100 Pro Death Penalty Quotes by Supporters of Capital Punishment
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Execute the guilty. Honor the victims. Educate the uninformed. To murder an innocent human is a tragedy; to execute a killer is a victory! |
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Well, if your logic holds true, then we must abandon life in prison
without parole because a in the realm of infinite possibility an
"innocent" person may rot in prison until they die...an
"innocent" person may die during any term of imprisonment. Innocent
people die every single day in car crashes, but you aren't going to stand in the
way of people driving automobiles are you?
No, please feel free to find one documented case of a wrongful execution. You can’t presume it is the case without evidence and then call me naïve for stating the same fact that Paul Cassell pointed out about there not being a documented case of a wrongful execution over the second half of the Twentieth Century. Between 832-850 executions in 28 years versus some 500,000-600,000 homicides. You do the math! Yes, in capital cases, it takes an average of 10 years and 6 months to carry out the sentence. I’ve seen cases where people had been on death row for 20 years and more. We allow defendants in capital cases to have ample opportunity to appeal, appeal again, and again in addition to clemency hearings. To think an innocent person is just going to somehow get accused, tried, convicted, and have the conviction upheld repeatedly by appeals courts is naïve in the extreme. You don’t mind if a person is wrongfully left to rot until they die in prison, but you are opposed to capital punishment. You don’t mind if they are sent to prison and killed. Where is your heart when we have innocent people die every day of every year? Its funny how a handful of exonerations emboldens people to ignore the fact that it shows the systems of checks, usually appeals courts, works. |
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Friday, January 8, 2010Neither Deterrence nor False Convictions are Valid Arguments For or Against the Death PenaltyThe rate of innocence is not an argument against the death penalty. Anyone using it that way must stop using any form of transportation until the problem of accidental deaths in crashes has been "solved." We need a moratorium on cars, trucks, planes, subways, bicycling and walking. These kill 1000 times as many people as the death penalty, and 5000 times as many innocent people as the death penalty. These crashes kill 40,000 people who have committed no crime, without procedural due process, without trial. They made the mistake of driving over black ice. They are dispatched by crushing and slicing by metal edges emerging during the crash. There were over 10 times as many children executed by by vehicles, as they walked, as there were death penalties carried out.No. The rate of innocence is being used as a pretext to abolish the death penalty. The abolitionists will use the slightest mistake or imperfection to try to shit the death penalty down. Therefore the use of the rate of innocence represents a form of bad faith. Bad faith gives moral justification to invalidate the advocate. |
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Years ago I was an opponent of the death penalty and had subscribed to the many arguments against its use. It is inhumane, not worthy of a civilized society. The wrong person might be executed. No other advanced society continues to execute, only countries like Iran or Communist China. It is given unfairly, only to the poor and minorities. There is no evidence that it is a deterrent. It is legalized murder by the state, little different than the act of the criminal, (the most absurd of all the arguments). A life sentence serves the purpose just as well. And on and on go the tired arguments from watery intellects that
appeal to emotion over reason. I grow more conservative with age and many
of the views I hold today I would have considered ridiculous twenty years
ago. I read somewhere once that any man who at the age of 18 is not a
liberal has no heart; and any man who at the age of 35 is not a conservative
has no mind. I think of that quote whenever I hear a liberal argue about
anything, especially the death penalty. The death penalty is just. What good is a society that does not proclaim the right to life as one of the ultimate values? A person who wantonly takes the life of an innocent human being should pay the ultimate price, if the sacredness of life is to have any meaning at all. The focus should be on the life of the innocent and the death penalty a statement by society that for certain acts, a person forfeits any right to a life of their own. Life is sacred, and despite the liberal mindset that abhors passing judgments or making distinctions between good and evil, the value of an innocent life over one of a cold blooded murderer must be acknowledged. It is not the death penalty that cheapens life or makes the society that employs it barbaric. There was nothing barbaric about the execution of Mr. Graham. What is barbaric, as well as tragic and pitiful, is the thinking that fails to make the distinction between the lives of Mr. Graham and the life of the young girl he was responsible for ending. It is the society that fails to make that distinction, in a way that is dramatic and without equivocation, which is truly the barbaric one. |
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Favors capital punishment February 18, 2011 I've read that murderers want to return to Iowa, as they know Iowa doesn't have capital punishment. The majority of Iowans are in favor of capital punishment. |
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The anti-death penalty activists in this country would have you believe that every time a murderer is executed the justice system has just committed murder as well. They would have you believe that every person on death row is a victim. What they don’t talk about is what that person did to get onto death row. They forget about the people that where killed, and the people whose lives where affected by the murders; these are the real victims. They had a right to live just like every else in the world but their lives where snuffed out by a murderer. In my opinion, every one has a right to live, but as soon as you murder another human being you forfeit that right. I cannot see a convicted felon as some sort of victim, because it was his own actions that brought about his fate, not the actions of another person. Death
