Rick Perry Proud Of 234 Executions--Brian Williams Shocked Audience Applauds Deaths

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[Dan474834]

@AndyScarbrough I know how something as a horrible as losing your family to a killer can feel for the victims. But using murder to bring justice is something barbaric in it's own right, and no civilized society would use it as a mean to bring justice.

Life Imprisonment without Parole is just as bad in my opinion and it would certainly comfort me if I was a victim. But the problem is, if a person proves to be innocent, it's impossible to reverse death.

[RiidiWW]

rick perry executed cameron todd willingham, an innocent man. he covered it up by dismissing members of a review panel the week before their report was to come out.

[whatsgoingon07]

If he was confronted with the DNA evidence proving dozens of men were innocent after their executions, his reply would probably be, "GOD BLESS TEXAS!"

[Weasler455]

@jamesetolbert Yeah, to some degree. But that will change. The same thing happened in the late 60s and early 70s throughout the WHOLE COUNTRY no less, based on a Supreme Court ruling. But after the crime and murder rates started climbing, public opinion changed, and the death penalty was reintroduced in the late 70s. It'll happen again. You'll see.

[jamesetolbert]

@Weasler455 Don't be so extreme. You could just leave the state. The reality is that states are gradually getting rid of the death penalty. Some as recent as this year. States that have abolished the death penalty as of 2011 are Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The District of Columbia. So being against the death penalty is actually very American.

[punisherrorschach27]

@Weasler455 And you can brand it as a "baby" and as "convenience" all you want, but perhaps you should actually go out and ask women why they get abortions if you're for fair representation. I understand where you're coming from, truly I do. But I hope you understand where I come from when I say, someone choosing to supply/not supply their body as a resource isn't any of your business (though it can be a virtue), and that if you truly care, you'd listen to the actual women over propaganda.

[punisherrorschach27]

@Weasler455 1) It can be inconsistent based on details witnesses have forgotten, inconsistencies with other witness stories, and the CSI effect that's starting to emerge due to stupid pop culture.

2 &3) I get that, but that doesn't make this point one we're eye to eye on. Like I said before, it's about personhood. You're giving a fetus more rights than an actual person has, more rights than the person carrying the baby, that's not right and you know it.

[Weasler455]

@punisherrorschach27 1) Based on WHAT???

2) EXACTLY!!!! It's already a human, at conception!! And the thing is, thanks to medical science, fetuses are now viable at earlier and earlier stages.

3) Well of course not! Nevertheless, I hope you understand my point. The vast majority of abortions are not due to rape or incest. Rather, they are out "convenience", and I'm sorry, but that is not reason enough for me to kill an innocent baby - at ANY stage of pregnancy.

[punisherrorschach27]

@Weasler455 -1) I'm not saying cops are dumb, but neither are criminals, DNA evidence isn't as copious as you think it is in every case, which means that witness testimony becomes the main barometer for evidence and that can be a rather inconsistent & unstable form of evidence

2) We're talking personhood, i.e., The state at which something gains rights as a person. It's already a human as it contains human DNA.

3) A fetus doesn't have the cognitive capability to make the choice.