Maryland Death Penalty: Lawmakers Approve Measure To Ban Capital Punishment

[Jeep!]

Good discussion. Anyone else hope to see Will answer the question?

Hope, but not expect.

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

Hope, but not expect.

If you're gonna hope you should aim high. Like hoping he'll join Sammy in self-imposed exile (and that it lasts in both cases).

 

[lurkingdirk]

Allow me to restate the question that has been asked many, many times, but you HAVE NOT ANSWERED. You'll agree, if you aren't a potted plant, that this is not a question that can be answered "agree to disagree," as it requires a "yes" or "no" answer. Please, just answer the question:

Do you hope to see mass murders of innocent American people if they abolish the death penalty in Maryland.

We can agree to disagree on your logic, but you need to answer the question first. You haven't, because you're a coward, and a troll. You stir things up, and then leave, or respond with such vague, non-answers and single or double smilies, that people give up trying to get any answer from you. The fact is that you're the worst kind of troll, the kind that thinks he's always right, and can't look at logic, reason, or have any kind of meaningful discourse. You're incapable of debate, you're incapable of reasoned logic, and you're just a bad person.

Please. Answer the question directly. Yes, or no.

Still waiting for an answer, Will.

 

[xfire]

This thread needs bumped to the top, just so Asshat doesn't miss it, perchance she drops by. Hey, Worm, do you still want to see mass murder and crime?

Here's a chart of lawmakers doing their jobs-

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

 

[Jagger69]

This thread needs bumped to the top, just so Asshat doesn't miss it, perchance she drops by. Hey, Worm, do you still want to see mass murder and crime?

Here's a chart of lawmakers doing their jobs-

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

Great chart, xfire. Note that a couple of states outlawed capital punishment over 150 years ago. Have we progressed so vastly as a society in so many other ways over that time frame and yet so many of us continue to cling to the deliberate killing of human beings who pose no immediate threat to anyone as a modern-day method of punishment? Unbelievable.

The death penalty is institutionalized murder-for-hire used as an archaic and barbaric means of exacting revenge and nothing else. No deterrent to crime, no saving of money, no equal justice under the law and, hopefully someday, no longer used in the United States.

 

[georges]

Great chart, xfire. Note that a couple of states outlawed capital punishment over 150 years ago. Have we progressed so vastly as a society in so many other ways over that time frame and yet so many of us continue to cling to the deliberate killing of human beings who pose no immediate threat to anyone as a modern-day method of punishment? Unbelievable.

The death penalty is institutionalized murder-for-hire used as an archaic and barbaric means of exacting revenge and nothing else. No deterrent to crime, no saving of money, no equal justice under the law and, hopefully someday, no longer used in the United States.

You remind me the damned French socialists and their leader Robert Badinter that have been the reason of banning the death penalty in France in 1981, but yet violent crimes have been on the rise since 15 years. Nothing wrong with the death penalty, only a person who is showing sympathy to the worst scum and the worst criminals by believing in their rehabilitation, should ask herself questions, how dangerous the streets would be if they were able to walk freely in the streets. Killing scum and sentencing scum to death is the best thing to do. Criminals show no sympathy to their victims, let the lawmakers and the jury show no sympathy towards them. Many people in the US don't share your views and aren't socialists like you, they at least defend the 2nd amendment and are for the death penalty.

 

[lurkingdirk]

You remind me the damned French socialists and their leader Robert Badinter that have been the reason of banning the death penalty in France in 1981, but yet violent crimes have been on the rise since 15 years. Nothing wrong with the death penalty, only a person who is showing sympathy to the worst scum and the worst criminals by believing in their rehabilitation, should ask herself questions, how dangerous the streets would be if they were able to walk freely in the streets. Killing scum and sentencing scum to death is the best thing to do. Criminals show no sympathy to their victims, let the lawmakers and the jury show no sympathy towards them. Many people in the US don't share your views and aren't socialists like you, they at least defend the 2nd amendment and are for the death penalty.

That's a pretty narrow minded viewpoint.

 

[xfire]

You remind me the damned French socialists and their leader Robert Badinter that have been the reason of banning the death penalty in France in 1981, but yet violent crimes have been on the rise since 15 years. Nothing wrong with the death penalty, only a person who is showing sympathy to the worst scum and the worst criminals by believing in their rehabilitation, should ask herself questions, how dangerous the streets would be if they were able to walk freely in the streets. Killing scum and sentencing scum to death is the best thing to do. Criminals show no sympathy to their victims, let the lawmakers and the jury show no sympathy towards them. Many people in the US don't share your views and aren't socialists like you, they at least defend the 2nd amendment and are for the death penalty.

Why all this? If you disagree with Jagger, just say you disagree. Does being nasty about it help anything?

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Unless I misread the charts, it seems pretty evenly spread out.

 

[Jagger69]

You remind me the damned French socialists and their leader Robert Badinter that have been the reason of banning the death penalty in France in 1981, but yet violent crimes have been on the rise since 15 years. Nothing wrong with the death penalty, only a person who is showing sympathy to the worst scum and the worst criminals by believing in their rehabilitation, should ask herself questions, how dangerous the streets would be if they were able to walk freely in the streets. Killing scum and sentencing scum to death is the best thing to do. Criminals show no sympathy to their victims, let the lawmakers and the jury show no sympathy towards them.

