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Crime and Punishment in Reverse

By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jan 6 2008, 06:50 AM





New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed a law approved by lawmakers last week abolishing the death penalty in the northeastern US state.  Now the Democratic governor commuted the sentences of eight inmates, sentenced to death, to life in prison with no chance for parole.

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Well, I wouldn't expect anything less from a soft, liberal Democratic Governor.

New Jersey just can't seem to make up its mind on the Death Penalty. 

"Install it."  "Uninstall it."

With violent crime rates going up in this country, more of the 13 states currently without the Death Penalty should be considering it rather than states that have it abolishing it.

Now what will most likely happen is some states will be keeping an eye on New Jersey and their violent crime rate; specifically their murder rate. 

If the murder rate does happen to go down, I wouldn't be surprised if more states "uninstall" the Death Penalty.
 
That might leave mostly southern states with capital punishment. 

A big mistake in my book.

Let's hope New Jersey doesn't have many more John Allen Muhammad's or John Lee Malvo's in the near future.

Why must we go soft on murderers?


 Read the article from USA Today 

Corzine Signs Bill Banning NJ Death Penalty   รง here.





 
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J. Strupp   

Life in prison without parole isn't exactly "soft" in my opinion.  Installing the death penalty as a means of reducing violent homicide is like outlawing guns to reduce violent homicide in this country.  They both have little to do with one another.  Not to mention putting someone to death in this country costs an outragous amount of taxpayer dollars.  You know my stance on the morality of the death penality so I won't get into that.    

January 6, 2008 10:24 AM

Janet Evans   

It's SOFT to me.  

First, if you murder someone, it is deserved (if there is no death penalty).  

Second, spending 15-30 years sweating while you are awaitng that lethal injection to drip into your arm is also deserved for a murderer, especially one who murdered a child. (I wish it would take less time).

Third, while I am perfectly aware of the price tag that goes along with the death penalty cases, and don't need to be reminded of that, if the murder rate does go up without the threat of the death penalty, there will either need to be more prisons built, or there will be more criminals let go on the streets EARLY.  That sounds like a good plan to me.

I feel safe already.

January 6, 2008 10:54 AM

J. Strupp   

"...if the murder rate does go up without the threat of the death penalty...."  

It won't.  

A significant percentage of capital homicide cases are drug or gang-related offenses (or both) and not some crazy guy in a shopping center shooting people.  How about we focus on solving the problem and not the solution to the problem?  If you want capital offenses to decrease in this country, why not put that money into better law enforcement resources?   THAT'S attempting to solve the problem.

As Clint Eastwood said in Unforgiven, ""deserves" got nothing to do with it"

January 6, 2008 11:50 AM

Janet Evans   

Right, Josh...another soft approach.

And as the cop, Clint Eastwood said in Dirty Harry, while pointing his gun at the murderer ...."Go ahead, make my day."

January 6, 2008 8:13 PM

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