The Obituary Page
- rgio - May 24, 2024 - 11:09am
Trump
- rgio - May 24, 2024 - 11:05am
Bob Dylan
- Steely_D - May 24, 2024 - 10:50am
NY Times Strands
- rgio - May 24, 2024 - 9:45am
Wordle - daily game
- geoff_morphini - May 24, 2024 - 9:45am
Israel
- R_P - May 24, 2024 - 9:13am
Rock mix sound quality below Main and Mellow?
- R567 - May 24, 2024 - 9:11am
RightWingNutZ
- Steely_D - May 24, 2024 - 8:54am
NYTimes Connections
- rgio - May 24, 2024 - 8:40am
Odd sayings
- GeneP59 - May 24, 2024 - 8:08am
Things You Thought Today
- GeneP59 - May 24, 2024 - 8:06am
Name My Band
- GeneP59 - May 24, 2024 - 8:03am
May 2024 Photo Theme - Peaceful
- fractalv - May 24, 2024 - 8:03am
Radio Paradise Comments
- GeneP59 - May 24, 2024 - 7:58am
RP Daily Trivia Challenge
- ScottFromWyoming - May 24, 2024 - 7:32am
It's the economy stupid.
- black321 - May 24, 2024 - 7:25am
Solar / Wind / Geothermal / Efficiency Energy
- Red_Dragon - May 24, 2024 - 6:55am
Artificial Intelligence
- miamizsun - May 24, 2024 - 5:41am
Today in History
- DaveInSaoMiguel - May 24, 2024 - 1:42am
Fascism In America
- Red_Dragon - May 23, 2024 - 5:52pm
Climate Change
- R_P - May 23, 2024 - 2:48pm
USA! USA! USA!
- R_P - May 23, 2024 - 11:02am
Nederland / The Netherlands
- R_P - May 23, 2024 - 10:03am
Music News
- Beaker - May 23, 2024 - 8:30am
Interviews with the artists
- Beaker - May 23, 2024 - 8:12am
Photography Forum - Your Own Photos
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 22, 2024 - 8:51pm
Science is bullsh*t
- GeneP59 - May 22, 2024 - 4:16pm
Maarjamaa
- oldviolin - May 22, 2024 - 3:32pm
Gotta Get Your Drink On
- ScottFromWyoming - May 22, 2024 - 3:25pm
Bug Reports & Feature Requests
- jarro - May 22, 2024 - 11:19am
New Music
- R_P - May 22, 2024 - 9:18am
Coffee
- haresfur - May 22, 2024 - 12:12am
Most played: what's the range? Last 30 days? 90?
- theirongiant - May 21, 2024 - 2:20pm
Dialing 1-800-Manbird
- oldviolin - May 21, 2024 - 11:59am
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •
- Isabeau - May 20, 2024 - 2:16pm
What Did You See Today?
- Steely_D - May 20, 2024 - 1:24pm
Baseball, anyone?
- ScottFromWyoming - May 20, 2024 - 12:00pm
Mixtape Culture Club
- ColdMiser - May 20, 2024 - 7:50am
Shawn Phillips
- Isabeau - May 20, 2024 - 6:20am
The Corporation
- Red_Dragon - May 20, 2024 - 5:08am
Positive Thoughts and Prayer Requests
- GeneP59 - May 19, 2024 - 4:08pm
What can you hear right now?
- GeneP59 - May 19, 2024 - 4:07pm
China
- Isabeau - May 19, 2024 - 2:22pm
What Makes You Laugh?
- Isabeau - May 19, 2024 - 2:18pm
TV shows you watch
- Steely_D - May 19, 2024 - 1:13am
Music library
- nightdrive - May 18, 2024 - 1:28pm
Paul McCartney
- miamizsun - May 18, 2024 - 4:06am
Virginia News
- Steely_D - May 18, 2024 - 2:51am
Gnomad here. Who farking deleted my thread?