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Some people would argue that putting a murderer to death will not bring their victims back to life, or console their victims family, so what is the point? Well, putting someone in prison for the rest of their lives, or any other punishment for that matter, won’t bring their victims back to life either. So do you suggest we just don’t punish the killer for his actions? What punishment is supposed to do is prevent the killer from ever killing again, and what better way to do that than to take their own life away from them. If the most severe penalty a person can receive is to spend the rest of his/her life in jail, then what do you do when this is no longer enough? For example, a New York prisoner named Lemuel Smith, while serving six life sentences for his various crimes, including murder, strangled a female security guard, then mutilated and dismembered her body. Because New York has no death penalty, there is nothing that can be done to punish him beside another meaningless life sentence (Koch 562). What better way to preserve innocent life than to eliminate the people that would seek to destroy it? As for consoling the victims family, true, the death of their loved ones murderer may not make them feel better, but at least they can rest easy knowing that the killer is dead and gone instead of sleeping soundly in a prison bed. Death
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What would you do if Osama Bin Laden walked into the room right now? Most people would say they would kill him for the crimes he committed against our country. This is the same thing that the family’s and friends of most murder victim’s feel about the person that took their loved one away from them. Then the anti-death penalty activists complain that the death penalty is cruel and unusual. They don’t like the quick and painless death that is awaiting the convicted murderer. They cite the way the prisoner is treated, the way he has to wait for the inevitable. I hope that this is the most terrifying experience of his/her life. While it is not possible to let victims family’s personally strangle the murderer, they will know that the killer felt, at least a small part, the fear that their victims felt just before they where brutally killed. Is the death penalty barbaric? No: raping, beating, torturing and killing people is barbaric. Fast, effective, painless execution of someone convicted of the aforementioned crimes is not barbaric; it is justice. Death Penalty Essay on 14 May 2009In
conclusion, I hope that next time you hear about a death penalty being carried
out that you will be able to see through the media about the murderer being a
victim, and remember who the real victim’s are. The death penalty is justice;
it is not wrong. Think about the horrible crimes that the person committed to
get himself on death row and remember that they brought this upon themselves. I
value human life, and the best way to preserve it is to send a message to those
people that would seek to destroy it; we will not tolerate murder. |
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Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) TheHuntsman There are two fundamental
arguments against the death penalty for murder which compel me not to support
its reintroduction. The
guilty already go free, to kill again. A 1997 Home Office report records that
362 ‘life licensees released between 1972 and 1990 were reconvicted of a
standard list offence within 5 years. Of those released 66 had been convicted
of a grave offence by the end of 1995’. Another report records 30
homicide convictions between 1997/8 and 2007/8 of people already convicted
of homicide. ‘A convicted killer who murdered two of his neighbours …’: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-14189216 ‘Wright fired a final, fatal shot into his neck. … Wright, who had already served a life sentence for a murder he committed in 1971’: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/8586576.stm Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) can you imagine the violence that would ensue once we started hanging Is-Rad terrorists? Try and quantify how many more would die. Murder is never right, whether by a drug crazed gunman, a terrorist or a Norwegian psychopath. Neither can it be right to respond by murdering the murderers. Human life is scared from he moment of conception until natural death. Cobblers. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) All those
who are for the death penalty - are you willing to have the executioner
executed if an innocent was executed? Good idea..........and when our military kill civilians in one of our many overseas invasions, we could have mass executions at the MoD. Look, so many of you use this argument that an innocent just maybe killed.
For goodness sake, give the system some credit , so mistakes get made, but to
clear out our jails [which are full of evil criminals ] & or to stop
further killings .........you should be more pragmatic. Which is far greater in number ! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) It
is interesting how few of the comments here say anything about the information
in the article, evidence that capital punishment is effective in preventing
crime and saving lives. Of course, the criminal justice system will
always be far from perfect, as will everyone in the world. We can't use
that as a reason to allow convicted murderers, etc to live to murder again and
again. What about those innocent lives? Are they not worth
saving? The thought of an innocent person dying as a result of a wrong
decision in the criminal justice system is awful. But, the reality of
innocent lives being lost on a much larger scale, because we are not dealing
with crime as we should, is more awful. We devalue human life and
undermine confidence in justice when we allow people to murder and then live to
murder again. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Have you observed how
death-penalty opponents do their utmost to make the victim vanish? While
sometimes almost poetic in begging sympathy for the convicted murderer, not one
word can they spare for the victims. They routinely depict the executed as if
immaculately conceived and without sin, rather than meeting their end as a
consequence of murdering another human being. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Rather
the guilty go free than an innocent man be punished. kingorry Not a very compelling argument. The average murderer is out of prison in a little over a decade, hard to explain that to their victim's corpse or their family. It
is hard to apologize to a corpse: have you tried apologizing to the at
least 30 dead at the hands of already convicted murderers? Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Nonsense. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Would you still be making the
same argument if the innocent person executed was your
brother/sister/child/spouse/parent/friend? And if one of the 30 dead at the hands of
an already convicted murderer ‘was your
brother/sister/child/spouse/parent/friend?’ Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) The British practice was three clear Sundays absent
appeals. I understand the three
weeks allowed the process of appeals; appeals did not extend this period. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Oh here
we go again. It must be the silly season. Not much news going on so dig
up some report.
