The reason why the death penalty is not a good deterrent is because it is not swift, sure, and severe. Now, if the do-gooder bleeding-hearted liberals would simply mind their own business, wake up, and let these scumbag murderers to the fate they justly deserve, then you will find that the death penalty would work ... if people knew society was serious about it.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

If the death penalty was distributed faster then it is likely that the dozens of people that got off death row because of questionable evidence would be dead. Some justice that is, lets not have a fair trial then lets kill the person instantly, before the evidence can be scutinized with new technologies.

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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill

Since you seem to love American murderers and other criminals so much, should we start giving them all one-way tickets to Canada?

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

It is quite clear that heikstheo not only hates criminals, but he hates people, given that he could care less about the killing of innocents.

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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill

It is clear that wildbore, who claims to love criminals, really does not, because he doesn't want them up in Canada where they can suck his air and have free food and lodging at his expense. Clearly, wildbore just hates Americans because he thinks that, even though he is not an American, he should be allowed to be emperor of America. Talk about a chutzpadik!

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

You obviously don't care too much about all those innocents that murderers kill. So, obviously, you hate people, too.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

No.

The whole point is to keep murderers off the street, you can do that by giving them a life sentance. Plus it insures that people have the oppurtunity to be retried if new evidence is available.

Unfortunately if new evidence is available after one is administered the death penalty, the person will not have the oppurtunity for another trail.

Clearly you would rather ignore this reality just for the sake of some pointless killing, how am I not surprised.

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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill

So, you would provide such unsavory characters as rapists, robbers, and murderers with a free roof over their heads, free food, and free medical care for the rest of their lives, while people whose only crime is being poor can be left to starve in the streets.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

Since all of your criminals are so innocent, why not just let them run loose in the streets?

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

Legal executions are not pointlerss killings. Executions send a message. The message is that the price of being allowed to live in society is that you are expected to respect everyone else's rights to life, liberty, and property. Conversely, if you violate other people's rights to life, liberty, and property, you have violated that social contract and therefore society through the state can take away your life and/or your liberty and/or your property.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993