makes me so sad. last night was the republican debate on cnn with youtube. it was an interesting way of conducting the debate, i personally prefer a more fluid discussion with questions from the moderators. anyway. here is question eighteen. listen closely to some of the things huckabee says.
here is my response:
reading the documents doesn't humanize the case.
are some crimes really so heinous that jesus wouldn't even forgive?
don't say the death penalty is the only response, it's the easier response for you.
i can think of other ways to deter crime and warn others rather than killing someone. and i'm surprised that you can't.
"some crimes are truly beyond any other capacity for us to fix." before you tell me, governor, that something is beyond any other capacity to be fixed, how do you define "fix" and what have you done to "fix" these crimes? is capital punishment really a fix? what did/does it fix? i want to see your empirical evidence. what have you done? what was actually fixed by taking the lives of the sixteen people who have been killed under your jurisdiction?*
please don't include me when you say someone is put to death by "all of us as citizens." i will not take responsibility for the blood on your hands.
thanks for avoiding the question about what jesus would actually do. smooth answer.
*here are the sixteen people who have been killed under huckabee:
William Frank Parker 8/8/96
Paul Ruiz, Earl Von Denton, Kirt Douglas Wainwright 1/8/97
Eugene Wallace Perry 8/6/97
Wilburn A. Henderson 7//8/98
Johnie Michael Cox 2/16/99
Marion Albert Pruett 4/12/99
Mark Edward Gardner, Alan Willett 9/8/99
Christina Marie Riggs 5/2/00
David Dewayne Johnson 12/19/00
Clay King Smith 5/8/01
Riley Dobi Noel 7/9/03
Charles Laverne Singleton 1/6/04
Eric Randall Nance 11/28/05
Thursday, November 29, 2007
question eighteen.
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You know, I did really ever know what I thought about the death penalty until Jonathan brought home a document several weeks ago from school..several things struck me which i'm sure you already know but that I found very convincing:
1. 126 wrongfully convicted people have been freed from death row in the U.S. since 1976
2. Race and place are key factors in determing who lives and who dies
3.We pay hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain the death penalty system
4. Poor quality defense leads to many death sentences
5.In California, there is an alternative-- life in prison without possibility of parole. (got this from www.aclunc.org/deathpenalty)
This covers the gamut for me... thanks for the post. I appreciate your passion!
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