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He should die in prison.Blanton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing. The blast killed the 11-year-old McNair and 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Morris, also known as Cynthia Wesley.
The girls were inside the church preparing for worship when the bomb went off, sending stone and brick flying. They died instantly, and Collins’ sister Sarah Collins Rudolph was seriously injured.
We don't negotiate with terrorists, and we don't give them parole either!
Pansy nation squeamish of applying the death penalty to monsters.
If you ask them, quite a lot of death penalty opponents (like me) have no problem with hanging a monster. The problem is that our legal system makes WAY to many mistakes to allow it on a systemic basis, which is the only basis it could fairly be applied on.
Would I care if they hanged the Boston marathon bomber? Of course not. He's guilty by proof beyond possible doubt. But then, there have been quite a lot of people on death row (or merely in for life) exonerated, and there are way more cases where DNA evidence was never taken or saved properly.
If you ask them, quite a lot of death penalty opponents (like me) have no problem with hanging a monster. The problem is that our legal system makes WAY to many mistakes to allow it on a systemic basis, which is the only basis it could fairly be applied on.
Would I care if they hanged the Boston marathon bomber? Of course not. He's guilty by proof beyond possible doubt. But then, there have been quite a lot of people on death row (or merely in for life) exonerated, and there are way more cases where DNA evidence was never taken or saved properly.
We don't make near enough mistakes to invalidate the death penalty.
We don't make near enough mistakes to invalidate the death penalty.
Unfortunately putting one innocent person to death is too many.
No it's not.
Or else if one innocent person dies In prison we should tear down our prisons
That's not the state sticking a needle in the innocent guy's arm though. Apples to oranges.
It's the state killing him, however you wish to justify it to yourself with word games.
Not really. The state may have put the innocent guy in prison, and it may have failed to protect him in there, but blaming the state for his death is like blaming it for the death of any student shot in a Chicago Public School, housing project or subway train.
Yes really, if someone dies in custody it is the same thing as an execution, their life has been forfeited to the state.
first off, the number of truly innocent people executed in this soceity in the last several decades is likely zero. exonerations (actual exonerations, not some jailhouse lawyer BS like "he didn't actually pull the trigger but was involved in the crime" or "his mental state was such he's not responsible" ) have been at a rate so small as not to even be taken seriously.
156 death row inmates so far, some outright acquitted.
Innocence: List of Those Freed From Death Row | Death Penalty Information Center
Yes it is. How many have been found not guilty after years. You undo the death penalty.No it's not.
Or else if one innocent person dies In prison we should tear down our prisons
Yes it is. How many have been found not guilty after years. You undo the death penalty.
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You cannot undo almost any serious form of punishment. if you take away twenty years of someone's life you cannot undo that.
out of about 7,500 sentences you can find 156.
which is, so small I could legally advertise on TV in this country that 0.0% of death row inmates have been exonerated
Some of these are not even exonerations, at least three I've read deal soley with conspiracy claims. like one woman who was alleged to have confessed that she hired two men to kill her child, the men did kill the child, the case only reopened due to problems with the sworn statement of her confession. this does not mean she's innocent, she had a conviction reversed on a procedural hook.
another guy "exonorated" had one murder charge dismissed on a procedural issue but remains on death row on a separate charge. another confessed in detail to the murder for which he was convicted, then recanted claimed (without evidence) police torture, and remains in prison on different charges.
They're really stretching the definition of "exoneration" to meet their political agenda.
Very bad decision. This monster should rot in prison.
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