NiftyNiblick (10-12-2018), rjhenn (10-18-2018), signalmankenneth (10-12-2018)
The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down the death penalty there as unconstitutional.**
The final order decreed that any death sentences currently in force in the state be converted to life in prison.
This is conceived by many as a move toward a greater respect for life…and as an adjustment that removes what they see as “cruel and unusual punishment.”
There seems to be majority opinion that “life in prison without the possibility of parole” is less cruel and unusual.
I suppose some people can actually think that…but I consider it nuts to the point of bat-shit crazy.
Putting any human in a cage for the remainder of his/her life with no hope of being released…no matter what that person has supposedly done to deserve it…is FAR from “less cruel” than simply ending that person’s life.
I cannot imagine any sane person wanting to be caged for the remainder of his/her life…rather than finally being put out of his/her misery by a relatively peaceful death.
If the people arguing for the end to capital punishment want to be authentic and consistent…they ought also to be arguing for a maximum sentence for ANY crime of no more than ten years confinement.
A far better move, in my opinion, would be to stop arguing for the end to capital punishment…and instead arguing for easier access to more efficient drugs to carry out humane executions.
I imagine one or two people here may disagree.
Okay…let’s hear from you.
**Reported in several newspapers including:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...%2Fin-the-news
NiftyNiblick (10-12-2018), rjhenn (10-18-2018), signalmankenneth (10-12-2018)
leaningright (10-12-2018), Truth Detector (10-12-2018)
If you were a man...instead of a mouse...you would have made an argument in opposition or in accord with what I had to say.
You brought up a bunch of anti-choice nonsense, which I handled with tact and reason. Even offered you a platform to tout any thread you might want to start on your nonsense.
Now you are trying to make it seem you finessed me in some way.
I understand. You amateurs try this kind of stuff.
I enjoyed laughing at you. Thanks.
Controlled Opposition (10-12-2018), domer76 (10-12-2018), Mott the Hoople (10-12-2018), Rune (10-12-2018), TrippyHippy (10-15-2018)
There is that.
Over here we sometimes (rarely, but occasionally) find that someone has spent 40 years in prison and has had a conviction reasonably questioned.
If you would take 40 years in prison...or 10 rather than death...okay. But if you are going to try to sell me the idea that "life in prison without the possibility of parole" is somehow less cruel than death...I am going to laugh at you.
For me...it is a no-brainer. If I were wrongly convicted and given "life in prison without the possibility of parole...or death" I would choose death without thinking for a full minute. I'd hate the wrongful conviction with a passion...but I would choose death.
Patrick Henry put it best: Give me freedom...or give me death.
Frank Apisa (10-12-2018)
Why argue....with baiting? I often wish that I could speak to simply see my gums flapping over a subject that does not deserve debate. Its a simple matter of evil v. righteousness, morality v. immorality. There are no gray areas. You are either evil or righteous and all the straw you can pile up and attempt to burn will not remove the core of someone that has an evil heart.
I simply take the advise of my Lord.....why cast pearls among SWINE?
Rune (10-12-2018)
The murder rate in Washington state isn't high enough?
MAGA MAN (10-12-2018)
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