"And the number of guilty that have gone free are countless I'm sure. Your point? Mine was those states don't seem to have a problem to pulling the switch, whats wrong with our verbiage in the laws? As far as expense, I've read both sides of that argument and that is not a totally true statement. The expense to the taxpayer can be more on a death penalty if the public defender's office is involved, not solely on the appeal process although that's the majority of it." -- Bartmeister

In my mind, an innocent man being executed is much more repulsive than a guilty man going free. As for the expense aspect of it, what percentage of capital cases do you think are privately retained? Start the bidding somewhere less than .001%

"Government cannot be trusted with the power to take someone's life. It is simply too open for abuse and the risk to the innocent is simply unacceptable."

Exactly. You would think being anti-death penalty would be the default 'conservative' position on two counts: (1) a small govt shouldn't have the authority to kill its citizens, and (2) if you are truly "pro-life", then you'd be against the death penalty because (a) there is too much risk an innocent life would be taken, and (b) pro-life is pro-life, period. If you're concerned about a fertilized egg in a test tube being disgarded, then you ought to be concerned about the govt sanctioned killing of adults.

"Texas and Virginia don't seem to have a problem with the Death Penalty laws."

They also don't seem to have a problem with murdering innocent people.

After the whole Gregory Taylor debacle, the notion that anyone could support the death penalty is truly mind boggling. Government cannot be trusted with the power to take someone's life. It is simply too open for abuse and the risk to the innocent is simply unacceptable.

Cameron Todd Willingham would disagree - and he surely isn't the only innocent man that has been executed. 12inthebox

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And the number of guilty that have gone free are countless I'm sure. Your point? Mine was those states don't seem to have a problem to pulling the switch, whats wrong with our verbiage in the laws? As far as expense, I've read both sides of that argument and that is not a totally true statement. The expense to the taxpayer can be more on a death penalty if the public defender's office is involved, not solely on the appeal process although that's the majority of it.

"Texas and Virginia don't seem to have a problem with the Death Penalty laws."

Cameron Todd Willingham would disagree - and he surely isn't the only innocent man that has been executed.

Texas and Virginia don't seem to have a problem with the Death Penalty laws.

It is waaaay more expensive to execute someone than it is to give them life in prison.

"All we have to do is execute them---any liberals complain then let them leave our state---we have got to start punishing these criminals TruthTemple"

It is as much our state as it is your state so why do you not get the heck out?

The Capital Murder trial that I served on in 1997 was an absolute waste of every juror's time because he still lives in a prison day room and watches TV from 7am till 11am and the victim is in the ground murdered unarmed in front of his two kids. He is given HOPE by insane liberals........ THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.

Those who opose the death penalty should be the ones who pay a tax to keep them alive !

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