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Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty in 2012, but stipulated it only applied to future crimes.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Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty in 2012, but stipulated it only applied to future crimes.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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Since you asked.... While I do feel that some crimes merit the death penalty I don't think it is much of a deterrent to crime nor is it cost effective. There is also the fact that the death penalty seems to be applied disproportionately to people from minority groups with lower levels of intelligence and education. Another factor is that it costs a lot to get someone executed once all the legal costs are factored in.
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Texas doesn’t mess around, for sure LTC (Join to see), although last week our new governor commuted a death row inmate to life. He was scheduled to get the drugs at midnight and the Governor made the call an hour before. He’s a Democrat BTW.
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There are crimes bad enough to warrant removing the perpetrators from among the living. So, for those truly guilty of such crimes, I have no sympathy at all. However, we also have unscrupulous people in law enforcement and the courts, not to mention the vast hordes of daytime TV watchers waiting to sit on a jury. Your chances of being wrongly convicted are influenced greatly by the competence of your defense lawyer. In this regard, poor people are in greater danger of being convicted of crimes they did not commit. For these reasons, I think life imprisonment is a better sentencing option than the death penalty, though my first instinct upon hearing of a horrendous crime is always, "Kill them as soon as possible." For the sake of the innocent, I think we should use life imprisonment - but again, that's not out of any squeamishness about killing the guilty.
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I dont think anyone is surprised my personal pondering on the subject. As long as we are on the subject and just to reenforce my personal feelings, which are right by the way, methods its all about methods. There is no telling how much money we have spent trying to find the most humane, painless means to ease those people our society deemed unfit to the other side. The truth is to much money and thought goes into methods. Bullet is cheap, a bat is pretty cheap but can be used multiple times. If anyone thinks my thoughts are vile and unchristian, I will say they would stone a jackass in the Bible. When I say stone I mean they through rocks at the bad guy until he/she was dead. Stop this person is not a good person, they are evil. It does not matter if it deters anyone or not from future bad deeds what it did do was make sure this specific jackass can never be a repeat offender.
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LTC Jeff Shearer, Stoning is still done in the biblical lands. I’m back and forth on this after reading different reasons for and against. My main concern are the innocent being sentenced to death, but my combat training reminds me there is always collateral damage. Those cases are pretty much over now the DNA has been perfected. It’s use to show innocence for those on death row is what it was designed for along with to prove those guilty. IMHO
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What Constitution are they reading. Our Constitution directly references the death penalty as punishment for things like treason.
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I used to be pro-capital punishment but now am against. Not because of any concerns about state-sponsored killing but because of the number of the number of people found wrongfully convicted of a crime who were 100% innocent.
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MSG (Join to see), And unfortunately most of the innocent found guilty and sentenced to death are black men.
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I would feel a lot more comfortable if the form used was hanging, in public, televised, and recorded for future "stealth" broadcasting.
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In 1931 my father witnessed a public execution by hanging in Jonesville, VA. The lesson he took away from the event was the reality of the death penalty and why you don't want to go there. Another point that needs to be made is not all courts that condemn people to death are Kangaroo Courts. Daesh has Kangaroo Courts, we do not. I saw judicial hangings in Iraq and until the specialist from (I believe) Arizona arrived, they were very badly handled affairs. I don't find death and destruction enjoyable and SF basically being Airborne Infantry (like you were), I assume we have seen plenty of death during our service time. Irrespective of those facts, this nation is teetering on the brink of a full collapse of the American social compact. If we don't get real 'and' fast we will have lost the opportunity to act.
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In the 60’s my father went to work in Iraq and was forced to watch public executions daily, and yes I’ve seen plenty of death and destruction. I’ve even caused some death and destruction, but I have no regrets of what I did during the war. I was protecting my combat brothers, whatever it took. If our Nation wants to get “real”, God and prayer needs to be brought back into schools, homes, and public events, but that’s not going to happen because of all the liberal assholes supporting our Constitution when it agrees with them. Plenty of BS along with the PC as far as I’m concerned. When Atheists like O’Hare and the ACLU have more influence in our lives than God, you damned right we’re doomed.
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SGT (Join to see) - Executions are always horrible things to witness and I feel for your father's experiences. The only good that can ever come of it, is as an object lesson. Thank you for your service.
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As a retired Major Crimes Investigator who has sent men to death row let me give my opinion. I have never seen any indication that the death penalty is a deterrent. One thing that most people don't know about is the continued trauma it causes the victims family. Years of appeals and hearings that force the family to relive the tragedy over and over. Life without parole provides closure to a family. JMHO.
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