11-26-2017, 12:36 PM
(11-16-2017, 11:46 AM)Donovan Wrote: As liberal as I am in most areas, there is a part of me wishes they'd start executing convicted violent murderers in a manner befitting the original crime. Shot somebody? Be ready for a bullet. Hacked them up? Here comes the table saw. Yeah I know it's barbaric. But every time I see one of these predatory murderers I see the face of some poor soul who died terrified and alone, while this prick gets to lie down with a nice pillow and go to sleep.
I fantasize about that sometimes too and roll my eyes at the claim that lethal injection is a cruel and inhumane form of execution, considering how violently most of the victims were killed.
But, 'an eye or an eye' wouldn't bring any of their victims back, obviously, and there are so many drawbacks to the even more humane death penalties currently undertaken across much of the country.
More than 155 individuals have been exonerated from death row since 1973, and that's only the ones lucky enough to have had advocates and were released after being proven innocent. It's impossible to know how many more people were wrongly convicted of capital crimes.
But, if the rate of innocence in exonerations is applied to convicts who had their sentences reduced and those who have already been killed by the government.............it works out to over 4% or 120+ more according to the most in-depth analysis. http://time.com/79572/more-innocent-peop...ted-study/
I don't lose any sleep over the executions of death row convicts who we KNOW are guilty. But the other ones do bother me.