- Red_Dragon - May 17, 2024 - 5:59pm
The Dragons' Roost
- triskele - May 17, 2024 - 4:04pm
Upcoming concerts or shows you can't wait to see
- ScottFromWyoming - May 17, 2024 - 1:43pm
DIY
- black321 - May 17, 2024 - 9:16am
Other Medical Stuff
- kurtster - May 16, 2024 - 10:00pm
Your Local News
- Proclivities - May 16, 2024 - 12:51pm
Alexa Show
- thisbody - May 16, 2024 - 12:15pm
Joe Biden
- Steely_D - May 16, 2024 - 1:02am
Strange signs, marquees, billboards, etc.
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 15, 2024 - 4:13pm
how do you feel right now?
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 15, 2024 - 4:10pm
What the hell OV?
- oldviolin - May 15, 2024 - 12:38pm
Song of the Day
- oldviolin - May 15, 2024 - 11:50am
NASA & other news from space
- Beaker - May 15, 2024 - 9:29am
Human Rights (Can Science Point The Way)
- miamizsun - May 15, 2024 - 5:50am
Play the Blues
- Steely_D - May 15, 2024 - 1:50am
Animal Resistance
- R_P - May 14, 2024 - 6:37pm
2024 Elections!
- R_P - May 14, 2024 - 6:00pm
punk? hip-hop? metal? noise? garage?
- thisbody - May 14, 2024 - 1:27pm
Social Media Are Changing Everything
- Red_Dragon - May 14, 2024 - 8:08am
Internet connection
- ai63 - May 14, 2024 - 7:53am
Congress
- Red_Dragon - May 13, 2024 - 8:22pm
Ukraine
- R_P - May 13, 2024 - 5:50pm
What The Hell Buddy?
- oldviolin - May 13, 2024 - 1:25pm
Surfing!
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 13, 2024 - 1:21pm
Bad Poetry
- oldviolin - May 13, 2024 - 11:38am
See This Film
- Red_Dragon - May 13, 2024 - 8:35am
Podcast recommendations???
- ColdMiser - May 13, 2024 - 7:50am
|
Index »
Regional/Local »
USA/Canada »
Capital Punishment
|
Page: 1, 2 Next |
cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 19, 2021 - 7:57am |
|
R_P wrote: I posted over in the Death Penalty thread, a little bit about her. Absolutely horrific life she suffered. I hope she finally found some peace. c.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 18, 2021 - 5:19pm |
|
When an I.Q. Score Is a Death SentenceThe Supreme Court declared it was unconstitutional to execute intellectually disabled people. On Thursday, weâre set to do it anyway.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
|
cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 7, 2020 - 9:17am |
|
buddy wrote: R_P wrote: Trump may want to consider the "careful what you wish for" thing. Yep. Petards can be tricky... c.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 6, 2020 - 12:47pm |
|
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 21, 2020 - 4:11pm |
|
westslope wrote:
R_P wrote:The Trump administration revived the federal death penalty last summer after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Since July, the federal government has executed eight prisoners.
Those scheduled to die find themselves just weeks away from the start of an administration that has signaled it would not seek to carry out their death sentences. Mr. Biden has promised to work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level and incentivize states to follow suit. At the moment, the USA is the ONLY rich, western democratic nation that continues to carry out capital punishment. The ONLY one. The base bays for blood.
|
|
westslope
Location: BC sage brush steppe
|
Posted:
Nov 21, 2020 - 3:20pm |
|
R_P wrote:The Trump administration revived the federal death penalty last summer after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Since July, the federal government has executed eight prisoners.
Those scheduled to die find themselves just weeks away from the start of an administration that has signaled it would not seek to carry out their death sentences. Mr. Biden has promised to work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level and incentivize states to follow suit. At the moment, the USA is the ONLY rich, western democratic nation that continues to carry out capital punishment. The ONLY one.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 21, 2020 - 2:26pm |
|
The Trump administration revived the federal death penalty last summer after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Since July, the federal government has executed eight prisoners.
