So, you think the Death Penalty is "inhumane"??
THIS is "inhumane":
The whole article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,68804,00.html "
Frank Jarvis Atwood is a killer. He is also a guest columnist. It is a combination that has caused great offense in Tucson, Ariz., and one that raises an important issue to people in all parts of the country.
In 1984, an eight-year-old girl named Vicki Lynne Hoskinson disappeared while riding her bike; she had been sent by her parents to mail a letter and never came home again.
In 1987, Frank Jarvis Atwood was convicted of the murder after a three-month trial that was televised locally from the opening arguments to the pronouncement of the death sentence. The sentence, however, has not yet been carried out, and Atwood remains, as he has been for a decade and a half, a resident of death row.
Recently, however, Atwood branched out, writing a column for the Arizona Daily Star in which he expressed his opposition to the death penalty. He insisted that, because of the expenses involved in filing appeals and pleading for stays of execution, life imprisonment is cheaper for the American taxpayer than the electric chair. And then he said:
"While there will always be some individuals who insist on seeing those convicted of murder suffer as much as possible, this attitude serves only to reduce society to the level of those it seeks to punish. The far superior course is to hold to the high moral ground."
Readers were outraged. Says Penny Waldron: "This is absolutely unforgivable. I would cancel my subscription if my husband would allow me. What he did was unspeakable."
Says Gustaf Van Acker: "I feel so bad for the family. . . . It brings up the hurt all over again."
Paul Pedersen said it was "a slap in the community’s face to publish this. It shows that the editorial staff is totally out of touch with the community [/i] ."
Imagine if YOUR 8 year old daughter was heinously murdered by this animal and then(after 10 years of foot-dragging by the "Justice System" refusing to carry-out the Will Of The People)he was allowed to "explain" in a effin' NEWSPAPER COLUMN why HIS life was MORE IMPORTANT than your innocent little girl's???
The "editors" of the "Star" and the prison officials and other members of the "Justice"(a word that has lost all meaning in today's American system of Jurisprudence)are "out of the touch with the community" all right. They should also be summarily "out of touch" with their jobs AND have their tulips publicly-kicked for allowing this piece of toejam to publish his atrocious "column". As for Atwood, he should have a date with a rope post haste.
As i have said time and time again, the Government and the "Justice" System are FAILING in their SWORN DUTY to PROTECT and DEFEND the lives and liberty of the INNOCENT members of society because of policies advocated by Legal, Criminal, and Judicial "activists" who represent only a small minority of the public SHOVING their stupid Liberal Agenda down our collective throats.
To allow convicted killers the opportunity to HURT and HUMILIATE their innocent victim's families again and again(by either letting killers out of jail as "re-habilitated" or allowing them to exist for DECADES on Death Row filing appeal after appeal) is an ATROCITY that defies all common decency. Carry-out the Will of the People or be carried-out of your jobs. This roadkill MUST STOP.
Liberals' Attack on Death Penalty Backfires... In light of the sure-to-be-a-circus-sideshow trial of the "DC Snipers", the gross incompetence of the INS in failing to deport one of the sniper suspects as required by Federal Statute, the recent release of the bi-partisan "Hart-Rudman Report" on America's continuing vulnerablity to terrorist attack and failure to put in place and make a priority Homeland Security, and the continued pressure to abrogate the Right to Keep and Bear Arms , we have to wonder if the protection of the American people from murder and mayhem as mandated in the Constitution of the United States has been ignored(if not intentionally crippled)by our elected officials and the bloated, bumbling Government bureauocracy.
As a well-known Liberal agitator once said:
"
No Justice, No Peace".........
From Carl Limbacher:
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002
"
Bleeding-heart liberals' latest attack on the death penalty has blown up in their faces.
"For nearly two weeks, the details of Illinois' most gruesome murders have been replayed for the public in a marathon set of clemency hearings that death penalty opponents now believe may have backfired and hurt their cause," the Associated Press reported.
Lame-duck, scandal-plagued Republican Gov. George Ryan apparently thought he'd redeem himself by issuing blanket clemency and freeing all criminals on death row. But things got off to a bad start when horror stories told by victims' families dominated the hearings, and people became outraged that murderers tried to claim they were too stupid to have to pay for their crimes.
"The pain and passion of these families is deafening," fretted Larry Marshall, a Northwestern University law professor who has led the attack on Illinois' death penalty. "It's so overwhelming that people are forgetting all the problems that got us here."
Chicago's two major newspapers have even urged Ryan to stop the hearings. "Halt the anguish, Gov. Ryan," implored an editorial in the Chicago Tribune. "Ryan's hearings cruel and unusual," headlined an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The public grew furious when the hearings revealed just why those poor little criminals occasionally end up on death row:
A couple shot and killed a woman, cut her nearly full-term baby from her womb, and killed two of her other children.
A man tortured his mute, severely retarded stepdaughter for five years until she died.
Two brothers beat a sleeping couple to death with baseball bats. The husband was struck with such force that parts of his skull "looked like a crushed eggshell."
A man murdered a couple after telling them to have their last kiss.
A man took eight women to remote locations and stripped, bound and murdered them.
"I can't imagine the public has heard such a parade of horrors combined into such a short time period in American history," observed John Gorman, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
AP reported Wednesday: "Family members have transformed the hearing rooms into photo galleries of the dead. They have pointed to the infants in the audience who would never know their grandfathers, the sons and daughters who grew up without parents."
"You could not sit in that room without feeling human and without feeling how vulnerable it is to be human," said Arvin Boddie, a board member who was booted by the left-wing thought police after criticizing the hearings and defense shysters. "
Again. Stop the Insanity........
C.