I don't care about France, my post was not about France and you are a Frenchman who knows nothing of what you speak in regard to my post, Georges. If you were educated on the subject you would know that statistics show no correlation between the death penalty and murder rates in the United States:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRalpha

The remainder of your post is just the same right-wing "angst and hate" drivel you display in almost all of your posts and is not worthy of comment other than this statement:

Many people in the US don't share your views and aren't socialists like you, they at least defend the 2nd amendment and are for the death penalty.

You think anyone to the left of Atilla the Hun is a socialist so I would expect to be called nothing less by a Nazi like you. :1orglaugh Thank God you're not a US citizen so it doesn't really matter what you think, does it? Although it is true that the majority of Americans do support the death penalty, those numbers are slowly turning the other direction (note figures since 1996) according to Gallup polling data:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1606/death-penalty.aspx

I and many like-minded American citizens will continue to fight for the abolition of capital punishment in the United States until our goals are attained.

 

[Mayhem]

You remind me the damned French socialists and their leader Robert Badinter that have been the reason of banning the death penalty in France in 1981, but yet violent crimes have been on the rise since 15 years. Nothing wrong with the death penalty, only a person who is showing sympathy to the worst scum and the worst criminals by believing in their rehabilitation, should ask herself questions, how dangerous the streets would be if they were able to walk freely in the streets. Killing scum and sentencing scum to death is the best thing to do. Criminals show no sympathy to their victims, let the lawmakers and the jury show no sympathy towards them. Many people in the US don't share your views and aren't socialists like you, they at least defend the 2nd amendment and are for the death penalty.

The ridiculousness just oozes from this post. When did abolishing the death penalty ever become equated to letting criminals walk free? How does any coherent mind make that connection?

Criminals show no sympathy to their victims, let the lawmakers and the jury show no sympathy towards them.

^^^ This is a hoot. Our lawmakers should use the same mindset as dangerous criminals. Good, real good.

BTW, I have spent my entire adult life defending the 2nd Amendment, and I'm against the death penalty.

 

[D-rock]

One of the few bright spots about Michigan is that it was among the first places in the world to ban capital punishment. Sadly, there are people slowly trying to bring it back.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

This thread needs bumped to the top, just so Asshat doesn't miss it, perchance she drops by. Hey, Worm, do you still want to see mass murder and crime?

Here's a chart of lawmakers doing their jobs-

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

Hey look at us in Connecticut, we're brand new!

 

[Elwood70]

This thread needs bumped to the top, just so Asshat doesn't miss it, perchance she drops by. Hey, Worm, do you still want to see mass murder and crime?

Here's a chart of lawmakers doing their jobs-

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

I just wanted to point out that Maryland is now without the death penalty, which is why Worm wants to see her citizens (me and my family included) murdered.

 

[xfire]

I just wanted to point out that Maryland is now without the death penalty, which is why Worm wants to see her citizens (me and my family included) murdered.

Worm claims that the lawmakers in Maryland aren't doing their job. As a resident of that fine state, what do you think of that Asshat's assessment?

 

[Elwood70]

Worm claims that the lawmakers in Maryland aren't doing their job. As a resident of that fine state, what do you think of that Asshat's assessment?

It depends on who you ask. Since you asked me, I'll say this:There's some truth to it....some. (Easy Worm, don't take credit: Your statements are way too broad to carry any weight.) There's discontent among the people over the way things are being handled, just like every other state.The people are very divided over the proposed gun laws and the death penalty being removed. I've seen both sides of it, along with all the rhetoric you'd expect from such hot-button issues, but no one has called for open season on the public.....except Worm (who I will point out doesn't even live here...lucky for him.)

But, it's nothing the democratic process can't fix - without resorting to mass-murder.

 

[AerynWalker]

Sometimes I forget first world countries still have some really barbaric and/or weird old timey laws. Good change, even if really, really late

 

[Rattrap]

That's a pretty narrow minded viewpoint.

I don't care about France, my post was not about France and you are a Frenchman who knows nothing of what you speak in regard to my post, Georges. If you were educated on the subject you would know that statistics show no correlation between the death penalty and murder rates in the United States:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRalpha

The remainder of your post is just the same right-wing "angst and hate" drivel you display in almost all of your posts and is not worthy of comment other than this statement:

I just wanted to point out that Maryland is now without the death penalty, which is why Worm wants to see her citizens (me and my family included) murdered.

It warms my heart to see stupidity really getting called out.

The topic of the death penalty will always be one of those keen moments in school for me; back in high school I was all for the death penalty and we had a speech project to pick a subject and argue for it in front of the class. I was going to argue for the death penalty, but when I went to research it it turned out it really wasn't a good option. For reasons of expense, wrongful prosecution, humanity, and so on. Not only that, but folks in prison for life can be made to be productive; I read about one prison where the inmates make sports equipment which then gets donated to schools throughout the country (soccer nets explicitly, which I know seems rather trivial, but this is only one example and one can surely imagine other things that can be produced in such a setting).

Suffice to say in the end I did my speech against the death penalty. Just goes to show what a little education in lieu of emotion can do.

 

[xfire]

I hope to see mass murders and crime in Maryland. :elaugh:

Just to keep this fresh.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Please refer to this post in which I engage Will E. Worm as he criticizes Dan Savage for wishing a large group of people dead:

http://board.freeones.com/showthrea...ive-Hearings&p=7498153&viewfull=1#post7498153

The hypocrisy is simply unreal.