Some US states which do not have the death penalty have lower rates -yes the always did. Some countries have low murder rates because they are historical less violent countries than others. Most of this is mere
assertion. The death penalty does not act as a deterrent? This
might be what you want to believe, but it is almost certainly untrue. If
it was, why did the murder rate in this country rise disproportionate to
all inputs, such as population increase and general crime rate, after the
abolition of the death penalty? Murder rates had been rising slowly
throughout the 20th century, but they really took off after abolition was
imposed on an unwilling country. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Is
it acceptable to you that Donna Wilson died so that a convicted murderer should
live? Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Gregyank The scum that killed those kids in Norway did not want to die. He wanted to make a political statement and after his arrest one of his earliest concerns was access to a PC so he can get on with the next phase of his political struggle. My opinion is that the death penalty under these extraordinary circumstances would have deterred this individual who's every breath is an insult to civilization. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Expatnhappy The death penalty "works" every
time a murderer is put to death. Capital punishment is not the correct
punishment for all murders, but for certain types of murder, in particular the
murder of children or of more than one person on separate occasions, or the
murder of a stranger, what is the US are category 1 capital murder cases, then
it is the only proper punishment. The alternative: whole life sentences in
which the killer is incarcerated for ever with no possibility of parole, are
sadistic: a really cruel and unusual punishment if ever there was one but one
which can never allow the families to forgive the perpetrator, since their
loved one is dead and the killer is not. It is really very simple. People say
that there is a danger of wrongful convictions. Well it is for the legal system
to reduce those to a minimum and for any of those unlucky enough to be put to
death for a murder they didnt commit, to have the grace to admit that their
deaths are a price worth paying for a better society. In the same way the loved
ones of innocent persons who die in horrific accidents on motorways have to
accept that the inevitability of one or two terrible accidents is the price
society is prepared to pay for a better road transport system. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Bodaniel Tell it to Angela Cannings, Donna Anthony, Mark Dallagher, Sean Hodgson and the Cardiff Three among many others. Real people with real lives. They would have hanged. Tell them their lives were worth sacrificing. I'd like to tell you to tell Sally Clark, Kevin Callan, Stefan Kiszko and Anthony Steel but sadly their health suffered so much after time in jail for murders they did not commit they died decades early than they should have. danielfg Bodaniel Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) danielfg A
few statistics from the House of Commons library of cases initially recorded as
homicide by the police per year - the charges may have been altered before
trial: Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Andrew Dawson: murdered a 91-year-old man
in 1982. Released, he then murdered John Matthews, 66, and Paul Hancock, 58, in
2010. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) and with satisfying symmetry, an innocent person wrongly convicted of murder will be saved the unpleasant prospect of being wrongly convicted again And
with rather less satisfying symmetry, an innocent person murdered by an already
convicted murderer will not be murdered again by another already convicted
murderer. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Donna
Wilson, Maria Stubbing, Hazel Dix. They were human beings. They deserved better
than to die at the hands of convicted murderers. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) You really are a bottom-dweller
aren't you - mawkishly invoking details of murder victims' lives just to
bolster your tawdry case for the state killing its own citizens. That
you so easily resort to abuse rather than civilised rebuttal says much about
you and your cause. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) So what would you do with a John
Cooey sparky? And
death-penalty opponents try and make themselves feel better by pretending that
the victim does not exist; see article linked. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) theseaoon There could be an easy way to decide if a death sentence is safe and that is DNA. If a capital case is proven by DNA confirming that the suspect (don't you just love that word) is without doubt the culprit then the trial should include the death penalty as an option for the jury, if no DNA is proven then the death penalty should not be an option. However my take on it is if someone kills another in cold blood for a crime of theft or malice or rape or whatever, if convicted including DNA proof they should be executed after only one attempt to overturn the trial result as revenge, yes revenge. Take them out of the system because they have lost the right to be part of civilisation and why should we pay to keep them alive for years putting guards lives at risk? If these statistics are half right it makes a case to reinstate the death penalty in the UK.....but of course its only make believe because of all the bleeding heart liberals cracking on about human rights. My feelings on human rights are for the victims and families of victims. They want revenge they want these animals to be exterminated.....exterminate....exterminate....exterminate.....Dr, Dr....its the.....arrrrrrr Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) cogent_one What
if there is absolutely no doubt that a person has committed some ghastly crime
like beating a child to death or starving it? Or abducting a young girl
and then raping and killing her? Or luring a girl to a forest and callously
bashing her head in with a rock? Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) cogent_one surely they've only ever sentenced someone to death where they thought there was no doubt. And yet still got it wrong. Because we are human beings that make mistakes, we don't have the right to give a death sentence Yes
we do ! Making a statement does not make it so ! Umm we have not killed lots of innocent Afghans the Taliban have and they would have killed more of them if we had not been there to prevent it. cogent_one We certainly have killed many Afghans: mostly in misdirected air strikes. The Taliban have killed many more, no doubt. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) As
Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it
works; Misdirection
! the death penalty was not available ! If it had been it maybe that the
standard of proof would have been insufficient for a jury to find them gulity !
