Even though I don’t support the death penalty I know why they’ve reintroduced it in the US. Pedophiles and people who deal in child trafficking better watch out.
It was never abolished, people continued to be sentenced to death at a federal level, it was just that the executions themselves had ceased. Like quite a large number of states there that have it on their books and continue to pass death sentences, but don't carry out executions.
Absolutely shameful post.
One such person is Keith Ryrie. Sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of a 5 year old girl (Rhonda Irwin on the banks of the Yarra River in Burnley) in 1966. Because of the public outcry from the hanging of Ronald Ryan 2/2/1967, Ryrie was the next man to be scheduled to meet the noose got his sentenced commuted. He was sentenced to death for the Irwin murder but as he was also charged with the murder of a 15 year old in Holmesglen (Maureen Ferrari). Ryrie had followed her home from the train station. Ferrari was in her school uniform and returning from school. He wasn't tried for her murder. Well he was going to hang anyway.
1) instead of killing them you don't let them out of prison 2) it costs more to kill them 3) it has never been proven to be a deterrent 4) Revenge for the sake of revenge should not be part of any justice system 5) I'm not sure what this means, are you suggesting that remorse is something that should be avoided at all costs?
Well china are the biggest state murderers on the planet so thry arent completely innocent. Would be much harder to carry out if china announced it was banning murdering its criminals.
On 1), I’m 32. If I’d just been convicted of murder and I had a choice of either spending 40 years to life in jail in some maximum security joint or being executed after say 12-15 years, I reckon I’d choose the latter. I reckon a lot of those cons would come to choose death as the more preferable option. Life in jail ain’t much of an existence.
He was a scum bag who murdered 2 people. It’s good that they killed him. Should be lots more if it.Powerful article by Steve Earle on the death penalty.
Steve Earle witnesses the execution of a friend
Country musician Steve Earle corresponded with convicted murderer Jonathan Wayne Nobles for 10 years, but met him for the first time just a month before he was killed by lethal injection. Here he records his harrowing daily visits to prison, and the night he witnessed the execution of his friend.www.theguardian.com
Should be one trial and one appeal and then zap
But do they ever throw away the key apart from very exceptional cases. A lot of scumbags seem to get out and then re offend.
I’m sure I have changed since 1986 but I never killed anyone then nor since. I 100 percent support capital punishment. So what about mass murderers or multiple rapists? You don’t agree that they have forfeited the right to live?
HappenS in Australia too.
It’s a reasonable question addressed in the 2012 N+1 essay by Christopher Glazek and pertinent to current politics.
Raise the Crime Rate
From 1980 to 2007, the number of prisoners held in the United States quadrupled to 2.3 million, with an additional 5 million on probation or parole. What Ayn Rand once called the “freest, noblest country in the history of the world” is now the most incarcerated,and the second-most incarcerated...nplusonemag.com
How many innocent people are you happy to accidentally kill for every guilty one?
