Saturday, August 23, 2014

And the Looper sticks his Hick in the grinder -- again.

Hickenlooper suggests full clemency an option if death penalty becomes too big an issue
What the Looper seems to saying is, "Re-elect me or I'll pardon the murderous swine." Nice.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hickenlooper is wrong in trying to make this a political threat....however, he's right in not giving the government the right to kill citizens.

The fact is: It's not cost effective. It costs 2-3 times as much to execute as it does to give someone life in prison.

It's not a deterrent. In states where they have the death penalty, the murder rates are very similar to states where they don't. Murder rates really vary by city anyway, not so much states and states with the death penalty don't necessarily have lower overall murder rates than those that don't.

Most importantly: It's not a precedence you want to set in a Constitutional Republic....b/c one day, folks like III Percenters may be targeted for their political speech.

Declaring someone an enemy of the state or a dissenter and then rounding them up and executing them is being done and has been done through out history by totalitarian regimes.

Do any of you really think our government isn't reaching that point today?