Those scheduled to die find themselves just weeks away from the start of an administration that has signaled it would not seek to carry out their death sentences. Mr. Biden has promised to work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level and incentivize states to follow suit.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 5, 2020 - 4:05pm |
|
Yet as Trumpâs killing spree unfolded, it was chilling for its ruthlessness as much as its timing. âIf youâre interested in carrying out the law, you donât rush executions while a court is still determining whether your process is legal,â said Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center. âIf you are interested in the orderly administration of the law, you donât set three executions for five days after not having done it for 17 years.â Although the news out of Terre Haute would soon be eclipsed by images of camouflaged Customs and Border Protection officers descending on Portland, Oregon, the executions were yet another show of state violence staged to bolster the presidentâs image.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 4, 2019 - 4:04pm |
|
The Condemned
Forty-three years after the Supreme Court reversed course and reinstated the death penalty, reliable data on the individuals sent to death row is maddeningly difficult to obtain. The Intercept set out to compile a comprehensive dataset on everyone sentenced to die in active death penalty jurisdictions since 1976. Our findings show that capital punishment remains as âarbitrary and capriciousâ as ever.
|
|
haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 7, 2018 - 4:12pm |
|
R_P wrote: " Republican Sen. Mike Padden, who voted against the death penalty abolition, said he was troubled by the ruling’s impact.“The death penalty should be rarely used, but I do think it should be an option in the most heinous cases,” he said."
That's the thing, even if you agree that there are exceedingly rare cases that it could be appropriate, there is a far greater danger that it will be applied when it is not. The death penalty is not a good deterrent. No one is going to say, "I think I'll go kill someone. What's the worst that could happen, life imprisonment? That's no big deal." The cost of abolishing it is strictly financial and any reasonable cost-benefit analysis would say the benefit of not killing innocent people far outweighs that cost.
And personally I feel the most appropriate punishment is to make people stew on the consequences of their decisions for a long time.
|
|
R_P
Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 11, 2018 - 12:20pm |
|
|
|
Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
|
Posted:
Oct 2, 2018 - 5:50pm |
|
ScottFromWyoming wrote: I remember those conversations. I thank Steve Earle for making me think about it. He's done a few songs that deal with sad cases. Me too; thanks for putting up with my belligerent ass.
|
|
sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 2, 2018 - 12:17pm |
|
cc_rider wrote: I know, right? But he remains an actual conservative. He has abandoned the GOP, which is by no means conservative anymore.
Like RD, I reversed my position on capital punishment some years ago. Not for merciful or humanitarian reasons: I still believe "Some folks just need killin". But our system is shot through with bias, corruption, errors of omission, false confessions, and on and on. Too many people have been exonerated after spending decades on death row. Texas has almost certainly executed at least one innocent person. Google 'Cameron Todd Willingham' for a particularly egregious case. 'Michael Morton' is another, 'Rodney Reed' still another...
c.
Same
|
|
cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 2, 2018 - 12:04pm |
|
haresfur wrote: Man I hate it when I agree with George Will
/snark
I know, right? But he remains an actual conservative. He has abandoned the GOP, which is by no means conservative anymore. Like RD, I reversed my position on capital punishment some years ago. Not for merciful or humanitarian reasons: I still believe "Some folks just need killin". But our system is shot through with bias, corruption, errors of omission, false confessions, and on and on. Too many people have been exonerated after spending decades on death row. Texas has almost certainly executed at least one innocent person. Google 'Cameron Todd Willingham' for a particularly egregious case. 'Michael Morton' is another, 'Rodney Reed' still another... c.
|
|
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 1, 2018 - 9:17pm |
|
haresfur wrote: Man I hate it when I agree with George Will
/snark
I know the feeling. He likes baseball tho, so ...
|
|
NoEnzLefttoSplit
Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 1, 2018 - 8:53pm |
|
ScottFromWyoming wrote: delusions of adequacy.
Band name
|
|
haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 1, 2018 - 8:52pm |
|
R_P wrote: Man I hate it when I agree with George Will /snark
|
|
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Oct 1, 2018 - 8:26pm |
|
Red_Dragon wrote: This is one of many things I've gone 180 on since I discovered RP.
:cheers: I remember those conversations. I thank Steve Earle for making me think about it. He's done a few songs that deal with sad cases.
|
|
|