Death vs. Murder
Studies say the death penalty, expeditiously applied, not only prevents murders but deters them.
Amazingly even-handed airing of these non-PC results by the Associated Press. Imagine if they were to apply the same reporting standard to other controversial subjects such as, I don’t know, the Iraq war, global warming, abortion, gay marriage, anything involving the Bush administration …
One point not discussed, re DNA exonerations, is that DNA techniqies may be more of an argument for the death penalty than against. Anecdotal evidence is that CSI-watching juries are increasingly unwilling to convict in the absence of DNA and other hi-tech forensic evidence. That is problematic in itself, but suggest the framing of innocents and faulty eyewitness identifications will be more difficult to sell. As for the moral argument, well, you just need to ask yourself how moral it is to aid and abet murder.
Euro-DP opponent MVDG is alarmed:
Those who oppose the death penalty should take information / studies like this very seriously. It might result in a change of opinion, if not, one should be able to explain why, considering that several lives are saved by executing one criminal, one continues to oppose it.
Precisely, Michael.
You have got to respect a person who is personally opposed to this but is also too honest to try to skew his results to back his personal bias.
No kidding. Now, if they’d apply the same to global warming, etc. (see list above).
Sister Toldjah helpfully links to a couple of particularly horrific rape-torture-murders for those suffering moral qualms.
Still queasy? Jawa:
Of course we could save even more lives by using organs from convicted felons for transplants.
Win-win! Make sure the law gives murderers and their relatives no say in this matter.
Topics: crime, law & order, punishment
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:28 am Comments (3) on Monday, June 11, 2007
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June 11th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I’d be leary of harvesting organs from executed prisoners, given the spread of AIDS and such. Not to mention the fact that the Chinese harvest organs from executed prisoners for profit.
Otherwise, I fully support the death penalty.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Taking organs from executed prisoners is a bit too Brave New Worldish for me. That’s something that I feel should be voluntary. But I do support the death penalty, because there are some people in the world (Sister Toldjah’s links detail a few) who have simply abdicated their own humanity and should be removed for the good of us all.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:25 am
I would like to offer up the “if it only saves one life” argument the left deploys all the time when whining about gun control.
Surely they’ve established the “moral authority” of that line of thinking, right?