executioner knew that the accused was innocent, nothing would happen to him. He has been wronged as well.
These verses from Deuteronomy explain the punishment for a false witness. He shall suffer the same fate as the one he falsely accused had that person had been convicted.
If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing, then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. ...
6ºInstead of killing pple how Abt life inprosonment life is precious no one should take anyone's life...
What happened to Humanity ....we used to be loving kind compationate understanding supportive...they might have done worse but we all need second chance in life...maybe they can do good after all...while still inthose holding facilities...
Let's go back to that by doing what's right and just...thankful we still have Good pple in this world...and if you haven't come across such aperson set an example by being one...if we have one or twenty million pple doing that we can change this world overcome evil by doing Good... use your words to heal to give hope spread the love hope across the Grobe .Be ablessing it takes one simple act of kindness
#Beautiful world!
7ºSo they're saying performing 1 execution per month increases risk of botched legal injections. What a ridiculous argument. There are so many more complex things being performed in so much less time daily. Not to mention the rare occurrence it does happen ( which according to this article is only 3-7%) is worth taking these people out of society. The suffering they've caused was a lot higher of a percentage. Also as Justice Neil Gorsuch states the 8th amendment does not guarantee a painless death. Lethal injection is not cruel and unusual. Sure things can go wrong but so do surgerys and many things aimed to help. It's par for course. Execution is more effective than life sentences. Unless these people are serving life in solitary their entire life they can still impact and influence others and society. Many people who reoffend do so by things they've learned in prison from other inmates. In order to clean up society the ones who harm society need to be eliminated. It's no coincidence over the past years society has gotten worse as the ones who harm it have gotten more rights and consideration.
8ºIt’s not all about what it cost. It’s about what’s just. They’re is no Justice in a man getting to live out his days at tax payers expense in prison with free medical and dental while the victims families get to mourn a headstone. 1 appeal. That’s it. After that right wrong or indifferent get it done. If it’s just the cruel part that bothers you I can provide some guidance on cheaper ways that are much more humane than lethal injections. Guaranteed to work every time without fail. I’m sure an innocent person has been imprisoned wrongly over the years. We don’t usually convict and hand down the death penalty without forensics these days. They’re pretty accurate.
9º“ Using capital punishment only sends the mis guided message to members of society that killing already-incarcerated criminals can somehow solve the problem of violence in American life. Statistics and history, in fact, show that just the opposite is true; when the death penalty is used, it tends to bru talize society, not make our lives any safer. While American death-penalty laws may give some a false sense of security, only incarcerating offenders and taking steps to prevent violence will make us safer in the end. Timothy McVeigh's execution did not put a stop to acts of terrorism on American soil, just as death penalty laws do not stop homicides in Dallas or Houston and did not deter suicidal fanatics from hijacking commercial airliners and killing thousands of innocent people in a single day.” https://scholarworks.law....context=all_fac
10ºBella Washer actually I just happen to love my family and if someone murdered them I would have no problem bring the executioner if that person. They get a trial an appeals and won't be sentsnced to death if there is any reasonable doubt . But after that ill pull a switch on the electric chair or give them the needle. I might give them a choice of firing squad,hanging lethal injection or electric chair but at that point they've been proven guultty so I'll make sure they don't kill your family like they did mine. Maybe our legal system isn't perfect but that why they get appeals.