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ALOHA FRIDAY
January 6, 2012
It's Aloha Friday.
SERIOUS, AND MAYBE DISTURBING, POST
Aloha folks. I expect to see some discussion of the death penalty over the next few weeks. See, a guy that a woman in a trailer park asked to baby-sit her young daughter wound up beating the girl to death and then dismembering her.
Now I'm sure it'll take a long time to try this guy . . . despite the mountain of evidence against him. And then it'll take a while for jury to decide on a verdict. And if they do decide to hand down a death sentence, it will take years and years and years, appeal after appeal after appeal before that sentence is finally carried out. And the odds are pretty good that sentence never will be carried out. Instead perhaps some other inmate, repulsed by a child-killer sharing the same jail with him, will use a shiv (look it up) to slash his throat. Or, just as likely, this piece of excrement will live a long life in his cell until natural causes bring about his end. Possibly a heart attack or stroke from eating too well, not getting enough exercise, and drinking too much booze made in his toilet bowl.
Not good enough for me. I am against the death penalty. I think these kind of people should be released. At high noon. On a day when all the police officers in the town have been assigned duties far away from the courthouse. And have been told to keep their communication devices turned off.
Yes. Release this guy at high noon. Publicize his impending release in the paper. Lock the door behind him and pull the shades once he's outside. Maybe even forget to take his leg shackles off before you release him.
If he's truly innocent no one will touch him and he can walk free.
But if he's not innocent, if he did kill this little girl, then perhaps I and a couple of dozen other like-minded citizens will choose to meet him outside the courthouse. We'll welcome him back into the outside world. Just before he leaves it for good.
Yep. I'm against the State carrying out the death penalty. The State takes too long. Leave it to me instead.
Okay folks, see you next week.
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4 comments:
It's high time we call it the victims justice system, instead of the criminal justice system. Criminals have some many laws in their favor. it's high time that rape victims receive justice, it's high time family members of murdered relatives receive justice and it's high time that criminals get what they deserve. Fred Goldman is a huge proponent of the victims for justice movement. Fred Goldman was the father of Ron Goldman the man OJ Simpson allegedly killed and went free over.
via facebook;""I have no problem with those guilty of heinous crimes being put to death.
But here is the problem: since the widespread deployment in use of DNA to test evidence, we have found that HUNDREDS of innocent persons were wrongly convicted and spent decades in prison for crimes it was proved they did not commit.
There has not been testing of those already executed, but the number of wrongful convictions suggests that there would have been a few wrongfully put to death.
The problem with the death penalty is that, when mistakes are made, as is inevitable with any human endeavor, the finality of the sentence can never be corrected.
Prior to the widespread application of DNA, I did not oppose the death penalty. I do now."
I oppose the death penalty now solely on the grounds that it costs too much. But I support it for those who we can determine are guilty without any doubt whatsoever. They are few, but going ahead with the death penalty for them would save us much money. Those who oppose the death penalty on moral grounds ("it's murder"). . . well I obviously don't agree with them. And those who oppose the death penalty even for those who are truly guilty because "it's cruel and inhumane" and might hurt a bit when they stick the needle in . . . I think those people are insane.
via facebook;""Response to Michael (c/o Kimo): In theory, your point seems to make sense. The problem is in practice.
We already hold a standard of justice that demands proof of guilt in criminal trials "beyond any reasonable doubt."
Sure, there are some cases (such as at public events) where there are huge numbers of witnesses, video coverage, DNA residue, and the suspect arrested at the scene where guilt is established with a pretty high level of certainty.
But in order to convict, we need certainty and we still get convictions and lock people away for decades (or put them on death row) who, despite all the certainty, turn out to be innocent.
In any case, I like to think that civilized, moral, decent people live at a higher standard than those who kill. I just don't see the need for the death penalty; why it is so attractive to some. And in any case, simply locking them up for life in the general prison population, without special needs or protections or endless appeals to prevent the mistakes that still occur anyway but which, in the case of someone who has been executed, can not be corrected."
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