| KingofTrolls said: Life is sacred. True. Unborn children are sacred. True. Capital punishment is bad - from Jezus words. True. Killing others is bad. True. Dont perform crime - u will not get killed. This is the message. Ultimate deal - u choose. Hey, robber ! Let the victim survive - u will save ur life. We will catch u no matter how, but let her/him life and save ur. Ur life for his/her life. Mathematic. Cold calcutation. The robber thinks ,, Have I really to kill her ? Try to not kill her maybe, they will not kill me. " And it really works. They dont wanna kill anybody just for killing, rathet to save others. No one wanna kill and no one wanna get killed. This is all behind it. |
life in prison is certainly enough reason not to kill.
"A recent survey of the most leading criminologists in the country from found that the overwhelming majority did not believe that the death penalty is a proven deterrent to homicide. Eighty-eight percent of the country’s top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and authored by Professor Michael Radelet, Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Traci Lacock, also at Boulder.
Similarly, 87% of the expert criminologists believe that abolition of the death penalty would not have any significant effect on murder rates. In addition, 75% of the respondents agree that “debates about the death penalty distract Congress and state legislatures from focusing on real solutions to crime problems.”
The survey relied on questionnaires completed by the most pre-eminent criminologists in the country, including Fellows in the American Society of Criminology; winners of the American Society of Criminology’s prestigious Southerland Award; and recent presidents of the American Society of Criminology. Respondents were not asked for their personal opinion about the death penalty, but instead to answer on the basis of their understandings of the empirical research."
This is only further compounded by the fact that the justice system doesn't always get it right.
"The last time David Ranta walked free, the Berlin Wall had just fallen and Nelson Mandela had just been released from prison.
Now, 23 years later, the 58-year-old who was wrongfully convicted of murdering a New York City rabbi heard his handcuffs clink for the last time. He walked out of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn after Judge Miriam Cyrulnik vacated his conviction.
"It's clear that the effects of this case have been devastating," Cyrulnik said. "To say I'm sorry for what you have endured would be an understatement."
Ranta's relatives applauded in court and wailed audibly when the judge told him, "Sir you are free to go."
He walked from a cuffed position at defense table into tearful embrace of his family. When he emerged from court he was carrying a mesh laundry bag filled with his only possessions.
"For now I'll just say thank you all for your support," Ranta said.
Ranta was convicted of killing a rabbi in a 1990 botched robbery attempt of a diamond courier. The recently created Conviction Integrity Unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney's office determined after a year-long investigation that witnesses were coached and police mishandled evidence.
"There was new evidence which was developed which caused us to believe that the foundation of the case has been so degraded that we can no longer be confident that a jury would render a verdict of guilty," said Assistant District Attorney John O'Mara.
Ranta had proclaimed his innocence from the start. Investigators determined that detectives falsely claimed they took statements from Ranta and an eyewitness was instructed to pick Ranta from a police line-up.
"This was a travesty of justice from the beginning," defense attorney P. O. Sussman said.
Until today Ranta had been locked for nearly 23 years in a 6-by-9 foot cell near Buffalo. He began serving the sentence when his daughter was 2 years old. Today his daughter is six months pregnant with his grandchild.
"As I said from the beginning I had nothing to do with this case," Ranta said before he walked briskly outdoors toward freedom."
http://amarillo.com/news/texas-news/2012-05-15/wrong-man-was-executed-texas-probe-says
