Posted on 08/07/2015 4:23:38 PM PDT by TomGuy
If they thought that, why did the jury reject the insanity defense?
You can't really have this both ways. Either he's crazy in the legal sense or he isn't. He can't be sane on the determination of guilt and insane on the consequences.
That’s how we treat people who aren’t sane?
Any time I find myself wondering what murderers laugh at, I will surely think of you.
No think of yourself. You’re an easy mark.
That’s not how we treat anybody. Even when they’re sentenced to death they spend 30 years on death row, at taxpayer’s expense. So quit yer liberal whining.
Hey I don’t know.
It’s CO’s system, I don’t live anywhere near it.
I was just commenting to a poster how it could happen.
They had to be unanimous on the first verdict. To get the DP they had to do it again, and couldn’t do it.
Heck I don’t know how.
I’m all for the Chinese DP. The only problem is you can’t administer it 12 times.
An average of 71 executions were carried out each year between 1997 and 2005; between 2006 and 2013, that number dropped to 44 executions per year. The number of executions peaked around the year 2000 and it has declined considerably since that point.
The death penalty is favored by a majority of Americans, but that number has plummeted. In 1996, 78 percent of Americans were in favor of capital punishment and 18 percent opposed it; by 2013, support had dropped to 55 percent while opposition had risen to 37 percent. The gap between supporters and opponents shrunk by 42 percentage points, which is a very big swing.
Between 1973 and 2014, 144 people who had been sentenced to death have been exonerated. Most of the overturned convictions were due to DNA evidence proving that another individual committed the crime.
I guess you aren’t up to speed on irony.
That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.
How do you come by that information?
Show me where you've written something that means the opposite of its literal meaning.
Check my post #103.
Your remark would be sarcasm if you had written [in literal agreement with what I actually wrote, but with sarcastic intent]: "Next time I wonder what murderer's think, I'll be sure to ask the authorities in corrections."
It would also betray more clearly to you how foolish you are, since pretending you know more about what murderer's think than people who actually handle them would be sarcasm on your part, and ironic to the rest of us.
As your fatuous claims that LWOP is "worse" than the dealth penalty truly are, as well. So, you win todays all Internet award not only for most gormless irony of the day, but for not even knowing what irony is.
I agree with you. Just pointing out that there is the occasional person who seeks death.
Sadly you are right....even here in Texas it takes one or two years and millions in lawyer and court costs!!
Was on a murder case jury years ago. We were asked during pre-trial screening whether we could, given the facts, rules, etc. give the death penalty.
When it came down to it, at least 2 could not do so, even though they agreed it was merited.
T. McVey was “executed” and immediately put in a private hearse and taken away about the same time his sister vanished. There was no autopsy. Put to death? maybe or maybe not
The Commonwealth of Virginia managed to stick a needle in John Allen Muhammad’s arm and do away with him ... and somehow he didn’t become a “holy mascot to the left”.
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