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Although a majority of Americans support the death penalty, its popularity (64%) is at its lowest since 1981 according to a recent ABCNEWS.com poll. But many death penalty supporters say innocents released from death row are evidence that the appellate process is working, not that it is broken. “There is no perfect system,” Rushford says. “But a system that catches mistakes is doing the job.”
The
death penalty is popular with U.S. voters. A Gallup Poll released in 1999
showed that nearly 75 percent of Americans supported the death penalty,
and 64 percent felt the death penalty was not carried out often enough.
In his successful bid for Texas governor in 1994, Republican presidential
candidate George W. Bush made streamlining the death penalty appeals process
a campaign priority. "The message is clear," said Bush, "Don't
come to Texas and kill somebody."
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of:cnn.com
Since
1973, 85 death row prisoners have been exonerated and freed
across the nation. The prisoners spent an average of 7.5 years on
death row prior to being released. New DNA evidence played a
substantial factor in establishing the innocence of eight freed
prisoners. Source: Death Penalty Information Center
(ABC
NEWS.COM/Magellan Geographix)
Are you Against the death penalty? (read this...)
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Opponents equate execution and murder, believing that if two acts have
the same ending or result, then those two acts are morally equal. Is
the legal taking of property to satisfy a debt the same as auto theft?
Both result in loss of property. Are kidnaping
and legal incarceration the same? Both involve
imprisonment against one's will. Is killing
in self defense the same as capital murder? Both
end in taking human life. Are rape and making
love the same? Both may result in sexual intercourse.
How absurd. Opponents’ flawed logic and moral confusion mirror their "factual"
arguments - there is, often, an absence of reality. The moral confusion
of some opponents is astounding. Some
equate the American death penalty with the Nazi holocaust. Opponents see
no moral distinction between the slaughter of 12 million totally innocent
men, women and children and the just execution of society's worst human
rights violators.
COURTESY OF: prodeathpenalty.com
Both a
sense of justice and compassion is about our emotions. The difference between
the two is that while the sense of justice is aimed against the criminal
and the just punishment that he deserves, our compassion is aimed towards
the victims. We also need understanding and compassion for the victim and
relatives. Every victim is a person of flesh and blood, a part of
society. Every crime against a human is therefore at the same time an attack
on every member of society. In that sense we are all related to victim.
The
violent criminal and murderer on the other hand do not deserve the compassion
of the state governed by law.One who in the
most heinous way lacks to show compassion towards fellowmen does not have
an obvious right to expect the compassion of the state governed by law.
As soon as the word compassion is mentioned we need to turn our attention
to the victim and his relatives.
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DO ANY OF YOU PEOPLE REMEMBER DAVID BERKOWITZ ? YOU MAY REMEMBER HIM BETTER AS THE SON OF SAM, OR THE 44CAL. KILLER WHO MURDERED SIX PEOPLE AND INJURED SEVEN IN NEW YORK IN THE 1970'S. BECAUSE HE THOUGHT VOICES WERE TELLING HIM TO KILL PEOPLE. DID YOU KNOW THAT HE IS ALMOST ON HIS 25TH YEAR OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON TERMS. DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT HE IS ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE NEXT YEAR? HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL? SHOULD SOMEONE SENTENCED TO 365 YEARS IN PRISON FOR VICIOUS CRIMES BE SET FREE TO ROAM AROUND YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?
"Son of Hope" please the same man
who listens to voices, he is so sick, look at these letters he sent to
the POLICE!
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The response: One of the principles of freedom is "the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." When someone takes someone else's life, he/she has violated these fundamental rights, and thus has given up the right to his/her own. It is not evil for a society to act to promote the greater good; the ends justify the means, at least when it is a guilty party who is punished.
The Argument: Does the Race of the victim play an important role in whether they receive the death penalty or not? Due to recent studies this is prove that race does play a key role in whether the get the death penalty or not.
The response: Although studies have shown race plays a role in the fate of victims you also must consider the "aggravating factors" such as multiple killings, and that persons previous criminal record.
In today's society there are many violent crimes. With the death penalty we would definitely not stop crime all together, but it would cut back on a lot of crimes that occur today. So the death penalty is a deterrent to crime because if we just put them to sleep like they did their victim viciously then it would stop them from doing it to others even the prison inmates think about it!