I agree, but I have numerous other reasons for opposing the death penalty (Reply #29)

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Wed Apr 30, 2014, 08:17 AM

29. I agree, but I have numerous other reasons for opposing the death penalty

1) The DP is discriminatory and is applied disparately to race, gender, and class.

2) The US has the means to imprison murderers for life which makes the DP unnecessary to segregate murderers from society.

3) Life in prison without parole is cheaper than the DP.

4) The idea that the DP gives victims' families closure is flawed. Life in prison without the possibility of parole gives them closure. The DP extends their suffering for years if not decades awaiting final punishment. Most criminals sentenced to the DP die in prison anyway.

5) Killing a criminal victimizes innocent family members of the condemned.

6) There is no crime deterrent benefit to the DP.

7) The standard of guilt is not absolute and our system of policing and prosecution is not without flaws which insures innocent people will eventually be put to death.

Any one of these reasons by itself would be reason enough to do away with the DP.

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44 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why I utterly reject the death penalty. [View all]	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	OP
I just knew it would make the whole situation worse	Warpy	Apr 2014	#1
"Every last person living in this nation becomes just as evil". Really?	Jgarrick	Apr 2014	#2
Yes	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#4
Yep, we sink to their level. nt	awoke_in_2003	Apr 2014	#23
I am a murderer.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#7
Since murder is a horrible crime, how long a prison sentence should you suffer?	Jgarrick	Apr 2014	#41
Yes n/t	malaise	Apr 2014	#37
that appears to be the message as harsh as it is	Supersedeas	May 2014	#44
Just as important is the fact that the death penalty	avebury	Apr 2014	#3
Agreed, but that does not alter the point.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#8
You don't have to go to a red state newspaper website to find those types of comments	Major Nikon	Apr 2014	#24
And that is really sad.	avebury	Apr 2014	#27
I agree, but I have numerous other reasons for opposing the death penalty	Major Nikon	Apr 2014	#29
I agree with all of your points. nt	avebury	Apr 2014	#34
Can you support a length of rope in the hands of every incarcerated person?	Loudly	Apr 2014	#5
No.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#6
You are one cold-hearted muther.	Loudly	Apr 2014	#9
It's far more humane than death. eom	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#10
I defy you to spend a week in gen pop and say that!	Loudly	Apr 2014	#11
I have participated in a prison ministry.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#12
Life is suffering in that situation.	Loudly	Apr 2014	#16
No justice is served by allowing a criminal to take the easy way out.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#19
Is that a torture chamber of punishment by assault from other prisoners?	Loudly	Apr 2014	#20
If suicide is the easy way out and life is the punishment	whopis01	Apr 2014	#28
They don't need rope.	Warpy	Apr 2014	#26
I believe in the right to die. I am anti-DP.	morningfog	Apr 2014	#35
Agree, agree, agree	Boreal	Apr 2014	#13
Sadly, you bear responsibility for both.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#14
Nonsense	Boreal	Apr 2014	#15
We all live in a death penalty state: the United States.	morningfog	Apr 2014	#33
I have the same opinion from a different viewpoint....	alittlelark	Apr 2014	#17
It's revenge, not punishment.	flvegan	Apr 2014	#18
My reason is kind of a different point of view of your reason, MohRokTah.	JDPriestly	Apr 2014	#21
I, too, once supported the death penalty...	awoke_in_2003	Apr 2014	#22
Any society which arms its police with lethal force	needledriver	Apr 2014	#25
Your position is not logical.	morningfog	Apr 2014	#30
So what you're saying is it's ok for the state to kill somebody	needledriver	Apr 2014	#42
The only time a use of deadly force is ever justified, by any person, state or otherwise,	morningfog	May 2014	#43
The death penalty is not murder because it is not an illegal killing by definition.	aikoaiko	Apr 2014	#31
By that description, the Holocaust was not murder because it was not illegal.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#32
Was anyone charged with murder, per se, in connection with the Holocaust.	aikoaiko	Apr 2014	#36
I'm sure some were, most weren't, but this is nothing but a red herring to your original point	Major Nikon	Apr 2014	#39
+1	Jgarrick	Apr 2014	#40
Exactly.	Tommy_Carcetti	Apr 2014	#38

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