Execution!

[Noomi]

Texas set to execute 500th death-row inmate - U.S. News

And killing him won't bring back the victim, will it?

 

[whitehall]

Only Texas would celebrate its 500 th execution

So much so, they want to lower the age to 17

Funny thing is that the left wing makes note of the 500 execution. Texas doesn't make any big deal. Are 17 year olds mature enough to plan the killing of an innocent citizen? They are mature enough to face the death penalty or become the democrat voting base.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Texas set to execute 500th death-row inmate - U.S. News

And killing him won't bring back the victim, will it?

No... but I suspect the victims family will feel closure.

 

[Noomi]

No, they will feel a warped sense of revenge, which will never take their pain away.

 

[Lumpy 1]

No, they will feel a warped sense of revenge, which will never take their pain away.

warped ....why warped, is intolerance controlling your opinion?

 

[Noomi]

They wouldn't have the guts to pull the plug themselves.

 

[Lumpy 1]

They wouldn't have the guts to pull the plug themselves.

Why should they but it would be a righteous option..would you have the guts to perform your own abortion?

 

[R.D.]

They wouldn't have the guts to pull the plug themselves.

You don't know that

 

[rightwinger]

Only Texas would celebrate its 500 th execution

So much so, they want to lower the age to 17

Funny thing is that the left wing makes note of the 500 execution. Texas doesn't make any big deal. Are 17 year olds mature enough to plan the killing of an innocent citizen? They are mature enough to face the death penalty or become the democrat voting base.

The world looks at Texans as barbarians

 

[PoliticalChic]

Texas set to execute 500th death-row inmate - U.S. News

Yay, let's jump up and down for joy. I wonder how many were actually innocent? I really don't have a problem with the death penalty if we know for certain they are guilty, but there have been enough cases where there has been enough doubt that we should, without a doubt, abolish the death penalty. Secondly, we know that poor and/or minorities are sent to execution in much greater percentages than whites who are not poor, when comparing similar types of murders. Last of all, if we your point was to celebrate the death of anyone, then that is just plain morbid, although I'm not sure that was your point. Maybe you were just pointing out the fact that it is what it is.

"Most commentators who oppose capital punishment assert that an execution has no deterrent effect on future crimes. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the death penalty, when carried out, has an enormous deterrent effect on the number of murders. More precisely, our recent research shows that each execution carried out is correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following year."

Capital Punishment Works - WSJ.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

Only Texas would celebrate its 500 th execution

So much so, they want to lower the age to 17

Funny thing is that the left wing makes note of the 500 execution. Texas doesn't make any big deal. Are 17 year olds mature enough to plan the killing of an innocent citizen? They are mature enough to face the death penalty or become the democrat voting base.

The world looks at Texans as barbarians

Texas no longer uses the electric chair....they use the electric sofa, so they can take six at a time.



And the last meal is now a buffet.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Texas set to execute 500th death-row inmate - U.S. News

Yay, let's jump up and down for joy. I wonder how many were actually innocent? I really don't have a problem with the death penalty if we know for certain they are guilty, but there have been enough cases where there has been enough doubt that we should, without a doubt, abolish the death penalty. Secondly, we know that poor and/or minorities are sent to execution in much greater percentages than whites who are not poor, when comparing similar types of murders. Last of all, if we your point was to celebrate the death of anyone, then that is just plain morbid, although I'm not sure that was your point. Maybe you were just pointing out the fact that it is what it is.

Well, I guess Texas is not a good place to perpetrate a capital crime. As for the minorities getting it more then whites, they tend to kill each other more then the whites do.

Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 1976
BLACK
459 35%
LATINO 103 7%
WHITE
751 56%
OTHER 24 2%
Race of Death Row Inmates Executed Since 1976 | Death Penalty Information Center

 

[JoeB131]

"Most commentators who oppose capital punishment assert that an execution has no deterrent effect on future crimes. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the death penalty, when carried out, has an enormous deterrent effect on the number of murders. More precisely, our recent research shows that each execution carried out is correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following year."

Capital Punishment Works - WSJ.com

Then why do states without a Death Penalty have a lower murder rate than those that do?

Why do countries that have banned capital punishment (The UK, Germany, France) have lower murder rates than the US?

There is no correlation between capital punishment and the murder rate.

Murders happen because -

1) Someone is insane, and therefore can't be deterred.

2) Someone is acting in the heat of the moment, and therefore isn't thinking through to the point of "what if I get caught".

3) Someone is arrogant enough to think he can get away with it, and therefore punishment of any kind isn't factoring into his planning.

 

[JoeB131]

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Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 1976
BLACK
459 35%
LATINO 103 7%
WHITE
751 56%
OTHER 24 2%
Race of Death Row Inmates Executed Since 1976 | Death Penalty Information Center

A group that makes up 13% of the population accounts for 35% of the executions, and you don't think the system is a tad skewed?

 

[Sallow]

Only Texas would celebrate its 500 th execution

So much so, they want to lower the age to 17

It's just a very late term abortion.

 

[Sallow]

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Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 1976
BLACK
459 35%
LATINO 103 7%
WHITE
751 56%
OTHER 24 2%
Race of Death Row Inmates Executed Since 1976 | Death Penalty Information Center

A group that makes up 13% of the population accounts for 35% of the executions, and you don't think the system is a tad skewed?

Math isn't one of her strongpoints.

 

[earlycuyler]

Only Texas would celebrate its 500 th execution

So much so, they want to lower the age to 17

Funny thing is that the left wing makes note of the 500 execution. Texas doesn't make any big deal. Are 17 year olds mature enough to plan the killing of an innocent citizen? They are mature enough to face the death penalty or become the democrat voting base.

The world looks at Texans as barbarians

Until they want to open a business, or need an organ transplant, or their cancer treated. Lots of folks moving to Texas. I guess if murder is what you do it may be like you say.

 

[earlycuyler]

Only Texas would celebrate its 500 th execution

So much so, they want to lower the age to 17

It's just a very late term abortion.

Yes, retroactive abortion. Putting it that way, why is it a bad thing ?

 

[rightwinger]

Funny thing is that the left wing makes note of the 500 execution. Texas doesn't make any big deal. Are 17 year olds mature enough to plan the killing of an innocent citizen? They are mature enough to face the death penalty or become the democrat voting base.

The world looks at Texans as barbarians

Until they want to open a business, or need an organ transplant, or their cancer treated. Lots of folks moving to Texas. I guess if murder is what you do it may be like you say.

Still barbarians...

We are the only country in North America that still uses it, Europe doesn't use it, Russia doesn't use it

Who is left? The US with Texas in the lead. China, Muslim countries

We are judged by the company we keep

 

[earlycuyler]

The world looks at Texans as barbarians

Until they want to open a business, or need an organ transplant, or their cancer treated. Lots of folks moving to Texas. I guess if murder is what you do it may be like you say.

Still barbarians...

We are the only country in North America that still uses it, Europe doesn't use it, Russia doesn't use it

Who is left? The US with Texas in the lead. China, Muslim countries

We are judged by the company we keep

Ya, Russia don't use capital punishment ? I'll give you that it ain't the way to go, but saying what you did is just silly. If Texas is so bad, maybe the ultra sophisticated should stop going to Texas to get their cancer treated, their organs transplanted, and by God, stop opening business there. I think they get by fine as long as they don't kill anyone.