One doesn't need to be god so much as understand the development required for a mind to exist. A mindless ball of cells is not a being any more than an egg is a chicken.
The poll on this thread is crap. DNA discoveries make "innocents" nearly impossible to execute. Those who are innocent now were put there before DNA and have been exonerated by it. The end.
Total BS. Name all those "spiritual advisers" who deem abortion proper. You should start with the Pope. He has the biggest following. Millions of abortions a year is "hyperbolic nonsense" ? How does 56 million in 2016 alone sound. Of course this is what is to be expected from someone show doesn't think a Homo Sapien is a person. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/56-million-abortions-around-the-world-each-year-new-report
If you like to pretend that even microscopic, mindless amalgams of cells are "babies" because you think that will further your desire that your politicians seize control of wombs, that is what you will do. Meanwhile, in regard to the topic, moral progress persists: Every European country has abolished the practice of the State killing people in cold blood, with one exception: Belarus - often dubbed "Europe's last dictatorship."
Other: ZERO percent. It is unconscionable to let a state execute innocent people. It totally violates everything the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution represent.
[ How nice and neat. We have no guilt, they were just a bunch of cells. Just like a chicken egg. Any hungry person could just snatch one out and make himself a nice fetus sandwich. You could have your own special restaurant for people like you. That is the same attitude Hitler had. They weren't people just Jews. The KKK saw it that way too. They were not people just Blacks. Makes it so nice when you can dehumanize your victim. On to the topic. You really should move to Europe. You are so enamored with them. You can also go to Mozambique or Congo. Those advanced countries don't have the death penalty either. You could also talk to Mollie Tibbetts parents and ask them what they think should happen to the scumbag that raped and killed their daughter. Or is she just another bunch of cells?
You can wish your politicians had such control of wombs, but they do not, at least not in advanced nations. Before an actual person has developed during gestation, the State must respect a woman's decisions regarding her own womb. I have lived in Europe, and prefer some nations to others, but most are quite congenial. Meanwhile your being smitten with regimes that kill their citizens makes the ultra-conservative theocracies of the Middle East your ideal destination.
Why do you continually bring up politicians? Are you controlled by politics? Do you not have a mind of your own? It is obvious that you feel that there is no difference between being anti abortion and being anti woman. That is the typical liberal stand. You want to protect the unborn so you hate women. Many women are anti abortion. Do you think they hate themselves? It doesn't work. It is only a straw dog for those who fear having a real discussion. Do you feel the world would have been a better place if your mother had aborted you? If it all about women's choice, why can't she kill you now? Why not anytime she feels you were a mistake? Abortion has also been referred to as "Black Genocide". Are you one of those closet haters who love seeing the demise of the black race? Why don't you man up and tell us your real motives, instead of hiding behind a straw dog? For the record, I could care less what countries do or do not support capital punishment. I had a close friend who was raped, mutilated and murdered by one of your cup cakes. I still celebrate on the day they pulled the switch on that bastard. My only regret is he did not suffer as she did.
I am not familiar with your cupcakes. In Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, and Oman, the State still retains the power to kill people in cold blood. If that's what you like, you should definitely avoid where the people no longer surrender that power to the State: Great Britain (despite your fake claim), Norway, Lithuania, Netherlands, Ireland, France, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Sweden, Italy, Finland, Latvia, Belgium, etc.
Recently in Florida an inmate formerly on death row was moved to another prison for some reason. That inmate strangled and killed his cell mate, gouging out his eyes and wearing the poor man's ears to breakfast. So an innocent man was murdered because we decided not to execute a known murderer who committed a heinious crime , showed no remorse and was willing to do it again.
No one said there was easy answers, only socialists believe in easy answers because they believe in Santa.
Rooting out bad cops would go a long way towards reducing false convictions. More murders and other severe criminal cases would go unsolved, and there would be public fallout for that, but it's people succumbing to pressure to close cases that leads to a lot of false arrests and ultimately false convictions.
0%. I agree with you, the death penalty should be eliminated, unless someone in for life murders a guard while in prison. Then we should have an expedited death penalty.
Of course he does, but IMHO, life without parole living in a max security prison is much more punishing than a quick death.
That's why we have the jury system. If the prosecution can present evidence that the accused serial killer is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they should be kept in prison.
I agree that 1st degree murderers should never be let back into society. I just think that life without parole is the more appropriate (and under current laws cheaper) punishment than execution. Honestly, I would rather be executed than have to spend the next 30 or 40 years in a max security prison with no chance of freedom.