Ohio executes inmate using new, single-drug method for death penalty
Thirty-four states, including Virginia and Maryland, allow capital punishment. All use lethal injection, and, until recently, most had used a three-drug cocktail: sodium thiopental to render the condemned unconscious, pancuronium bromide to paralyze the prisoner and potassium chloride to stop the heart. They can no longer get their hands on it. What do you think about the death penalty? My thoughts below
states with the death penalty
Alabama Missouri
Arizona Montana
Arkansas Nebraska
California Nevada
Colorado New Hampshire
Connecticut North Carolina
Delaware Ohio
Florida Oklahoma
Georgia Oregon
Idaho Pennsylvania
Indiana South Carolina
Kansas South Dakota
Kentucky Tennessee
Louisiana Texas
Maryland Utah
Mississippi Virginia
Washington
Wyoming
US military
US Government
States now without the death penalty
Alaska
Hawaii
Illinois
Iowa
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Dist. of Colombia
If you read my stories in the past on this including yesterday you know I have mixed feelings on the death penalty. Often times a person may be arrested and sentenced to death knowing they were innocent just to further someone's career or to quell the public. Now that we have DNA testing we are finding too often we have the wrong man. We have seen it too often
I do believe the death penalty is justified as in the case of the Fort Hood shootings and the Jared Loughner shootings where they shoot be put to death immediately with no trial. They should not have a venue to plead their case. Sane or insane they did it wantonly and publicly, that is all that matters. Cases like those aside I am no longer comfortable with the death penalty being justified because of the horror of the crime because we can not be certain we have the right person unless we actually see them do it.
James Joiner
Garner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com
As time goes on, I'm finding myself increasingly in the anti-death penalty camp.
ReplyDeleteNot because I'm against putting down serial killers and the like. No, because our civil servants who are charged with upholding justice and the rule of law, are becoming increasing bold in their rejection of said principles.
The fish rots from the head, as they say.
Washington has become thoroughly corrupt and the corruption is spreading throughout the governmental systems.
When the FBI admits that they are catching terrorists, by the following plan...
1. Hatching a plot.
2. Finding a mentally ill man.
3. Coercing that man into carrying out the plot.
4. Providing money, training and materials to carry out the plot.
5. Then busting the man for trying to carry out the FBI plot.
I am feeling a strong sense of disgust.
Entrapment is a crime. But I guess an FBI agent would justify entrapment by showing me how crime does pay and how he makes hundreds of thousands a year on the taxpayer dime, committing felonies.
In a world where there are not enough terrorists to justify a huge law enforcement population, perhaps the only way to keep these budgets growing is entrapment. Perhaps Agents have to become terrorists and betray the rule of law in order to get job promotions?
Wease I agree with you 100% the whole thing is stinking to me. I think it should only be applicable when it is open and shut like Loughner.
ReplyDeleteNo body is right or wrong here. Cut and dried like in Tucson I say go for it too. Like you bring up Wdog there are too many that are just not guilty. This process is totally whored out like most other things.
ReplyDeleteOur mores have changed so much in respect to killing. Our society is having a love affair with killing.