The “vacant” are the ones who refuse to recognize the death penalty is about revenge, biblical revenge, not “justice”. Do some folks deserve to die for their deeds? I’d say yes to some, like those who start wars for profit, or without reason.
A couple accurate posts toward the end of Benson’s last one are also worth noting.
For the record, Steve Benson is NOT militantly anti death penalty. He once drew a cartoon of a condemned man, being hustled to the electric chair, while crying, “I would like to appeal my death sentence!”
In the next panel, a grave marked, ‘Victim’ is thinking, “So would I.”
Georgia’s human sacrifice of Troy Davis should mobilize all Americans with a conscience or who can reason to end the practice of human sacrifice.
Killing another person does nothing to lower crime. Further, it is morally wrong. Finally, it is a cruel & unusual punishment: cruel, because it takes another’s life; unusual for that reason and for its irrevocability. In all other punishments, there is a chance for the state to correct its mistakes and release an unjustly imprisoned person—not so with the death penalty.
No more Troy Davises. No more killing. End this horrific practice.
^^First degree murder is committed with intent. “Society’s” intent should be to see the individuals never have the opportunity to repeat. I don’t see any need to pamper them. We just don’t have to kill them.
It would appear “Yo”, that your moral compass also swings to putting “taggers” in prison for life? YOU seem to feel they “prime” homicides? Well, sometimes propagandists DO foment, murder, like well Joshua, Goebbels, Rove, or Wolfowitz.
I am glad that you find reason to oppose state-killing, Russell, because killing, except in self-defense, is wrong. That, along with your point and a few others, grounds my opposition to state-killing.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
The “vacant” are the ones who refuse to recognize the death penalty is about revenge, biblical revenge, not “justice”. Do some folks deserve to die for their deeds? I’d say yes to some, like those who start wars for profit, or without reason.
A couple accurate posts toward the end of Benson’s last one are also worth noting.
Simon_Jester almost 13 years ago
For the record, Steve Benson is NOT militantly anti death penalty. He once drew a cartoon of a condemned man, being hustled to the electric chair, while crying, “I would like to appeal my death sentence!”
In the next panel, a grave marked, ‘Victim’ is thinking, “So would I.”
BrianCrook almost 13 years ago
Georgia’s human sacrifice of Troy Davis should mobilize all Americans with a conscience or who can reason to end the practice of human sacrifice.
Killing another person does nothing to lower crime. Further, it is morally wrong. Finally, it is a cruel & unusual punishment: cruel, because it takes another’s life; unusual for that reason and for its irrevocability. In all other punishments, there is a chance for the state to correct its mistakes and release an unjustly imprisoned person—not so with the death penalty.
No more Troy Davises. No more killing. End this horrific practice.
toofunny52 almost 13 years ago
So sorry for Troy, Benson got it right…
runar almost 13 years ago
If Troy Davis had stayed a fetus or gone brain-dead on life suppord, he’d have the entire Republican party clamoring to keep him alive.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
^^First degree murder is committed with intent. “Society’s” intent should be to see the individuals never have the opportunity to repeat. I don’t see any need to pamper them. We just don’t have to kill them.
It would appear “Yo”, that your moral compass also swings to putting “taggers” in prison for life? YOU seem to feel they “prime” homicides? Well, sometimes propagandists DO foment, murder, like well Joshua, Goebbels, Rove, or Wolfowitz.
BrianCrook almost 13 years ago
Yohann: “Life imprisonment can be argued as being ‘cruel and unusual punishment’”.
Really, Yohann? Go ahead. Argue it.
dannysixpack almost 13 years ago
It’s simple, the neo-con, gop, right to lifers, pro-death penalty, anti-civil rights side is SOFT ON CRIME.
they give timothy mcviegh the easy way out. death is too simple and too easy.
what is the most severe penalty – life WITH parole.
take charlie manson, you imprison them for life, institutionalize them so they can’t do a thing without institutional ok, make them reliant.
let them grow old and feeble until they can’t even wipe thier own ass,
then turn the out on the street, and annouce the date/time/location of the release.
that’s justice.
BrianCrook almost 13 years ago
I am glad that you find reason to oppose state-killing, Russell, because killing, except in self-defense, is wrong. That, along with your point and a few others, grounds my opposition to state-killing.