Cluck U wrote:JMU DJ wrote:You're the ones who brought up the "paying" for life in prison aspect and I never said you should support what I was quoting. Just pointing out that it cost more to put someone to death than to let them sit in a cell for the rest of their life. Glad you think it's comical that much money is spent though.
I respect your opinion, one of the few to put a solution out here, but in this country, you're never going to see "Trial. One year to get your appeal done. Execution." Especially when you consider all of the innocent people who would have been put to death before there was DNA testing was available. 100's have been exonerated years after they've been sentenced to death, and according to your solution, seems you'd be OK if they'd been killed after one year.
"Clown"
Get a new line.
So you're saying it take a year to get a DNA test? Oh wait, you weren't really saying anything.
And yes, it is comical to spend any money providing a bed and three meals to a rapist, child molester, murderer, etc. Thanks to dopes like you, it is even more expensive. Some criminals live with more amenities than some honest citizens. Perhaps you should provide the money to honest people. What a concept.
DNA testing hasn't always been available, had you implemented your "One year" rule before it was, 100's of innocent people would have been killed. Yet, even bigger, you do realize there's a massive backlog (up to 2 years) of DNA test for violent crimes? Not to mention the backlog of cases clogging up the court system where it takes years to even get your case heard. Eh, but you're right, I really wasn't saying anything. Put em down in one year
I see what you're saying though, the process should be streamlined to make these cases/appeals go through quicker. But, from everything I've seen over the past decade, even when more resources are allocated, the backlog is getting even larger.
ASUG8 wrote:I didn't see a lot of outrage about the guy executed the same night in Texas. He was a white supremacist who dragged a man to death behind a vehicle hanging by a chain until his body tore apart. Where were the candlelight vigils for this one, or is there a double standard? Is an egregious hate crime and subsequent execution somehow more palatable for the death penalty opposition?
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"You can't fight murder with murder," Ross Byrd, 32, told Reuters late Tuesday, the night before Wednesday's scheduled execution of Lawrence Russell Brewer for one of the most notorious hate crimes in modern times.
"Life in prison would have been fine. I know he can't hurt my daddy anymore. I wish the state would take in mind that this isn't what we want."
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