Florida Lawmakers Advance Bills Seeking The Death Penalty For Child Molesters
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I'm prepared to be skewered for this. I can never support capital punishment in this country. We all have seen far too much corruption and egregious fuckery in the judicial system and with rogue prosecutors. Limited government is a concept designed to mitigate the scope of inevitable corruption that always occurs. Trump is busy being abused by a rogue judge and rogue prosecutor in a bullshit NY case. Imagine if it carried a capital sentence...
Hundreds of people have been exonerated from death row...many of whom had execution dates set and at the last minute stayed by a court. The exonerees are only the ones who have succeeded in challenging their convictions. Many others exist that did not commit the crime. And many more were sent to the death chambers without having committed any offense worthy of a death sentence.
If you do not trust the government, why give them the power to take the life of a citizen? Would that not inevitably be abused by said corrupt government? We have evidence of rampant abuse in the criminal justice system. Cooler heads need to prevail here. We need to either abolish the death penalty or limit the availability of it to only the most absolutely certain cases. And I am not sure you can ever be absolutely certain. One innocent life taken in the name of we the people is one too many for me to accept. I know others will not agree, and that is fine. But I'll never support this.
Agreed. We should allow the parents to exact punishment as they see fit, immediately upon crime committed. Save court BS time and money
But the entire point of his post was that you can’t trust the criminal Justice system to fairly investigate and figure out who should be punished. You can’t outsource that to random parents. The bill of rights exists for a reason.
You cannot "outsource" to the ground zero of criminal action/results. It used to be this way: immediate justice
Some places this still is used via castle doctrine: Commit a crime against the wrong person, you're good as dead on the spot. One of the reasons you dont see a lot of the crime outside of Metropolitan areas in places like Texas. Lots of hogs and coyotes to take care of the bodies.
I get the point you're making, but it seems a fallacy of one sided thinking. Not everyone embraces it and in some places, no one even thinks about it.
So, we're at the point of agreeing to disagree.
On the flip side of this, guilty individuals who were clearly guilty AND DESERVED THE WORST KIND OF DEATH IMAGINABLE for their crimes, have had their sentences vacated for....reasons.
Two Examples: Petit Family / Cheshire home invasion murder and Joshua Komisarjevsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_home_invasion_murders
Kelly Eckart murder and Michael Overstreet https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/johnson-county/2014/11/20/sources-judge-sets-aside-overstreets-death-penalty/19320293/
Their sentences were commuted to life in prison - it’s not like they will ever breath a free breathe again or ever endanger anyone.
I'll let you that to Kelly Eckart's mother.
I’m just stating the facts, fren.