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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Omega, I'd reply with an ad-homenium (however the fuck you spell it), but I'm too mature for that. You don't like my opinions? Tough fucking luck. You wanna blast me for 'em, be my fucking guest. 'Cuz guess what? The death penalty is NOT a deterent, and it costs a HELL of a lot more then keeping someone in jail for life. Not to mention that the "Texecutioner" and his brother in Florida like to put innocents to death. Now, read on and I shall demonstrate, you of Omegainsm. Let me start off by saying that: EXECUTION IS NOT A REAL SOLUTION, WE CAN DO BETTER! Yes, we fucking can. Herrara v Collins: US Supreme Court ruled that it is Constitutional to execute an innocent person if they have been convicted in a fair trial. This means: if you're arrested for a murder, and executed, and then new evidence shows up proving you DIDN'T do it: guess what? Your murder was still legal. We'll use Florida as an example for this one. It costs 6 million to use the death penalty (appeals and all), but only 600,000 dollars to incarcirate them for life. Geeee, it only costs TEN times as much to kill them. Hmmm ... 82% of all persons executed since 1977 were convicted of killing a white person, despite the fact that over 50% of all violent crimes victims are of color. Hmmm, anyone see racism here? We're more willing to kill someone for killing a white then killing a black, or an Asian, or so on. Even death penalty proponents now concede that executions DO NOT deter others from committing murder. Matter o' fact, murders committed by people hoping to be caught and executed are on the increase. Politicians claim to be tough on crime by supporting the death penalty. Are they aware that 94$ of all CJ dollars are spent AFTER the crime and not on prevention? Public surveys show that support for the death penalty DROPS below 50% when offered the possibility of life without parole for 25 years plus restitution to the victim's family. In Texas, David Lynn Carpenter was sentenced to death after a trial convicting him for the murder of a Dallas woman, despite the fact that DNA TESTS proved the physical descriptiopn of the murderer is NOT DAVID! More on Texas: -has executed more than 17 people this year alone -most famous, the murder of Odell Barnes: a) journalists investigating the case found evidence suggesting Barnes was not guilty of said murder ... b) the blood-preservative expert who tested the victim's blood against blood found on Odell's clothes said that the blood "could only have appeared there by being planted or accidently spilled." c) even Police Detective Bill Pursley agrees that "there were parts of the crime scene that if you read the books today, you could look back and say, 'boy, did we do that wrong.' d) Odell was murdered by the State of Texas and Governor George W. Bush on March 1st. Are you aware that, in the ENTIRE world, 85% of executions took place in: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... and the United States of America ... Guess what? For all our condemnation of human rights abuses, we're grouped right in with them. And we even EXCEL by taking the #1 position of "known executions of child offenders (prisoners who were under 18 years old at the time of the crime)" Florida LEADS THE NATION, in # of people sentenced to death ... then RELEASED after being found INNOCENT or having recieved an unfair trial (Texas is tied for 3rd with Oklahoma in this category) Jeb Bush's solution? Support legislation limiting the death row appeals ... execute them within 5 years ... On average, a wrongly-convicted (read: innocent) prisoner is on death row 7 years before new evidence comes to light to free them. Hmmmm. Me thinks Jeb wants to kill the innocent men before they get freed and make his record look bad. And Omega? Why don't you open your mouth and ... well, I'm sure you know what I'm going to say ... [URL=http://www.theawfultruth.com/bushes/]Texas/Florida Executions[/URL] [URL=http://www.cuadp.org/facts.html]CitizensUnitedAgainstDeathPenalty[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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