In 1960 a 22 year-old clerk named John Pigot was murdered in a robbery. While awaiting trial for the murder he would later plead guilty to Norman Porter shot and killed a guard at the Middlesex jail. After this murder Porter escaped and was not recaptured robbing a New Hampshire store. He again then received two consecutive life sentence. Another criminal locked up for life, case closed right? Wrong! While in prison Porter earned a college degree and had his sentences commuted by then Gov. Michael Dukakis. He was then transferred to a pre-release center where he was allowed to sign out for walks as he pleased! One day this convicted murderer signed out and never signed back in. A few felonies and ten years later Porter was reprehended in Chicago.
There is no better example of why we need the death penalty: to eliminate rouges and keep productive members of society safe. We need the death penalty to eliminate murders before they can kill again, but we also need it to deter prospective murders. The death penalty doesn't stop every lunatic, but it does make them think twice before they take someone else's life. This is a fact backed up by major research and is not something to be denied.
Some people think that murderers can be rehabilitated. Some people want to coddle up to murders and let them rot in prison at our expense. This is about the dumbest approach to crime ever envisioned. Being soft on crime is not going to make things better. Getting tough on crime will. If you murder someone you should be killed in exactly the same way that you killed your victim. Who cares about whether or not that is cruel and unusual? The innocent victim didn't get a trial or a peaceful death why should the guilty killer? That's just common sense.
7 comments:
Love your blog. I'm linking to you.
Thanks SB! Hope to see you around!
I've actually come around to the anti-death penalty position, but not because of Liberal thinking.
Prisoners sit on death row for so many years, exhausting multiple appeals, wasting money. We, society, get nothing in return. It's a broken system.
My belief is abolishing the death penalty and sentencing the worst of the worst to a lifetime of hard labor. We're already paying for their room and board, we should receive some benefit for it.
Ok ok I will add you it's just that there are so many parties to go to ya know!
I work and I don't usually spend time commenting or getting to many places. I guess I have to check a few more out.
I needed to see more then one post I guess... Oh and you will let me know if you quit right? LOL... I add people and then they quit blogging. The high rollers take the stage.
Here read this because this will be America in the near future! Crime does pay for Saudi men!
oh boy more crime!
Hey there get busy!
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