http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/justice/missouri-franklin-execution/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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"Franklin is on Death Row for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in St. Louis. He is blamed for killing 22 people between 1977 and 1980 in a bid to start a race war"

The only nation on earth that doesn't execute monsters. Truly pathetic.

11/19/2013 7:05:26 PM

wat

11/20/2013 8:48:33 AM

Hey look, a troll thread

11/20/2013 12:20:38 PM

a troll trying to be dumb?
or a dummie trying to be a troll?

[Edited on November 20, 2013 at 12:25 PM. Reason : and btw, he was executed this morning]

11/20/2013 12:23:44 PM

watched a documentary on netflix about death row last night. changed my perception on the whole thing actually, after they interviewed a guy who worked at a death prison and was with all of the inmates in their final hours.

[Edited on November 20, 2013 at 12:49 PM. Reason : .]

11/20/2013 12:49:30 PM

Tell us more. What is your perception now? Has your stance changed? If so, what was it before and now. Why

11/20/2013 1:34:00 PM

we don't kill nearly enough people and the ones we do kill sit around and suck up tax payer dollars for 50 years while they appeal

11/20/2013 2:01:14 PM

We're around #5 in the world for criminal executions. The only countries that are ahead of us are Big Brother China and some muslim countries (Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia). Yemen and North Korea are pretty close too. We should strive to be more like these shining beacons of countries. 97 girly-men tiny-weiner countries have abolished capital punishment.

11/20/2013 2:09:46 PM

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"Tell us more. What is your perception now? Has your stance changed? If so, what was it before and now. Why"

i was always a big proponent of the death penalty, but when you looked into this mans eyes, he looked destroyed. yes there are people that deserve to die but who are we to decide who does and doesnt deserve it. does killing them bring the people they killed back? no. does it really circumvent the countless murders that still occur, no. this dude came into the job as a huge death penalty supporter, and left against it. the guy was broken. if it does that to someones soul over time, what theyre doing isnt right.

11/20/2013 2:28:12 PM

Maybe if he was able to be at the scene of the crime and look into the eyes of the victims as the life was sucked out of their body, he would have a different perspective. That coin has 2 sides.

11/20/2013 3:02:58 PM

Bullet if you're gonna post in all my threads saying the same thing....who's the dummy? Get a life keyboard warrior

11/20/2013 4:17:59 PM

last time I looked, the death penalty was supposed to be a punishment. so if the people on death row are broken and destroyed, it's the worker's fault for feeling empathy for them and becoming broken himself. that is what they deserve, and I would expect no less. most of those sick fucks sit there and laugh and beat their meat dreaming about their crimes with no remorse; I wish they all could feel the horror they caused their victims before being put to an agonizing death

11/20/2013 4:39:49 PM

^^? this is the first time i've ever posted in one of your threads

11/20/2013 5:05:14 PM

Only God may pass judgement for a one's sins.

11/20/2013 5:12:27 PM

who?

11/20/2013 5:33:42 PM

i just think people who go on killing sprees/commit crimes that warrant the death penalty do it with the notion that they're going to get killed by the state anyway if/when they get caught. maybe knowing they wouldn't die, and they'd be in a jail cell until the day they died they'd be less apt to commit those acts of violence.

11/21/2013 8:46:23 AM

I support the death penalty and a state's right to enforce the death penalty, but with the way our appeals process works, I think we are better off just abolishing it and letting these fuckers rot in prison than wasting millons in court costs.

The death penalty should act as a deterrent to committing violent acts, but it no longer serves that purpose in the US.

11/21/2013 9:18:36 AM

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"The death penalty should act as a deterrent to committing violent acts, but it no longer serves that purpose in the US."

pretty much every study on death penalty as a deterrent shows that it has no deterrent effect on anyone other than the perp.

That said, I'd support the death penalty only in clear cut 100% certain cases where there is 0 potential doubt of guilt. Given the bureaucracy in our criminal justice system as well as the rampant abuse, I do not support capital punishment in the US.

11/21/2013 9:47:07 AM

You can never have 100% certainty, that's the main reason it should be abolished.

11/21/2013 12:11:05 PM