Posted on 12/01/2005 11:37:49 PM PST by NapkinUser
Wish it was Tookie!
Sorry my state of Colorado has been so disappointing in putting these social diseases to death.
Our Judges---high altitude caused oxygen starvation at birth.
For your collective reading and bookmarking pleasure
That "1,000th" of course is an arbitrary, misleading, media-created number, since it refers only to the number "since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976." Before the temporary ten-year ban was wrongly imposed by the SCOTUS, there were many thousands of executions carried out.
Also, the number is way below what it ought to be, if justice were to be done and all murderers were swiftly and rightly executed.
Any deterence value is a side benefit and should not be consider as the reason to support the death penalty. What value do we place on the life of an innocent victim? Anything short of executing the killer, lessens the value of all of us.
On a more practical level, there have been a number of cases where someone has been on death row, and somehow gotten out, and killed others. The one sure things about the death penalty is, that person will never kill another innocent victim.
1000!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this mania for counting stuff; let's see what's that abortion number up to now? Must be around here somewhere, I know these MSMs are so diligent about keeping track of carnage, Hmm, must be over there in that huge stack of Innocent Deaths No Libs Give A Damn About.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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