Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!! Archived Message
Posted by Dr. Ray Langston on December 1, 2010, 12:49 pm, in reply to "House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!!"
OK, 3Dee, here's my thoughts, will be a bit of a rant: If I were a member of the Illinois legislature I would actually vote to abolish the death penalty. Why? Because unless Chicago were to suddenly fall of the face of the earth with all it's residents in it, we will never have a governor that will overturn the moratorium on the death penalty. Why should local prosecutors pursue the death penalty against defendants and juries sentence people to death if we are never going to enforce it? It's a massive waste of taxpayer money at a time when we already have too much of that going on. However, if I were in the legislature, I would propose and campaign for a bill that would make life without parole the only sentencing option for murder. In my opinion, if you murder another human being, and the state sets you free to walk the streets again, that is spit in the face of the victim's family, and an unacceptable safety risk to the public (especially if the person was already a hardened criminial before committing the murder). To me, the only excpetion should be if someone was suffering from a severe mental illness (and didn't understand what they were doing), then send them to a mental instituion instead, or in cases where the defendant killed someone who had subjected them to repeated physical or sexual abuse, that should actually be considered self-defense in my opinion.... There's my 2 dollars (becuase 2 cents wouldn't be enough)
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