Tag Archive 'Corporal Punishment'

Cruel and unusual punishment?

Posted by Moonage on 17 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Supporting the Death Penalty

Justice John Paul Stevens, a key vote in upholding the death penalty 30 years ago, now says he believes capital punishment is unconstitutional.
He’s changed his mind over the years.  I haven’t.  What is cruel and unusual about punishing someone with the equivalent of the crime they committed?

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A True Case of Temporary Insanity

Posted by Moonage on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Corporal Punishment, Political Correctness

Now, I have taken a little bit slack, not much, but a little for sure, for asserting that Andrea Yates deserved to die rather than be allowed to cop an insanity plea. IMO, if you’re capable of murder in a regular, semi-normal-function-as-yourself role, society has a right to defend itself from you and incarceration [...]

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Andrea Yates again

Posted by Moonage on 27 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Corporal Punishment

Andrea Yates, believe this or not, was found NOT GUILTY of systematically killing her four kids by drowning them in a bathtub. Now, everyone admitted she did it, she was just found LEGALLY not guilty. That’s BS folks. She killed them. No if’s, and’s, or but’s. Now, because of this, at some point down the [...]

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The Price of murdering homeless people

Posted by Moonage on 16 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Corporal Punishment

Two South Florida teens suspected in the beatings of three homeless men turned themselves in to police Sunday, authorities said.
Family attorneys negotiated the surrender of Brian Hooks, 18, and Thomas S. Daugherty, 17.

Negotiated?  WTF?
Suspected drug dealers will have their doors kicked in with by armed SWAT teams.  These murdering ultra-violent thugs negotiated their surrender?  [...]

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