[Cody Dawg]

Death penalty.

If his little baby dies because he put a pet iguana ahead of his care for a baby then he should fry.

I don't feel sorry for him at all.

[turtle777]

[Rolling Bones]

Nothing to do with his iguana.

He'd have done it sooner or later anyway.

Killing a baby or an old person is only a slap on the wrist nowadays.

But yes he's fry material.

[loki74]

agreed. Definately fry material.

[d4nth3m4n]

20 isn't as old as it used to be.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

[If his little baby dies because he put a pet iguana ahead of his care for a baby then he should fry.

Thank god, you are no judge.

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

I don't feel sorry for him at all.

Of course not. He's just a ******.

[The Godfather]

The only news is that Cody is a card-carrying capital punishment supporter.

[loki74]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Of course not. He's just a ******.

WTF? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Yeah right. If it was some white guy (or anything) who did the same thing I would have the same stance and OP probably would too..

unless youre being sarcastic, in which case... well ignore what I just said.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by loki74

unless youre being sarcastic, in which case... well ignore what I just said.

I'm sure it was sarcasm.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by loki74

WTF? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Yeah right. If it was some white guy (or anything) who did the same thing I would have the same stance and OP probably would too..

Funny thing is, all the perpetrators in OP's "I wanna fy this person"-threads were black.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

The only news is that Cody is a card-carrying capital punishment supporter.

Didn't we have 6 page anti-death penalty CD Blog psot a few months back?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

The only news is that Cody is a card-carrying capital punishment supporter.

What's new about that ?
She flip-floped on this subject a couple of times in the last months...

[The Godfather]

Not really. She wanted to save Tookie.

[Moderator]

because you want to kill him the government should? If you feel so strongly go do it...why expect your government to.

[loki74]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Funny thing is, all the perpetrators in OP's "I wanna fy this person"-threads were black.

Funny thing is, IIRC, OP was defending Tookie Williams.

[Cody Dawg]

You know what's pretty sad?

Most of you could give a rat's ass that a baby is severely hurt and may die.

And TETENAL, you're just a loser, plain and simple, because of that race card that you always play.

Honestly, I think you're a closet KKK member. Get out that hood, TETENAL! Maybe you can burn a cross or two tonight?

[loki74]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Most of you could give a rat's ass that a baby is severely hurt and may die.

true, I havent expressed my condolences for the poor kid; my main focus has been a) that guy ought to fry and b) setting the record straight for our friend Tetenal here... then again, you havent really said much about how you feel sorry for the kid either; you focused on how the dude outta fry. You set the direction of the thread...

furthermore... I dont think you are in any position to tell anyone what they do and do not give a rat's ass about.

[Cody Dawg]

Obviously if I posted the thread I care about what happened to the baby.



Nothing angers me more than children and babies that are victimized, tortured, and/or murdered.

[Doofy]

Nope, still not supporting the death penalty.

I'd kick the bloke a few times though.

[OldManMac]

The death penalty is so flawed with inconsistencies in application and prejudices that it is impossible to apply fairly. Unfortunately, a lot of people are like Cody, who quite obviously lets her emotions determine who she would like to see "fry," and doesn't give a damn about the many, many, aspects and complexity of our entire often flawed "justice" system. After all, it's easy to just say, "fry him," and much harder to examine why people act the way they do. Our prisons are full of the mentally ill (that's where many of them wound up when most states closed their state mental institutions), because we really don't want to deal with them, and it's easier to warehouse them "out of sight, out of mind" than it is to actually try to learn about treating them. So, if it makes you feel any better, Cody, why not just proclaim "frying" for anybody who commits a crime, and then you can feel justly righteous, because you support a position that's being enacted to make the world a safer place.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0202-02.htm

Published on Thursday, February 2, 2006 by OneWorld.net
Hundreds of Mentally Ill to Be Executed in America: Amnesty
by Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON - Amnesty International is asking that hundreds of mentally ill people facing the death penalty in American prisons have their sentences commuted.

Ten percent of the first 1,000 people executed in the United States since 1977 suffered from illnesses ranging from schizophrenia to post-traumatic stress disorder and brain damage, the leading rights watchdog and opponent of capital punishment said in a report released Tuesday.

