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Time To End The Death Penalty On America?
For some reason I thought most Americans supported it but it seems not.
The president elect has vowed to try to end it officially and from this it would appear that the current administration thinks he has a good chance of success.
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The president elect has vowed to try to end it officially and from this it would appear that the current administration thinks he has a good chance of success.
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The average time in Britain between sentence and execution was six weeks. This allowed time for any appeal to be heard and for the Home Secretary to review the case. It was an unwritten rule that if for any reason a prisoner could not be executed within three months of sentence he was automatically reprieved.
Given that Trump has nothing more to lose than the vanishing shreds f what diginity he might once have possessed, it is hard not to look at his actions here as the last spiteful two fingers to his opponent in the election even he is finally getting around to accepting that he has lost.
America's legal system in terms of the death penalty is broken beyond repair, with inmates spending decades on death row as appeals are brought, argued over, and dismissed.
An end to this barbaric practice would do much to improve America's seriously damaged reputation with the rest of the world, quite apart from being the action of a civilised society, which has not place for state sponsored and sanctioned murder.
America's legal system in terms of the death penalty is broken beyond repair, with inmates spending decades on death row as appeals are brought, argued over, and dismissed.
An end to this barbaric practice would do much to improve America's seriously damaged reputation with the rest of the world, quite apart from being the action of a civilised society, which has not place for state sponsored and sanctioned murder.
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Lisa Montgomery fatally strangled a pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cut open her body, and kidnapped her baby. In December 2004, as part of a premeditated murder-kidnap scheme, Montgomery drove from her home in Kansas to Stinnett’s home in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy. Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett—who was eight months pregnant—until the victim lost consciousness. Using a kitchen knife, Montgomery then cut into Stinnett’s abdomen, causing her to regain consciousness. A struggle ensued, and Montgomery strangled Stinnett to death. Montgomery then removed the baby from Stinnett’s body, took the baby with her, and attempted to pass it off as her own. Montgomery subsequently confessed to murdering Stinnett and abducting her child. In October 2007, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence, which the court imposed. Her conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and her request for collateral relief was rejected by every court that considered it. Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 8, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.
No doubt some will see this as an excess punishment; I don't.
Lisa Montgomery fatally strangled a pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cut open her body, and kidnapped her baby. In December 2004, as part of a premeditated murder-kidnap scheme, Montgomery drove from her home in Kansas to Stinnett’s home in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy. Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett—who was eight months pregnant—until the victim lost consciousness. Using a kitchen knife, Montgomery then cut into Stinnett’s abdomen, causing her to regain consciousness. A struggle ensued, and Montgomery strangled Stinnett to death. Montgomery then removed the baby from Stinnett’s body, took the baby with her, and attempted to pass it off as her own. Montgomery subsequently confessed to murdering Stinnett and abducting her child. In October 2007, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence, which the court imposed. Her conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and her request for collateral relief was rejected by every court that considered it. Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 8, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.
No doubt some will see this as an excess punishment; I don't.
I am against the death penalty, and always have been, been when you read about a crime so utterly evil as that shown in Jackdaw's post, there is an argument for a wavering of my belief.
I know it would never happen, and no doubt people would argue it's impossible, but perhaps there should be 'beyond reasonable doubt', plus a greater proof of 'no doubt'.
As we have seen so many times in the past, people have been convicted beyond reasonable doubt reasonable, and then the conviction has been overturned.
It's a difficult one for me with my stance of being fundamentally against the death penalty.
I know it would never happen, and no doubt people would argue it's impossible, but perhaps there should be 'beyond reasonable doubt', plus a greater proof of 'no doubt'.
As we have seen so many times in the past, people have been convicted beyond reasonable doubt reasonable, and then the conviction has been overturned.
It's a difficult one for me with my stance of being fundamentally against the death penalty.
Ruth Ellis was found guilty of pumping six bullets into her lover's body, one of which ricoched and injured a passer-by. There may well have been grounds for a reprieve but at the time gun crime was on the increase due to the number of weapons captured during the war. A reprieve would have sent the wrong message. This was two years before the introduction of the partial defence of Diminished Responsibility which, if it had been available and accepted by the jury, would have reduced the charge to manslaughter, a non-capital offence.
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