"As a policy matter, I do not agree (with Pope Francis’s opposition to the death penalty). I spent a number of years in law enforcement dealing with some of the worst criminals, child rapists and murderers, people who've committed unspeakable acts. I believe the death penalty is recognition of the preciousness of human life, that for the most egregious crimes, the ultimate punishment should apply." - Ted Cruz
We, the members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, send our thanks to Senator Ted Cruz for defending the death penalty. This is his op-ed:
Sen.
Ted Cruz: AG Barr right, Democrats wrong on executions – here's why lawful
sentences must proceed
AG Barr’s decision to set execution dates
should be applauded for upholding the rule of law and serving justice
Alfred Bourgeois systematically abused and
tortured his 2-year-old daughter. He committed horrific crimes, punching her in
the face, holding her underwater in the ocean, whipping her with an electrical
cord, burning her feet with a cigarette lighter, sexually assaulting her, and
hitting her in the head so many times that, as he laughed to a fellow inmate,
the “baby’s head got as big as a watermelon.”
In July 2002, Bourgeois murdered his daughter by slamming the back of her head
into a car four times because she had knocked over her training toilet.
Just
over a week ago – nearly two decades after the murder – the Justice
Department finally set an execution date for Bourgeois. It also set
execution dates for Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs, each of whom brutally
murdered multiple people in cold blood in the 1990s.
JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT SCHEDULES EXECUTIONS FOR THREE MORE INMATES BEFORE BIDEN TAKES
OFFICE
The
Justice Department’s decision to carry out these lawfully imposed sentences is
well overdue, and a testament to Attorney General William Barr’s leadership and
belief in the rule of law.
Unlike
the Obama-Biden administration, which simply refused to carry out lawful
capital punishments, the Trump administration this year carried out eight
longstanding death sentences against criminals who committed brutal and
horrific murders.
This
included the execution in July of Daniel Lewis Lee, an avowed white supremacist
who murdered an entire family at their home in Arkansas in 1996. Also executed
was Wesley Ira Purkey, who kidnapped, raped and murdered a 16-year-old
girl before dismembering and burning her body.
But the Justice Department can and should do more to enforce lawful capital sentences.
There are currently 53 individuals on federal death row. These individuals are among the worst and most violent criminals in the country. They include Dylann Roof, who murdered nine parishioners in a historic African American church in South Carolina.
Many
of these murderers were sentenced to death years ago. Nine of them were
sentenced over 20 years ago, and 40 were sentenced over a decade ago.
They
have so far escaped their sentences only because the Obama-Biden administration
refused to enforce the law and the inmates’ lawyers have done everything in
their power to manufacture procedural delays.
This
justice delayed is justice denied. That’s why the Justice Department should
schedule execution dates for every single eligible death row inmate.
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"As a policy matter, I do not agree (with Pope Francis’s opposition to the death penalty). I spent a number of years in law enforcement dealing with some of the worst criminals, child rapists and murderers, people who've committed unspeakable acts. I believe the death penalty is recognition of the preciousness of human life, that for the most egregious crimes, the ultimate punishment should apply." - Ted Cruz [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205448822195378&set=pb.1095064228.-2207520000.1513953800.&type=3&theater] |
I
firmly believe in capital punishment. It saves the lives of the innocent by
punishing the very worst offenders who have committed unspeakable acts of evil,
and it deters future crimes.
There
are some people who disagree with that belief. But here’s what they can’t argue
with: capital punishment is undisputedly the law. Each inmate on death row was
convicted in federal court and sentenced by a jury of his or her peers under
laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.
That
doesn’t seem to matter to Joe Biden and the Democrats, who would go against the
wishes of a majority of Americans and effectively abolish the death penalty by
refusing to carry out the law as part of their soft-on-crime agenda.
That is
why the left savaged Attorney General Barr last week for scheduling the
execution of a man who tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered his own
2-year-old daughter.
But the
president – no matter his party – has a constitutional duty to “take Care that
the Laws be faithfully executed.” This means carrying out lawful sentences even
if he disagrees with the underlying law.
Barr’s
decision to set execution dates should be applauded for upholding the rule of
law, serving justice, deterring crime and helping bring closure to
victims’ families. He should continue to set these lawful executions for every
remaining eligible death row inmate now.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE
FROM SEN. TED CRUZ
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ted-cruz-barr-democrats-executions
OTHER LINKS:
http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/12/ted-cruz-defends-2nd-amendment.html
http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/12/ted-cruz-explains-6th-commandment.html
https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/posts/10158683783977464
https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3346687128786563
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