Death Penalty
one thing's for sure - you never know with politics...
from the diaries of the tennessee dude...
last week we reported on the antics in atlanta ga with hb 185 which would result in an increased number of death sentences by making jury sentencing votes non-unanimous...
and we cited the atlanta journal constitution as a source for believeing that passage this session was likely a done deal...
without giving away the whole movie it seems that the senate committee chair called for a vote to pass the bill forward to the senate floor today without hearing any of the testimony and the opponents had enough votes to defeat the bill...
there is a chance that the measure could be added as an ammendment to another bill, but time is running out - friday is the last day of the session...
now that was unexpected but politics is a game that can drive a gambler to drink...
peace out <3
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By SharonH
April 16, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this
Well thank goodness they killed the death penalty bill. The judicial system was set up the way it was for a reason and it would have been ridiculous to change just satisfy that teacher’s(the one who campaigned for it) lust for vengeance (not justice). There are always elements in this state who are bound and determine to always make this state look the most backward.
By Son of Tator Tot
April 16, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
you mean “get aholt” of it, don’t ye?
By Chris B
April 16, 2007 5:19 PM | Link to this
This is very sad that criminals get more rights than victims, especially when the victims are 2 year old children and 22 year old mothers just trying to have a day at the park. This bill was not about vengeance but about justice. Unfortunately, there are twisted people that feel more for the murderers than the innocent victims. This is sickening. We will keep trying.
By Craig
April 16, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this
Chris,
Perhaps these people feel that more death to punish death is not the way to go. There are some people who take life a little more seriously than you think. When faced with that decision there are those who seriously consider life as a whole when making that decision. Justice is making sure that when the state kills someone, a jury of one’s peers is in complete agreement on the death penalty. If a unanimous verdict is fine for other matters why not for the death penalty (something far more crucial)?
By MrLiberty
April 16, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
I have seen first hand how the general stupidity that infects the human species can wrongly convict a person of murder. Hundreds of cases all over the country have been resolved with the convicted going free because of DNA or other corroborating evidence. In many of those cases there has been a blatant element of prosecutorial misconduct.
The crime of murder is prosecuted by the state, the judge is paid by the state, the jury is paid by the state, and in many cases the defense attorney is paid by the state. Seem’s a bit one-sided don’t you think?
So long as we have to put up with this horribly failed system of injustice, the least we can do is require a unanimous vote for the death penalty.
If you think that this system of injustice won’t ever impact you, just remember the students from Duke. At least in the former Soviet Union everyone wasn’t deluded into believing there was a system of “justice.”
By RL
April 17, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this
Thank God they killed the death penalty bill.
Did anyone else think it was strange when in the same week the GA house of reps. voted to make it easier to give the death penalty and then voted to pay over $1 million to a man wrongly convicted of rape more than 20 years ago? Does anyone else see the unbelievable contradiction?
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