First woman in 5 years executed in US amid outcry

[cdaigle430]

Uh, Yiz?

My family is in that position. My paternal biological grandfather was brutally murdered when I was a teenager. His killer is still sitting on FL's death row. I can attest that I'm not chomping at the bit wanting to kill this man. Yes, he committed a horrible crime. Yes, that victim was my grandfather. However, the death penalty such as it is, is flawed. I'm not so sure we should bust down the doors of the Florida State prison where my gfather's killer is being held, demanding he be killed.

Personally, what would it serve? This guy has already been behind bars 35 yrs. Why not just sentence this creep to life without parole and call it a day? Tax dollars? Pfft. We're already spending tons of money while this creep exhausts his appeals, so what difference would it make if we just commute his sentence to life without parole? The guy is probably up in age now, anyway, right?

I disagree, however, I think the death penalty should be up to the victims family. They should decide if this person is to die and how they will die.

 

[Oceanbreeze]

I've never had anyone in my family who got murdered. However, my childhood best friend's mother was murdered years ago and my friend did not want the killer to suffer the death penalty. She found the body btw and yet didn't want the death sentence imposed on him.

I support the death sentence only if the murder (more likely series of murders) was exceptionally brutal and it's clear the guy is guilty and will kill again without remorse and he's a threat to the public.

I will grant that some innocent people have died wrongly though hence why I say it's very clear the guy is guilty and there is no reasonable room for doubt.

For all other murders, they should get at least 20 years or even life depending on the situation.

Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I will admit however, if a family member of mine were brutally murdered, I would want the person responsible to be put on death row.

But I already know it would never bring my family member back.

I will state something here that I do not believe I have ever told anyone outside of my family. When I was four years old, a group of boys tried to burn my eyes out with a cigarette. They held me down and cut up my arms with a straight razor first.

The oldest one went to jail. He later in life, walked into a grocery store and bought a pepsi. He came back demanding a refund after he had drank it all. Of course, he didn't get his refund. He got angry, walked across the street and made a molotov cocktail out of an aluminum gas container .. came back, and threw it at a line waiting to check out from the grocery store.

He was sentenced to death.

Good riddance.

I could and would support the death penalty if it wasn't so stinking flawed. The problem lies in our justice system. The whole damn system is flawed beyond belief. That's why I want to see it overhauled.

I agree with the both of you. There are people who deserve the death penalty. I also believe my gfathers killer is one of them, but the system is flawed. This guy who killed my grandfather had sex with HIV infected people, and deliberately infected himself with the HIV virus in the hopes that it would save him from his death sentence. The hell of it is, that may have worked. How is that justice? See what I mean? We can discuss the death penalty, but, when it comes down to it, it's NOT just the DP that needs to be revamped, it's our entire justice system and how we do things. There's no reason whatsoever why this man who killed my grandfather should still be going thru the appeals process this many years after the murder. California has people on it's death row from the 70s and 80s. Why?

Sure, I would like these people have these appeals. We shouldn't just take a life in the blink of an eye, but, should it take 25 yrs or more to decide a person's fate? No, it shouldn't.

And, what about the ones who are wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death? That is what also worries me. There are people who have been put to death erroneously. There have been people who were exonerated of their crime through DNA and released from death row. It all just makes me stop and think, and when I do, I have to wonder what the heck are we doing?

 

[Miss-Delectable]

That's why we banned it in Canada. People were uncertain that it acted as a deterrent for murder... which it didn't. In fact, the homicide rate went down after they banned it.

The same reasoning Australia used to ban Capital Punishment. The last death penalty was carried out was in 1960's.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Um, the logic is flawed. She's the one that perpetrated the idea and set things in motion. She offered promises of payment to do the deed when she's a coward to do it herself.

When the deed was carried out, resulting in the death of two men, she alone is responsible for their deaths since she's the one that set things in motion to begin with.

You may be opposed to the death penalty, but wait until someone kills someone you dearly loved and I guarantee that you will want the individual(s) responsible dead or you would kill them in defense of your love ones if you so happen to be there.

So don't talk outta your arse until you've actually been there yourself.

Yiz

The woman was the that mastermind the killing of the men , I agree she was
guilty for sure! Pamela Smart did the same thing, she have her teenager lover kill her husband . Pamela Smart did not get the death sentence, , in fact she was on TV recently saying she did not have anything to do with her husband death.