[Vision2020] The death penalty....a deterent?????

[david sarff]

I do not support the death penalty.
Not having sentiment toward those who murder willingly. I would point out 
that when the State murders an innocent person. No medium of justice can 
ever be found for the victims their families, etc. For, we have difficulty 
putting the State in jail or putting it to death. The scale can never be 
mediated “if” an innocent is murdered by the State. In fact, the fulcrum is 
all but lost.
Admittedly, I have poor argument supporting individuals who have murdered 
another willingly and with absolute incontrovertible evidence.
Still, any person reasonably acquainted with life’s serendipitous situations 
knows that mistakes in judgment occur. Judges and juries are human and 
fallible. Mistakes happen at the highest levels of professional practice in 
the human condition. A check of restraint against the possibility of mistake 
should be in place.
I feel that the “closest balance” of justice is maintained using life 
without parole as the medium of State punishment for crimes of murder.

D.Sarff



>
>The death penalty was never meant to be a deterent. It is a punishment.
>Our society, and every other, has the obligation to decide what to do with
>those that cannot or will not live without harming others. To that end, our
>society has decided that some people have committed crimes so heinous that
>death is the penalty for committing them.
>Here are some irrefutable facts:
>1: As long as a dangerous offender is alive, he or she has the potential to
>injure or kill others.
>2: As long as a dangerous offender is alive he or she has a chance of
>getting out of prison, either by escape, mistake or intention.
>3: A dangerous offender who has been put to death has a zero percent chance
>of recidivism.
>So you think putting a dangerous offender in prison wth three hots and cot,
>medical and dental care, access to a law libray so he or she can file 
>appeal
>after appeal is worse than death? Then think about this.
>What about the victim and or the victim's family who have to relive the
>crime every time that offender is in the news with a new appeal or is 
>filing
>a lawsuit because conditions aren't "humane". He or she wasn't too worried
>about humane treatment of the victim. Opening old wounds of those hurt by
>the offender's actions time and time again isn't humane, in my opinion.
>Cost: I would suspect much of the cost for execuyting a convict comes from
>the myriad appeals that go on for decades, not from the actual
>holding/executing of the convict.
>Is the monetary cost any more relevant than the emotional cost to the 
>victim
>and/or family? I think it is less so.
>
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