Thread: Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty[W:203]

Originally Posted by LeoVlaming

Since people sometimes die in prison innocently, do you believe the best way to prevent this is to stop imprisoning anybody?

So do you place the life of the innocent murdered on the street above the life of an innocent on death row? Is the protection of the innocent your objective, or is it the sense of justice you feel when an execution takes place? Because if it's the former then life without parole accomplishes that objective. If it's the latter, then your position is emotion-driven, and the need for someone to be executed results in the execution of the innocent. It certainly seems to be the latter, since you're trying like holy hell to deflect from the fact that innocent people are in fact sent to death row.

"Welcome to Nebraska
The Good Life (without parole)".

Originally Posted by LeoVlaming

No, those studies do not take into account all the possible legal court cases (on all sorts of matters) an inmate can bring while he is incarcerated for life. Nor do they take into account the cost of medical care for people who are 70, 80 or 90 years old.

Actually it compares long standing trends in aggregate spending. Again, just saying so doesn't make it so. Now if you have some evidence, some data to back your claims, then by all means let's see it.

Originally Posted by Thrilla

pretty much what i said in post #14 and #17.

getting rid of the death penalty altogether is dumb... and vastly improving it's application is a much better policy.

Ahh, a bargaining chip. "Confess or we might kill you!" Wonderful plan. I'm sure that wont result in more innocent people being executed.

Originally Posted by LeoVlaming

No, those studies do not take into account all the possible legal court cases (on all sorts of matters) an inmate can bring while he is incarcerated for life. Nor do they take into account the cost of medical care for people who are 70, 80 or 90 years old.

Yes they do.

Originally Posted by Ikari

This is why I oppose the death penalty, this blind appeal to emotion.

The Death Penalty costs money and the lives of the innocent. It's a costly and flawed system which is no longer necessary in today's society. We save money by not using the DP and we avoid all the negative consequences of it. Added to the fact that the DP provides nothing, not deterrent nor safety to society, over that which we get by having the base jailing system.

This red faced vitriol spewed out by some is nothing more that emotional appeal to used a dumb and broken system.

Emotional my ass! There is NO blind appeal to emotion! I could execute these scumbags as easy as stepping on a cockroach....no emotion whatsoever! You are wrong as it gets! It most certainly provides something....eliminating from the gene pool a flawed human that will never hurt anyone again, not an inmate, not a guard and no one else in case of escape.

These scumbag criminals laugh at your naivete!

Originally Posted by DA60

Way to join the human race on this Nebraska.

What BS! You don't know WTF you are talking about!

You want to brag about how civilized we are? We aren't. Allowing pieces of **** to live is not civilized. You dopes want to make a difference? Lobby your reps to change the law and get rid of the red tape and hang em high, immediately after trial!

Ohhhh ................and make it public!

Originally Posted by MickeyW

Emotional my ass! There is NO blind appeal to emotion!

You do realize the irony of this statement, yeah?

Originally Posted by MickeyW

I could execute these scumbags as easy as stepping on a cockroach....no emotion whatsoever! You are wrong as it gets! It most certainly provides something....eliminating from the gene pool a flawed human that will never hurt anyone again, not an inmate, not a guard and no one else in case of escape.

These scumbag criminals laugh at your naivete!

This is meaningless, emotional drivel. Come back when you have a calm and rational argument.