Death Penalty abolished in New Jersey...

whatever happened to the "will of the people"

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[jcrowley1985]

Actually very few people on death row are actually executed anyway. Why? Because they are given virtually unlimited appeals. Why? Because on the off chance they mistakenly convict an innocent man and later execute them.

It's too much of a risk to give someone the death penalty and thus these convicts can forever waste tax dollars on countless legal fees for appeals they know they don't deserve but get anyway.

Much easier to just give them life without parole.

[metsfreak4life]

in Soviet Russia, death penalty abolishes YOU!!!

[TheMarissaDanielle]

@celticenchantment83 liberalism is about double standards? if anything, conservatism is about double standards. conservatives claim to be "pro-life" and yet are for the death penalty and opposed to free healthcare and stem cell research, which save people's lives. they want to "uphold the constitution", but instead just push their religious dogma onto everyone else. they are for freedom, but deny people the right to use their bodies how they see fit. and liberalism is about double standards! ugh

[celticenchantment83]

@TheMarissaDanielle so where is proof that a "fetus" is not a person? What if we applied the same sick logic later in life? What if a fully developed adult said anyone younger than puberty "isn't a person, they are just a child." Liberalism is all about self centeredness and double standards.

[celticenchantment83]

@TheMarissaDanielle it's DISGUSTING to "justify" the killing of innocents because they "aren't wanted." There are people aged 40, 73, 16, and 9 mos who are not wanted, but killing them is MURDER! My point behind the elderly people comment was, as a human being with a right to live, if I had to choose being murdered after age 70 or before birth, I sure as hell would prefer the 7+ decades of life and pleasure and memories over having my brain vacuumed out before I was born.

[TheMarissaDanielle]

@celticenchantment83 yeah, sure. let's have all these kids we don't want, oh yeah. good idea. oh, i know! let's kill off the old folks who have had 70+ years of memories, and not a fetus that wasn't even wanted in the first place. good plan, right? sounds great.

[celticenchantment83]

@TheMarissaDanielle you know, I would have way more respect for you liberals if your arguments were consistent albeit WRONG. You say let's "justify" the grisly slaughter of the unborn for the "greater good" of preventing overpopulation. Killing an innocent can NEVER be justified, but if so, why is THAT the demographic that is to be selected for sacrifice? Wouldn't it make more sense to simply cut down on overpopulation by killing the elderly residents in nursing homes?!

[MadFNMax]

Jesse Timmendequas was NOT innocent. He was clearly 100% GUILTY. He DESERVED his rightful punishment for killing Megan Kanka. DEATH.

[ashunga543]

simple reason, there is no 100% confirmable manner to say someone did it. We can perhaps get 99.999999% sure but never 100%. Thus if we excute, we risk excuting an innocent man. Taking a risk of execusion on someone who could possibly be innocent is wrong, simple fact.

[atchisrj1]

The only time it is acceptable to take a life is in self defense or, in defense of another. A person in prison is no threat to the lives or safety of the public.

[Frances3654]

@fredjustsucks

easy for you to say wise guy