Comments on: Method of execution http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/ Black liberation news and views Thu, 24 May 2012 07:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Julia Davis http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-4488 Julia Davis Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:46:41 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-4488 Death row is an necessary way to keep order in society. Without it people will be more willing to break the law. With a certain method of discipline, the fear or punishment will keep the society safe and the safety of an innocent is more important than the safety of a criminal. Death row is an necessary way to keep order in society. Without it people will be more willing to break the law. With a certain method of discipline, the fear or punishment will keep the society safe and the safety of an innocent is more important than the safety of a criminal.

]]> By: Brelon http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-3193 Brelon Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:01:05 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-3193 Mr Young...why are you incarcerated? Mr Young…why are you incarcerated?

]]> By: Dudley Sharp http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-1198 Dudley Sharp Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:31:01 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-1198 daniel, murder is a crime, execution is a legal sanction for committing that crime. Killing equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of death penalty opponents Dudley Sharp, Justice Matters, contact info below There is a very common anti death penalty slogan: ""Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?" We don't. Even with no sanction, most folks know that committing murder is wrong. We execute guilty murderers who have murdered innocent people. The difference between crime and punishment, guilty murderers and their innocent victims is very clear to most. The moral confusion exists when people blindly accept the amoral or immoral position that all killing is equal. The anti death penalty folks are looking at an act -- "killing" -- and saying all killings are the same. Only an amoral person would equate acts, without considering the purpose behind them. For those, like some anti death penalty folks, who believe all killing is morally equivalent, they would equate the slaughter of 6 million innocent Jews and 6-7 million additional innocents with the execution of those guilty murderers committing that slaughter. They would also equate the rape and murder of children with the execution of the rapist/murderer. This is what the anti death penalty folks do, morally equate killing (murder) with the punishment for that murder, another killing (execution). For such anti death penalty folks to be consistent, they must also equate holding people against their will (illegal kidnapping) with the sanction for it, the holding people against their will (legal incarceration) or the taking money away from people (illegal robbery) with a sanction for that, taking money away from people (legal restitution). Most folks understand the moral differences. Some anti death penalty folks are either incapable of knowing the moral differences between crime and punishment, guilty criminals and their innocent victims, or they are knowingly using a dishonest slogan by equating killing (murder) with killing (execution). Maybe it's time to abandon such an amoral consideration. copyright 2000-2009 Dudley Sharp: Permission for distribution of this document, in whole or in part, is approved with proper attribution. Dudley Sharp, Justice Matters daniel, murder is a crime, execution is a legal sanction for committing that crime.

Killing equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of death penalty opponents
Dudley Sharp, Justice Matters, contact info below

There is a very common anti death penalty slogan:

“”Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?”

We don’t. Even with no sanction, most folks know that committing murder is wrong.

We execute guilty murderers who have murdered innocent people.

The difference between crime and punishment, guilty murderers and their innocent victims is very clear to most.

The moral confusion exists when people blindly accept the amoral or immoral position that all killing is equal.

The anti death penalty folks are looking at an act — “killing” — and saying all killings are the same. Only an amoral person would equate acts, without considering the purpose behind them.

For those, like some anti death penalty folks, who believe all killing is morally equivalent, they would equate the slaughter of 6 million innocent Jews and 6-7 million additional innocents with the execution of those guilty murderers committing that slaughter. They would also equate the rape and murder of children with the execution of the rapist/murderer.

This is what the anti death penalty folks do, morally equate killing (murder) with the punishment for that murder, another killing (execution).

For such anti death penalty folks to be consistent, they must also equate holding people against their will (illegal kidnapping) with the sanction for it, the holding people against their will (legal incarceration) or the taking money away from people (illegal robbery) with a sanction for that, taking money away from people (legal restitution).

Most folks understand the moral differences.

Some anti death penalty folks are either incapable of knowing the moral differences between crime and punishment, guilty criminals and their innocent victims, or they are knowingly using a dishonest slogan by equating killing (murder) with killing (execution).

Maybe it’s time to abandon such an amoral consideration.

copyright 2000-2009 Dudley Sharp: Permission for distribution of this document, in whole or in part, is approved with proper attribution.

Dudley Sharp, Justice Matters

]]> By: daniel http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 daniel Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:38:18 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-1197 The fundamental premise of the opposition to capital punishment is because, a civilized society cannot commit the same crime that we detest in the first place! Also the whole idea of Capital punishment is to prevent those people from affecting mainstream society. In modern we can make sure the person can be held to solitary confinement there achieving the same results. The fundamental premise of the opposition to capital punishment is because, a civilized society cannot commit the same crime that we detest in the first place! Also the whole idea of Capital punishment is to prevent those people from affecting mainstream society. In modern we can make sure the person can be held to solitary confinement there achieving the same results.

]]> By: unknown http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 unknown Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:33:35 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-1196 You who desire the abolition of the death penalty, tell me this. Are you also pro-choice (pro-death)? If so, you cannot oppose capital punishment. Are you trying to save a murderer but seek the death of a newborn baby? You who desire the abolition of the death penalty, tell me this. Are you also pro-choice (pro-death)? If so, you cannot oppose capital punishment. Are you trying to save a murderer but seek the death of a newborn baby?

]]> By: Daniel Robinson http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Daniel Robinson Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:29:15 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-739 Death Penalty should be abolished. We do not create life and neither do we have the right to destroy it. However as our societies progress towards an urban utopia it may become impossible to have some among us create the cause of distress to the wider society which may have to be contained for the larger good. Confinement in such cases is acceptable but not death penalty as practiced in many countries even today! ‘The Right to Live’ the fundamental right protected by the UN Human convention and also EU referendum is still being practiced by having amends! http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2008/12/abolish-death-penalty/ Death Penalty should be abolished. We do not create life and neither do we have the right to destroy it. However as our societies progress towards an urban utopia it may become impossible to have some among us create the cause of distress to the wider society which may have to be contained for the larger good. Confinement in such cases is acceptable but not death penalty as practiced in many countries even today! ‘The Right to Live’ the fundamental right protected by the UN Human convention and also EU referendum is still being practiced by having amends!

http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2008/12/abolish-death-penalty/

]]> By: Dudley Sharp http://sfbayview.com/2008/method-of-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Dudley Sharp Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:02:59 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=1998#comment-738 the 130 exonerated is a scam.Possibly, 25 actual innocents have been identified and released on death row. Of course execution is not murder. Legal execution is a just punishment given to a guilty murderer who murdered an innocent. The death penalty has, by far, the most due process protections in US criminal law. There is no violation of the Hipocratic Oath when medicalpersonel participate in executions. the 130 exonerated is a scam.Possibly, 25 actual innocents have been identified and released on death row.

Of course execution is not murder. Legal execution is a just punishment given to a guilty murderer who murdered an innocent.

The death penalty has, by far, the most due process protections in US criminal law.

There is no violation of the Hipocratic Oath when medicalpersonel participate in executions.

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