Death Penalty
 

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Another Mississippi execution this Wednesday.

I cannot say that I feel sorry for him.

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Turn on the Honda generator and fire up ol sparky!
(Although I am sure Mississippi has lethal injection...)

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I remember that book...John Grisham wrote ...The Chamber.

And The Green Mile...except in that book I believe that the big gentle black man was actually innocent and some puny white jail guard was taunting him. Been a long time ago that I read that book.

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One of the things I liked about living in Texas was that, as the comedian Ron White put it, "when you kill somebody in Texas we kill you right back!"

When we moved to Tennessee in 1999 they had not had an execution in several decades so when one finally came up to do the angst was ridiculous. They brought up so many falses issues, etc I just told everybody that if they wanted to know how to successfully execute people they just needed to get advice from Texas.

I hope every single death row inmate makes things right with God before their exectuion but I also hope 100% of them are executed. Repentance and coming to Christ should be no escape from your earthly punishment but it sure can make eternity a lot better!

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One issue (and it's not "false") that prevents me from supporting the death penalty is that a lot of convictions are wrong. Some are overturned, but not all. Many innocents have been executed, even in Texas!

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I think the percentage is so small I am willing to live with it (no pun intended).

I think the safeguards in our judicial system weed out 99.9% of errors. In the small number of cases where an error has been made the person is usually still a terrible person with prior convictions for rape or some other violent crime. Not justifying executing people innocent of the crime they are accused of but just saying very few people on death row are good people.

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Just to stir the pot a little bit, I believe the "state" has a right to sentence people to death.
However, I personally oppose both abortion and capital punishment.
My main reason is abortion is always taking an innocent life.
And there is a chance that capital punishment may be also.

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Think about what you are saying.

Really, really think about it.

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The ones who yell the loudest against the death penalty yell the loudest for abortion. Hypocrites !!!

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Ya, that has always been glaringly obvious to me.