The death penalty is Constitutional under the U.S. Constitution and under almost all of our state constitutions.
Prosecutors continue to give great consideration, and seek death sentences against only the most heinous murderers. Prosecutors tailor their cases to get those convictions and must prove again and again, not only the guilt of the defendant but the defendants deserving of the DP. Juries fret and strain over the decision of whether to impose the DP, some of them losing sleep for years over that momentous decision.
State legislature set up various roadblocks, rights of appeals, and so on, to ensure that no one is wrongly executed, and it is usually many years after the crime, let alone the conviction before it is even possible to execute someone because of all of the mandatory and discretionary appeals have run their course.
And yet governors and Presidents take great pride in telling their constituents basically, "Well, I'm just not comfortable with it, so 'we' won't execute anyone while I'm Governor/President."
Is this not bullshit? Starting with the survivors of the victims of those crimes, and going through an army of people who have done their level best to see that the defendant is guilty and completely deserving of execution...not to mention the general public, which is ENTITLED by law to see that justice is done in these horrific cases, aren't these executives betraying ALL OF US?
A lot of people oppose the death penalty, but so what? The way to eliminate the death penalty is to change the constitutions, or AS A MINIMUM pass a law to that effect in order to (a) give the peoples' representatives a say in the matter, and (b) allow the death penalty infrastructure to STOP WASTING TIME prosecuting these cases.
Yes, this is bullshit.
Yet one more small example of the difference between real Americans and Democrats. There is no doubt in my mind that President Biden-Harris will declare a moratorium on the Death Penalty - except for people perceived as "right wingers."
What Constitution?
Prosecutors continue to give great consideration, and seek death sentences against only the most heinous murderers. Prosecutors tailor their cases to get those convictions and must prove again and again, not only the guilt of the defendant but the defendants deserving of the DP. Juries fret and strain over the decision of whether to impose the DP, some of them losing sleep for years over that momentous decision.
State legislature set up various roadblocks, rights of appeals, and so on, to ensure that no one is wrongly executed, and it is usually many years after the crime, let alone the conviction before it is even possible to execute someone because of all of the mandatory and discretionary appeals have run their course.
And yet governors and Presidents take great pride in telling their constituents basically, "Well, I'm just not comfortable with it, so 'we' won't execute anyone while I'm Governor/President."
Is this not bullshit? Starting with the survivors of the victims of those crimes, and going through an army of people who have done their level best to see that the defendant is guilty and completely deserving of execution...not to mention the general public, which is ENTITLED by law to see that justice is done in these horrific cases, aren't these executives betraying ALL OF US?
A lot of people oppose the death penalty, but so what? The way to eliminate the death penalty is to change the constitutions, or AS A MINIMUM pass a law to that effect in order to (a) give the peoples' representatives a say in the matter, and (b) allow the death penalty infrastructure to STOP WASTING TIME prosecuting these cases.
Yes, this is bullshit.
Yet one more small example of the difference between real Americans and Democrats. There is no doubt in my mind that President Biden-Harris will declare a moratorium on the Death Penalty - except for people perceived as "right wingers."
What Constitution?