Comments on: Death Penalty in America

By: Ed Kent

Ed Kent — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:29:12 +0000

The fiancial costs of the death penalty are vastly greater than life imprisonment:

http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/dieter1.html

By: Geo

Geo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:56 +0000

A more meaningful comparison would be the executions per capita, which happens to be an option at the link you sited. An earlier commenter has already cast doubt on the data, but if they can be believed, by your measure countries like Somalia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria are more civilized than the U.S. I’ll take my chances in the U.S.

The execution to which you refer must be the one of the D.C. sniper — not exactly the most sympathetic of defendants. To say he should be allowed to beat the justice system in spite of what he put the nation through seems to me to be a case of compassion overwhelming common sense.

If you really want to help someone condemned to die, a much more worthwhile effort would be to help exonerate those who may have been wrongly convicted.

And finally, Bush may have been a visitor to Texas in 2007, the year for which the data purports to cover, but he was certainly not governor.

By: Doe

Doe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:32:48 +0000

Eye for an eye.

By: Blogbs

Blogbs — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:03:27 +0000

Ronald Williams…totally agree. The victims that cried out for their lives to be spared..pleaded and pleaded, to no avail. I for one, don’t want to show mercy for them. JMO

By: Ronald Williams

Ronald Williams — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:45 +0000

How many countries do you think actually report these statistics accurately? It is very naive to think that we are actually 7th. I could name at least a dozen other countries that I guarantee executed scores more than the US did.

You always are the murderers advocate on here. I, for one, think we should execute more. It would help our economy to have fewer in prison getting three hots and a cot at taxpayers expense.