DC SNIPER To Be Executed in 2 Days

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  • phillypjhead
    phillypjhead Posts: 123
    With all due respect...fuck your tax dollars. It's those same tax dollars that also just helped pay for a million Iraqi's to be snuffed out.[/quote]

    I thought this claim of a million dead Iraqi's had been pretty well disproved by now. The Associated Press stated in April that the number was about 110,000. Have 890,000 been killed in Iraq in the last 7 months? That million figure has been put out there by left-wing anti-war groups, there is no evidence to put the number anywhere close to that. And please, don't reply to this if your only intention is to make it sound like I don't care about 110,000 dead. I'm just trying to be accurate.
  • rebornFixer
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    porchmonkey77 wrote:
    I'm just trying to be accurate.

    Ah, you must be relatively new here. Good luck with that approach. ;)

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  • CJMST3K
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    rebornFixer wrote:
    porchmonkey77 wrote:
    I'm just trying to be accurate.

    Ah, you must be relatively new here. Good luck with that approach. ;)

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  • pandora
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    cincybearcat wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    I am against capital punishment for the reason you stated- this human should live because he will touch others lives- good and bad. Through this others will feel and learn. Does he deserve to die oh yea but that should remain in Gods hands.

    How is he going to touch anyone's life?
    He's "touching" ours right now with this discussion and people are expressing interacting learning feeling sharing their beliefs.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    BinFrog wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    The death penalty is the sickest of all sick things. No country can claim to be civilized if it murders it's citizens in the name of justice and the law.


    I agree. What good comes of killing another person related to this situation?


    On the flip side, just for the sake of a good debate, what good does keeping this a**hole alive do? He murdered handfulls of people. Why should my tax dollars support keeping him alive with 3 square meals a day and recreation time? I'm not sure a killer of this nature deserves any better than he himself allowed for his victims. While the death penalty as it is used now is obviously beyond flawed, the argument for keeping this guy alive until he dies of natural causes just seems so shallow. He is useless to society, to mankind, and he is responsible for absolutely wretched heartache and the loss of life to several families who have lost their loved ones forever in a completely nonsensical and disgusting way. He and his accomplice were picking people off who were just out living their lives and doing such *gasp* horrible things like filling up their gas tanks. I do not see the use of this person being on earth anymore.

    it's cheaper to keep him alive in prison than it is to execute him. you know the tax dollar waste that goes with executing someone after the endless appeals process and so on? i'm not opposed to the death penalty morally... i couldn't care less. i'm opposed practically. it's more expensive, it's a waste of time and a drain on our judicial resources, and there are too many mistakes made. it's just not worth the hassle unless you get off on that 'eye for an eye' revenge killing kinda justice.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    I used to agree with this statement...you know, let him rot in a cell for the rest of his life, thinking about what he'd done. But he's getting 3 meals a day and a place to live...which is more than a lot of people have...

    But, if someone murdered anyone I know, you better believe that I want the bastard dead.

    with the money we'd save by NOT executing him, we could probably afford to give those other people 3 square meals and a bunk too.
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    It's cases like that that make me indifferent to the death penalty... I am against it in principle, and the fact that innocent people have been (and will continue to be) put to death disgusts me... But when assholes like this who are guilty without a shadow of a doubt are put to death, I'm not all that against it.
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,894
    pandora wrote:
    cincybearcat wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    I am against capital punishment for the reason you stated- this human should live because he will touch others lives- good and bad. Through this others will feel and learn. Does he deserve to die oh yea but that should remain in Gods hands.

    How is he going to touch anyone's life?
    He's "touching" ours right now with this discussion and people are expressing interacting learning feeling sharing their beliefs.


    You have low standards.

    Let me ask again though, as this "touching" you are talking about happens regardless of whether or not he goes to jail for life or is executed.

    After his sentence...exactly how is he touching anyone in anyway? Regardless of whether he is executed or serves life in prison, I don't see it.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    No Cincybearcat You don't feel it!!!!
  • NoK
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    soulsinging wrote:
    with the money we'd save by NOT executing him, we could probably afford to give those other people 3 square meals and a bunk too.

