Yet more good reasons for the death penalty.

[JohnRich 4]

Scheduled execution: 11/20/08
Name: Hudson, Robert Jean
Summary of incident:
Stabbed to death a 35-year-old female and the attempted murder of her 9-year-old son whom he stabbed in the throat.

Scheduled execution: 01/14/09
Name: Moore, Curtis
Summary of incident:
Kidnapped, shot and burned to death multiple people.
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/newsarchive/2002/20020430moore.htm

Scheduled execution: 01/15/2009
Name: Briseno, Jose
Summary of incident:
Revenge murder of a sheriff
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/briseno.jpg

Scheduled execution: 1/21/2009
Name: Moore, Frank
Summary of incident:
Murdered two after a nightclub argument.
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/mooref.jpg

Scheduled execution: 1/22/2009
Name: Perkins, Reginald
Summary of incident:
Strangled his 64 year old step-mother

Scheduled execution: 1/28/2009
Name: Martinez, Virgil
Summary of incident:
Fatally shot a 27-year-old female, her two children (a 3-year-old female and a 6-year-old male), and a 18-year-old male.

Scheduled execution: 2/4/2009
Name: Martinez, David
Summary of incident:
Beat his girlfriend and her 14-year-old son to death with a baseball bat.

Scheduled execution: 3/3/2009
Name: Pondexter, Willie
Summary of incident:
Shot an 85-year-old woman to death in her bed to steal $19 from her purse.

Scheduled execution: 3/10/2009
Name: Martinez, James
Summary of incident:
Fired 20 shots into a vehicle resulting in the death of a 20 year old male and and 29 year old female.

Scheduled execution: 3/11/2009
Name: Salazar, Luis
Summary of incident:
Murdered a 28-year-old female by stabbing when she resisted his sexual assault after he broke into her home, then stabbed her 10-year-old son in the chest.

Source:
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/scheduledexecutions.htm

[masterblaster72 0]

Lovely thread Mr. Rich, you made my day.

Be humble, ask questions, listen, learn, follow the golden rule, talk when necessary, and know when to shut the fuck up.

[skydyvr 0]

I'm sure at least 9 out of 10 are guilty.

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[airtwardo 7]

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I'm sure at least 9 out of 10 are guilty.

It's Texas...we're pro-active, the innocent guy woulda done something sooner or later!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[jakee 1,490]

Why are they good reasons for the death penalty?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Andy9o8 2]

Mistakes are sometimes made, John. Reversals of convictions - on grounds that the defendant actually didn't do it - do occur from time to time. A wrongful non-capital sentence can be reversed. A wrongful completed execution cannot. This is an area in which collateral damage is always unacceptable.

[kallend 2,027]

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Mistakes are sometimes made, John. Reversals of convictions - on grounds that the defendant actually didn't do it - do occur from time to time. A wrongful non-capital sentence can be reversed. A wrongful completed execution cannot. This is an area in which collateral damage is always unacceptable.

Except in Texas.

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[skydyvr 0]

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I'm sure at least 9 out of 10 are guilty.

It's Texas...we're pro-active, the innocent guy woulda done something sooner or later!

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[Amazon 7]

Yes there is a reason for the death penalty...


It gives hypocrites that are pro life a reason to kill people in revenge for something that many people find necessary to become less than human by killing another human being who may or may not have removed someone from their lives.

[normiss 801]

+1

As long as life in prison IS life in prison, they are removed from society and won't be able to hurt anyone else.
Beyond that it's vengeance.

[jtnesbitt 0]

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I'm sure at least 9 out of 10 are guilty.

It's Texas...we're pro-active, the innocent guy woulda done something sooner or later!

Yeah? Someone sure fucked up this one:

http://www.fortbendnow.com/printer_friendly/667447

The victim was my ex g/f's best friend. Her fellow high school classmates lured her somewhere secluded and shot her in the face to see what it would feel like. Then they went and had breakfast, came back and dug a shallow grave, tried to burn the body but gave up, went home and went to bed.

Now they want to release one of the killers after spending less than a year in prison.

Come on Texas.

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[Amazon 7]

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Beyond that it's vengeance.

It really never ceases to amaze me at how many "christians" are willing to usurp their gods vengeance.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord"

[christelsabine 1]

Another statistic from provided website. No bloody and ugly details - but, showing clearly racial listing. Interesting.

edited to add:

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/racial.htm

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[normiss 801]

In Texas??????????

[christelsabine 1]

What does the website tell you?

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[normiss 801]

That 100% of people that have experienced the death penalty are dead.

[JohnDeere 0]

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Mistakes are sometimes made, John. Reversals of convictions - on grounds that the defendant actually didn't do it - do occur from time to time. A wrongful non-capital sentence can be reversed. A wrongful completed execution cannot. This is an area in which collateral damage is always unacceptable.

Except in Texas.

For once i agree with you

Nothing opens like a Deere!

You ignorant fool! Checks are for workers!

[headoverheels 333]

I tend to agree with someone I heard interviewed on NPR a few years ago. He was an executioner, from somewhere in eastern Europe, IIRC. He had come to be against capital punishment. His reason was that it was over too quick, and the offender did not have to live with the consequences of his actions, and suffer, for long enough.

[DJL 235]

It's no mystery, however unfortunate, that the most heavily crime ridden areas are inhabited by black people. That didn't change in the DC area until the Latin gangs moved in. A better chart to prove racism would be one that shows the result for equal offenses. Charts like that have shown that white people get a better break - usually in white collar cases because of money for good lawyers.

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[Rookie120 0]

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It really never ceases to amaze me at how many "christians" are willing to usurp their gods vengeance.

And it never ceases to amaze me at how lib's will fight for a heartless murderer rapist alive but will know blink an eye at someone who goes and gives an unborn baby the shop-vac treatment.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

[airtwardo 7]

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Beyond that it's vengeance.

It really never ceases to amaze me at how many "christians" are willing to usurp their gods vengeance.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord"

"Eye for an eye"

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[rehmwa 2]

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I tend to agree with someone I heard interviewed on NPR a few years ago. He was an executioner, from somewhere in eastern Europe, IIRC. He had come to be against capital punishment. His reason was that it was over too quick, and the offender did not have to live with the consequences of his actions, and suffer, for long enough.

So this guy had it completely wrong. He came to the wrong conclusion for the completely wrong reasons, and even with his reasons, he went backwards in his reasoning.

Removing the threat is the sole reason for CP. Whether or not the guilty suffer, or have to 'feel bad' is inconsequential. The only point is protecting the rest of society from the creep doing it again or worse.

It continues to amaze me how many people think about justice as revenge, instead of about balance and protection.

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[kallend 2,027]

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Beyond that it's vengeance.

It really never ceases to amaze me at how many "christians" are willing to usurp their gods vengeance.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord"

"Eye for an eye"

Matthew 5:
38."Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." KJV

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[normiss 801]

I say bullshit.
Life in prison completely removes them from society and provides more than ample protection from further violent crime.

[Belgian_Draft 0]

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Beyond that it's vengeance.

It really never ceases to amaze me at how many "christians" are willing to usurp their gods vengeance.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord"

"Eye for an eye"

Matthew 5:
38."Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." KJV

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