CT: Dem response to heinous home invasion and murder, repeal death penalty (house of representatives, enemy)

[EdwardA]

Consequences of voting for Dems.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/ny...h-penalty.html

After more than nine hours of debate, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 86 to 62 on Wednesday night to repeal the state’s death penalty, following a similar vote in the State Senate last week. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, has said he will sign the bill, which would make Connecticut the 17th state — the 5th in five years — to abolish capital punishment.

[HurricaneDC]

As much as I think those home invaders deserve to fry, I just can't support the death penalty in good conscience.

Their next move should be building a supermax prison to put those two miserable animals in for the rest of their lives. They'll be wishing the death penalty hadn't been repealed then...

I've always found this to be the worst argument against capital punishment though

But she recalled a murder in her community and the difficulty residents went through in explaining it to local children. “I just couldn’t reconcile telling them that it’s O.K. for the government to kill after teaching them that killing is wrong, it’s unacceptable, it’s immoral,” she said.

Killing is not always wrong, unacceptable or immoral. In self-defense it's fine. In defense of others it's fine. In war it's fine (assuming it's the enemy). And yes, if someone has proven themselves unqualified to exist among our society, I think it's fine.