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Nebraska will now become the 19th state in the US to ban the death penalty, and one of the first traditionally "conservative" states to do so. State lawmakers voted to ban capital punishment in the state, with support coming by a wide enough margin to over-ride the veto that had been promised by Republican Governor Pete Ricketts, who strongly supports the death penalty. Nebraska Lawmakers Vote To Abolish Death Penalty -
Just announced
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Alabama Death-Row Inmate Freed After Nearly 30 Years Ray Hinton, 58, was released in the morning from the Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham. He hugged family members as he walked out, saying, "Thank you Jesus." Hinton was convicted of the 1985 murders of two Birmingham fast-food restaurant managers. Crime scene bullets were the only evidence that linked Hinton to the crime. However, prosecutors said this week that modern forensic methods did not show the fatal bullets came from a revolver in Hinton's home, or even from the same gun. -
Not in this case. Australian College Baseball Player Killed by ?Bored? Teenagers in Oklahoma | The Big Lead
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If the shooter in the Connecticut schools shootings had survived, and lived to stand trial, how many out there think the death penalty would be too harsh?
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This is probably best for this forum. Simple question. If yes, please provide what you think that limit should be. If you don't believe in capital punishment under any circumstances please don't vote. But even if you are like me and believe in theory but not necessarily in practice then go ahead and vote. Thanks. -
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After last night I think this is a fair question. The ultimate goal if we are to use capital punishment is ensuring that no innocent person is ever executed. I feel it is much better to release a guilty person than to execute an innocent person. Overall I'm quite conflicted on capital punishment---I do believe that some cases warrant it as a punishment, but more often than not I do not feel it is properly carried out. And as I grow older I am less inclined to support it at all. Cases like last night should under no circumstances happen. There was too much doubt there for an execution to have occured. My problem is exactly how do you reform it where you ensure that an innocent life is not executed? As of right now the only thing I can definitely think of is DNA must be a requirement.
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Can you be pro life and still support the death penalty? I say no. It is a proven fact that the death penalty has taken many innocent lives. Have fun with this everyone!:devil:
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351351,00.html Supreme Court to decide if the death penalty can be used on people convicted of raping children.
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A Florida judge sentenced John Evander Couey to death Friday for the kidnap, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. Couey, a convicted sex offender, buried Lunsford alive in two black trash bags with her hands bound and her favorite purple stuffed dolphin tucked in her arms, Circuit Judge Richard Howard said. Lunsford's body was found in a grave in Couey's yard about three weeks after she disappeared. "He secured her fate with a second bag," Howard told the court. This man goes way beyond sick or evil - IMO there is not a death too cruel or a fire too hot for this man! This entire story and what he did to this 9yr. old little girl. The news that I was watching stated that the only defense that this animal had was : His mother was less that 16yrs. old when he was born and he sniffed glue ...... :mad: http://www.foxnews.com , click on the picture of Lunsford
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-17-newjersey-deathpenalty_N.htm TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment. The bill, approved last week by the state's Assembly and Senate, replaces the death sentence with life in prison without parole.
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Lots of discussion in this forum on the above topics. I would enjoy seeing discussion on how these two issues are intertwined. Seems like most folks here seem to be anti-abortion except in very extenuating circumstances and pro-death penalty; again in "justifiable circumstances". Just a guess.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court says the law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in cases of child rape violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. "The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented. There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_rdp
