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Thread ID: 120727 2011-09-22 21:39:00 Controversial execution carried out after 20 years on death row. Trev (427) PC World Chat
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1233097 2011-09-23 06:45:00 I think that in cases where there is no doubt then they should be excuted after one appeal

This would be a TRUE deterrent.

It would also put an end to those people who say that the death sentence costs more than life imprisonment.

Keeping people on death row for 20 or 30 years does no one any good.

If there is some doubt, then give them life. Which in the USA does mean life.
Digby (677)
1233098 2011-09-23 07:33:00 If the death penalty was a deterrent then why do people still commit crimes worth of it? Agent_24 (57)
1233099 2011-09-23 07:35:00 If the death penalty was a deterrent then why do people still commit crimes worth of it?

Correct, it is no deterrent otherwise in those countries that have it their serious crimes would be nil
Gobe1 (6290)
1233100 2011-09-23 08:38:00 Does that mean all the Ford drivers are actually convicted serial killers?

Lucky for me that I disposed of my Ford a few weeks ago, I now have a Toyota. :banana
Bobh (5192)
1233101 2011-09-23 08:41:00 My cousin was murdered by a neighbouring rancher in New Mexico twenty odd years ago.

The a---hole put 6 bullets in Johns' back then pistol-whipped Johns' wife.

No provocation.

This rich white man never spent a minute in jail
and got away with it on some technicality or other.

My Uncle and Aunt went over there for the 'trial'

Broke both their hearts, but there you go.

American justice, what a joke.
KarameaDave (15222)
1233102 2011-09-23 09:38:00 This guy was guilty and deserves execution.
It must make you feel really good to not have any doubts. Would be a different story if it was your head.
At the time did you think Arthur Allen Thomas was guilty or innocent.
No physical evidence and witnesses are known to be totally unreliable and several in this case have retracted their statement so it makes for an extremely dodgy conviction.
mikebartnz (21)
1233103 2011-09-23 09:42:00 This rich white man never spent a minute in jail
and got away with it on some technicality or other.
That is one thing that frightened me in the states. I was in a situation in the USA years ago and knowing the bastard was a little rich pr!ck had me worried.
mikebartnz (21)
1233104 2011-09-23 21:16:00 It must make you feel really good to not have any doubts. Would be a different story if it was your head.
At the time did you think Arthur Allen Thomas was guilty or innocent.
No physical evidence and witnesses are known to be totally unreliable and several in this case have retracted their statement so it makes for an extremely dodgy conviction.

Hello he had just fired his revolver at a passing car injuring a person before killing the polizei, In Singapore this alone is more than enough for mandatory execution.
He is guilty as night follows day.
prefect (6291)
1233105 2011-09-24 00:14:00 Hello he had just fired his revolver at a passing car injuring a person before killing the polizei, In Singapore this alone is more than enough for mandatory execution.
He is guilty as night follows day.
May be you can point me to where it says he had just fired his revolver at a passing motorist.
Once again "At the time did you think Arthur Allen Thomas was guilty or innocent."
mikebartnz (21)
1233106 2011-09-24 01:05:00 Depends on your definition of "just". There are 2 people likely to have shot the Policeman, Troy Davis or Sylvester "Redd" Coles. Only one of that pair was also on the scene of another shooting where a shot was fired at Darrell Collins. Sylvester "Redd" Coles became a prosecution witness, he probably should have been tried as an accomplice. PaulD (232)
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