terryfossil 1
if the cops arrested you for murder,and you were innocent but found guilty,,would you still support the death penalty..?????and you cannot say it can never happen to you,because it has happened to others.. and will continue to happen..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Campbell_Ross
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sunnyB
We've had this discussion before I think. I believe in the death penalty, but you must be 100% certain of guilt, before its carried out. If there is the slightest doubt, then it shouldn't be carried out.
That's my opinion.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
jhharlan
Oh, I'm for it but don't want anyone to actually be killed except for the undeniably guilty: McVey, Gacy, Whitman (check my spelling and add the kid that shot 12 people in the theater). Mason should be on the list. But a man who worked with my mom on The Board Of Pardons and Parole said given his choice, all the muderers would be released as the hIghest percent were crimes of passion and would never be repeated.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Bob/PKB
Well, that certainly sheds new light on the subject, doesn't it.
I'm at a loss. While I do support the death penalty, I don't want to be put in the position of having the option of meting out that verdict, and I certainly wouldn't want it pronounced upon myself or someone I love. :(
This website portends to be current information as of 10/30/15 regarding death row statistics. I would recommend certain people review it and dispute it with actual facts of their own.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/race-death-row-inmates-executed-1976
AND, the following website chronicles the places and years of executions by Albert Pierrepoint, referenced in another answer. Please note that over 200 of the executions were in Hamburg, Germany, during the years immediately following the end of WWII, likely hangings for war crimes convictions. It's important to put things into perspective, and this may help. Pierrepoint didn't believe in capital punishment as a deterrent to crime, and when you really study the statistics, you can draw a conclusion about why he might think so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_of_executions_conducted_by_Albert_Pierrepoint
| 9 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
nomdeplume
zorro
You would vote for the death penalty if you saw the horrible people I have personally seen on death row. My question is why if they have been convicted and sentenced, are they still alive. The state does not care because its the counties they are sentenced from that pays the money to hold them, not the state. As far as I am concerned , they are taking up my oxygen.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Clonge
No! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H23tUK3z17U
| 9 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
British hangman Albert Pierrepoint hanged over 400 people and concluded that execution was not a deterrent.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
So far as Pierrepoint's clients are concerned there were certainly some that were innocent, notably Timothy Evans, hanged for Christie's murders and Nicolas Bentley, both of whom received free pardons though much good that did them.
Slightly more than half of those executions occurred in Hamburg, Germany, right after WWII, and were likely associated with convictions regarding war crimes If you look at the statistics, you can see that, with little exception, most places where he participated in executions had very few hangings during his tenure as executioner. With that in mind, it makes sense to come to the conclusion that hanging wasn't a deterrent to crime, as so few people were actually hanged in any one particular place...again, with rare exception
