Well Alex I am going to answer you. I believe in the death penalty also. There are some crimes that are so heinous that I do not care what happens to these animals. I share your concern about mistakes. No excuse for it. I do recommend a cure for this and I do believe it should be looked at. A law should be instituted or passed. If there is an execution that is in error, then the prosecutor faces the death penalty also. They have committed murder. A jury can decide what degree to take this. This might cure this problem if their own lives were on the line. Thanks for your articles. Love them.
If there's no way to enact the death penalty, then there isn't one. It is interesting that many Brits are starting to rethink the death penalty, in light of the murders taking place on their streets.
I, too, believe in the death penalty. Years ago comedian Ron White, from Texas, said that in his state they were streamlining the death penalty. If someone killed another person and three independent people witnessed it, the perpetrator was to be put to death within a year. There would be no twenty years of appeals filed. That is fair.
But I have seen first-hand lying police officers and cheating prosecutors. I don't know what the answer is.
The Law is clear: Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image." The implementation of that Law by fallible men is never without possibility of fatal error. Thus, life imprisonment without parole for premeditated murder is certainly not an inappropriate substitute for execution. As with everything else, there are degrees of certainty in conviction; where a defendant's guilt is beyond doubt, not merely beyond a reasonable doubt, such as in a case of confessed guilt coupled with undeniable evidence of premeditation, capital punishment carried out swiftly should be possible. Even without confession, when the evidence leads only to one conclusion, such as where a premeditated murder is undeniably witnessed by multiple, reliable and unbiased witnesses, capital punishment should remain a possibility.
Alexander, you are not alone in your attitude towards government and the death penalty. I fully agree that the death penalty is a very necessary punishment against those who commit the most depraved and heinous crimes. But is can be difficult to support it knowing government actors sometimes act dishonestly or incompetently. Even apart from murder trials, as we have seen in the past 10 years just how often the justice system can be, and has been, perverted to satisfy personal/political animus. If the governmental criminals are not punished, how are we able to trust any one of them? There needs to be severe consequences for those to break the law while pretending to uphold it. Then we may be able to start believing in then system again.
I have long thought that in order for a defendant to be eligible for the death penalty, there must, at a minimum, be multiple eye witnesses whose testimony is sufficiently in alignment that there is no doubt as to who the guilty party is. Furthermore, spending the rest of one’s life in a maximum security prison, without opportunity for parole, his almost worse than a death sentence. And, it gives the guilty party ample time to grow old while reflecting on what they did and potentially become remorseful for their actions.
Errors and Omissions. I agree with everything you said but I think omitted something, an old problem that's gotten worse. Apparently there are some prosecutors and judges who are "soft on crime" to the point where they're aiding and abetting ... releasing perps without bail, giving light or no-jail sentences for serious crimes. I assume (at risk of the Ass u and me retort) that these bad actors provide some of the motivation to investigators and prosecutors to err on the side of enforcement and punishment. If we're thinking of fixing the justice system (aka the "just us" system), please surface some proposed reforms in this area.
Well Alex I am going to answer you. I believe in the death penalty also. There are some crimes that are so heinous that I do not care what happens to these animals. I share your concern about mistakes. No excuse for it. I do recommend a cure for this and I do believe it should be looked at. A law should be instituted or passed. If there is an execution that is in error, then the prosecutor faces the death penalty also. They have committed murder. A jury can decide what degree to take this. This might cure this problem if their own lives were on the line. Thanks for your articles. Love them.
That was sobering to read.
If there's no way to enact the death penalty, then there isn't one. It is interesting that many Brits are starting to rethink the death penalty, in light of the murders taking place on their streets.
I, too, believe in the death penalty. Years ago comedian Ron White, from Texas, said that in his state they were streamlining the death penalty. If someone killed another person and three independent people witnessed it, the perpetrator was to be put to death within a year. There would be no twenty years of appeals filed. That is fair.
But I have seen first-hand lying police officers and cheating prosecutors. I don't know what the answer is.
The Law is clear: Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image." The implementation of that Law by fallible men is never without possibility of fatal error. Thus, life imprisonment without parole for premeditated murder is certainly not an inappropriate substitute for execution. As with everything else, there are degrees of certainty in conviction; where a defendant's guilt is beyond doubt, not merely beyond a reasonable doubt, such as in a case of confessed guilt coupled with undeniable evidence of premeditation, capital punishment carried out swiftly should be possible. Even without confession, when the evidence leads only to one conclusion, such as where a premeditated murder is undeniably witnessed by multiple, reliable and unbiased witnesses, capital punishment should remain a possibility.
Alexander, you are not alone in your attitude towards government and the death penalty. I fully agree that the death penalty is a very necessary punishment against those who commit the most depraved and heinous crimes. But is can be difficult to support it knowing government actors sometimes act dishonestly or incompetently. Even apart from murder trials, as we have seen in the past 10 years just how often the justice system can be, and has been, perverted to satisfy personal/political animus. If the governmental criminals are not punished, how are we able to trust any one of them? There needs to be severe consequences for those to break the law while pretending to uphold it. Then we may be able to start believing in then system again.
Although I didn’t know the statistics you cite, I have recently leaned toward the same conclusion you came to. Now I am certain.
I have long thought that in order for a defendant to be eligible for the death penalty, there must, at a minimum, be multiple eye witnesses whose testimony is sufficiently in alignment that there is no doubt as to who the guilty party is. Furthermore, spending the rest of one’s life in a maximum security prison, without opportunity for parole, his almost worse than a death sentence. And, it gives the guilty party ample time to grow old while reflecting on what they did and potentially become remorseful for their actions.
Errors and Omissions. I agree with everything you said but I think omitted something, an old problem that's gotten worse. Apparently there are some prosecutors and judges who are "soft on crime" to the point where they're aiding and abetting ... releasing perps without bail, giving light or no-jail sentences for serious crimes. I assume (at risk of the Ass u and me retort) that these bad actors provide some of the motivation to investigators and prosecutors to err on the side of enforcement and punishment. If we're thinking of fixing the justice system (aka the "just us" system), please surface some proposed reforms in this area.