Posted on 09/24/2011 7:15:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
That, and getting caught with an old Republican voter-registration card.
Then there's the longtime Harris County district attorney Johnny Holmes, who once said of self-defense shootings, "I'd rather face a grand jury five times a day than go before the medical examiner once."
Texas has some great takes on "Lawn Order" ..... and the language Texans use has a simple rude majesty, like the Old Latin of the Roman Law of the Twelve Tables, and the Shakespearean English of the King James Version.
Indeed. Thank you for sharing your insights, dear TEXOKIE!
It isn’t about numbers, it is about first hand knowledge of unfixable problems. I don’t see a solution to juries stacked with morons, prosecutors who are politicians first and shoddy police work that would restore my faith sufficiently to give the state that power.
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Well, it most certainly isn’t about your personal anecdotes.
I expressed only how I arrived at my personal beliefs, i’m not expecting to build a national movement on them. I am certainly no less entitled to an opinion than those who want to bring scripture into the debate.
Nobody’s stopping you from expressing your opinion. But why express your opinion if not in an attempt to persuade and convince. I expressed my mine - with facts - not personal feelings. The death penalty is exercised in less than half of one percent of total homicides in a year. That is not a rampant call for 1st degree punishment.
As for the lack of intelligence on the part of jurors, I see it lead to letting murderers get off scot-free more than lead to more harsher punishments.
When a jury is stupid a trial is essentially reduced to a high school debate being judged by retarded children.
You injected your opinion of juries on a death penalty thread. I presented the numbers that capital punishment is rarely used regardless of your fears.
Seems you have a problem with the jury system in general. Too bad your “peers” aren’t as intelligent as you.
I think of people like Aimee Willard was murdered by Arthur Bomar in 1996.
Bomar was on parole for a murder he committed in 1978.
If he had gotten the death penalty in the 1978 case Aimee Willard would still be alive.
Amnestry International is worse than useless.
It’s common for murderers to not get the death penalty, get released from prison and murder again. The liberals don’t like to talk about it when I bring it up. They care more about the rights of criminals than innocent victims.
The death penalty should be used more. Not less. Less murderers on parole from life sentences could save thousands of innocent lives.
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