Posted on 10/15/2014 12:19:30 PM PDT by JennysCool
Now that’s funny!
A few years earlier or later and they would almost certainly have landed in the electric chair. Stringbean’s murder happened after the Supreme Court essentially suspended the death penalty in the Furman decision. I believe that happened in either ‘71 or ‘72. The death penalty was then reinstated in ‘76.
As for the murder itself, I vividly remember when Stringbean was killed. It really bothered me because like almost all Tennesseans who were alive in that era, I grew up on the Opry and, to a lesser extent, Hee Haw.
...better than Charlie Daniels one might say. ..two greats.
There was a window of time when the (Earl) Warren Supreme Court made death sentences illegal. All prisoners under death sentences had their sentences commuted to life. It was only after the other Warren (Burger) Supreme Court, that death sentences became legal again.
dawg!
I think we’re just one Obama appointee away from the Supreme Court stopping the death penalty again. This time permanently.
Don’t be so gloomy, they still have never let Charlie Manson out.
Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom despair and agony on me
Me neither and I’m a big Hee Haw fan to this day, thanks to RFDtv.
Fun fact: Hee Haw was taped curing 2 one week blocks in June and October. They’d set up one set and knock out a season’s worth of, say, barber shop sketches, in a day an then move on to the next setup. Editors would then piece together each episode for broadcast.
I cannot understand why they would allow John Brown to be paroled. The crimes he and his brother committed were terrible and two people did not have the best (retire or something else) of their life to live. He (John Brown) should live the rest of his life in prison. For someone that is a better writer than I, here is the parole boards e-mail address BOP.Webmail@tn.gov
That may have been during the time the death penalty had been revoked and before it had been re-instituted, explaing why he didn’t get the death penalty. I’m glad his cousin/partner died in prison.
Sorry, we’re a few hundred exonerations (including 18 from Death Row) since capital punishment was a liberal vs. conservative issue. If you think giving a bunch of government bureaucratic hacks (which is what the entire Justice system is) the power of life and death, you are not my kind of conservative.
Correct. See .45 Long Colts post a #103
As for those who do, well in California alone it is estimated that over $4 billion LINK has been spent by the state trying to get these convicted murderers executed. So the idea these poor defenseless people are getting a raw deal is preposterous. They have advocates out the wazoo.
What you conveniently didn't address is how many murderers are acquitted to go back out and commit more murders. Here's a nice LINK to a page explaining what happens when convicted murderers are not executed, and are subsequently released. And while some sick people make the case these types of people will never be released, they ARE released!
How many murderers get released from prison having been convicted of a murder to commit murder again years or decades later? I don't have an exact percentage. I wonder if it's larger than 1.156 individuals per 200. And then there's the death count. Some of these wonderful people go back out to kill whole families, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..., more.
Right now we have 3108 people on death row. Your 18 added to it is 3126 people. Your 18 amounts to 0.5758% of the total on death row.
That means that out of 200 people on death row, on average 1.156 were found innocent. So that being the case you determine 198.844 others should not receive the penalty they so richly deserve.
Another factoid you somehow forgot to mention, is the issue of retrials. How many of these 18 people got off because during a subsequent retrial decades later, the witnesses had died and evidence had been lost? Were they truly innocent? The Left says they are all innocent. Are they?
We're talking about Charles Manson and Company. We're talking about a man that raped a young girl who was telling him that Jesus loved him the whole time, right up until he savagely killed her.
Folks can read for themselves at the link above why I still support the death penalty.
I may not be your type of Conservative. Everyone has to make up their own mind. I've made mine up.
If I was arrested today and had to endure the death penalty, I would still be for it.
It has cost us $4 billion bucks to keep these people on death row, because bogus appeal after appeal after appeal has resulted in stay after stay after stay.
If anyone in California gets executed today, the great grand-children may get to see it. The actual children, parents, siblings, and other family members who may have witnesses the whole thing, and may themselves have barely escaped with their own lives won't.
But they will be able to live in terror every night, wondering if this guy has gotten out and may be lurking just outside.
Noooo! The hacks are the headline-hunting prosecutors and (sometimes) cops! They are the ones screwing up our justice system, and when they screw up, they blame the poor juries.
The OJ trial is a good example. Marsha Clark probably thought she was on the way to be governor. But, she was a hack who got outclassed by real lawyers. And the poor jury got the blame. Same thing happened in the Rodney King trial.
The death penalty is constitutional. But, I trust no government agent to do the right thing. The figures you cite are the PROVEN exonerations. How many more have been missed?
I believe your response got buried in my pings. Sorry about the delay.
No, those are not rock solid exonerations.
Even if these were DNA exonerations, DNA can also be problematic.
The 18 people you listed here may not all be innocent. Once a trial is over, the evidence, the witnesses, and the people involved in the case disburse. Who advocates for the dead person then?
You have the myriad of Liberal agencies running this way and that like termites in an older building, ripping it apart piece by piece.
The body parts of children and adults have long since turned to dust, and now the enemies of our system of justice, are fast at work unraveling.
Some of these people may be innocent. Some of them are probably as guilty as can be.
You want to think you're doing the Lord's work. Frankly you may be to a certain extent. And yet for every mistake done here where a guy gets off who should have been fried, whose work are you doing then?
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