It looks like a republican senator is pushing this.
http://www.wafb.com/2019/04/30/bid-ban-death-penalty-louisiana-advances-senate/
http://www.wafb.com/2019/04/30/bid-ban-death-penalty-louisiana-advances-senate/
I am for the death penalty. I believe if utilized correctly, it can be a deterrent. But I believe the correct utilization would be carrying out the sentence quickly. All of the appeals delay it and I believe this reduces its value as a deterrent. Removing the deterrent aspect, the death penalty is more of "an eye for an eye" punishment.
The appeals cost us millions. And when was the last time the state actually put someone down?
Cheaper to get rid of it. I’m not religious so death to me would be an easy way out as opposed to serving life.
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I was once a supporter of the death penalty. But then I started to notice how many people who had been on death row for years, sometimes decades, were being proven innocent after the fact, usually due to improvements in DNA technology. Although I can also remember instances where witnesses recanted their testimony saying they had been intimidated by prosecutors to lie or perhaps lied because they thought that's what people wanted to hear. I don't have citations or statistics, but the gestalt seemed to indicate that there were just too many of these cases for my personal comfort.
For this reason I have become an opponent of the death penalty in general. Now please do not misunderstand me. I am far far away from being a liberal progressive social justice warrior tree hugger kind of dude. However, to me, one of the ultimate horrors is when the state kills an innocent man or woman. I don't want to be any part of that, no matter how small, even if it is only in my capacity as a citizen of this great state and nation.
There may be some innocent people on death row but most are guilty and most have mountains of irrefutable evidence, but they are still allowed to push the date off. If I got a speeding ticket there is probably 1/100th evidence proving I was guilty but I don’t get to tell the judge to wait before you enforce the fine. A human life is a precious thing so we need to be certain, but the vast majority of death row inmates spend 30 years breathing after the irrefutable mountain evidence convicted them. As a nation we struggled with racial issues clouding our judgement and convicting innocent men, but I would imagine 99.999999999999% of those guys are dead or free today. It’s time to stop tiptoeing around the issue and fix the system. If the conviction meets the requirements for death row the convict shouldn’t breath 12 months later. If the requirements for death row aren’t met than maybe he should be a free man. Life in prison for murder shouldn’t exist.
The problem is, we have an imperfect system of justice. Appeals and such exist to try to correct these wrongs, but how do you correct the wrong from executing the wrong person?
And even if 99.9% of people on death row are guilty (I very much doubt this, but we'll go with it for now) ... will you be the one to tell the families of the wrongly-executed that it was worth it? I sure wouldn't want to have to do that.
Mike
BooHoo,BooHoo, Everyone on death row is innocent,That's how they got there in the first place....
How about we bring back the death sentence for baby rapers and killers?
You know, Tie them to a tree and cut off their genitals...
Stuff it in their mouths so the may reflect upon their sins for another minute or two !
Scarecrow argument. Nobody is arguing that everyone on death row is innocent. In fact, I think I even said that I believe most of them are.
What do you say to the families of people that are wrongly executed for crimes they didn't commit?
Mike