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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Mar 15, 2013 10:23:27 GMT -6
From Anti DP folks on Twitter: "Today is a historic day in Maryland. We are about to become the 18th without the death penalty!! "
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Mar 15, 2013 13:28:27 GMT -6
the Maryland House of Delegates just voted to repeal the death penalty.
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Post by ichy on Mar 15, 2013 17:30:19 GMT -6
There's a modest chance that this bill can be petitioned to referendum which means it would be put on hold and the voters would get to decide on it in 2014.
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Post by oslooskar on Mar 17, 2013 11:23:15 GMT -6
The Death Penalty is on its deathbed in this country and has been for some time. Texas will probably be the last holdout but eventually it will come to an end there as well.
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Post by starbux on Mar 17, 2013 17:58:34 GMT -6
Unfortunately I believe you are right. California seems to be getting awful close. They barely kept it, this last election.
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Post by hangman1981 on Mar 24, 2013 0:29:42 GMT -6
The Death Penalty is on its deathbed in this country and has been for some time. Texas will probably be the last holdout but eventually it will come to an end there as well. No it isn't. Maryland is a liberal scum-loving state that does not represent the rest of the nation. Thank God for that! They actually had a moratorium several years because there were too many blacks on death row!
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Mar 24, 2013 7:07:25 GMT -6
It goes back a little farther still. AG John Ashcroft chose Virginia over MD during the DC sniper trials due to expediency and the DP.
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Post by Potassium_Pixie on Mar 31, 2013 17:43:40 GMT -6
At least someone has a brain in there head. If he was tried in MD, there would be no way that Mohammed would be executed.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Apr 1, 2013 0:27:49 GMT -6
The death penalty is logically indefensible. The death penalty is morally hypocritical. The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent.
These arguments are well-established and anybody who would like to attempt to refute them, well . . . bring it on.
Those who take joy in the death penalty being applied are responding to the various primal firings of their amygdala, believing that a sort of "justice" is being served. They get themselves worked up over the idea of any young innocent being brutalized and imagine themselves some kind of hero by vanquishing the "bad guy". Once one grows up emotionally, one becomes aware that certain grandiose fantasies about "justice" are not constructive responses to the vile acts of other humans.
Don't be an emotionally stunted reactionary - you've got higher functions with that big ol' brain of yours (well, most of you do) - use them!
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Post by ichy on May 3, 2013 16:31:17 GMT -6
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Post by ichy on May 3, 2013 16:32:37 GMT -6
= They actually had a moratorium several years because there were too many blacks on death row! If you're referring to the current moratorium that's incorrect. The moratorium on executions is in place because the Court of Appeals claimed that the procedures for executions hadn't been properly approved. It was a ridiculous administrative law technicality.
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Post by ichy on May 30, 2013 21:02:30 GMT -6
Well the effort to petition the repeal to referendum appears to have fallen flat on its face. So much fail
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Post by moonlight on Jun 7, 2013 7:44:40 GMT -6
Well, for me these are quite disturbing news regarding justice and law enforcement. The death penalty is the most efficient tool to deter felons from commiting murder, and of course is the ultimate mean for serving justice and providing closure for family members of murder victims.
America already went through it four dacase ago in the period 1974-1976 when the death penalty was abolished in the U.S. thanks to Forman petition. Keneth McDuff took a great advantage of it of course. But... after realizing the murderers only increased their murder rates dramatically thanks to the devastating morotorium, the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
So don't worry.
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