Death Penalty Articles: Recent Comments

Comment on Why Gov. Perry shook up the Texas Forensic Science Commission

2010-03-11T17:56:46Z

Branti...

Dudley is a Jeezo-Fascist.

Comment on Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters

2010-02-26T16:08:53Z

What doubt? Those who oppose the DP always have a doubt no matter how overwhelming the evidence of guilt. The state and federal courts, including the USSC, reviewed and rejected Willingham's last minute appeals, which included Hurst's affidavit, had no doubts.

Yet, those who have never reviewed the evidence and are ignorant of the applicable law think they know more. Right.

Comment on New law - Life sentence and out of prison

2010-02-17T20:25:33Z

Supporters of the abolition of capital punishment are liars and deshonestos.Amnistey International, Human Rights Watch and Penal Reform claim that they want to abolish the death penalty so that they do not die innocent victims of miscarriages of justice but what they do not say is that it is opposed to ferormente The life without parole (lwop) to justify having granted parole to murderers of children and serial killers. truth is that if we defend the parole for lifers assume a high risk that the criminal released to kill.Cases as Kenneth_Allen_McDuff, Gilberto Champa, Darryl Kemp etc.If say that the rehabilitation support for these murderers admitting the risk of dying innocents.
Clear that after abolishing death the “reformers” would seek to attack LWOP next, then any long prison sentences.

Comment on New law - Life sentence and out of prison

2010-02-17T20:08:30Z

Portugal, Spain and Norway have softer penal systems in the world, in fact these are the only European Union countries that have no life imprisonment.
Currently being debated in Spain toughen the law of the child and introduce life imprisonment "Light" (with posibilty of parole) but our Prime Minister Zapatero is denied.
In Portugal, the maximum penalty under the criminal code of 1993 is 25 years imprisonment!, Though a murderer kills 150 people can not serve more than 25 years. Not only that, the maximum sentence for 2nd degree murder is "15 years".
Antonio Pinto will be released as soon as you arrive in Portugal.
In Spain the maximum limit for mass murder is 25 years but a 2003 reform is raised to 40 years for terrorism.
Currently in use there are powerful lobby groups who seek the Abolition of the prison along models to Spain and other European countries:Amnestey International, Prison Reform International, Prison Legal News, Human Rights Watch, ACLU, they are generously funded by Ford Foundation, George Soros Open Society ... that's why I was pleasantly surprised when I reported that the Heritage Foundation here to victims unite to combat the anti-incarceration movement here. This that support groups for victims have equal resources to their opponents. To conclude my opinion and recommendation is that the Heritage Foundation deeply case study Spanish and To establish relationships between groups of victims of U.S. and Spain.

Comment on Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters

2010-02-07T23:23:11Z

Brian,
I hope so too. I feel the fact that there was doubt as to camerons innocence the 30 day stay by Gov. Perry should have been granted. It's not so much a fact of pro 0r anti death penalty for me as it is a matter of justice. Once we take a life we can not ever replace or make up for it.

Comment on Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters

2010-02-03T18:30:00Z

I do not give much credibility to Stacy Kurkendyall. It was already stated by neighbors that she along with Todd was outside the burned home going through the remains, laughing and listening to music. This is not the attitude of a greiving mother, instead of a woman who if a crime was committed more than likely was involved and trying to save her own ass. As for Govenor Perry...PLEASE!!! Move to somewhere else and run your own country. The criminal justice system in Texas is corrupt and run by criminals worse than the offenders they are paid to supervise.
Chris

Comment on Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters

2010-02-03T07:54:18Z

Wow. I've been reading about this case all night. I surely hope we can base death decisions on better evidence than was presented in this case.

Or maybe we just don't care.

Comment on New law - Life sentence and out of prison

2010-01-26T20:39:56Z

I wish the anti death penalty folks would save their bleeding hearts for the victims. All that energy spent to save a few killers some jail time could be spent saving the lives of many future victims!

Comment on The death row 130 "innocents" scam NM

2010-01-06T04:35:52Z

To Lucy Frost,
you asked how many innocent people would be acceptable to execute, but you seem to misunderstand the entire purpose of this article. The point of this article is to show that the statistics that the death penalty opposers throw at supporters are inflated and inaccurate. No where in this article is there any implication that Sharp is supportive of the killing of innocent people. Referring to your question "what percentage of innocent people being executed do you find acceptable?" In an ideal world, it would be 0%, but this world is far from ideal. Innocent people die almost every day from car accidents but there are no proposals to make cars illegal. Besides, if the death penalty were taken away, innocent people would still die if they were murdered by a murderer who would have been executed otherwise. Many people say that this doesn't happen, but there have been cases in the past of this happening. For example, the case of Kenneth Allen McDuff, who was scheduled to be executed until the Furman V. Georgia case invalidated all death sentences, and he was eventually let go. He proceeded to murder 9 more women before he was finally executed in 1998. Capital punishment has its benefits and drawbacks, and we must decide which outweigh which. In my case, i think the benefits of capital punishment outweigh the mistakes. Besides, it is possible that in the future, the system will become more streamlined and less corrupt(I know, it's a stretch), and then the number of innocent executions will go down. The solution to these problems doesn't lie in abolishing capital punishment entirely--it lies in the process of making the court of law more fair and less corrupt than it is now.

Comment on Why Gov. Perry shook up the Texas Forensic Science Commission

2009-11-14T20:48:41Z

Brantl:

That is an interesting theory. Could you be more specific?