Defending the Truth

is that it is too liberally applied.

Should a person be put to death because, in a rage, he kills one person?

IMO, no.

I think the death penalty should be only applied to the most heinous criminals, ie, serial killers.

As the Innocence Project has shown, too many times an innocent person is convicted. Now there is a case in Missouri of a possible innocent man having been put to death.

Execution of convicted killer being investigated - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com

Like in the case of John Wayne Gacy, where they dug up 25 bodies under his house, or Jeffrey Dahmer, where they found body parts laying around his apartment, there can be no question of guilt. Those are the only cases, IMO, that should be put to death.

Here in Michigan..we need the death penalty. You from Michigan, and
you see where the Governor has signed a release to free prisoners.
Now, Most of them criminals have been locked up so long until they
will be losted in time out here in society, and most will not lasted a
good years back out here in the streets.

We all need to use some common sense about this topic, and like
I have said MANY TIMES until it hits home this subject will be
ignored by plenty. Rage isn't no excuse to kill someone, and the
law calls it pre-meditated. Because of the fact that there was a
time space to think.

I do not feel sorry for nobody who don't take the time out to
think. That's just like on many of the message threads. Some
do not take to time to think their thoughts or opinions out
before they post them.

Well, your butchering of the English lanquage is criminal, IMO, but I don't think you deserve to die for it.

Regardless...You still received my point, and your joke wasn't funny.
I bet you understood that.

I'm sorry if I offended you, but I think you should realize that when you speak in double negatives (ie, "I do not feel sorry for nobody") you are actually speaking in a positive. If you do not feel sorry for nobody, then you must feel sorry for everybody.

Damn I drove through Hell going to Dexter, and there is some
hellva people in Hell...believe me. I can't help but wondering
what is life like in Hell? From your post people in Hell do
not have any feelings.

Whenever I post a message I am not (pointing) fingers at
anyone, but I am sharing the negative and the positive at
the sametime, and being from Michigan myself I will tell
people that Hell does freeze over.

In closing...I do feel sorry for those who can't help
themselves.

I don't know where I stand on capital punishment...

There are good arguements on both sides.

Grammar issues aside, I would like to see the good and bad of both arguements posted (again) for my perusal.

Yes, I could look it up myself, but who doesn't like a good arguement?

Uh, I don't actually live in 'Hell', I just got the picture off of a news website because I thought it was cool.

I actually live in Grand Rapids, although I grew up in Detroit.

The death penalty teaches that revenege is ok. There will never be peace on earth so long as we continue this archaic practice.

I used to be for the death penalty. I can no longer justify that stance.


Just lock them up with a noose. They will figure it out... LOL.

I don't understand the death penalty. It's confusing at best, hypocritical at worst, to say "It's wrong to kill other people. Just to show you exactly how wrong it is, we're going to kill you."