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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/conn-gov-signs-death-penalty-repeal-in-private-ceremony-with-clergy-victims-relatives/2012/04/25/gIQAkoEJhT_story.htmlI remember doing a study in college in the early 1970’s about the death penalty. The right wing, NRA Life Members love the death penalty, along with a few other assorted individuals. They scream that it is a deterrent to crime. That must be why we have 725 inmates awaiting execution in California.
A few innocent people have been executed. Executing an innocent person is all right as far as some vocal individuals are concerned. If you execute someone, they must be guilty. After all, the guilty party was arrested by the cities finest, prosecuted and defended by our legal system. Our system of justice never makes a mistake.
It seems like our local news relates the number of shooting victims in Oakland, California, which is almost one a day. Other areas of the Bay Area get into the act too. San Francisco March 23, 2012 – 5 people murdered in one incident by one person. Oakland April 2, 2012 – 7 people murdered, 3 wounded by one person.
Surely if the death penalty was a deterrent to crime, the above two incidents would not have occurred. Nor would thousands of other serious crimes have occured.
Under the Bush Administration, there was a big push to reduce crime in the U.S.A. A simple accounting trick did it. They announced that, “Serious crime in the United States has been reduced! However, murder and rape have increased”! That was an official FBI statement. So now we know what is not considered a serious crime. But what is?
I do have some advice for everyone. Never be a victim!
