Likely, there are 300 or more, still alive, today, who have been on execution teams in the US. ..... Here are two, neither of whom offers anything but sttandard anti death penalty speak...... Justice is the reason we support the death penalty, just as with all sanctions...... MORAL FOUNDATIONS: DEATH PENALTY PT. 1..... 1) Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566). ..... 2) Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52...... 3) John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct)....... 4) Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death." "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral."

I am so very sick of criminals having more rights than victims. When such horrific crimes are commited the law needs to be able to provide a fair and honest trial. After that, carry out the sentence. I don't even agree with the 1 appeal. If you are connected to some form of crime which deserves such a high penalty you did not get there with traffic tickets. Let's send a message out to others.. you don't get to keep things tied up on court for years, you don't get to live in prison for years, you get one shot, convicted you die. Want to see crime slow down? Seriously? History tells us so in these conditions. There is no fear amount criminals only the innocents. And don't even start tossing Bible at me, (remember separation of church and state). Last time I checked victims only got to cry out to their higher power before some idiot killed or harmed them. Suck it up cupcakes, justice is coming.

"Don't you think when a suspect rapes or murders a child that the suspect should get the ultimate penalty?" said Youngblood during a news conference last month. How come he uses this? These people are in and out of jail in a flash.

The California Commission that investigated how to "fix" the death penalty by speeding up the appeals process, for example, indicated it would cost us an additional $95 million a year to do that. The American Law Institute, whose members are 4000 of the leading attorneys, judges and law professors in the US, wrote the model penal code, which is the basis of federal and most state law. In 2010, they studied the death penalty to look at revising their model penal code section on the death penalty. They came to the conclusion that it could not be revised to be fair and ensure that no innocents were executed. They voted overwhelmingly to REMOVE that entire section of the code.

there is not a problem with the death penalty. the problem is with all of the appeals and endless BS that follows. we need to give them their one mandatory appeal, within 1 year, then carry out the sentence.

Murderers, rapists and child molesters need the death penalty. End of story.