(May 24, 2014 at 4:50 pm)Starvald Demelain Wrote: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/...ric-chair/
Quote:Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.
Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that opposes executions and tracks the issue.
I disagree with the death penalty in the first place, it's my opinion that lex talionis solves nothing, but this is just... sickening.
Opinions?
The statistics paint a curious picture. It would seem that the murder rate is lower in states where there is no death penalty.
Death Penalty Statistics
I don't know how these stats stack up, if there is a couple of states that pull the others up or down accordingly, but it does seem that the death penalty is not a deterrent. Which, if correct, would mean that the death penalty is purely penal from a state point of view and serves as state-sponsored retribution from an individual point of view.
Do the families of people executed wrongly get state-sponsored retribution? No, they don't, and what happens to the families of victims in cases where people are wrongly executed, now there are two unlawful deaths and the real criminal is still at large. It's just not a fair system and the means do not seem to me to justify the ends.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
