Do you support capital punishment in the military and civilian courts?

Line them up, and take them out....

Never. The fact is, innocent people are wrongly convicted, and too many people have been exonerated after being already having been executed. As long as there is even a remote chance of an innocent being wrongly convicted, capital punishment is completely unacceptable. A million guilty aren't worth the life of even a single innocent.

LTC (Join to see) Captain; Here is the reason why capital punishment must be retained and implemented immediately after trial.

From "Reuters"

Alabama man walks free after almost 30 years on death row

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/03/us-usa-alabama-death-row-idUSKBN0MU13Z20150403

(Reuters) - Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of an Alabama jail a free man on Friday after almost 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit.

Greeted by well-wishers with cries of "Praise God" and a crowd of photographers and reporters, Hinton dabbed away tears and said: "For all of you out there snapping pictures of me, I want you to know there is a Lord.

"For all who say they believe in justice, this is the case that proves it is true," the 58-year-old Hinton said.

Hinton was convicted of the 1985 slayings of two fast-food managers, but new testing did not match crime scene bullets to the gun found at his home.

EDITORIAL COMMENT:- If this person had been executed promptly then the administration of justice would not have been brought into disrepute by having to release him and the state would have saved the millions of dollars that keeping him in custody has already cost PLUS the millions of dollars that the state is going to have to pay out as a result of his "wrongful conviction".

[PS - I guess that it's too late to say "SARCASM ALERT".]

In my last unit in Germany, a soldier killed a local, it was a bit of overkill, they stopped counting stab wounds at 117 to her face. He went home throw his bloody clothes to his wife and told her if she said anything the same would happen to her. The police got a tip that the person they were looking for was at our base and came from Florida. The soldier's partner in crime was the second person to be called in to be interviewed. When asked if he had any idea why they were there, he said "yeah, the b*** had to die." Then and there he gave a confession about his role and the soldier who actually killed her. This is just an example that I know of where capital punishment comes into play. We have these people who confess to murders and we allow them to be taken care of for the rest of their lives, to be cared for and their victims had no choose. We have people like Ridgeway, murdered 27 plus, and Yates, murdered 10 plus, here in Washington, we keep them alive only in hopes they may tell us about other victims. Ted Bundy only started to confess as his time to meet his maker to crimes. Recently we had a WW2 vet, 80 years old killed by two punks, because they saw an easy victim sitting in his car. One confessed and may serve 20 years, less if he's a model prisoner. The other just had his case set back. Sorry if you kill someone in cold blood, the death penalty should not be taken off the table.

CPT Brian Maurelli,

If convicted and upheld on appeal, it is time. No more waiting. The UCMJ as a system providers a greater degree of protection than civilian systems. Consequently, it can be more difficult to get a case to Courts Martial and then to obtain a conviction. Civilian court is no cakewalk either.

Conviction in either requires the burden of proof to be beyond a reasonable doubt. That is good enough for me.

Thank you,

SFC Joseph M. Finck USA (Ret)