Another 3,400 people remain on death row and 5-10 percent of them have mental illnesses, Amnesty said, citing estimates by the National Institute of Mental Health.

The revelations coincided with hearings Wednesday in which U.S. senators heard about the death penalty from relatives of crime victims.

Ann Scott, whose daughter was sexually assaulted and murdered in 1991, likened the killer to an animal and said he should be ''put away.''

''I, me, want this bully gone. I want him to disappear off the face of this earth. I want him to rot in hell for eternity,'' she was quoted in a news report as saying of her daughter's murderer, Alfred Mitchell. ''He is a bad seed that never should have been born. He is an animal and when you have an animal that attacks people, you take it to the pound and have it put away.''

Vicki Schieber, whose daughter Shannon was raped and murdered in 1998, disagreed and told the Senate panel she did not want her daughter's killer to be executed.

''Responding to one killing with another killing does not honor my daughter, nor does it help create the kind of society I want to live in, where human life and human rights are valued,'' she said. ''I know that an execution creates another grieving family, and causing pain to another family does not lessen my own pain.''

Her daughter's killer, Troy Graves, was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.

The Amnesty report and Senate hearings reflect increasing scrutiny of the death penalty in the United States.

Last October, a Gallup poll said that 64 percent of Americans favored the death penalty--still nearly two-thirds of the population but the lowest level in 27 years. Approval of the death penalty peaked at 80 percent in 1994, Gallup said.

Amnesty, in its report, urged an immediate moratorium on all executions involving the mentally ill.

The inmates in question suffered ''serious mental impairment'' either before or while they committed their crimes, Amnesty said, adding that their execution stood at odds with a 2002 Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to execute criminals who are mentally retarded.

Only one state--Connecticut--bars execution for convicts found to have been mentally ill when they committed their crime. Texas is the top executioner of mentally impaired people, killing at least 24 retarded or mentally ill people since 1977. Oklahoma killed the next largest number of mentally ill people, nine, among the cases studied by Amnesty.

''The safety net currently in place to prevent individuals with long, documented histories of severe mental illness from committing violent crimes or to protect them from being executed when they do is egregiously inadequate,'' the group said.

''Instead of receiving the care they desperately need, hundreds of severely mentally ill offenders in the United States are mired within a health care system that is too slow to help and a justice system that is too quick to push them into the death chamber,'' it added.

Amnesty said a review of psychiatric examinations, medical records, and documented cases of extreme behavior found that at least 100 of the condemned prisoners had severe mental illness. In other cases, it was impossible to determine if the inmates suffered from mental illness because a thorough psychiatric examination had never been done.

Mentally ill defendants were allowed to conduct their own defenses, waive their rights to appeal, and ''volunteer'' to be executed, the rights organization added.

More than one-fourth of the 100 mentally ill prisoners executed since 1977, when the Supreme Court lifted a 10-year moratorium on capital punishment, had thus agreed to be killed--sometimes because they simply would not accept that they were mentally impaired but also because they had given up hope of receiving treatment, said the report, The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders.

''In some cases, families begged the state for help with their mentally ill loved ones only to be told that nothing could be done until the relative became 'dangerous','' Amnesty said. ''Unfortunately, the next time the families heard from the state authorities was when the person for whom they had sought help was being arrested and charged with murder.''

Many trials never heard any evidence of mental illness, the report said, and U.S. prosecutors exploited public ignorance or fear about mental illness by arguing that mentally ill defendants' ''flat'' behavior in court indicated they were ''unremorseful.''

The report cited the case of Scott Panetti, sentenced to death in 1995 for killing his parents-in-law. Panetti, who had been hospitalized repeatedly with hallucinations, represented himself in court, where he dressed as a cowboy and asked irrational questions. His case is under appeal.

Other defendants had been medicated so that they would be lucid enough to be aware of what was happening to them at the time of their execution.

[Gamoe]

I'm not going to bite the bait (too much). Regardless of almost whatever the circumstances are, the death penalty is simply immoral. No person or government has a right to take a life away against an individual's will except in the case of self defense. And no, murdering an individual in custody (the death penalty) because he is dangerous is not self-defense.

Also, I hope the poor baby survives and recovers from the abuse.

