07-03-2018, 02:39 PM
(07-03-2018, 02:26 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: But if life in prison is unjustly applied, then you have more time to correct the injustice. Also, I don't agree with life in prison except in extreme circumstances. But one step at a time.
I know that Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison all opposed the death penalty and took measures to limit its use if not eliminate it entirely. It'd be hard to get a poll of all of the framers, but there was a substantial number of them that included some of the more influential thinkers in the group that formed the basis for our government that were opposed to it.
Didn't Washington have some of his officers executed for walking away from their posts because congress wasn't paying them or something like that?
