Florida Death Penalty Reform (legal, injection, lawyers, poll)
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I oppose the death penalty because to me it is an appalling waste of money and resources, and our system makes it too easy to convict (and subsequently execute) an innocent person.
I have no doubt whatsoever that we have executed innocent people in Texas.
Capital punishment costs more than life in prison when you add in the cost of prosecuting a capital case (much higher) and the mandatory appeals process that accompanies a death sentence. It deters nothing. It solves nothing.
so it seems the vote between those in favor and those against is tied at 4-4 with 2 supports of the death penalty wishing to change the method from lethal injection to a method that causes the diffendent to suffer, intreasting.
Capital punishment costs more than life in prison when you add in the cost of prosecuting a capital case (much higher) and the mandatory appeals process that accompanies a death sentence. It deters nothing. It solves nothing.
That's simply because of how our system operates. China doesn't seem to have cost related issues when it comes to executing the convicted.
Given the amount of vicious human garbage we have in our prisons, we need an express lane for capital cases.
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Her only son, Keith, and his girlfriend, Melanie King, were robbed, murdered and set afire in their Wakulla County home in 1997. Two of the three men convicted in the deaths, Jason Looney and Guerry Hertz, have been on death row since 2000.
Today, Spears wonders whether she'll live long enough to see her son's killers put to death. "It's a living torture," said Spears, 65. "It's something the family thinks about every day. There's no reason for it being this long."
Florida lawmakers, also tired of the delays in carrying out death sentences, are trying to speed up the process.
Bills now in the House and Senate would create tighter timeframes for appeals and post-conviction motions, make it harder for inmates to dismiss their lawyers, and heighten the legal standards for pleading certain arguments.
If someone is caught red handed, video evidence beyond the shadow of any doubt. Then I am ok with the death penalty.
10 eye witnesses, gun in hand, knife in hand. Absolute undeniable proof, I am ok. Circumstantial evidence, no go. Anything other than 100% proof positive, I am NOT ok with the death penalty.
I'm okay with the death penalty-as long as the person did it.....science has come a long way to convict and to overturn-most criminals spend an average of 30 years on death row...plenty of time to ensure we are frying the right person.
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