And they might not even have spent time in prison at all ! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) villain57 If you
believe that the US as not executed innocents in over 100 years you are totally
naive. Which makes the point ! Strong doubts are
not proof of innocence and many innocents - did not get executed ! So the
system works ! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) daviduk84 @strangerheremysel
Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) villain57 Highly
emotive. All murderers are cold blooded psychopaths and what about the families
of those left behind. We are no better if we do not do whatever gives victims families some peace and at the very least that is not a derisory sentence Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Think of the people who would have been executed
though they were actually innocent: The Guildford Four, The Birmingham Six etc
etc ... the death penalty is completely unacceptable. Life should mean life for
'aggravated murders'. But they weren't were
they ! The chances are that a more robust police force and criminal justice
sytem would have established the case much more completely if there had been
any chance of them swinging for it! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) JessieXL If you
are in favour of the death penalty, then imagine how you would feel if it were
you or someone you loved facing it, having been wrongly convicted. Not_taken_in Have you ever imagined what it would feel
like to be looking down the barrel of a shotgun watching the trigger being
squeezed and knowing that thanks to warped liberalism your killer would not pay
with their own life and you would not have the option of giving them pause for
thought as you would wish that you otherwise had ? Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Imagine how you would feel if the
murderer-rapist of your daughter was given life in prison where he earned a law
degree, trimmed himself into great shape, eating well and working out, and 15
years later was paroled by a liberal bunch of criminal loving scumbags. Kill
the murderers ASAP, pay per view. Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Just
a few thoughts on this topic: Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Animals also rape, murder, and disembowel each other. Do you think we should do that, too? Animals kill their young - are you condoning child murder? Animals
do none of the above - only we humans have the ability to 'classify' what we
call crimes. To the animals - it is just life - they are born, exist,
(hopefully) mate as often as possible and die ! There is not any other plan
involved for them ! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) hardtruth01 "Have you ever imagined what it would feel like to be looking down the barrel of a shotgun watching the trigger being squeezed and knowing that .... your killer would not pay with their own life and you would not have the option of giving them pause for thought as you would wish that you otherwise had ? " I suspect what little "comfort" I'd take from knowing my
killer would die too might be outweighed by the realization that, had the
killer already used one barrel to kill another, he would, having killed once,
have no disincentive whatever not to shoot me too. Someone who will kill without thought
will not be deterred by the death penalty, lets not be under any illusion here!
However the person who 'thinks' will be well aware that although they have
committed a crime they will only be imprisoned for that crime and come out the
other side - will more likely not kill if the option is there - because simply,
if they are afraid of getting caught - they will be aware the the rope beckons
if they step over the line! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) So if the
state kills an innocent person for murder; because I hope you're not stupid
enough to trust the state; you will of course compensate the victim of that
mistake by killing yourself? There is no link to be made here ! You
are comparing apples with doughnuts ! Commenting on As Britain debates the death penalty again, studies from America confirm that it works ( US politics Last updated: August 5th, 2011) Your
point doesn't address the key issue. How do you compensate for a mistake when
someone has been executed in error? Life
is risk: weighing costs and benefits. You take a risk by going into
hospital—even the best nurses, doctors and surgeons make mistakes, have
off-days, and some manage to qualify who should not. But the benefits of modern
medicine outweigh the risk of the occasional mistake. A mistake occurs, an
inquiry is held, very occasionally it is so serious as to warrant criminal
charges; sometimes the medical practitioner is struck off; other times changes
are made in procedure; sometimes, it’s just life. But
the thing is - everyone in support - by default is accepting their own
potential for a miscarriage of justice ! |
