FA_Q2
Gold Member
OJ was a case of class - ill give you that however the rest of your statement is hogwash in general. You point out a single murder - there are THOUSANDS of cold blooded murders and almost none of them are given the death penalty.How could it possibly make sense? He said I could "...count the number of poor people put to death..." on my fingers. Well, I only have 10 fingers. You said there was 24 this year. So apparently, I cannot count the number of poor people put to death on my fingers.That made perfect sense. As the vast majority of crime is committed by poor people (particularly the violent type) and the number of people killed by the death penalty is basically a statistical anomaly - a whopping 24 this year - you are unlikely to see a rich person under the death penalty.
Poor people are put to death because there are systemic problems in the administration of death penalty cases. No rich person has ever been put to death, because they can afford good lawyers. Look at John Dupont. He murdered someone in cold blood. He didn't get the death penalty. But he could afford good lawyers. Look at OJ. That trial wasn't an issue of race, it was an issue of class.
You state a rich person has never been put to death - I don't actually know if that is factual. It may or may not be the case. The problems with class and the justice system are with the justice system itself not so much the death penalty.
Those are problems that need to be addressed, that is true, but removing or keeping the death penalty has nothing to do with the solution.