Nebraska Bans Death Penalty

[Nebulous]

Nebraska on Wednesday became the first conservative state in more than 40 years to abolish the death penalty.

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Nebraska joins 18 other states and Washington, D.C., in banning the death penalty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/nebraska-abolishes-death-penalty.html?_r=0

Are you for or against the death penalty?

What do you think about Nebraska abolishing the death penalty?

Should the remaining states (supporting the death penalty) do the same? Why or why not?

 

[DrLeftover]

So Nebraska joins the states where the penalty for murder is thirty years or so of free room and board, free education and medical care, free entertainment, and the chance later for petition of reduction of sentence so you can go home.

Remember: In most cases, "Life" does not mean that they are locked up until the subject of the conversation has assumed room temperature.

 

[Webster]

So Nebraska joins the states where the penalty for murder is thirty years or so of free room and board, free education and medical care, free entertainment, and the chance later for petition of reduction of sentence so you can go home.

Beats the millions spent trying to go through the appellate process just so the State can actually execute someone....then again, in most states, "life" ain't 20-to-life or 25-to-life; "life" is life in prison without parole, which for many of those convicted of murders is probably a worser sentence than death. Give Nebraska credit; they could've just kept the infernal institution and housed death row inmates a/la California.

 

[+paradox]

So Nebraska joins the states where the penalty for murder is thirty years or so of free room and board, free education and medical care, free entertainment, and the chance later for petition of reduction of sentence so you can go home.

Remember: In most cases, "Life" does not mean that they are locked up until the subject of the conversation has assumed room temperature.

prisons make money, a lot of it and use prisoners as slaves...

prisons are nasty and ain't fun, the health care is a joke and the food is probably not food...

what about the wrongfully convicted people that wouldn't have the chance to be set free if we just kill everyone the same day when they get a guilty verdict?

 

[DrLeftover]

I spent ten years working in one.

The "lifers" had a pretty good gig going.

And nobody said "same day execution", that would be the People's Paradise of North Korea.

 

[+paradox]

I spent ten years working in one.

The "lifers" had a pretty good gig going.

And nobody said "same day execution", that would be the People's Paradise of North Korea.

oh okay, so when is it okay to execute a prisoner then?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Use the death penalty and use it often. I want them dead and forgotten as soon as possible. The victims deserve real closure.

 

[DrLeftover]

It's OK to execute them when it has been proven in a court of law, beyond that so called "reasonable doubt" they they committed the crime in question and whatever other legal qualifications are met.

Yes, mistakes may be made. The planet it populated by humans, not gods, but such is the price to be paid for law and order.

Otherwise, civilization begins to look a lot like Baltimore....

 

[+paradox]

It's OK to execute them when it has been proven in a court of law, beyond that so called "reasonable doubt" they they committed the crime in question and whatever other legal qualifications are met.

Yes, mistakes may be made. The planet it populated by humans, not gods, but such is the price to be paid for law and order.

Otherwise, civilization begins to look a lot like Baltimore....

that's the thing doc, not everyone that gets the guilty verdict from a jury is actually guilty, they are so many cases that get over turned due to error...

and at the same time you have guilty people getting off scott free with a not guilty verdict, what's your point again and how in the hell did you manage to turn this topic into that? you're really good doc...

law and order?

what does that have to do with the death penalty?

 

[WhoFlungpoo]

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. But I also believe life in prison should be just that. No TV, no vistors, no bonuses. Just you and those walls day in, day out.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

It's OK to execute them when it has been proven in a court of law, beyond that so called "reasonable doubt" they they committed the crime in question and whatever other legal qualifications are met.

Yes, mistakes may be made. The planet it populated by humans, not gods, but such is the price to be paid for law and order.

Otherwise, civilization begins to look a lot like Baltimore....

Good post. Nobody wants to see a innocent person die but yet we are just human and mistakes happen. But that is hardly justification to stop getting rid of the people who make this world evil. Innocent people die from doctors mistakes maybe we should then ban all doctors from treating people. Car manufactures make mistakes in there products that kill people. Maybe we should ban the making of any cars. It is this leftist feel good policies over rational thinking that they seem to think will work but never does.