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| 41 | Should be used more often and should not take so long to carry out. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 42 | Once again, frostbrand strikes with his stereotyping comments. What a surprise....
It offends me that you think I and other conservatives don't care. Actually speeding up the process would save a lot of money and would increase the deterrent effect. I do believe that a lot of the counter arguments for capital punishment are based on the exorbitant costs of executing someone. Therefore speeding it up would reduce costs and make everyone happier. Yes inmates have been exonerated off of death row, however over the last 100 years not one executed criminal has been proven innocent after the fact. I do recognize that in order to speed up the process there would need to be additional measures placed to ensure the innocent are not executed. Thus... I do care. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 43 | You do realize that your rebuttal didn't actually help you in any way? I know death penalty cases cost us more money, hence why I believe we should speed up the process as it will reduce costs. The article in the NYtimes that you cited also does nothing for you. No where in that article does it state any concrete proof that the innocent have been executed. It's all conjecture from a judge. It's the judge's opinion. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 44 | I don't even know if I should bother responding to you, everything you say or do is judgmental and nonobjective. I recently wrote a research paper about capital punishment. I was required to do an intensive study both for and against the practice. I know both sides of the argument. Every fact, statistic, and story I found contradicts what you are saying.
1) There is a real deterrent effect. It's not a matter of one study over the last 10-20 years that shows this fact (as you put it). It's a matter of many studies done by reputable professors at universities. Professors at both Emory University and also at the University of Colorado have done several studies in the last 5 years alone. The number of averted murders was found to be 5 per every one execution. If you look back to the 70's when the supreme court placed a moratorium over capital punishment, you would learn that during this time the number of murders erupted, more then doubling itself. The rate per capita of homicide during this time rose from 5.1 to 10.0 murders per 100,000 people. Sure enough, as soon as the supreme court realized their fault, they re-instituted the practice and immediately murders declined. 2) There is concrete proof that no innocent man has been executed because to this day not one single individual has been proven to be innocent after the execution. It has been speculated that the innocent have been executed, but no proof has surfaced. That fact alone is concrete proof in my favor. Even in your example from oklahoma, you never stated that the man who was executed was found innocent. You simply stated that the witness falsified information. 3) The biggest misconception about capital punishment is the idea of discrimination. According to the department of justice, over half of all inmates on death row are white. There is no bias in the system. Yes many inmates are black, but even more are white. Maybe the fact that there isn't very many millionaires walking the green mile is because very few millionaires actually commit heinous crimes that justify execution... duh. My concern in regards to capital punishment is to save lives. I absolutely hate how you stereotype me as an unsympathetic barbarian. You don't know me. You have no right to make those kinds of allegations. I do not want an innocent man to be executed. If you would actually read my words you would understand that. I want time on death row minimized without compromising the innocent. I feel that it is possible. The fact of the matter is that capital punishment does save the innocent; innocent victims of brutal murders and heinous crimes. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 45 | Not really. Criminals often commit murders while in prison, other inmates as well as guards can be victims. There's an example from texas where a serial killer was sentenced to life, but was released after only serving 30 years. Immediately after his release additional victims started to pile up under his wrath. An additional nine people were murdered including a pregnant mother of 3 kids. Eventually he was caught, this time sentenced to death with a quick follow through. If he was put to death in the beginning nine people would have been saved. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 46 | In the beginning he was serving a life sentence, but laws changed, his attorney battled for his release and eventually succeeded. A life sentence does not mean what it should. Even if someone is sentence to life without parole, the sentencing rarely stands. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 47 | that's incorrect. I don't know where you get your sources, but it has been proven over and over that the death penalty is a deterrent to crime. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 48 | I didn't respond to your post because it is futile arguing with you. You have no objectivity. Your attitude is as though you are always right and no one else can be right (even if they are right). What's the point in responding to your posts? | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 49 | I normally try not to hate anyone, but frostbrand if I were to hate anyone you have come closer then anyone else. Please don't ever reply to me or respond to any of my comments. Your lack of kindness and tolerance of my ideals is flat out pissing me off. I can show you statistics from credible sources that prove my points of view, but showing you that would do nothing to help your lack of tolerance of alternate ideals. It is no fun debating with someone like you and I am willing to bet I am not the only SC member who feels this way. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
| 50 | For those of you who think that capital punishment does not have a deterrent effect, I will cite a few credible sources. Keep in mind the importance of credibility.
http://www.bus.lsu.edu/mocan/Getting%20off%20Death... This particular research was done by H. Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and R. Kaj Gittings of Cornell University. They analyzed exorbitant amounts of data and determined that in the United States every execution reduces the number of homicides by 5, while each commutation of execution increases homicides by 5. You can go to this website to download the findings of HASHEM DEZHBAKHSH Emory University - Department of Economics, PAUL H. RUBIN Emory University - Department of Economics; Emory University - School of Law, and JOANNA SHEPHERD Emory University - School of Law http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id... These particular authorities of law and statistics determined that each execution decreases the number of homicides by 18 with a margin of error of plus or minus 10. There are more studies besides just these two, however as I am limited on time, I am unable to show more right now. These studies do speculate at the possibility of discrimination in sentencing but they acknowledge that there is no current empirical proof to validate that claim. The bureau of justice statistics within the department of justice gives one all the necessary statistics to show that more then half of all inmates on death row as of 2006 are white: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm. Again this is a very credible source: the Department of Justice. The fact of the matter is that the majority of inmates on death row are white. It is very hard for me to believe that there is discrimination within our capital punishment system when this fact is presented. | How do you feel about Capital Punishment? |
