As mention in my
previous post, I strongly denounce those murdered victims’ families who are
against the death penalty when they want to abolish it. I respect Antoinette
Bosco in her decision to oppose capital punishment but I suggest that she
should not ask for the abolishing of the death penalty. There are several
points which I want to point out that she is wrong in her article: Capital Punishment No Solace To Survivors on Sunday 23 October 2011.
I have talked to many who
strongly support Dr. William Petit Jr., the lone survivor of this unspeakable
crime, who has sought the death penalty for the murderers of his family. And
believe me, I empathize with all of them, even though I believe strongly that
they are wrong to want more murders, even if done so-called legally by the
state.
WRONG!
=
They do not want more murders; they just want a just punishment. Writer, Don
Feder once quoted in his article, McVeigh
puts capital punishment in focus 25 April 2001: Executing
a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an
innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those
of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is
state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state
theft.
“That unnatural death at the hands of another is
wrong, except in a clear case of self-defense.”
WRONG! = I agree with what
Benjamin Tucker once said, “And capital
punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may
be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.”
The state is no more justified in
taking a life than is an individual. Killing cannot be sanitized by calling it
"official" and "legal."
WRONG!
= Please
see my response to Werner Herzog.
"The truth is, no one in my family ever wanted
to see Shadow Clark put to death. We felt instinctively that vengeance wouldn't
alleviate our grief. We wanted Clark in prison, removed from society forever,
so he could never hurt another person. But watching Clark suffer and die would have
done nothing to help us heal. Worse, wishing Clark would suffer and die would
only have diminished us and shriveled our own souls. We had had enough pain
already, dealing with the indescribable horror of our loved ones' brains and
blood splattered all over their bedroom walls. We didn't need to increase our
own torment by demanding more blood."
WRONG!
= As
mentioned above, I respect your opposition to the death penalty but by putting
Shadow Clark to prison, he might be a violent individual who might murder a
prison guard or inmate or he might escape or be released to kill again. Just
look at Steven Mark Pryer or Kenneth McDuff. Even if Clark did die behind bars
in prison, many other murdered victims’ families would want to see justice done
as life imprisonment is not justice.
And Mary emphasized where we all stood:
"Hatred doesn't heal. Mercy, compassion, moving on with life, turning
toward good people, walking into the light of love as much as possible, that's
what victims need. And our lawmakers have the capacity to help us do that by
abolishing the death penalty and along with it, the fantasy that it will make
the pain go away."
WRONG!
= To
your family, you will not feel pain and I respect your decision but you got to
feel for other victims’ families who will disagree with you for sure.
“The fantasy that
will make the pain go away.” It is no fantasy, just ask the following people:
From the
Pro Death Penalty Quotes website:
Ask the
following people what they have gone through:
1. Family members of Holly Carol Washa
2. Tumini
4. Roy Curry
5. Family members of Dawn Marie Garvin
8. Parents of Jennifer Cardy
9. Officer Hector Garza’s family
10. Fumiko Isogai
11. Davida Brown
13. Pam Braun
Sadly, the United States, which so often claims to
be the world champion of human rights, is the only Western industrialized
country that still practices this barbaric punishment. We do have 16 states
without the death penalty, but unfortunately, Connecticut is not one of them.
WRONG! = Most European
countries and even Canada abolished the death penalty despite public opinion being
in favour of it. Connecticut has now become the 17th state without
the death penalty, look at what happen to Daniel E. Gonzalez. The two killers
knew that since there is no death penalty in that state, they chose to murder
him. I suggest looking at the increase homicide in Illinois after the death
penalty was abolished.
In the fall of 2005, they launched the Catholic
Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty, saying we must be people who
affirm life. "State-sanctioned killing in our names diminishes all of
us," they said.
I agree.
WRONG! = You agree but
Immanuel Kant, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Alex Kozinski, Chalerm Ubumrung and many others will disagree with that statement. There are many
other Roman Catholics who support the death penalty. Saint Thomas Aquinas was
quoted in his Summa Theologica: "If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with
disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing
and preservation of the common good is to be commended. Only the public
authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public
judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or
which are particularly perverted."
Many of us are working to end the death penalty in
Connecticut. We who belong to the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death
Penalty believe we have the means to punish convicted criminals without having
to resort to killing them for protection, vengeance or retaliation.
WRONG!
= No
executed murderer ever killed again, you cannot be sure whether those who go to
prison might re-offend again. The ACLU opposes life sentences, Law Professor and
former federal prosecutor, Bill Otis said, “When LWOP is the most you can get,
ever, you have handed dangerous and violent inmates a license to kill.”
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