Ron Paul: Do Away With The Death Penalty
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He doesn’t mention that the religious right are the biggest supporters of the death penalty. They cite biblical verses to support their position. Personally, I don’t want to live in a country run by bible thumpers.
Maybe a few Fundy Baptists, but as a whole I would have to say that is incorrect. The religious right are the ones holding a vigil for some piece of crap outside the prison on execution day, which I find maddening. The only reason I oppose the death penalty is because of the high cost and low body count.
I have a tendency to agree with MashPotato in this case. The religious right, in most cases, has almost no sympathy for anyone on death row. There are some good Christians out there and for many I am glad faith does exist, because what would some of them be like without it? Having said that – they are the to scream lock down for drug dealer, few ever consider rehabilitation v. incarceration and none that I know oppose the death penalty. If I were ever on trial that might lead to a death penalty, which I cannot fathom, but let’s say I was – I would pray for a liberal jury. Many of your liberals are also religious, just not the “religious right.”
You live in a country where mothers kill their own children. 1.5 million a year. Shame on you for not saying a words about that.
What’s he supposed to say while visiting non-sequiturville? You, being the mayor, should help him out.
Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of theology understands that the “Thou shalt not kill” commandment means “Thou shalt not murder.” There are rational reasons to oppose the death penalty, but this isn’t one of them. Also, I think most people who support it would say that the reason they do is that some crimes simply demand the ultimate societal retribution. Retributive justice is perfectly legitimate. It’s different from revenge and deterrence. The biggest problem with the death penalty is that we aren’t serious enough about it to demand that it be carried out in a reasonably timely manner. When it routinely takes decades before the sentence is carried out, the sentence becomes a joke.
Well duh, anyone who has read the Bible knows I love killing, whether by my own godly hands or by one of my faithful servants.
The dichotomy between ‘for death penalty/against abortion’ is the same as ‘ against evolution – the market is always right’ . The difference is pragmatism (you could be wrong and too expensive) and education (evolution is an established scientific fact and a myth: Adam Smith mentioned the ‘invisible hand’ twice in his two major books) – the latter proves that education better be ‘a core function of the government!
I respect Ron’s position and points but I believe the death penalty needs to stay on the table for extreme cases. Having worked in a prison, I was extra careful when dealing with death row inmates as we both understood that they literally had nothing more to lose. Can you imagine being the correctional officer working in “population” and all know they have nothing more to lose if they kill you, the infirmary nurse who treats their sniffles and cuts, or a citizen if they escape?
I feel that the world is definitely a better place with the likes of James Terry Roach, Joseph Carl Shaw, Cecil Lucas, Larry Gene Bell, and more, gone from our midst.
There is nothing wrong with sentencing certain criminals to die. For sure we need to end people who shoot up crowded areas or blow up buildings. It is sad that we prescribe that punishment as often as we do because sometimes we do get it wrong. What is sadder are the states that have a hard on for executions like Texas.
In the case of the death penalty. I agree with Ron Paul.
Paul is right on it. The death penalty is just another example of the conservative (mostly Republicans) hypocrisy on fiscal matters. They’ll go to the mat against education spending, unemployment compensation, health care expenditures and so on, but spend millions to execute some poor sucker who may not even be guilty. And keep in mind, rich white people don’t get the death penalty. They hire expensive lawyers and get jail time.
If the lawyers are expensive enough, sometimes they don’t even get jail time.
Yes, but what you are saying is horribly unfair. If they have enough money to hire high dollar lawyers, then they may not even get jail time. What about the poor guy, who didn’t even commit the crime, has no money for an attorney and ends up on death row? I am sure that is an exception, but it has happened.
I agree – remove the death penalty. I can think of some cases it might be necessary, but I cannot imagine anything more horrific than having to live in prison with ones choice AND it save tax payers money. Imagine that – life spared at a cheaper cost.
I too oppose the death penalty… only God should know the day/time in which someone dies. That said, when someone is convicted with certainty of a heinous crime, they should be sent to an extreme labor camp where day in or day out they will work, regardless of whether they have medical maladies. I would suspect that under my vision, these evil people would exit the earth due to natural causes within 6 months to a year. There, problem solved… no death penalty and no long life in prison either.
I re-read something interesting today “The Man Of The Crowd” … problem complicated.
I too oppose the death penalty… only God should know the day/time in which someone dies.
Excellent.I am pro-life.Abortion is murder.Death penalty is murder.
The “state” hasn’t proven it’s competent enough to kill us yet.