Posted on Aug 13, 2015
Connecticut Rules Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional. How Do You Feel About The Death Penalty?
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The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the state's death penalty is unconstitutional. The deeply divided court's 4-3 ruling will affect the 11 inmates currently on the state's death row.
Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty in 2012, but stipulated it only applied to future crimes. Plaintiffs in Thursday's case had argued the 2012 ban should also extend to prisoners already on death row.
The Supreme Court agreed to take up the law's prospective issue when it granted a request by Eduardo Santiago, whose death sentence was overturned two months after the repeal took effect. (Connecticut Department of Corrections)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/13/death-penalty-connecticut_n_7983488.html
Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty in 2012, but stipulated it only applied to future crimes. Plaintiffs in Thursday's case had argued the 2012 ban should also extend to prisoners already on death row.
The Supreme Court agreed to take up the law's prospective issue when it granted a request by Eduardo Santiago, whose death sentence was overturned two months after the repeal took effect. (Connecticut Department of Corrections)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/13/death-penalty-connecticut_n_7983488.html
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Unconstitutional, no. But I would rather ten guilty not be executed than execute one innocent.
When there is no doubt at all fry’m juice’m what ever. But you better have witnesses with no connections.
When there is no doubt at all fry’m juice’m what ever. But you better have witnesses with no connections.
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I’m a firm believer of life in prison, the problem is there’s no space for those people in prison. My solution is if you’re 65 or older and you’re still in prison for whatever you did, then you should be euthanized or shot til dead. Either way would be useful, and there’d be a better incentive to not be sent to prison. XD
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I think the death penalty is a complete waste of time. The majority of people who get a death sentence die of natural causes before they even get executed because of the amount of appeals. It costs more to house a death row inmate than someone who gets sentenced to life (since a life sentence usually isn't a life sentence).
Now IF someone does get executed, the majority of the time it brings no comfort to the family of the victim. It sometimes causes more conflict, more stress and more drama. A few people get closure but not the majority.
Also let's think about all the people who have been wrongly convicted, sentenced to death AND were executed...what about those lives?
I'm not against it but it just seems to be a waste.
Now IF someone does get executed, the majority of the time it brings no comfort to the family of the victim. It sometimes causes more conflict, more stress and more drama. A few people get closure but not the majority.
Also let's think about all the people who have been wrongly convicted, sentenced to death AND were executed...what about those lives?
I'm not against it but it just seems to be a waste.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr - We haven't perfected marriage or medicine either. Should we abandon both until we figure how to be perfect?
Always remember that the "perfect" is the sworn enemy of the good.
Always remember that the "perfect" is the sworn enemy of the good.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
I both of those cases mistakes are usually correctable. With the death penalty mistakes are not.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr, Nothing in life is fair Top. That’s just the way it is. Always has been, always will be.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Nothing in life is fair but we have a moral obligation to rybto make the parts we have any power over more fair.
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I would be fore the Death Penalty except that over the years a number of people who were wrongly convicted received the death penalty and after they were exonerated I guess it was a little hard to bring them back and release them!
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http://salt.claretianpubs.org/issues/deathp/prejean.html
Amazing article that asks the question "would Jesus pull the switch?" I don't think much can be refuted about the barbarism if this tactic and it has no moral place in civil society.
Amazing article that asks the question "would Jesus pull the switch?" I don't think much can be refuted about the barbarism if this tactic and it has no moral place in civil society.
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MSgt Michelle Mondia
What makes my blood boil is reading quotes from a 3,000 year old book that sanctions wife beating and selling children into slavery. I'm surprised as Christian you support the death penalty....surly that's what killed your Messiah? Didn't Jesus say an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?
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SSG Eddye Royal
I believe in the death penalty for this reason, I was on AD in FT. Hood, Tx. July/ August 1991 when they had the Lubby’s killer. Me and a friend, another soldier from 1st CAV almost went in there to eat.
I will never forget that, the people lost there lives just to sit and eat for lunch. Now we “COUNTRY” is lock in a LEGAL or LEGISLATIVE Igbo with NRA, that show not be. I say where is the common sense to this, we should be able to say if you are deamed sain, then Government has the right to take life. I also look to the Bible.
I will never forget that, the people lost there lives just to sit and eat for lunch. Now we “COUNTRY” is lock in a LEGAL or LEGISLATIVE Igbo with NRA, that show not be. I say where is the common sense to this, we should be able to say if you are deamed sain, then Government has the right to take life. I also look to the Bible.
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MSgt Michelle Mondia - If you do not accept the Bible for the reasons you cited (which you are fully entitled to do), you may not then quote from a passage you do approve. In other words you cannot condemn a book in one breath, and then quote from its pages a moment later to support your argument.
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MSgt Michelle Mondia
Why not? Don’t you agree that Jesus Christ condemned things said in the Old Testament? The Bible is full of contradictions is it not? Is this not why the Pharisees indicted him?
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I'm oppossed to it. I hope the states' rights crowd will respect Connecticut's decision.
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CPT Ahmed Faried
It is a personal thing for me SGT Bodine, and sometimes it is a difficicult position to hold onto when we see man's capacity for depravity made bare. But I don't believe killing someone because they killed someone is the hallmark of a civilized society. We made it legal to take the sting out of it but at the end of the day it is state sanctioned murder and that makes that society no better than the man/woman collectively agree to kill.
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SSG Eddye Royal
I believe in the death penalty for this reason, I was on AD in FT. Hood, Tx. July/ August 1991 when they had the Lubby’s killer. Me and a friend, another soldier from 1st CAV almost went in there to eat.
I will never forget that, the people lost there lives just to sit and eat for lunch. Now we “COUNTRY” is lock in a LEGAL or LEGISLATIVE Igbo with NRA, that show not be. I say where is the common sense to this, we should be able to say if you are deamed sain, then Government has the right to take life. I also look to the Bible.
I will never forget that, the people lost there lives just to sit and eat for lunch. Now we “COUNTRY” is lock in a LEGAL or LEGISLATIVE Igbo with NRA, that show not be. I say where is the common sense to this, we should be able to say if you are deamed sain, then Government has the right to take life. I also look to the Bible.
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