Author Topic: US carries out 1,000th execution (Read 1234 times)

1K3 · « **on:** December 02, 2005, 02:55:29 AM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4490842.stm

rapists and murderers BEWARE!;)

Texas - 355
Virginia - 94
Oklahoma - 79
Missouri - 66
Florida - 60
Georgia - 39
North Carolina - 38
South Carolina, Alabama - 34 each
Louisiana, Arkansas - 27 each
Arizona - 22
Ohio - 19
Indiana - 16
Delaware - 14
Illinois - 12
Nevada, California - 11 each
Mississippi, Utah - 6 each
Maryland, Washington - 4 each
Nebraska, Pennsylvania - 3 each
Kentucky, Montana, Oregon - 2 each
Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, New Mexico, Tennessee, Wyoming - 1 each
US government - 3
(*NOTE: US EXECUTIONS since 1976)

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2005, 03:06:10 AM »

12 percent of people who sit in Death Row innocent beware too!

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #2 on:** December 02, 2005, 07:49:43 AM »

only 1,000 in 20 years??

Damn we need to pick up the pace

Sorry, no pity here for people who stalk, then murder their victims

lazs2 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2005, 07:52:43 AM »

where do you get the 12% are innocent figure? and....

innocent of what? the crime that they are being executed for? I doubt many are innocent of all crimes that deserve execution...

lazs

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #4 on:** December 02, 2005, 08:32:51 AM »

I pulled the 12% out of my hat. According to Google sources 1 out of 7 death row inmates have been found not guilty before their execution and freed. That makes a bit over 14%. And that's the lucky ones - every innocent inmate won't have that luxury.

Then again there must be cases where a guilty inmate gets scott free too.

Golfer · « **Reply #5 on:** December 02, 2005, 10:15:02 AM »

They don't get found innocent. It's not easy to get convicted of a crime which will result in the death penalty. I'd say they either get off on a technicality or represented themselves.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2005, 10:17:37 AM »

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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
I pulled the 12% out of my hat. According to Google sources 1 out of 7 death row inmates have been found not guilty before their execution and freed. That makes a bit over 14%. And that's the lucky ones - every innocent inmate won't have that luxury.

Then again there must be cases where a guilty inmate gets scott free too.

wouldn't that indicate that those that are innocent (or proven innocent, and I'm assuming here, by DNA evidence) are allready off of death row?

straffo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 02, 2005, 12:38:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
wouldn't that indicate that those that are innocent (or proven innocent, and I'm assuming here, by DNA evidence) are allready off of death row?

Except those among the 1000 and allready dead.

BTw is death penalty a good deterent ?
Debate is open.

Sixpence · « **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2005, 12:44:48 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
Except those among the 1000 and allready dead.

BTw is death penalty a good deterent ?
Debate is open.

Over history Ma has always had a low murder rate compared to states that have the death penalty.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 02, 2005, 01:14:49 PM »

I'd say that it is not a good deterrant. Not because the death penalty is bad...

But because it isn't used enough.

ASTAC · « **Reply #10 on:** December 02, 2005, 02:21:18 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I'd say that it is not a good deterrant. Not because the death penalty is bad...

But because it isn't used enough.

Or made public...maybe if some people saw what an Electric chair execution looked like (oops forgot the bleeding hearts have forced most states to abandon ole sparky) They might think twice about what they are doing.

fartwinkle · « **Reply #11 on:** December 02, 2005, 02:22:16 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I'd say that it is not a good deterrant. Not because the death penalty is bad...

But because it isn't used enough.

Not to mention it dont work

DJ111 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 02, 2005, 04:44:24 PM »

Only 355?

What the...?

Come on Texas...

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 02, 2005, 04:50:31 PM »

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Or made public...maybe if some people saw what an Electric chair execution looked like (oops forgot the bleeding hearts have forced most states to abandon ole sparky) They might think twice about what they are doing.

Holy ****. You are my new best friend.

I don't have the statistic off hand. But what's the ratio of murderers who get executed to those murderers who don't?

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #14 on:** December 02, 2005, 05:41:01 PM »

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Originally posted by fartwinkle
Not to mention it dont work

In your opinion.

there are those if us that feel differently.

I agree wiht Lasersailor.

Its not used enough to be a deterrent.

You do a capitol punishment crime even if convicted and the odds of you actually being executed are pretty slim.
Therefore it is impossable to guage how effective it is or isnt.

I do know one thing.
No person who has received the death penalty has ever commited another crime. inside or outside prison.
And that is good enough for me.

Better that then my tax money going to support these lowlifes in overcrowded prisons with full healthcare and 3 squares a day for the rest of their lives.

Their victims didnt get that opporunity.
They didnt even get the opportunity to thrive or starve on their own.
The only opportunity they got was a free ride to the morgue and to lay inside a box before their time was up.