That's 4% too many and why I'm against the death penalty. I'm OK with it for the other 96% but if you can't get that number to 100% then you shouldn't be doing it at all.
Wait a minute! "Studied this", "Looked at that". How do they know? And how much did the margin for error improve in the DNA era? And given that many death rowers are there 20 years or more, how many should have been saved by recent scientific innovation for crimes since, say, 1980 who find their asses still in prison?
I'm suspecting this "study" has a few faked numbers just like the (now admittedly) phony study concluding that gun owners protecting themselves found that gun turned on them more often than not. And for the same blatantly political reasons.
Sorry, I'm not buying a claim probably financed with the goal of reaching a pre-determined conclusion. And I'm also not feeling very sorry for dude in OK convulsing on the table tonight. I'm chalking that up to "Karma's a bitch!"
The confidence internal for the study is 2.8%-5.2% (meaning we can be 95% sure the real number lies between those two values). Even if we are extremely conservative and assume the actual number is 2.8%, that's still to high for my comfort. Quite frankly, I don't think the government should be in the business of executing people. What happened to the prisoner from Oklahoma last night was undeniably cruel and unusual punishment. Regardless of his crimes, or whether or not we think, "he deserved it", that's no excuse for him to be denied his civil rights.
I'm firmly convinced that the death penalty will be looked back on with shame by future generations of Americans.
Lockett, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery for a 1999 crime spree with two co-defendants. He was found to have shot teen-ager Stephanie Nieman and buried her alive in a shallow grave where she eventually died.
This is the man that was executed in Oklahoma last night. I don't believe in death row; however, I am not going to feel sorry for the way he died. Why should a rapist have any civil rights when they are intentionally ruining somebody else's life?
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High_Binder 10 years ago
That's 4% too many and why I'm against the death penalty. I'm OK with it for the other 96% but if you can't get that number to 100% then you shouldn't be doing it at all.
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elsueco 10 years ago
Exactly my take on it as well.
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JakeLonergan 10 years ago
Wait a minute! "Studied this", "Looked at that". How do they know? And how much did the margin for error improve in the DNA era? And given that many death rowers are there 20 years or more, how many should have been saved by recent scientific innovation for crimes since, say, 1980 who find their asses still in prison?
I'm suspecting this "study" has a few faked numbers just like the (now admittedly) phony study concluding that gun owners protecting themselves found that gun turned on them more often than not. And for the same blatantly political reasons.
Sorry, I'm not buying a claim probably financed with the goal of reaching a pre-determined conclusion. And I'm also not feeling very sorry for dude in OK convulsing on the table tonight. I'm chalking that up to "Karma's a bitch!"
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cjcs 10 years ago
The confidence internal for the study is 2.8%-5.2% (meaning we can be 95% sure the real number lies between those two values). Even if we are extremely conservative and assume the actual number is 2.8%, that's still to high for my comfort. Quite frankly, I don't think the government should be in the business of executing people. What happened to the prisoner from Oklahoma last night was undeniably cruel and unusual punishment. Regardless of his crimes, or whether or not we think, "he deserved it", that's no excuse for him to be denied his civil rights.
I'm firmly convinced that the death penalty will be looked back on with shame by future generations of Americans.
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hurst07 10 years ago
Lockett, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery for a 1999 crime spree with two co-defendants. He was found to have shot teen-ager Stephanie Nieman and buried her alive in a shallow grave where she eventually died.
This is the man that was executed in Oklahoma last night. I don't believe in death row; however, I am not going to feel sorry for the way he died. Why should a rapist have any civil rights when they are intentionally ruining somebody else's life?
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