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At 52, Dr. William Petit faces years — perhaps decades — of emotionally draining court hearings before the two men charged with murdering his family in a 2007 home invasion may be convicted and executed.
He'll have to listen repeatedly to the horrific details of the crimes against his wife, who was strangled, and two daughters, who were tied to their beds.
Mr. Petit's situation is precisely the problem with the death penalty's effectiveness. It takes way too long and it takes too heavy a toll on the victims families. There needs to be a shortned process as far as the death penalty is concerned.
If they were armed they could have possibly killed the invaders when they broke in. I can't support giving the government the power to execute people though.
Mr. Petit's situation is precisely the problem with the death penalty's effectiveness. It takes way too long and it takes too heavy a toll on the victims families. There needs to be a shortned process as far as the death penalty is concerned.
The problem with the death penalty is that it makes us barbarians. I don't think we need a faster, more efficient way to become barbarians.
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If they were armed they could have possibly killed the invaders when they broke in. I can't support giving the government the power to execute people though.
Maybe in Kentucky or Texas. If they did just that in CT Mr. Petit would go through a whole mess of trials only in this instance he would be trying to prove his family's innocence.
Its an unfortunate but necessary side effect of Justice. Imagine the result if we denied appeals 30 years ago, with the ever growing amount of people convicted exonerated by DNA evidence or later evidence.
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