[natehale1971]

You know... most Europeans think we use the Death Penalty willy-nilly over here. I just want you to know that is not the case. I know shows like Law & Order and the like love to show them using the Death Penalty a crapton of times. But please know that 99.9% of the time crimes that should have waranted the Death Penalty, it's not even put on the table... and the times it is put on the table (another 99.9% of the time thing here) it's to cause the gulity party to aggree to a plea bargan so they don't have to take the case to court to spare the the victim's family.

That 0.1% of the time that the Death Penalty is used there are SO many hurdles that have to be jumped and gone through to get the person executed it's not even funny. I've always felt that there should be a series of apeals courts JUST FOR DEATH PENALTY CASES. And that the cases where the death penalty is being used that the evidence has to be IRON CLAD and absolutely NO circumstansial evidence. Because the Death Penalty is final, and that we can not afford any mistakes.

I'm sorry if you think this is brutal. But there ARE some crimes that death is justified for.

Rape, Child Molestation and Murder are the three crimes that destory lives of victims and their families. Murder is the unlawful taking of life. That's one of the only two crimes in our country the Death Penalty is still allowed for here.

The other is Treason.

There are those who love to quote "Thou Shall Not Kill" for their opposition to the death penalty while supporting abortion, hypocricy of the highest order to me. While I agree that it should be legal, i do not agree that it should be used as a form of birth control... and in the United States the organization that carries them out was founded by a Nazi witch named Margret Sanger who is on the record saying she wanted to use Abortion to wipe out the African-American race along with other weeds from American society, and when 50% of African-American pregnanices are ending in Abortions it makes me wonder if she's not getting what she wanted.

But the actual phrase is NOT "Thou Shall Not Kill"... I was told by a Rabi when I was in Israel that it is actually "Thos Shall Not Commit Murder" and that murder is the unlawful taking of life. Because we Kill every time we eat something. Face it kiddies, even if you'e a Vegatarian.. you are KILLING the plantlife that you are consuming. Spock said that little bit of wisdom during an Episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

There are some crimes that are so horendous, so out there that is an afront to ALL of society... and that the ultimate penalty, that of taking THEIR lives in response should be on the books. Even if it's nothing more as a way to force the guilty to except 25 years to life in prision instead of the possiblity of being executed for their crimes when it comes to a trail that will put victims and their families through a painful hell.

And as I have said before... this is coming from someone who's material aunt was convicted of killing her lover, and could have been executed for her crimes but was found to be guilty of second degree manslaughter beause she was not in her right mind at the time she killed Rose.

And even SHE agreed that we needed a death penalty on the books, right up until the say she died of cancer. Of course she knew alot of really nasty people in prison she said really deserved to be on Death Row, or kept locked away in a tiny hole a mile underground to keep society safe from them.