"Father don’t ever forgive them for they know just what they do. And so I beseech you to found a religion in my name based on the personal pride taken in executing more people, more often and more quickly for ever less reason." The last exclamation of Christ.
The Ten Reasons Capital Punishment is wrong:
1) There is no greater form of state intrusion into individual liberty than execution.
2) Mistakenly executing someone cannot be rectified.
3) Who we choose to execute is more often decided by emotion, race and economics than by law.
4) Execution has repeatedly been shown not to be a deterrent to capital crimes.
5) Solving problems through killing is the wrong message to send our children.
6) Capital crooks won’t be putting their hands up as much causing a rise in the amount of dead police.
7) When the government kills people it makes us all party to murder.
8) We end up substituting one set of family victims for another.
9) Compassion and mercy are better indicators of civilization than are violence and vengeance.
10) If we took that eye for an eye crap seriously, we would all be blind and toothless in no time.
Just the other day here in Dumbutt a statistical computer model from University of Texas Huntsville declared that Texas executions saved 60 lives last year! Study says Texas death penalty a homicide deterrent
A couple things:
University of Texas Huntsville is the central educational college for police and criminal Justice.
University of Texas Huntsville is located in Huntsville, Texas which is the execution capital of the civilized world.
University of Texas Huntsville is located in the old confederacy and Bible belt where capital punishment is a proudly enjoyable process.
The study MUST assume that potential killers read the Houston Chronicle daily to know that executions have taken place so they can be deterred. BTW, most are gangs of blacks and Hispanics and the hot headed in trailer parks who don’t read a damn thing other than the backs of cereal and ammo boxes.
And the real kicker!
The study uses computer models which Republicans loudly and unanimously refuse to accept as anything other than liberal tripe. We know this absolutely for their spittle laced screams about climate change and the census.