Where Do You Stand on the Death Penalty?
Posted: April 22nd, 2023, 8:42 am
My first ever serious subject...
I see Florida enacted a new law only requiring 8 jurors to agree on the death penalty (not the required unanimous 12)
https://patch.com/florida/pinellasbeach ... 7275802993
This is very surprising to me, the justice system is replete with examples of people who have been put on death row wrongly... usually because it's hard for witnesses to correctly identify a human being in the shock of a crime or police/witnesses lying etc ... to only have 8 people out of 12 determine life or death, to me, seems crazy. Am I wrong? Should we in our society have the death penalty? I recognize there are people like Manson who should have been put to death for crimes so offensive to modern society that they can't be rehabilitated... but stories like this one... give me pause on not only whether there should be a death penalty but certainly it should be unanimous...
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/forme ... r-40-years
https://eji.org/news/marilyn-mulero-is- ... death-row/
190 people have been RELEASED after being wrongly convicted -- including 30 in Florida, which just made it EASIER to put someone on death row...
A person is on death row for on average 11.5 years until they are released...
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence
I see Florida enacted a new law only requiring 8 jurors to agree on the death penalty (not the required unanimous 12)
https://patch.com/florida/pinellasbeach ... 7275802993
This is very surprising to me, the justice system is replete with examples of people who have been put on death row wrongly... usually because it's hard for witnesses to correctly identify a human being in the shock of a crime or police/witnesses lying etc ... to only have 8 people out of 12 determine life or death, to me, seems crazy. Am I wrong? Should we in our society have the death penalty? I recognize there are people like Manson who should have been put to death for crimes so offensive to modern society that they can't be rehabilitated... but stories like this one... give me pause on not only whether there should be a death penalty but certainly it should be unanimous...
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/forme ... r-40-years
https://eji.org/news/marilyn-mulero-is- ... death-row/
190 people have been RELEASED after being wrongly convicted -- including 30 in Florida, which just made it EASIER to put someone on death row...
A person is on death row for on average 11.5 years until they are released...
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence