I'm pro-life unless the mother's life is in danger.

 

I used to be for the death penalty, but I have changed as I've gotten older. There's too many instances of human error to put a person to death, and then discover years later with more modern technological evidence that they were innocent, is disturbing.

Change "many on death row" to "some on death row" and I'm with you. That by itself is my #1 issue with the DP.

 

No. Change it to "a minute number on death row who have all been continually featured in the media" and I believe it may be true.

 

Because of the endless appeals, reviews, and delays in these cases, the death penalty, in almost all cases, is not carried out for many, many years. The heinous crime and the victim or victims are long forgotten other than by their loved ones. That, my fellow posters, is the real injustice.

 

The idea that we have a material number of "law abiding, hard working, contributing individuals" falsely convicted and on death row is absurd.

No. Change it to "a minute number on death row who have all been continually featured in the media" and I believe it may be true.

 

Because of the endless appeals, reviews, and delays in these cases, the death penalty, in almost all cases, is not carried out for many, many years. The heinous crime and the victim or victims are long forgotten other than by their loved ones. That, my fellow posters, is the real injustice.

 

The idea that we have a material number of "law abiding, hard working, contributing individuals" falsely convicted and on death row is absurd.

 

When it comes to the death penalty, 'one' is a "material number." I do not accept collateral damage like that.

Florida has overturned 20 death penalty convictions. Illinois has 13. That's 33 people who have been exonerated in two states that would have been executed. Illinois has since suspended capital punishment indefinitely.

Pro Life and Pro Death Penalty and very pround of it!

I'm just curious how anyone can be pro-abortion and against the death penalty...:confused: :confused:

Me, too. Any of the 4 who voted this way, care to give your logic?

Me, too. Any of the 4 who voted this way, care to give your logic?

 

 

Thats pretty ultra lib, so they won't have a reason

Florida has overturned 20 death penalty convictions. Illinois has 13. That's 33 people who have been exonerated in two states that would have been executed. Illinois has since suspended capital punishment indefinitely.

 

 

Overturned death penalty convictions do not translate into the convicted party being innocent. The convicted has many avenues paved with technicalities that were not available to the victims. Don't interpret the actions of Florida and Illinois to indicate that the parties were falsely convicted. Most likely, in this age of permissiveness, the common practice of erring on the side of leniency prevails over holding individuals responsible for their acts.

 

I won't comment on Herersay's passioned appeal concerning one being too many. While I agree in theory, humans cannot guarantee absolute perfection in their legal process.

 

Query? Name one who was completely innocent of crime who was executed?

A federal judge in Boston said yesterday that there was mounting evidence innocent people were being executed. But he declined to rule the death penalty unconstitutional.

 

"In the past decade, substantial evidence has emerged to demonstrate that innocent individuals are sentenced to death, and undoubtedly executed, much more often than previously understood," the judge, Mark L. Wolf of Federal District Court in Boston, wrote in a decision allowing a capital case to proceed to trial.

 

He cited the exonerations of more than 100 people on death row based on DNA and other evidence.

Thats pretty ultra lib, so they won't have a reason

I voted pro-life and anti death penalty, but it is easy for me to understand pro choice and anti death penalty. The pro choice people I know do not believe that a fetus is a person. I don't agree with it, but I understand. When a person becomes a person is unprovable under our law. It is a matter for the legislature to define and for those of us that vote for those legislators to push according to our own view of morality.

Overturned death penalty convictions do not translate into the convicted party being innocent. The convicted has many avenues paved with technicalities that were not available to the victims. Don't interpret the actions of Florida and Illinois to indicate that the parties were falsely convicted. Most likely, in this age of permissiveness, the common practice of erring on the side of leniency prevails over holding individuals responsible for their acts.

 

I won't comment on Herersay's passioned appeal concerning one being too many. While I agree in theory, humans cannot guarantee absolute perfection in their legal process.

 

Query? Name one who was completely innocent of crime who was executed?

 

In response to your query:

 

Are you asking us to name one who was completely innocent of any crime and was executed? Or to name one who was innocent of the crime for which they were executed?

 

Although most everyone in this country has committed some sort of crime at some time or another (running a stop sign is a crime too), does it follow that one be executed regardless of the guilt/innocence of the crime for which you were convicted?

I am 100% against abortion unless the mother's life is in serious jeopardy if they give birth to the child. As far as the death penalty goes, if a person has so little respect for life that they feel compelled to commit a pre-meditated murder, I absolutely feel the death penalty is necessary if they are convicted in a court of law.

 

Those put on death row, IMO, have had the chance to be a positive, contributing member of society, the unborn children who are aborted have not been given that chance.

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Thats pretty ultra lib, so they won't have a reason

 

Got to love stereotypes...much easier to go that way then to try to understand people.

Got to love stereotypes...much easier to go that way then to try to understand people.

 

Cram 'em in a pigeon-hole...whether they fit or not. :creepy:

I am pro-life, but not to the point where I'm going to go protest abortion clinics. If a woman doesn't want the child, there are plenty of people out there that would care for it like it was their own.

 

I'm for the death penalty in cases where there is 100 certainty of guilt.