Former Florida Warden Repudiates Death Penalty

[TheDisenherited1]

The death penalty is a joke, it has not deterred anything. It has only made things worse.

[VintageTelevision]

How refreshing to hear this man express his morality.

[TBAKC]

the death penalty is so wrong. it's never the right thing to do. it's never right to kill even though murders kill but why is it right for the death penalty? no matter what killing is wrong for what ever the reason is. just let them rot in prison.

[angusbonscott]

the only humane death penalty there is a bullet between the eyes.

[wardenphil]

He's just gone soft....

[rob418r]

I'..to say ! Its wrong and will not make A change' so many of these people Are mentally Ill. and very disabled'. abused poverty poor health . As a child growing up!.. bullied.. and On and On.. No More Death Penalty.  rob418r

[SuperLolpants]

i agree 100% percent

[dadiswatchingyou]

Florida executed Willie Darden in 1989 knowing full well he was innocent. There is no way he could have committed the murder he was conviced of.

[Floridaboy19862]

What a couragous man this is! He is absolutely right! If the Judge or the jury were the ones to kill a condemned, they would NEVER EVER sentence somebody to death!

Thank God we don't have this inhumane punishment in Germany! And by the way: The U.S. Crime rates are twice as high as ours.

Adios amigos (Anti - DP!)

[wardenphil]

SEE PRIVATE MESSAGE.

[KTM0011]

they fucking right death penalty legal but not right

[DoctorBeccles]

God Bless you Mr McAndrew what sense you talk.

[wardenphil]

This guy has simply seen too much in the line of duty, as have many before him. I respect his service and his humanity. This does not mean, however, that I agree with his new stance. Those guys on the row have committed horrible crimes and deserve their fates. Why couldn't he just say he doesn't want to do it anymore and just leave it at that?

[JekyllBoote]

I think you misunderstand his point. He is not just saying that he personally finds judicial killing distasteful, although he clearly does. He is also making the far larger point that it is universally morally wrong.

[MultiMeli123]

I learned of a case in my psychology class about a man who comitted a crime , he was manrtally ill. when he was put in prison he was given medication to quite his psycosis and

[MultiMeli123]

oops...sorry accident...anyway he was able to stand trial and when the crime was not found insane due to being medicated, but when the crime was committed he was not medicaid and delusional. I was angered that this man was put to death as he was mentally ill, and they made sure to put him on medication so he was "fit for trial" uhhh that is why I no longer agree w/ it.

[LucTheJerk]

Death Penalty is wrong!

[bloggerjoe]

Why did you not show the rebuttal?? Anyone who thinks McAndrew's "born again" bleeding heart nonsense is worth listening to needs to review what Oba Chandler did to a mother an her two teen daughters in Tampa Bay.

After you've finished with that one, take a look at what a guy called "Pliers" did to young women in California. (If you can stomach it.)

Both of these men have been on death row for years and years. They watch TV and get fed and continue to enjoy the taxpayer dollars.

[SedanChair]

McAndrew is aware of the terrible crimes that many death row inmates have committed. After all, he was a prison warden. Don't be so quick to dismiss the convictions of others, especially those with McAndrew's experience.

Yes, people commit terrrible crimes; that's not a "rebuttal". What of those who are wrongly convicted and later exonerated based on new evidence? You can't reverse a death sentence. I guess executing the innocent is worth it to you. I don't agree.

[bloggerjoe]

I don't think anyone in the US wants to see an innocent person put to death.

However, our "death rows" are crowded with absolutely proven cases. Mass murderers who are simply abusing the appeals process to mess with the system. (Twenty years since the crime?????)

I've got no problem with condemned people using a legitimate appeals process. And our system should be such that it takes a hard look at those cases which MERIT it.

But Oba Chandler and many others should be long dead by now.

[SLTSTMS]

It also costs more to have an inmate incarcerated on death row then it does to inprison them for life.

[yellyman]

He`s fucking right. Death penalty is WRONG!

[SLTSTMS]

I think that Mr. McAndrew shed some light from an inside perspective of how morally reprehensible capital punishment is.