Posted on 05/17/2015 5:54:32 AM PDT by bestintxas
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Friday that the death penalty sentence for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was “ineffective.”
While the likely Democratic presidential candidate said that he “respects the verdict of the jury” and said his prayers go to the victims and their loved ones, he used the occasion to make another statement on his opposition to the death penalty.
“The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members,” Mr. O’Malley said, Mediaite reported Friday. Mr. O’Malley added that “the vast majority of public executions” happen in the U.S., North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and China, and said that was a list the U.S. should not be on, Mediaite reported.
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I agree, he should be publicly executed within the week, and since he is Muslim we should respect his beliefs and feed him to pigs.
Save the bullet.
Is that hard for a liberal elite to understand?
As far as deterrence’ is concerned - ‘death’ WILL stop Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from trying this again... Will it stop other monsters? Probably not - but giving monsters undeserved liberal bullsh*t compassion won't stop them either.
Our way is better. Stopping one monster at a time...
Laws that were put in place to allow lawyers to make a living off ‘defending’ these monsters can be changed back to something that make sense...
The silliness of our legal system was created - it can be undone... Laws made - laws unmade....
Has murdering mohammedan's brother killed anyone since he got dead?
No.
Did he kill people before?
Yes.
So death was the prefect deterrent in that case.
I say we continue to repeat the experiment.
As to the other expense, the maximum penalty allowed by law will always be expensive in our legal system. If there were no death penalty the ACLU would drag out with appeals every life without parole case.
I’ll bet that if he knew his dead body would be fed to hogs it would matter a lot.
Not a deterrent? How many times has the Boston marathon been bombed since the verdict? Just another dimwitted demonrat buffoon.
It may not be a deterrent but there are no repeat offenders, Marty
Wow! That’s brutal, but no more brutal than blowing people up. Some things I don’t like about our justice system, and the lack of swift justice for the guilty is one of them.
Cannot argue with the 0% recidivism rate.
That is an excellent analysis.
An old friend of mine I have known for 52 years "came out" as a teenager because he could not fight off the girls and young women that flocked to him. He had the looks of an Errol Flynn and was well spoken and polite. After he announced himself he gradually began to flame on and eventually became a crusader for Gayness and moved to LA. At some point he realized he felt empty and foolish. He "retired" and came back to Florida where he has an antique shop now. He is still homosexual but if he has boyfriends he is, well, discrete. He has also meamorphised into a Reagan conservative all down the political line and understands that Civilization requires discretion on the part of its homosexual constituents.
Not about deterrence its about punishment for wrongdoing.
Ineffective as a deterrent, unlike, say, anti-corruption laws for politicians?
Well, using that logic, since 60% of released U.S. prisoners are re-arrested for subsequent crimes, then we should quit putting criminals in jail, as it’s “deterrent” value is limited.
Oh, and O’Malley is incorrect about the the deterrent value of executing mass murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: once executed, he’ll never blow up anyone ever again.
The idea of "deterrence" doesn't really apply to Muslim jihadists, does it? Unless it involves bacon...
In this case, the message is a little different...Not just "No," but "HELL NO!"
FTA: “The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members,”
He contradicts himself. Death will put a stop to the criminal. This also stops the appeal process so the surviving family members don’t have to worry about the murderer getting out of prison. Cost of a few chemicals is nothing to kill the murderer.
I bet O’Malley was talking about the murderers family and is showing his support for them and not the victims family.
Reminder that Democrat gov. Jerry Brown in California is trying to release some 40,000 prisoners that he says are low level criminals. Right now they are being moved around to different local jails but many are being freed and those who are creating new crimes do not serve long sentences if any at all.
Democrats are a criminal party.
Shouldn't it be tried to see if it works?
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