And this is why I can't support the death penalty.

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And this is why I can't support the death penalty. Until the criminal justice system is infallible, the state doesn't need to be murdering people who might be innocent.

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http://rollingout.com/2016/02/01/judges-say-black-death-row-inmate-innocent-still-set-executed/

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NINOX INTELLIGENCE said…
Typical. Theyll probably rebirth him and turn him into a government assassin....
February 3, 2016 at 12:42 AM
Lorne Thomas said…
I support the death penalty. It is a war on crime and criminality that is being fought in the court rooms and streets every minute of the day.

I would rather have a criminal convicted of a capital crime get a death sentience and have it carried out in a timely manner than pay how many hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep the criminal locked up for life. That money could be used for better things like after school programs to bring opportunity to those with out and to feed the hungry.
February 3, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Jason ON said…
Lorne Thomas then you know very little about the death penalty in the United States. It's actually less expensive to sentence someone to life in prison than to sentence them to death; the death penalty is overwhelmingly racist and overwhelmingly biased against men. Not to mention the point if this article: our criminal justice system is not perfect by a long shot. A good portion of death row inmates are innocent of the crimes they've been accused of. It's bad enough innocent men and women are in prison but to kill innocents is a violation of everything it is to be considered enlightened. This isn't the fourth century where local lords can kill on a whim, this is the Unites States of American where we believe in the rule of law and therefore have to have faith the system works as designed.
February 3, 2016 at 11:22 AM
Mark Miller said…
I don't know the exact number but it's over 30, the number death row inmates released last year from DNA tests which proved their innocents. That's just the ones that had their cases looked at! Prosecutors are supposed to turn over evidence to the defense which almost never happens....leaving most poor defendants with a court appointed attorney who really doesn't care about the case because he isn't getting paid that much so is justice really getting done?
February 3, 2016 at 12:15 PM
Lorne Thomas said…
To give spiritual light to the legal system, seeking enlightenment, is not the intent of the judicial system. To focus in on the collateral damage is to focus in on the wrong thing. It enables criminality and increases the number of victims thus increasing the public spending to prevent crime by means that truly are barbaric and not as effective as educational and nutrition programs. 

I would rather see more teachers and mentors than police officers any day, and the cost being a death penalty.

Besides Julian Heicklen "Recreational Drugs" Smart on Crime Report from 1997 and Tracy L. Snell's "Capital Punishment 1996", Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin of the same year do point to statistically lower murder and non negligent manslaughter rate where there is a death penalty in place.

Many studies publish a lot of skewed numbers to prove a anti death penalty stand but they tend to be bad science. You can always take a state like South Dakota (1.2 per 100,00 in 1996) that has had a murder rate well below just about every other state consistently and has a death penalty as proof that the death penalty works, and that is the same argument that is made in many other reports but going the other direction with other states with different socio-economic issues, population density, and legal systems in place.
February 3, 2016 at 12:55 PM
Mark Miller said…
Hopefully you'll never be framed for murder Lorne Thomas​....
February 3, 2016 at 2:49 PM
Lorne Thomas said…
That is just a ill thought reactionary remark at best Mark Miller.
February 3, 2016 at 3:10 PM
Lorne Thomas said…
in all conflict there is collateral damage.
February 3, 2016 at 5:20 PM
Jason ON said…
The criminal justice system isn't "conflict."
February 3, 2016 at 9:32 PM
Lorne Thomas said…
The criminal justice system by nature is conflict. Or else it wouldn't need bars, badges, guns, and hand cuffs. But now I see where you are coming from.
February 4, 2016 at 9:02 AM
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