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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1605100" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>Just for the record, I'm not some bleeding heart. Frankly I'm a cold hearted person and usually don't feel anything for dead people unless I knew them personally. I could give a fawk if a murderer dies. And it's more not trusitng my fellow citizens, our court system, and our governement to deal out death than it is me feeling sorry for some tool that found Jesus in prison.</p><p></p><p>My stance is more based on a spin of "it's better 10 guilty man go free than one innocent man be convicted." Well, it's better 9,999 murders and one innocent man sit in prison than 9,999 murderers and 1 innocent man be executed.</p><p></p><p>Look at the West Memphis Three deal that happened last week. Damien Echols was sentenced to death and now he's free. That was a <em>particularly</em> gruesome, offense and heinous crime against children. It occurred in 1993 and this happened last week. Sometimes the more heinous the crime, the less the chance of a fair trial.</p><p></p><p>I'd also throw out that a capital punishment jury is likely not to be as diverse as a non-capital punishment jury. Why? Because they don't select anyone with qualms about the death penalty. That narrows your group down a bunch. There's no mixture, and they are all likely to think in a similar way, have the same politics, same viewpoints. Just something I think about. The murder trial I was on, we were all idiots, but we were diverse idiots. The capital trial running at the same time would, and did kick some of them out.</p><p></p><p>I don't want to hold hands and sing Kumbaya with reformed murders, I just think a little restraint should be shown when killing people. A little more than 30 days and .22, at the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1605100, member: 4319"] Just for the record, I'm not some bleeding heart. Frankly I'm a cold hearted person and usually don't feel anything for dead people unless I knew them personally. I could give a fawk if a murderer dies. And it's more not trusitng my fellow citizens, our court system, and our governement to deal out death than it is me feeling sorry for some tool that found Jesus in prison. My stance is more based on a spin of "it's better 10 guilty man go free than one innocent man be convicted." Well, it's better 9,999 murders and one innocent man sit in prison than 9,999 murderers and 1 innocent man be executed. Look at the West Memphis Three deal that happened last week. Damien Echols was sentenced to death and now he's free. That was a [I]particularly[/I] gruesome, offense and heinous crime against children. It occurred in 1993 and this happened last week. Sometimes the more heinous the crime, the less the chance of a fair trial. I'd also throw out that a capital punishment jury is likely not to be as diverse as a non-capital punishment jury. Why? Because they don't select anyone with qualms about the death penalty. That narrows your group down a bunch. There's no mixture, and they are all likely to think in a similar way, have the same politics, same viewpoints. Just something I think about. The murder trial I was on, we were all idiots, but we were diverse idiots. The capital trial running at the same time would, and did kick some of them out. I don't want to hold hands and sing Kumbaya with reformed murders, I just think a little restraint should be shown when killing people. A little more than 30 days and .22, at the least. [/QUOTE]
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