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Originally Posted by ronharvey
I am for the death penalty: God's word commanded it.
Sorry folks believe you are more moral or compassionate than God but the fact remains.
Since the abolition of the death sentence crime has risen in this country.
The states that have the penalty also have imposed laws that allow for prisoners to have extensive time to appeal.
It is meant as a deterrent but the lowering of the crimes has allowed more crime that does not fall under the death sentence e.g. rape.
Which is also a violation of God's word.
Ron
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Ron, I stated this earlier on another thread but I will repost it here:
I used to be a proponent of the death penalty until I began to realize how many wrongfully convicted people there are. As much as I don't want to imagine a family member murdered, I could not imagine me or someone in my family wrongfully convicted and executed.
Just since the Innocence Project began doing DNA tests, they have had 216 clear cut wrongful convictions and exhonerations. That in and of itself is a big number to me...but what about the thousands of cases that have no DNA evidence. I read that two-thirds of rape and homicide cases have no DNA evidence.
We have a human, flawed system that is exacting an ultimate almost superhuman measure of justice.
It's not about political correctness for me...it's about basic right and horrifically wrong.
Life in prison (real prison...not the catered hotel and rec center that costs us so much money) should be sufficient punishment while leaving the door open for correction of mistakes.
Let me just add that in 2/3 of serious crime cases there is not any DNA evidence to test at all so what these DNA results show are not the exact numbers of innocent people who have been wrongfully convicted but exactly how flawed our system is.
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