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Delaware’s death penalty is unconstitutional, the state’s Supreme Court declared on Tuesday.As Jessica Masulli Reyes reported for the News Journal, the 148-page opinion struck down how the death penalty is applied in Delaware, declaring it a violation of the Sixth Amendment–sanctioned role of a jury. The ruling follows the US Supreme Court’s January decision against Florida’s death penalty on similar grounds.
So this doesn’t mean that Delaware’s death penalty is completely dead, since it could be revived by the state’s legislature if lawmakers alter how a death sentence is carried out.
But if Delaware’s legislature does not act, New Hampshire will become the only state in the northeastern part of the country that still allows the death penalty:
Read more @: Delaware death penalty law declared unconstitutional by state’s highest court
Big news in Delaware around the criminal justice system! :applaud[/FONT][/COLOR]
Am I correct in assuming this cannot be appealed to SCOTUS since it involves a state constitution?
Am I correct in assuming this cannot be appealed to SCOTUS since it involves a state constitution?
Read more @: Delaware death penalty law declared unconstitutional by state’s highest court
Big news in Delaware around the criminal justice system! :applaud[/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: Delaware death penalty law declared unconstitutional by state’s highest court
Big news in Delaware around the criminal justice system! :applaud[/FONT][/COLOR]
They need to reactivate the guillotine because it's quick, decisive, humane and works every time it's applied!
Public executions need to be reinstated as well!
If you want to act like the savages who participate in such heinous public executions in places like Saudia Arabia and Iran, I guess. I'll pass, I enjoy being civilised.
Designated time- Sunday after Church.
Make a picnic, grab the wife and the kids and mosey on down to the town square for an afternoon of entertainment. Good, solid family time. Shop owners can sell souvenirs and alcohol and when the deed is done you can all push and fight each other to try and grab some of the "leftovers" for a keepsake.
:roll:
That last paragraph is ridiculous and juvenile.
Civilized? Most people who deserve killing, are not civilized at all and the places you mentioned do not have anywhere close to the crime we have here. Watching that head roll with the eyes still blinking in shock, is a pretty good deterrent.
Trouble is, liberals talk about punishment, but they have no stomach for it. They prefer a sanitized view of the world, like the dopes who sanitized the Holocaust camps. Lethal injections are as dumb as it gets and Tinker Bell liberals turn my stomach!
Death penalty cases cost the taxpayer much more than life imprisonment.That is insane. Too many people just need killing and wasting taxpayer dollars feeding and housing them for life is too good for them.
Spoken like a true Trumper. Im guessing we should kill their families too, right?That is insane. Too many people just need killing and wasting taxpayer dollars feeding and housing them for life is too good for them.
You're one sick puppy dude.
Death penalty cases cost the taxpayer much more than life imprisonment.
“It’s 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive." Forbes Welcome
Spoken like a true Trumper. Im guessing we should kill their families too, right?
Don't be ridiculous. Trump has no bearing on this whatsoever,
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