The Death Penalty

[GMDino]

(06-02-2023, 02:36 PM)pally Wrote: Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in prison in 1994.  Are you thinking of John Hinkley Jr?

It always amazes me that so many people who claim to be pro-life are also pro-death penatly.  But then again they are experts at twisting situations to jusitfy their conflicting belief systems

We are supposedly a civilized country.  Civilized people do not put others to death even if they can justify the situation.  Too many defendants are later found to be not guilty.  It is too unevenly ordered and too unevenly followed through on.  Your jail sentence shouldn't come down to the luck of the draw.

The death penalty fails to be a deterrent.

The death penalty should be outlawed.  Anyone still under a death sentence should have their sentence commuted to life w/o parole

And felons who have been released from jail and who have completed probation deserve to have their right to vote restored with the exceptions of people who committed voter fraud, espionage or sedition, or felonies committed while an elected official.

No.  Dahmer had found religion and by the accounts I've seen was a "good" prisoner before he was killed.  I'd have never wanted him back out of that controlled situation and in society alone though.

I agree with all you say but I just can't help but think that some cases are so solid and so abhorrent that there is no need to prolong that person's existence.  In theory.  I just find the way we kill them also to be abhorrent.