May 7, 2007

Calls to Abolish Death Penalty Emerge Nationwide,

I can't really understand anybodies reasoning for abolishing the death penalty. I agree the justice system needs to be severely up-graded so we can be assured that innocent people are not convicted of crimes they did not commit. However anybody that can look at a degenerate supposedly human being that kidnaps a young girl from her home, ties her up in a dismal, dank, filthy trailer house and repeatedly sexually abuses her, then takes her outside digs a hole in the ground and buries her alive, and still thinks that slime should remain alive is obviously not playing with a full deck.

That is only one example, there are of course thousands of other horrendous crimes that just beg for the death penalty, at least we still have a few rationale people that agree on the need for capital punishment. California's governor Arnie Schwarzenegger being one, I don't agree with a whole lot that Arnie does or stands for but I certainly applaud him for his stand on the death penalty. Then you have the other hand, Gov Jeb Bush is considering the humanity and constitutionality of the death penalty while his brother G. W. Bush is killing American service personal on a daily basis, not to mention all the Irag civilians he is killing, now maybe Jeb should consider the humanity and constitutionality of what his brother is doing.

U. S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel stated that Gov Schwarzenegger needs to correct the California's execution method to be sure they are carried out humanely, as far as I am concerned if a person is found guilty with out a doubt of some of these horrendous crimes they should be executed in the same manner as they executed their victims.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center said, "It's the worst of both worlds, because it's tremendously expensive and few people are executed." He was talking about the fact that some convicted people are placed on death row for many years while they run the gambit of our ridiculous justice system. We should use the same system that was used against Saddam Hussein, once he was convicted he was allowed one week for an appeal and then executed. If Dieter thinks it's expensive to place people on death row what does he feel about the cost of keeping people in prison for life, at a cost of around $80,000 per year if a convicted person lives 20 years you have a cost to the tax paying public of $1,600,000.

I have an idea for the folks that are against the death penalty, they could have two (2) choices,

1. They could personally pay for the yearly upkeep of each person they save from the executioner. 2. They could house a few of the convicted slugs in their own homes, of course that would mean they would have to monitor these criminals 24/7. In each case they would feel good that they saved these slime balls from execution and they could save the rest of us a tremendous amount of tax money. Actually there is a third choice, they could alter their paths and instead of trying to abolish the death penalty they could put all that energy to work to correct the insane justice system that runs rampant in our country.

Rellis Smith

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