What's Your View On The Death Penalty?

[Gopher Gary]

Is this about n00dz? 

Yup, yours.

One of us thinks you would best be served with a light roux of lamb (to offset, well, you know), side of the best asparagus and a delicate cilantro salsa, the other thinks that if your pelt is worth keeping, it would have already been taken.

Hence, not much reason for you to enter this conversation.

KTHXBAI

Gopher with a side of aspergers. 

[DirtDawg]

Is this about n00dz? 

Yup, yours.

One of us thinks you would best be served with a light roux of lamb (to offset, well, you know), side of the best asparagus and a delicate cilantro salsa, the other thinks that if your pelt is worth keeping, it would have already been taken.

Hence, not much reason for you to enter this conversation.

KTHXBAI

Gopher with a side of aspergers. 

Caught a part of the joke, did you? Fine. I am impressed.
BUT ...   Are you seriously trying to reach towards the heights of Dawgs and Drunkards with a few words?

You should probably be licking up after Dawgs and Drunkards, mostly, don't you think?

But, SHIT, since you have forced your way into this conversation AND attained MY attention, The main question is: WTF are you going to do with MY attention or that of Drunkardswalk's attention for that matter?

PLEASE, do not waste it!!!!!

[Gopher Gary]

Caught a part of the joke, did you? Fine. I am impressed.
BUT ...   Are you seriously trying to reach towards the heights of Dawgs and Drunkards with a few words?

You should probably be licking up after Dawgs and Drunkards, mostly, don't you think?

But, SHIT, since you have forced your way into this conversation AND attained MY attention, The main question is: WTF are you going to do with MY attention or that of Drunkardswalk's attention for that matter?

PLEASE, do not waste it!!!!!

Actually, I was just trying to get Walkie's attention, but I certainly didn't mean to exclude you. I'd look at your n00dz too. 

[DirtDawg]

I'm against it. The justice system is flawed so it's not uncommon for someone to be wrongly accused of a crime they didn't commit. Some people spend decades in prison for doing no wrong before new evidence is found.

If the justice system was flawless and every single person convicted of a crime was guilty of said crime then I'll all for it. But a flawless justice system is of course, impossible

Actually you are more "correct" and influencing to the public than you might know. Your words are golden. As long as these deathly crimes are dealt with in an instant, by armed bystanders, kind of like it would be in our (let us say' "MY ...") well armed neighborhood, then there is never going to be a reason for a death penalty.

Middle America (I should actually say "conservative Middle America") pretty much takes care of these concerns as they arise. One at a time.


Sorry, but quoting Mettalica' "Sad but true!..."

 Hey, I had my arm broken defending myself from three attackers from my just being curious as to why my neighbor's door was open one day. Do you think for an instant that I do not carry a forty five auto every where I go? (It is my right) Fuck sake dude!

(note to Scre'ap - yeah this is new. It is an XD M and it shoots .45 ACP and it hides better than any forty five I have ever owned. You missed my normal Colt 1911, at least, I think you did,  but I did not know much better in those days.)

What if those armed bystanders are actually the criminals who then say the person they killed was robbing them it wouldn't work all the time but could bring up some troubling issues. That said self defense is fine but if the person is of no further threat best let a trial settle things rather  than instant justice. 

I feel that life in prison  is a more punishing sentence than death, with death it's all over in an instant.

Hey, Parts, you should know me enough by now to understand that occasionally I drop a turd in the punch bowl just to see who picks it up and runs with it. It just adds to the interplay between people, mostly.
Notice the well reasoned comments that followed.

... and, thank you for yours.

[Al Swearegen]

I think most people know where I stand on this issue. I respect others have different opinions and am not threatened or upset by them

[Parts]

Witness against Texas dad executed in 2004 says prosecutor bribed, coerced him

 The key witness against a convicted killer executed in 2004 says he testified in a deal with the prosecutor, who bribed him with the promise of an early parole and threatened him with a longer prison sentence.

The State Bar of Texas could pursue misconduct charges against prosecutor John H. Jackson, who convinced a jury that Cameron Todd Willingham killed his three daughters when he set his Corsicana house on fire in 1991. A lawyer for Jackson said he will ask to have such charges heard by a jury, the Marshall Project reported.

Link

 

[DirtDawg]

I think most people know where I stand on this issue. I respect others have different opinions and am not threatened or upset by them

Are you well armed?

Just asking. I do not have a clue how it is in your lands.
In this state, we have the  option of carrying a weapon either concealed or open. Mine is usually concealed, unless I am attending a gun show or a shooting range.

Not so in some liberal states.

[Jack]

Witness against Texas dad executed in 2004 says prosecutor bribed, coerced him

 The key witness against a convicted killer executed in 2004 says he testified in a deal with the prosecutor, who bribed him with the promise of an early parole and threatened him with a longer prison sentence.

The State Bar of Texas could pursue misconduct charges against prosecutor John H. Jackson, who convinced a jury that Cameron Todd Willingham killed his three daughters when he set his Corsicana house on fire in 1991. A lawyer for Jackson said he will ask to have such charges heard by a jury, the Marshall Project reported.

Link

 

Always creeps me out when adults make it out of house fires but none of the kids do.

[DirtDawg]

Witness against Texas dad executed in 2004 says prosecutor bribed, coerced him

 The key witness against a convicted killer executed in 2004 says he testified in a deal with the prosecutor, who bribed him with the promise of an early parole and threatened him with a longer prison sentence.

The State Bar of Texas could pursue misconduct charges against prosecutor John H. Jackson, who convinced a jury that Cameron Todd Willingham killed his three daughters when he set his Corsicana house on fire in 1991. A lawyer for Jackson said he will ask to have such charges heard by a jury, the Marshall Project reported.

Link

 

Always creeps me out when adults make it out of house fires but none of the kids do.

... and so you think it was that the homeowners saved the guns before they thought about the kids?

You are a seriously disturbed piece of work.

One point: larger bodies can withstand a great deal more smoke inhalation than smaller bodies.

The real problem is that that family (and most) did not have a decent exit strategy when they had an emergency exit situation.

[MLA]

 

[Jack]

Why is that funny? Actually made several attempts to respond, then just realized I don't know how to respond. It's an emotional statement. What should I say? Oh, right, I feel wrong, I retract that statement; it doesn't really give me the creeps? Bullshit. It unnerves me to no end hearing about unharmed adults standing alone outside housefires with kids left inside. It creeps me out and that's not going to change. If that makes me a disturbed person, then am okay with that.

[Gopher Gary]

It's an emotional statement.

 

[MLA]

I want to respond, but then realize I'm just the third wheel in an ongoing conversation with yourself.

I'll just leave it with saying that I wasn't laughing it your reply.

[Jack]

I wasn't laughing it your reply.

Didn't think you were laughing at my reply.

[MLA]

Okay, good.