Criminals that have committed a capital crime are a cancer inflicted on society needlessly. Give them one appeal, then we need to stop wasting money. We waste way to much money on thugs that will never amount to anything.

Until the day comes when terms like "life sentence" and "life without possibility of parole" actually MEAN that, sometimes the only way to be assured that murderers aren't released is to kill them. That is the only way to stop bleeding-heart Governors from later reducing a "life without possibility of parole" sentence.

As far as the punishment issue, I don't know if execution is any more "cruel and unusual" than the idea of putting someone in a cage for 30-40-50-etc. years with no windows and 1 hour of time outside the cell. If for some bizarre reason I was ever faced with true life imprisonment or execution, I'd take death.

There are other issues like executing the innocent(OOOPS!!!), the economic costs + danger of housing murdering scum, etc., but I'm definitely for having the option of a death penalty. I wish they would actually expand to include pedophiles like a Craig Bowen also. Considering the gigantic recidivism rate of pedophiles(I'm not talking about statutory rape like an 18 and 15 year boyfriend/girlfriend here) and what they have done to their victims, the death penalty is a solution.

When it is a clear cut case of murder. Death sentences should be carried out swiftly. Currently, a murderer can stay on death row for up to twenty years tying it up in appeals. Appealing the sentence, not the crime. Meanwhile the victims families sit in anguish.
I'm just saying...
Jim Shores~17 year PTC resident
Peachtree Auto Sales
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