10 Valid Reasons Why the Death Penalty Should be Abolished

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This is a video I made to illustrate a few extremely valid points as to why exactly the death penalty should be abolished. Feel free to share your views if you are either against or for the death penalty, your views are all welcome. I will not, however, accept any hateful comments, and they will be deleted. If you have an opinion, please give reasons, I'm extremely interested in your point of view.
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Things that YOU can do to help stop the death penalty:

1) If your state has abolition or moratorium bills pending, write your representatives in the state legislature and/or your governor expressing your support for the bill and articulating your personal objections to the death penalty. If there is no such bill pending in your state legislature, write your representatives to ask that they consider sponsoring such a bill.

In 2007 abolition or moratorium bills were introduced in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

2) Find the abolition groups in your state here:

http://64.209.230.125/affiliateDirectory.cfm

and contact them to see how you can get involved locally and to better understand the political climate in your state surrounding the death penalty.

3) Visit the following websites on a regular basis to stay apprised of death penalty information and breaking news and actions:
www.ncadp.org
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
www.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty

4) Write a Letter to the Editor in response to an article that appears in your local newspaper on the death penalty or related topics.

5) Make a donation to support the work of an organizations working on the death penalty. There are groups at the national and local level that could greatly benefit from your support.
Click here to donate to NCADP.

https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/shop/custom.jsp?...

6) Join NCADP's e@bolitionist listserv to get the latest news and action alerts, and tell a friend about it! Sign up here:

http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/signUp.jsp?message=Successfu...

7) Talk to your faith leader about engaging your house of worship on the death penalty..

8) Sign up for an account on MySpace.com or Facebook.com and network with others on the death penalty issue.

9) Visit www.savetookie.org and donate or join to try to prevent capital punishment in Califonia.

10) Wear your opposition to the death penalty. Click here to purchase an article of clothing, bumper sticker or pin:
http://cuadp.org/abolitionwear.html

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Thank you very much. May God bless you all.
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ALSO:
Please purchase a book named "The sacred eye of the falcon: Lessons on life from death row" by Stanley Tookie Williams, Steve Champion and Anthony Ross. It can be purchased at lulu.com, for a QuickLink, click here to view and buy the book:

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If you buy now, send me a message and I will send you a free leaflet written by the three.

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[philliesgurl26]

#5- it's a matter of how heinous the crime is. It's not just at random.

#6- This isn't something that religion should be brought into. It's justice for the family of the victim and gets rid of someone who doesn't deserve to live. How would you feel if your divorced husband raped, beat, and threw your barely alive daughter in a river IN A TRASH BAG only to die a slow painful death? I'd bet anything you'd be screaming for him to be killed.

[philliesgurl26]

#2- it costs $30,000-$50,000 to keep a prisoner alive each year. That adds up for life sentences. Scum like those who beat and stab to death their 3 year old twin girls don't deserve to live.

#3- that's why each case is read and reviewed so many times by so many people and takes so long.

#4- that's a bullshit "fact" that you made up. How do you know it's BECAUSE of race solely? Maybe if you read the cases you'd understand. But you haven't so that's an invalid statement.

[TheDisenherited1]

@Mrpastry909 i like your list. u forgot something! dp almost offers no closure!

[cottycheese]

you didn't site anything you said. therefore nothing you say on this video is credible. you can't make an argument and not site credible sources. makes you seem as though you're making a lot of stuff up.

[29Essan]

abolish the death penalty forever.  life without prole is also a punishment we can use.

[Mrpastry909]

1:The South has a high crime rate so they have a high execution rate.

2: Life in prison is expensive too. Amend the appeals process instead.

3: States accidentally imprison people too. Should we abolish jails?

4: 55% on death row are white. Are you arguing whites are being persecuted?

5: A simple statistic does not make it a lottery.

6: Separation of Church and State

7: Japan and South Korea too

8: Victims are compensated

9: Fix the lawyers, then!

10: I'd rather die than spend 60 years in jail

[ultradumbass]

@m1trekker yea because i am not giving you the answer you wanted to hear, you want to hear "oh we shouldn't execute them if we are not sure, even if we release them in 60 years when they are in their 80's" having a life must be better than no life. uh no, you might say oh but we didn't kill him, well can you give him back the several decades you took him while he was locked away, can you give him back his youth his health, all the things he missed out on? the death penalty kills you while young.

[m1trekker]

@ultradumbass I don't think you answered my question.

[ultradumbass]

@m1trekker therefore even the innocents can be assured they will never come out, william heirenes is said to be innocent, he's been in since he was 17, now 84, no real life waits for him now, he probably almost wishes he had been killed, are we going to now just abolish prisons because we're afraid of incarcerating people in a cell for the rest of their lives for crimes they didn't commit? why do you think gary gilmore was originally sentenced to life but then asked for death, hmm?

[ultradumbass]

@m1trekker all the governors of the usa put together only pardon 50 lwop prisoners, 25 are released on assumption they are innocent, and over 70% were pardoned for non-homicide crime, the average time someone serves for being innocent before release is 37 years, though almost all will die, 30,000 people are sentenced to lwop a year there, 3% are innocent, meaning 1,000 innocents are sentenced to life, only 25 innocents are given release a year meaning only 1 in 40 are ever coming back out.