The Execution of D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad
Submitted by DeepDiveAdmin on Nov 11, 2009
In this haunting video, Washington Times photographer and videographer Katie Falkenberg records the events leading
up to the execution of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad. Convicted of six counts of murder, Muhammad maintained his innocence until the state pronounced him dead at 9:11 p.m. EST. His final meal was chicken and red sauce. He chose not to make a final statement.
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Has anyone ever looked at the list of countries that still subscribe to capital punishment ?
You would see a list of countries that americans refer to as terrorist and rogue nations.
How is america NOT a terroristic or rogue nation?
mark aleshnick
Okinawa, Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_war_crimes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_war_crimes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army #War_crimes
That's why God said, "You shall not kill."
The Catholic Heretic
Why aren't we a rogue nation? That is simple. In a rogue nation all it takes to have you sentenced to death and executed is a suspicion of guilt.
Over here it takes eight years, count them EIGHT years of trials, speculation, whining from the anti death party that he doesn't deserve death because he might be innocent, despite massive heaps of evidence that he's not.
I remember when this guy was killing. I was ten. One of the girls he killed was my age, she had just gotten out of school and had sat down next to her dad in the car. He shot her in the heart and never showed any remorse.
She had a future, a chance at life. She could have learned and grown and become a mother , a scientist, a politician. Anything. But he ended her just for the hell of it. Does someone who kills six people, children among them, for no good reason deserve to be allowed to continue at life? Life is a joy no matter where you spend it.
How many criminals ask for the death sentence over life In prison ?
Got what he deserved. My two bits there.
It is too bad that we feel a need for the death penalty . However, Mr. Muhammad, and people like him give rise to the need. It is better to attend to that need.
The death penalty is the most backward thing I can think of.
A) Killing to punish killing simply doesn't make sense.
B) It would be a far worse punishment to live in prison for life than to simply drift off to sleep .
A) Obviously one who maliciously murders others for no just reason does not value life.
B) I prefer to be protected, rather than punish.
give life in repayment for death?
The death penalty tends to deter more crime as people fear it much more than a prison sentence; with the latter, one has a chance to escape. Death, on the other hand, might be permanent.
The death penalty doesn't deter anyone. You can see this in the violence rates. Even though the death penalty is handed out in this country, crime still goes up. It has been going down recently but that is from different factors.
upon further investigation into the issue, it seems that any correlations that may exist strictly between crime rates and the death penalty are difficult to discern; and you are correct that there are a number of factors that play into a crime rate, the existence of the death penalty notwithstanding. However, that does not detract from the justice of the death penalty, for he who would unjustly deprive another of genuine liberty (perhaps even threatens such), forfeits his own; exceptions abound, for instance in the case of young children .
Let's expand the death penalty to cover many more crimes. It's time we caught up with the rest of the world and stop coddling criminals. For example, the death penalty is applied in at least 25 other countries for economic crimes such as bribery or corruption of public officials, embezzelment of public funds or theft of public property, currency speculation, fraud, forgery, habitual theft and aggravated theft. Then there are those wise countries that impose the deth sentnce for drug offenses and sexual offenses. Why are we so far behind these enlightened countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Kuwait, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, South Korea, etc. etc. ?
Either the thugs will be deterred by the penalty if they're caught and the crime won't happen in the first place, or we'll eventually kill off most of the criminals when they are caught. Either way, the crime rate goes down and decent, hard working AMERICANS can live their lives in peace and security.