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    The Right Way: More Republican lawmakers championing death penalty repeal

    At a press conference in Washington, DC, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty released a new report that shows the surge in the number of Republican lawmakers who sponsored death penalty repeal legislation at the state level. The report – called The Right Way – looked at all death penalty repeal bills filed since 2000, using the increase in sponsorships as a measure for growing Republican leadership on the issue.

    Findings include:

    The number of Republican state lawmakers to sponsor death penalty repeal bills increased sharply since 2012.
    From 2000 to 2012, it was rare for Republican state lawmakers to sponsor death penalty repeal bills. In 2013, the annual number of Republican sponsors more than doubled.
    By 2016 ten times as many Republicans sponsored repeal bills than in 2000.
    More than 67% of the Republicans sponsoring death penalty repeal bills did so in red states.

    https://conservativesconcerned.org/TheRightWay/
    Read the report here
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    Good, because it makes no sense to be against abortion because life & death is up to God but then be in favor of capital punishment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Good, because it makes no sense to be against abortion because life & death is up to God but then be in favor of capital punishment.
    Most of them would argue that it's about innocent lives. They have no problem killing you if you're guilty of something, or if you come from a country where people are guilty of something, or if your skin is brown.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptUSA View Post
    Most of them would argue that it's about innocent lives. They have no problem killing you if you're guilty of something, or if you come from a country where people are guilty of something, or if your skin is brown.
    Ah well, I don't particularly like people who use disclaimers when they are talking about principles that come from their heart.
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    Some would argue that the difference is due process of law. If charged with a crime and found guilty by a jury of peers, then the sentence would be rendered. Some say Roe v Wade was due process, but it wasn't because it was based on a story that was a lie, and an unborn child is not guilty of any crime.
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    The death penalty isn't a deterrent to most who commit serious crimes which would merit it and it offers no restitution to the victims of those crimes. Then there is the problem of what you can do if somebody was executed and later found to be actually innocent.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-..._13362760.html

    We found that among the 25 states with the highest murder rate, 20 have the death penalty. These include Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, Nevada, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, Kentucky, Virginia and Arizona). Five states (Maryland, Alaska, Illinois, Michigan and New Mexico) also have high murder rates, but not the death penalty.

    Among the 25 states with low murder rates, 11 have the death penalty (Kansas, Ohio, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, New Hampshire). The other 14 states with low murder rates don’t have the death penalty. They include Wisconsin, New Jersey, West Virginia, Connecticut, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Hawaii.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptUSA View Post
    Most of them would argue that it's about innocent lives. They have no problem killing you if you're guilty of something, or if you come from a country where people are guilty of something, or if your skin is brown.
    So wanting a serial killer dead to not waste taxpayer dollars for 40+ years on somebody who killed numerous people means you also want people of a different skin color dead? That's a pretty messed up correlation you made there.

    Personally, I'd be all for the death penalty (as even Ron Paul originally was) if the justice system wasn't so corrupt. However, for those where there's irrefutable proof, I see no reason to waste taxpayer dollars unless those who are strongly against it personally fund their cost to be in prison for the rest of their lives.

    Though I guess this is yet another issue that mostly exists because of government. Poor economy, crazy brain-altering prescription medication, media pinning everyone against each other leads to much more frustrations that make people snap.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ds21089 View Post
    So wanting a serial killer dead to not waste taxpayer dollars for 40+ years on somebody who killed numerous people means you also want people of a different skin color dead? That's a pretty messed up correlation you made there.
    This thread was about republicans. It seems most of them have no problem when the state kills brown people. Whether that happens at the hands of the police or our military. I don't get the correlation, either. But somehow, they've reconciled it in their minds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Good, because it makes no sense to be against abortion because life & death is up to God but then be in favor of capital punishment.
    Most abortions prevent future criminals. Thus reduce the need for capital punishment.
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