I'm with you Sam. If we could off the obvious heinous killers at sunrise following the trial, I'd still be for it. 

It's also absurd to snuff-out any low-life while Manson still breathes.

California should ban the death penalty. It is cruel and unusual punishment. We have innocent people on death row. No jury has the right to sentence anyone to death. Let God be the judge. One more thing..when you are sentenced to the death penalty in Ca it is the same as life without.

Oldblue,

You are the ignorant one. Juries recommend and the judge 99.9% of the time follow the juries recommendation so in my opinion they sentence.

Old Blue is right.

The state doesn't want the execution of a convicted murderer to be on the hands of 12 innocent citizens, so the state assumes the duty to make the final decision. 

Timec, even when you are wrong you try to justify it someway. When I am wrong, I admit it. Why can't you?

"New Jersey reinstated the death penalty in 1982, six years after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions, but nobody has been executed in the Garden State since 1963.

New Jersey has been barred from executing anyone under a 2004 court ruling that declared invalid the state's lethal injection procedures.

A special state commission found in January that the death penalty was a more expensive sentence than life in prison, hasn't deterred murder, and could kill innocent people.

The measure would spare eight men on the state's death row " from this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...

there is no proof, no studies showing that the death penalty lowers crimes or murder. It is time for the US and each state to grow up and become civilized like other democracies.

yeah lets get civilized like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Hockmydinnerjacket, and all the other "enlightened" dictaters you lionize.

for a guy that travels a lot you sure have blinders on

Interesting the countries the US is in bed w/ regarding the death penatly. They are not countries that are the known for human rights leadership.

http://www.infoplease.com/i...

The Death Penalty Worldwide

According to Amnesty International, 133 countries have abolished the death penalty. During 2006 25 countries, 91% in China, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, and the United States alone, executed 1,591 people compared to 2,148 in 2005. More than 3,861 people were sentenced to death in 55 countries. More than 20,000 prisoners are on death row across the world. See also U.S. Figures.

(year)¹

I would never say

"pay no attention to TomW"

never

Timec, even when you are wrong you try to justify it someway. When I am wrong, I admit it. Why can't you?

She's pathologically insecure. Right is wrong and wrong is right, because of "oppression."

She's probably still angry about Tookie Williams getting his a while back.

According to Amnesty International, 133 countries have abolished the death penalty.

Amnesty International claims that Australia has more “human rights” violations than North Korea. They’re on drugs. They were terribly disappointed when the Soviet empire crumbled, because there were no more gulags to throw a fit over. A.I. supporters give thanks every day that suffering continues to exist in the world, because without it, they’d all have to get real jobs.

but Tookie be doin' chilrens books, teaching inmate redemption

Tookie started Crips and you could say was a "Father of Gangs in America"

Choo gots a problem wif dat?

hijo de tu oy vey..............

OLD BLUE

If I am wrong I will be the first to admit it. You just informed me of something that I already had complete knowledge of. I could careless about Tookie Williams. He was a notorious gang member.He was executed.....it was wrong ...but oh well. VB on the other hand is a victim in my opinion.

THANK YOU CBPERSEL!

John

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Two more:  "prosecutorial misconduct."