[Rolling Bones]

A lot of weird **** going on down where you live. No wonder you're so bitter.

Teens Beat, Rob 73-Year-Old In Central Fla. Orange Grove.
http://www.local6.com/news/6666564/detail.html


Stuck Robber Dangles In Store's Vent For 6 Hours.
http://www.local6.com/news/6676646/detail.html


And lots of other weird **** all just in one day!!!

[Weyland-Yutani]

Killing is wrong and giving the government a right to kill is even worse. IMO. Oy vei.

cheers

W-Y

[jebjeb]

Originally Posted by KarlG

The death penalty is so flawed with inconsistencies in application and prejudices that it is impossible to apply fairly. Unfortunately, a lot of people are like Cody, who quite obviously lets her emotions determine who she would like to see "fry," and doesn't give a damn about the many, many, aspects and complexity of our entire often flawed "justice" system. After all, it's easy to just say, "fry him," and much harder to examine why people act the way they do. Our prisons are full of the mentally ill (that's where many of them wound up when most states closed their state mental institutions), because we really don't want to deal with them, and it's easier to warehouse them "out of sight, out of mind" than it is to actually try to learn about treating them.

<snip>

Not weighing in on the death penalty argument, but couldn't one argue that anyone who commits an act such as this could be classed as being "mentally ill". Just because one can put a name to a disorder or syndrome someone has does not necessarily mean that they should be treated in a different way to "cold blooded" killer, does it?

[Cody Dawg]

Rolling Bones:

The "weird crap" going on down here comment is so true.



I was going to post some of it, but why bother?

This state is full of weirdos, bad drivers, criminals, and I'm inundated with the local news headlines that show all the perversions day after day.

It's sad.

[wdlove]

Yeas Cody, it is very sad. It's heartbreaking. The death penalty just needs to have shorter appeals, the sentence needs to be sooner.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Rolling Bones

A lot of weird **** going on down where you live. No wonder you're so bitter.

Why are you so bitter?

[Mastrap]

Originally Posted by wdlove

Yeas Cody, it is very sad. It's heartbreaking. The death penalty just needs to have shorter appeals, the sentence needs to be sooner.

You really are a piece of work, aren't you?

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Why are you so bitter?

Because he's not as gorgeous/cool/intelligent as me.

[SVass]

An ignorant human kills a baby and he should be executed. A president intentionally orders a missile fired at a house where the 780th "2nd in command" may be attending a meeting killing 4 children and he should be commended. Please explain. sam

[chris v]

Originally Posted by SVass

An ignorant human kills a baby and he should be executed. A president intentionally orders a missile fired at a house where the 780th "2nd in command" may be attending a meeting killing 4 children and he should be commended. Please explain. sam

It's called "Cognitive dissonance." Brought to you by The Sanctity Of Life™.

[Mrjinglesusa]

Originally Posted by Mastrap

You really are a piece of work, aren't you?

[Gamoe]

Originally Posted by wdlove

Yeas Cody, it is very sad. It's heartbreaking. The death penalty just needs to have shorter appeals, the sentence needs to be sooner.

Honestly wdlove, for an individual who professes love and tolerance here, how can you approve of murder, vengeance and the injustice?

And Cody, as KarlG implied, though your emotional reaction is understandable and very human, it does not mean that it should be used as a means to making moral decisions which affect not only isolated individuals, but society at large.

[JoshKurtz]

That article made me sick. My 7mo old is in his jumper right now and I just can't stop looking at him.
Poor kid (in the article).
I still don't think that the guy should die though. That's a little too extreme.

[Jawbone54]

He should go to prison and be diagnosed with "shaken inmate syndrome" after Big Bubba gets done with him. To actually take a baby and slam its head on the floor...I can't imagine. This is just twisted. I hate this world we live in.

[RobOnTheCape]

Life in prison should be life. No parole, and no hope of ever walking the streets. That is worse than death. Besides, innocent people have been put to death. Imagine the few who have been released because of dna testing, what about those convicted and executed before these tests were available. The government screwed up and took innocent peoples lives. Was it true that a few years ago some state injected a guy with a drug so that he would be mentally competent and aware so that he could legally be put to death? Just another bizzarro instance for bloodthirst in this nation.

I just think we're trying to beat China at something.