Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
1. grievous judicial errors: in America, about 15% of those convicted of capital crimes are not actually guilty....the notion of being wrongfully convicted of something like murder and sent to the chair helplessly is more frightening than thought of actually being murdered to me....a murder attempt is much more likely to fail than an execution attempt
2. no real crime deterrent in spite of what pro-death-penalty politicians say....ironically, the first-degree murder rate is consistently higher in death penalty states than in non-death penalty states...many bad people who have no regard for innocent lives have no regard for their own lives as well.....they would rather risk the chair than endure a life sentence anyway
3. expensive long automatic appeals processes....it's much cheaper to the taxpayers to put even the most heinous criminals behind bars for life without the possibility of parole than to sentence them to death and pay untold millions on appeals for each capital case on death row for sometimes decades
The real ultimate deterrent to heinous and serious crimes is a well-armed citizenry, the right to keep and bear arms for self protection. Little or no gun restrictions. The police are seldom present to thwart those who threaten the lives of innocent people. So-called no-gun zones are powerful magnets to crazed or evil gunmen and mass murderers.
Vermont has a long history of being a State with no death penalty (except for high treason) and the lowest violent crime rates per capita and was the first state to allow permitless (Constitution) concealed handgun carry. Very lax gun laws combined no death penalty for murder seem to have actually made this state the safest against crime which some people might find odd but the stats don't lie. It's better to use a gun lawfully to prevent a murder in the first place than try to avenge a murder later (and the innocent victim is dead already) with a death sentence which has a good possibility of arising from the wrongful conviction of an innocent. A trip of an armed citizen's trigger in time saves innocent lives from one to nine.
2. no real crime deterrent in spite of what pro-death-penalty politicians say....ironically, the first-degree murder rate is consistently higher in death penalty states than in non-death penalty states...many bad people who have no regard for innocent lives have no regard for their own lives as well.....they would rather risk the chair than endure a life sentence anyway
3. expensive long automatic appeals processes....it's much cheaper to the taxpayers to put even the most heinous criminals behind bars for life without the possibility of parole than to sentence them to death and pay untold millions on appeals for each capital case on death row for sometimes decades
The real ultimate deterrent to heinous and serious crimes is a well-armed citizenry, the right to keep and bear arms for self protection. Little or no gun restrictions. The police are seldom present to thwart those who threaten the lives of innocent people. So-called no-gun zones are powerful magnets to crazed or evil gunmen and mass murderers.
Vermont has a long history of being a State with no death penalty (except for high treason) and the lowest violent crime rates per capita and was the first state to allow permitless (Constitution) concealed handgun carry. Very lax gun laws combined no death penalty for murder seem to have actually made this state the safest against crime which some people might find odd but the stats don't lie. It's better to use a gun lawfully to prevent a murder in the first place than try to avenge a murder later (and the innocent victim is dead already) with a death sentence which has a good possibility of arising from the wrongful conviction of an innocent. A trip of an armed citizen's trigger in time saves innocent lives from one to nine.
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