Still think Texas has never executed anyone who was innocent?

Hopefully the son and daughter aren't having conjugal visits.

 

I don't care where you come down on the death penalty, this story is some kind of effed up:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/05/the_execution_of_steven_staley_forcible_medication_on_death_row_in_texas_.html

 

It is more than a little unfair to bust on Yodel using the Bible to respond to an argument that cited Scripture and asked how any Christian could support capital punishment. He was responding in context, not arguing for theocracy.

 

Point taken on the kids, but the wife should have found a better husband. Tough shit. Suck it up and find a new man who won't kill another human being.

 

I never asked how any Christian could support capital punishment.

I cited scripture (and Blackstone) to illustrate the argument that if there's any chance an innocent person might be punished, the punishment is, or should be, withheld.

Any chance a person be wrongly executed - however slim that chance is - makes capital punishment insupportable for some people.

 

Reminds me of the mentally retarded fella in Arkansas who saved the dessert from his last meal for later.

 

In 2009, 4,092 pedestrians were killed in the United States by automobiles. I'm confident at least one of those killed was simply an innocent bystander. Someone minding their own business, following traffic laws, and mowed down by someone else operating an automobile. Yet people are still pro-automobile. How many innocent people have to die before we stop using automobiles?

 

I agree that there are innocent people who have been executed. However, I think capital punishment works and to be honest, I wish those on death row were only given a certain number of appeals before it's game over. There are people that stay on Death Row for decades filing appeal after appeal and that's wrong.

 

Yes and people who are on trial for crimes are always innocent victims of juries who want blood and believe circumstantial evidence to convict them because there is never any way to be sure a guy or gal is guilty..... :

 

Pretty much. Juries are necessary, but they are also terrible.

 

Yes, yes, because there has never been a person who was put on trial for something that a jury has found not guilty, well except OJ and we all know it is because he had a jury full of darkies and they won't convict one of their own....... :

 

I wouldn't have used that terminology, but that's pretty much exactly what happened, yes.