The Death Penalty and Schwarzenegger

[hicks]

I'm for it, and we need that damn express lane that Texas has put in.

[Intercepter]

I do not believe in capital punishment, but hey, he's the terminater...

[hicks]

So, let's say somebody murdered your family in cold blood.... you would rather them just sit in prison for the rest of their life instead of pay for what they did?

[redbear]

an interesting story...awhile back, about 4 years ago...i was watching TV and the reporters were interviewing some lady whose daughter was raped and murdered a few years back from then. the reason they were interviewing her was because her daughter's killer was being released from prison only serving 5 years of a life sentence and due to over filling, he was being released for being a "model" prisoner... the intersting thign was that she had no clue at all until a few days before his release. needless to say, she lost her mind on TV and was stated as getting ready to call the governor and give him $hit...

this is the one reason i will always stand for capital punishment and only having one retrial. there is no reason at all why this man should walk.... ok, he should walk free but he should walk to the gas chamber...

[bebbaboo]

I'm all for capital punishment ... and we do it right here in Texas. Not that it's decreased the crime rate any, that I know of. But we have no qualms about giving that injection. If someone is vicious enough to kill another human being, then the needle is a just end, as far as I'm concerned. No early release possible!

It makes me crazy hearing about murderers getting out after 5 or 10 years. A guy I went to high school with killed a girl, got out, killed another girl. He's in Attica now ... (Richard Mainprize .. great name for a killer) but still kicking. Last I heard, he was due for parole in 2007! If he were here in Texas, I guarantee you that that second girl would still be alive.

[sbpatel]

i am for the death penalty also. if u think u have the right to take someone else's life or harm them in any sort of way that affects them for the rest of their livesthen your life should be taken from you.

[radstar]

i'm for death penalty. after all, it does say in da bible that you should take away a life for those who have murdered.... i think (it has been a while since i have read da bible)

[WillemJoker]

I am against the death penalty. An eye for an eye is completely and utterly stupid. That's taking "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" a little to far. If the government chooses to take a persons life (except in self defense), that constitutes murder in my book. Regardless of what they've done, killing them is flat out wrong. However, I am for much tougher prison conditions for rapists and murderers.
Supporting the death penalty and using an eye for an eye as justification is like saying that rapists should be raped as their punishment.

[trailergod]

interesting read

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA
COUNTY SHERIFF. HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.



THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for
them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their
weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and
city
projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for
discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order
that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again
only
let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot
it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton.
If
you don't like it, don't come back."


He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into
the
jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he
replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the
inmates were in his jails in the first place.


More on the Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees
just
set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates
living
in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail
have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink
boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on
their
bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the
week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their
chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who
has
lived in the tents for 1 = years. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago
started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is
not
one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates:
"It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and
they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes,
so
shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would
be
a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished
for
their crimes -- not live in luxury until it's time for their parole,
only
to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on
taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for
themselves.

If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.