"I’d rather let a hundred potential killers live than see my tax dollars go towards the state-approved killing of a single innocent person."
Tell that to the other families these killers murdered because you'd rather let them go. I understand everyone has a bias, and obviously yours is anti-death penalty, social liberalism. Mine is obviously pro-death penalty. And we can both have our stances, but there is no way I'm letting my tax dollars go towards hundreds of murders for decades just so they can receive a full life that they stole from someone else. That's not justice. Justice is you get a punishment equal to a crime. You walk into a school and murder children, America will execute you. I understand this doesn't happen anywhere else, but it does here and our justice system has to respond accordingly. When (more like if) the US ever becomes a more peaceful nation, I'll be happy to vote for the removal of the death penalty.
Okay, I see that you're very fixated on my personal dislike of the death penalty, but that's not actually the point of this article.
This is the part of the article I really want people to think about:
"When the government has the authority to execute its own citizens, then the only protection citizens have is to hope the government follows due process of law.
You have to hope that the government and judicial system will obey its own rules, be truthful and transparent with the people, and exhaust all other avenues to ensure guilt before using execution as a last resort.
Sobering thoughts, but entirely plausible line of thinking….. thanks for the great read!
Hell and damn, - is there anything that this disease of a man won't do.
"I’d rather let a hundred potential killers live than see my tax dollars go towards the state-approved killing of a single innocent person."
Tell that to the other families these killers murdered because you'd rather let them go. I understand everyone has a bias, and obviously yours is anti-death penalty, social liberalism. Mine is obviously pro-death penalty. And we can both have our stances, but there is no way I'm letting my tax dollars go towards hundreds of murders for decades just so they can receive a full life that they stole from someone else. That's not justice. Justice is you get a punishment equal to a crime. You walk into a school and murder children, America will execute you. I understand this doesn't happen anywhere else, but it does here and our justice system has to respond accordingly. When (more like if) the US ever becomes a more peaceful nation, I'll be happy to vote for the removal of the death penalty.
Okay, I see that you're very fixated on my personal dislike of the death penalty, but that's not actually the point of this article.
This is the part of the article I really want people to think about:
"When the government has the authority to execute its own citizens, then the only protection citizens have is to hope the government follows due process of law.
You have to hope that the government and judicial system will obey its own rules, be truthful and transparent with the people, and exhaust all other avenues to ensure guilt before using execution as a last resort.
I do not trust Trump’s government."