    I don't see why they cannot be put to work making/doing bare minimum things too. I mean you don't have to go back to the times when it was hard labour but more like 9-5 shifts to pay back society for their mistakes. How many million are in your prison system now?
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    soulsinging wrote:
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    I used to agree with this statement...you know, let him rot in a cell for the rest of his life, thinking about what he'd done. But he's getting 3 meals a day and a place to live...which is more than a lot of people have...

    But, if someone murdered anyone I know, you better believe that I want the bastard dead.

    with the money we'd save by NOT executing him, we could probably afford to give those other people 3 square meals and a bunk too.


    Maybe you're right--I don't know the cost figures for both scenarios. if money was the only issue, It might very well be better to keep him alive.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    I think execution is expensive only because of all the appeals and other legal consequences that arise when someone is put on death row. Not saying we shouldn't have such checks ... Just saying that sticking someone with a syringe is not more expensive than paying to keep them in prison for 40 more years, unless one factors in all the steps needed to take someone from convinction to lethal injection.
  • Kanye East
    Kanye East Posts: 782
    This guy deserves the death penalty.
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  • Byrnzie
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    porchmonkey77 wrote:
    I thought this claim of a million dead Iraqi's had been pretty well disproved by now. The Associated Press stated in April that the number was about 110,000. Have 890,000 been killed in Iraq in the last 7 months? That million figure has been put out there by left-wing anti-war groups, there is no evidence to put the number anywhere close to that. And please, don't reply to this if your only intention is to make it sound like I don't care about 110,000 dead. I'm just trying to be accurate.

    You're not accurate. Two independent survey groups have put the figure at over 1 million. They are the only reliable surveys that have been carried out. Iraq Body Count relies solely on deaths reported in the media, which amounts to a tiny percentage. And there's nothing left-wing or Anti-War about the Lancet medical journal or ORB.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey ... casualties
    '...Opinion Research Business (ORB). ORB is no dissident, anti-war outfit; it is a respected polling company that has conducted studies for customers as mainstream as the BBC and the Conservative Party."



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_sur ... casualties
    'Out of all the Iraqi casualty surveys so far, only the Lancet surveys and the Iraq Family Health Survey were peer-reviewed...

    An Oct. 11, 2006 Washington Post article[4] reports:

    Ronald Waldman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for many years, called the survey method "tried and true," and added that "this is the best estimate of mortality we have."
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    OK, so why does that wiki regarding the second Lancet survey cite a figure of 600,000 but we are talking about 1,000,000+? Are people rounding up by quite a lot or extrapolating based on years since the survey was published? Not that 600,000 is anything to sneeze at, that's a still a huge figure.
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Ah, ORB says 1,000,000+ ... Nevermind.
  • TriumphantAngel
    TriumphantAngel Posts: 1,760
    the death penalty is inhumane, sick and barbaric.

    capital punishment does not deter violent crime.
  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    I think more people should be put to death. I dont feel sorry for murders. You kill, you must be killed. A bullet to the brain.
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  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    TriumphantAngel wrote:
    the death penalty is inhumane, sick and barbaric.

    capital punishment does not deter violent crime.

    What about the people who kill? What should happen to them? A killer should be taken into the street with people watching in the street and on tv and shot in the head. Too much crazy shit going on in the world and people want to take away the death penalty.
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  • TriumphantAngel
    TriumphantAngel Posts: 1,760
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    TriumphantAngel wrote:
    the death penalty is inhumane, sick and barbaric.

    capital punishment does not deter violent crime.

    What about the people who kill? What should happen to them? A killer should be taken into the street with people watching in the street and on tv and shot in the head. Too much crazy shit going on in the world and people want to take away the death penalty.
    they should be imprisoned.

    like i said, capital punishment does not deter violent crime, so why not take it away?
    and you say 'taken into the street with people watching and shot in the head?' that's sick. why would anyone want to watch someone be murdered?

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