Well it's not the end really, I'll still entertain good discussion.
I like it really, and even when I"m alone..well I feel kind of like Henry Fonda as Juror number 8. But I digress lest I break my arm trying to reach my back.
Really the other side has admitted that the death penalty is not evenly administered. Though no one will admit it's racist and applied against the poor, there is no question that the process is random and there is really no justice when some get to die and some don't.
But the other side would be happier if it were more just, cheaper, and handed out evenly. Hell, some will even hang a persecutor for getting it wrong. But no one can admit that it's applied correctly as it is now.
But no one will then further conclude that the system is unjust and needs to be scrapped.
So there is common ground -- The Death Penalty is unjust.
Second, not only are we unlike the rest of the Free World, the freedom lovers we sanctimoniously call ourselves - we are more like the other countries we call unjust and profess as our enemies. We execute just as they do, and it appears that our death penalty system is equally as just.
Third - No one can prove that it deters crime, and we know the truth. Fear of the death penalty is not keeping people from committing crimes.
Which reduces this argument to the most pathetic of them all -- Pleasure of seeing the perpetrator die.
SO there is no argument that the death penalty is just and no argument that the death penalty deters crime.
SO Thank God there is a motion to SAVE TAXPAYER dollars, and close death row for good in Illinois. May more states do the same.
God bless you and God Bless AMERICA and thank God at least ILLINOIS will hopefully MORE AMERICAN and less Irani, Iraqi, or Chinese with it's punitive system.