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Death is Not the Answer
Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2020 | Kathryn Lopez

Posted on 02/22/2020 3:28:59 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Adder

Maybe it should not take 34 years to carry out a sentence....
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Thirty-four HOURS would be more than enough time.


61 posted on 02/22/2020 6:17:23 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: Mason

Interesting take...


62 posted on 02/22/2020 6:17:26 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Jim Noble

It is an injustice to take from our children in order to feed, house, and contain them.
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Well and truly said, and every word of it!


63 posted on 02/22/2020 6:18:50 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: NTHockey

True, if the sentence had been carried out in a timely manner, perhaps the security guard and inmate might still be alive.
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Correct. And “timely manner” in my view means within hours of conviction.


64 posted on 02/22/2020 6:20:49 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: jacknhoo

It is cheaper to keep them alive than to kill them.
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Absolute nonsense.


65 posted on 02/22/2020 6:21:46 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: Jim Noble

——It is an injustice to take from our children in order to feed, house, and contain them.-——

Children? What about me?

I am taxed to pay for the lawyer fees and upkeep of those on Tennessee death row. Lawyer fees both prosecutorial and defense trump justice on death row


66 posted on 02/22/2020 6:24:25 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

If he deserved to die is not for us to decide. He turned his life around. So God probably forgave him and he is in Heaven. I have no idea.
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I agree completely with your last sentence. The preceding ones are complete nonsense.


67 posted on 02/22/2020 6:24:30 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: jacknhoo

“imprisoned present no further threat to society”

Oh you mean like diverting money from programs that help the poor and aged to pay the 100000 a year it takes to house and feed and guard and provide medical care to each of these inmates?

To refuse to do due justice for those murdered by such inmates is also sinful. If a man is a murderer then he needs to have his life taken from him. God provides the “sword” to each government and it’s appointed officials to exercise such judgment. It’s a job for grown-ups to look evil in the eye and then do away with it.

It is good the man repented....I’m glad we will see him in heaven in a body that is incapable of sinning and murdering.


68 posted on 02/22/2020 6:25:33 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: Kaslin

Speculating about what God wants is irrelevant


69 posted on 02/22/2020 6:26:33 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: stockpirate

He deserved death.
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Yes, and he deserved it within hours of his conviction.


70 posted on 02/22/2020 6:27:25 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: jacknhoo

When we become advanced enough that the imprisoned present no further threat to society, let us know.


71 posted on 02/22/2020 6:29:02 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: Lion Den Dan

You take the prize for willful blindness. This guy continued killing even behind bars. As long as he drew breath, he posed a threat to society. Now, he does not.
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Well and truly said, and why he should have been executed within hours of his first conviction.


72 posted on 02/22/2020 6:29:54 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: bk1000

34 years on death row? He should have been executed 33 years ago.
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And within hours of his first conviction.


73 posted on 02/22/2020 6:31:50 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: Kaslin

That a civilized society would allow a person who purposefully takes the life of an innocent person to keep theirs is morally, ethically, judicially and religiously wrong.


74 posted on 02/22/2020 6:36:25 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Lurker

Fitting handle for you.


75 posted on 02/22/2020 6:40:49 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: caww

The problem is an endless line of state-sponsored appeals and justice not quickly carried out. Further there’s lots of people who’ve been raised in unstable homes while growing up who don’t go out and kill people...Additionally put a person in jail you can be assured over time they’re going to improve to some degree.
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Well and truly said and every word of it, except that improvement while incarcerated, in my view, is totally irrelevant. And motive, IMHO, should be a completely inadmissible consideration in regard to the commission of any capital crime.


76 posted on 02/22/2020 6:44:24 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

70% more, on average.


77 posted on 02/22/2020 6:46:34 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: bert

Death is in fact the answer but is not swift enough.

The fact the man allegedly changed in prison does not relieve him from his sentence of death.

I pay for his upkeep while alive. when dead, that economic burden is lifted from me
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Well and truly said, and every word of it!


78 posted on 02/22/2020 6:48:01 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: The Pack Knight

1994 - ADX.


79 posted on 02/22/2020 6:51:36 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

Why should society pay for housing or sustenance? Get real. Those type of animals are of no use, and are continuously dangerous. God demonstrated the death penalty.


80 posted on 02/22/2020 6:52:23 AM PST by GingisK
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