Someone who has an IQ of 69 is much more likely to murder someone than a person of average IQ. I'm not giving her any excuses, I just don't think she should have been executed. I don't think anyone should be executed. Judging by Americas murder rate it obviously isn't a useful detterent so what is the point of it. Also the risk of executing an innocent person is too great.
Shouldn't you Christian conservatives be against anyways on the grounds of religion, I thought god was the only person who could judge a man for his sins..I don't think Jesus would approve of the execution of a woman who scored a 69 on her IQ test, do you?
Please forgive my indignation at your seriously flawed hypothesis, it is as wrong as anyone who is thinking the Sun comes up in the east each and every morning.
What's that? You say Everyone knows the the Sun comes up in the east every morning and has since the beginning of time.
It is not my intention to be little anyone but educate people to the reality of nature and the reality of the nature of the human.
Truth is the Sun only appears to rise in the east, when in fact the Sun did nothing but remain motionless and as our earth turns we see what looks like tha sune not only comes up but that it tracks across the sky all day until it appears to go down, when in fact the Earth is turning giving us the illusion of the Sun being in motion. It's a matter of perspective.
Now from your perspective it appears the death penalty has NO deterrent affect on murders.
To understand why this is wrong you must first compare the threat of punishing a child for doing something that you have warned them about over, and over again but, we never follow through on the threat.
What message does the child get? They learn that you are all talk and there are no consequences to their actions.
The same is now true of people who commit murder. They see people on death row for many years playing the system and if by some slim chance they are finally put to death it's no worse than taking an ambien pill and peacefully going to sleep.
That doesn't hurt.
But now let's look at the death penalty when it worked and people feared the scales of justice.
When you were found guilty of a Capital Crime the Judge would say something like: You will be removed from this Court and be delivered to the place of execution were at Sunrise tomorrow you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead.
Now Brothers and Sisters that is a deterrent. Sadly we have become too soft on criminals.
Works for me!
In the words of Ben Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "We must hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
But to that I say: "Let us band together to hang the wicked or they shall one day live to kill again."