Do you believe in the death penalty?
By redkathy
@redkathy (3374)
United States
October 14, 2008 8:19am CST
All of these guys have something in common, murder and death row. I guess it is human instinct to plea for your life when you know that it is being ended! I wonder if they think about the people they murdered and how they felt when their lives were over?
The first guy killed college students and then wanted a stay because he was obese and lethal injection was cruel. The second guy killed a family, including a 22 month old, and confessed he was a killer but didn't kill these people. What if this was your family? Your friends?
1 - "The 5-foot-7, 267-pound Cooey had tried to avoid execution by arguing that his obesity would prevent humane lethal injection because viable veins in his arms are hard to find.
Cooey is scheduled to die for killing two college students in 1986. He spent most of the night sitting on his bed and pacing quietly in his cell, Carson said. He fell asleep at 4:06 a.m., woke at 5:20 a.m. and did not ask for breakfast."
Read Full Article http://www.mylot.com/w/newsarticle/1384435.aspx
2 - "Alvin Kelly's stay on death row is scheduled to end today, when he'll be executed for shooting an East Texas toddler to death in 1984. The former Tyler truck repair shop owner admits he's a killer -- he confessed to an unrelated murder -- but denies killing 22-month-old Devin Morgan and his parents in an apparent robbery at their Gregg County home."
Read the full article here http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/death-row-inmate-to-die-today.html
So tell me, do you believe in the death penalty?
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5 responses
@jfxrsch (1041)
• China
15 Oct 08
I wouldn't give a permission to the authorities to let them kill anybody. I wouldn't encourage murder either. It's simply not my job to make judgment on either site. Both side, the authorities and the criminals, are working hard for whatever they want to achieve. What's my share in the business? If you think I get a more secure society because of the authoriteis' nice jobs. it's fine if like to think that way. But I really don't think the authorities are not killers. So, which side I'd support? None. let them play and get what they deserve. Winner survive.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
14 Oct 08
I really believe that as long as we humans use an eye for an eye type of mentality we will not grow into our full potential. It's never stopped a criminal becasue each one of them thinks they will not get caught so all it does is demean the people who enforce and approve revenge. How can we become a truly spritual enity as long as we condone this activity?
@Bluepatch (2476)
• Trinidad And Tobago
15 Oct 08
Its wrong to kill people no matter who does it, an individual or the state.
When a country stops all killing the people respect human life even more.
It gives the country a standard.
Here in Trinidad all the politicians talk about hanging killers and it shows in their total lack of morals and character.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
15 Oct 08
i believe if there is a confession and no way there could be a mistake then yes i do.. i dont see why we all should be paying for all of them to live when they have killed others ya know?? it would probably help taxes go down!! i would hate to think that some one innocent might get it which is why i would want some kind of dna match or something to where there was no way around him being guilty..
and for him to try to get out of it because of it being hard to find a vein is the most stupidest thing i have ever heard.. you mean to tell me he has never had blood drawn or anything?? they can find a vein!!
@josenhims (16)
• Canada
15 Oct 08
I believe no one has the right to take someone else's live. On the other hand, if you have taken someone else's life, you have taken their livelihood. The bible says, "do unto others as you would have done unto you" so i believe its justified, that the same happen to you.
