Kat wrote on Jun 28
th, 2013 at 7:25am:
This is curious.
Herb supports Peter's right to hold an opinion that opposes the DP.
But goes into attack-mode when I express the same view.
Something's wrong here.....
"Let's move FORWARD shall we? We're going to move FORWARD" quote, Julia Gillard to media crush.
I apologise if I seemed a little harsh, but
we're moving on ~ we're moving FORWARD now ...
So ...
1. As things stand, I wouldn't vote for the Death Penalty. My reason is that far too many
provoked murderers are given the chop in the USA.
Example: A Black ghetto rat enters a liquor store with a .38 and demands of the Korean shop owner that he hand over the contents of the till ~ a paltry few dollars at best.
And then, with the jived-up black pointing the .38 at the Korean's head ~ incredibly, the Korean shop owner swings a rifle into view from under the counter.
Happens all the time with Asian shop keepers.
The black pulls the trigger and is soon sitting on death row.
Not in a fit would I give this black the death penalty for what he did.
2. Possibly 70 to 80% of murders in the US are related to 'turf wars' where gang members kill each other for a bigger share of the profits.
Criminals killing criminals would not attract the death penalty in my court.
But how many Hispanics and blacks are sitting on death row because they 'wasted' some street scum over crack cocaine distribution rights?
3. Wives/girlfriends who eventually kill long-time abusive husbands. No death penalty from me.
4. Paedophiles ... no death sentence, but life in prison, never to be released.
5. Traitors ~ death penalty.
6. Serial killers ~ death penalty.
7. Crimes again humanity ~ death penalty.
8. Premeditated murder of an innocent party ~ death penalty.
9. Murder by reason of insanity ~ life behind bars, never to be released.
10. Planning a terrorist act designed to take life ~ death penalty.
In all cases of the death penalty the prisoner must not be left waiting for more than 12 months. All appeals must be completed within this time.
11. No death sentence on circumstantial evidence.
12. Forensic Science has been thoroughly discredited in the past two years by independent researchers appointed by the US judiciary. This poses the problem of convicting upon the dubious 'evidence' of forensic investigations.
If you haven't seen this particular doco ~ then I recommended it to you.
It's a shocker. The abuses and the half-baked 'science' has been a disgrace.