tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post9027242993326735429..comments2024-03-27T11:10:52.382-07:00Comments on On My Mind: Option to Death PenaltyJayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-4228797454177116562010-05-15T01:26:53.153-07:002010-05-15T01:26:53.153-07:00If our system required TWO eye-witnesses to the cr...If our system required TWO eye-witnesses to the crime, instead of only one (who might have an agenda of his own), it would help a lot. As would requiring some real evidence; people have been sent to their deaths solely on circumstantial evidence.<br />Maybe the Hebrews had it right after all. If we followed ALL of their religiously-based teaching, instead of only that part which enabled our own vengeance and violence, it would go a long way toward redressing both of your objections.Arthurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-42542254431808074152010-04-19T10:08:31.952-07:002010-04-19T10:08:31.952-07:00My big problem with the death penalty is not so mu...My big problem with the death penalty is not so much the imperfection of application, in that is there a possibility of putting an innocent person to death (not real likely, but the chance exists); but the onerous procedural process involved. Plus the appeals, the reappeals the arguments, blah blah, so that you spend as much time on Death Row as you would a regular sentence.<br /><br />There are some individuals so evil and non reformable that society (and the prison system) is likely better off without them in it. Like the aformentioned offender. And yes, I suppose that the death penaly could be used as leverage, and that's not a bad thing either.brucenoreply@blogger.com