Thread: Texas Death Penalty Hits a New Low

Originally Posted by BestViewedWithCable

WTF???

Leftys abort babies 20,000 times a week and not a single one of them crys about it.

So where does it stop? Anywhere?

A four year old kills her dad with his own gun.
Execute her?
Is there anyone that is outside the vengeful bloodlust you are all exhibiting?

Originally Posted by thebrucebeat

So where does it stop? Anywhere?

Obviously it stops at the difference between Murder and Accidental Death.....how many other scenarios do you wish to make up? Maybe you can keep rolling back the years and tell us about the Baby in the womb killing it's mother next....

Originally Posted by thebrucebeat

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/07/justic...ion/index.html

Texas has now executed a man who was determined to be mentally retarded.
Congratulations to the Lone Star State!
Perhaps we can start offing 9 year olds next.

"Hey, I killed a "mentally retarded" man. Progressives still voted for me twice and I'm going to speak at the DNC convention."

By 1992, Bill Clinton was insisting that Democrats "should no longer feel guilty about protecting the innocent" and took a position strongly supporting capital punishment. To make his point, he flew home to Arkansas mid-campaign to affirm that the execution would continue as scheduled. Some pundits considered it a turning point in that race, hardening a soft public image. Others tend to cite the execution as an example of what they perceive to be Clinton's opportunism, directly influenced by Michael Dukakis and his response to CNN's Bernard Shaw when asked during a campaign debate on October 13, 1988 if he would be supportive of the death penalty if Dukakis' wife Kitty was raped and murdered. Dukakis responded that he would not.

Bill Clinton's critics from the anti-capital punishment sector have seen the case of Rector as an unpleasant example of what they view as Clinton's cynical careerism. The writer Christopher Hitchens, in particular, devotes much of a chapter of his book on Clinton, No One Left to Lie To, for what he regards as the immorality of the then Democratic candidate's decision to condone, and take political advantage of, Rector's execution.[6] Hitchens argues that among other calculations, Clinton was attempting to change the subject from the ongoing Gennifer Flowers sex scandal.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector

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Of Mine and Men - Texas goes full retard

Originally Posted by RichT2705

Obviously it stops at the difference between Murder and Accidental Death.....how many other scenarios do you wish to make up? Maybe you can keep rolling back the years and tell us about the Baby in the womb killing it's mother next....

Would it stop any of you? It doesn't seem so.
What if the four year old didn't do it by accident. You are adding that layer to it. She was mad and mimicking what she saw on TV. Is she responsible? Is she a murderer? If not, how about a five year old? Six? An adult with the reasoning capacity of one?
Where does the killing lust come from?

I am not entirely against the death penalty, but the state of Texas just takes things too far.
It is like they have an insatiable appetite for executing criminals.

Originally Posted by thebrucebeat

Texas has now executed a man who was determined to be mentally retarded.

But I still do not see anything wrong in this instance. Why should they get a free pass just because they're retarded?

Originally Posted by DonGlock26

"Hey, I killed a "mentally retarded" man. Progressives still voted for me twice and I'm going to speak at the DNC convention."






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I didn't support that one either.
This is not about party affiliation.
Fail.

Typical for a bleeding heart liberal to be more sympathetic towards violent criminals than their victims. I guess liberals really want to nail down that convicted felon vote.

If the standard used to determine mental retardation in this guy was applied to liberals, I daresay we'd have a high percentage of them diagnosed.

Originally Posted by thebrucebeat

Would it stop any of you? It doesn't seem so.
What if the four year old didn't do it by accident. You are adding that layer to it. She was mad and mimicking what she saw on TV. Is she responsible? Is she a murderer? If not, how about a five year old? Six? An adult with the reasoning capacity of one?
Where does the killing lust come from?

You are building nothing more than a strawman argument. The executed man was not 4 years old, nor was he 9 years old. He was 54. The fact that he had an IQ of 61 does not excuse the fact that he knew what he did was heinously wrong.

When a dog becomes rabid and attacks people, you put him down. It doesn't matter if it wasn't the dogs fault he contracted rabies. It doesn't matter how much you loved the dog. It doesn't even matter how smart the dog is. The dog is a danger to others.

So, stop watching "The Green Mile" and think about this murderer's victim instead of manufacturing false sympathy for the murderer himself.