Ex-death row worker calls for death penalty to be abolished

You know exactly what is illegal about what you do marthanna. Yes you should stop harrassing me & admit to your illegal activities, beg forgiveness & turn the illegals in before you go to jail.

maloney, You are a nut case. Aiding and abetting how? And what? What an evil post. Harrassment, too.

Aiding & abetting is a crime in America in case you didn't know. Just where is it you live? Your illegal herd will be deported in the near future. Hold your breath for an apology, illegal lover. You may find yourself behind bars for your illegal activity. The knock on the door is coming soon. Tracking your URL.

Maloney, Stop the slander. What you said is slanderous:"They would go along great with marthas herd of illegal central & south Americans she harbors & helps, breaking the law I might add." I do not harbor illegals. I am waiting for your apology and retraction, Maloney. I am the proud padrina (Godmother) of a little girl who was born and raised in this country and whose parents are undocumented. Our city is filled with such people, in case you are behind the eight ball. The priests in their parish are of Irish descent and minister to all of these illegal immigrant parents, thousands of them, and are very kind and loving priests. So, let's hear the apology and retraction.

martha & jam are good candidates for death row inmates penpals. While your at it you can pay to keep them behind bars. Better yet, you should let them live with you. They would go along great with marthas herd of illegal central & south Americans she harbors & helps, breaking the law I might add.

I notice none of the pro-death-penalty posters bother to deal with the fact that innocent people have been executed or sentenced to execution thanks to lies by cops and double-dealing by prosecutors. Instead they wail and bemoan the victims who were killed, as if those who oppose the death penalty don't care about them. This is nonsense, plain and simple. My family's been hit by murder, and I STILL refuse to want the killer killed. To me, life in prison is more than sufficient punishment. As for the "eye for an eye" crap spouted so much -- that's the cry of a sadist, not a Christian.

So we just forget the people they killed and their families. It's easy to feel sorry for the living. With appeals the murders are only executited about 50 years later if ever and these include people wuo confess. Prison is after all supposed to be punishment. My thoughts would go to helping the families of the murder victoms.

A lot of the posters here, and readers, Irish or Irish American, are, IMO, morally culpable for electing officials who support the death penalty. I think that they are moral degenerates. Of course, they are going to be outraged that I say this, but they are. They have the need for vindication at a cruel and unusual level.

Bogsidebunny--As regards Catholic teaching, you appear to have the IQ of a rabbit. We believe that God forgives, we do not ask that a criminal go unpunished on earth. No Catholic doctrine I have ever seen uses the word "remorse"--you clearly are making this stuff up. We speak of penance, forgiveness and redemption. As regards the death penalty, a faith that life comes from God alone can unite our opposition to war, death penalty, abortion and euthanasia. To Catholics' shame, we have not always followed these principles, but we are now however imperfectly striving to keep them in our hearts.

The Irish Catholics are anti-death penalty because they believe in the "sanctity of life" and are taught anything you do evil is forgiven as long as you admit your sins and express "genuine remorse". In my opinion disregarding the dead murder victim and making the killer a "victim" is pure nonsensical rot. I believe in "An eye for an eye". Forgiving and forgetting is not in my dictionary.

Death is a penalty for us all, any way you look at it, in case you didn't notice.

While I agree with the right to defend oneself, if attacked, the death penalty doesn't due justice. For one thing, it leads to endless appeals which cost much more than keeping someone in prison for life. It makes a killer out of the executioner. Lastly, only poor men are executed, and sometimes they have been innocent. There's simply too much corruption and inequalty, in the legal system, to allow for a death penalty.

Whack a mole. With modern forensics, DNA if you did it is much easier to determine. If your caught in the act, Kill them the same way they killed on world wide web & TV. Good law abiding people should not have to support criminals, make them work for their keep. Fry them for murder, fry them for rape, fry them if they touch a child. State sanctioned murder, has a nice ring to it. If you murder you die unless defending yourself, your loved ones or your property. If not your property, just wing them.

The problem with capital punishment is that when the state works out that it got the wrong person, it is too late!!

Capital Punishment is both archiac and barbaric.It creates a mindset of revenge.My own Australian state of Queensland abolished it in the year 1922.The last person to be executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan in Melbourne in the year 1968 for the alleged murder of a prison warder during an escape atempt.It is still debated at times if he was the actual person that fired the fatal shot.Just in the last week a person who was executed by hanging in the year 1922 in Melbourne was declared innocent of the rape and murder of a ten year old child.He was found innocent by the process of DNA testing. I have read that a number of the USA States that have Capital Punishment have a higher murder rate than ones that do not have it.Also,that a person of dark skin is more likely to be executed,especially in the southern states than a white skinned person.I would consider Texas to be a southern state.