"You can be a king or a street sweeper. But everybody dances with the grim reaper." Quote from the film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Those of you that follow the news may have heard that Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife Lacy and their unborn child.

Does anyone else find it ironic that he will spend the rest of his life at the infamous lockup that overlooks the very bay where he dumped the bodies of his wife and child like so much garbage? I hope the view haunts the mother fucker until the day he dies! He has become the 644th prisoner awaiting execution at San Quentin  State Prison. The original Death Row at San Quentin was built in 1934 and holds only 68 inmates. It is now reserved for the most senior and well behaved of those awaiting their fate. Two other buildings have been added to house the "overflow" from death row.   

Now I know this post will be a little controversial but what the hell. It is a free country and I have the right to express my opinion. I happen to believe in the death penalty and am proud to live in a state that supports it. 12 states and the District of Columbia prohibit the death sentence: Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Hawaii, Alaska, Iowa, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

As I said Scott is at San Quentin in California so the little fuck wad is outa luck!  From what I understand...someone correct me if I'm wrong...California is such a considerate state that you can still choose to die by Lethal Injection or the Gas chamber with Lethal injection being the default in the event you don't have the balls to make a choice yourself. The BAD part of him being in California is that of the 38 states that support the death penalty California moves the slowest! The condemmed are more likely to die in prison before a date is actually set. THIS PISSES ME OFF!   

According to the state of California it costs an average of $30,929 to house an inmate for one year. I don't know about you but that is a hell of alot more then I make in a year! A good half again what I make in a year. THIS ROYALLY PISSES ME OFF!   The good Corrections Department of Texas was kind enough to tell us that the cost of the drugs to administer lethal injection.....$86.08. Think about it people. Do the math.

Now I DO understand that they deserve a chance to appeal their sentence. Over 113 people on death row have been exonerated since 1973. However there has to be some sort of limit placed on this! California says the problem is there are too many inmates with too few lawyers who are willing to volunteer for the relatively low paying job of defending these murdering, raping scum fucks. HMMM What a surprise. *SIGHS* There has to be a solution. One that I came up with is in exchange for Scholarship money have the law students agree to spend a year doing this kind of work when they get out or do so many of these cases PER year for a agreed on ammount of time. Most Lawyers make a shit load of money and it wouldn't kill them to help out the state a little. The number of inmates that have sat on Death Row for a decade, two decades, HELL there was one I heard of that sat on death row for 40 years before they executed him! 

Tell me what you think. I really want you to but for THE LOVE OF GOD don't just tell me I am wrong in my belief. If you can't tell me WHY I am wrong, how you feel, SOMETHING to back up the fact that you are calling me names and sentencing me to eternity in the fires of hell!!!  Yeah maybe a bit dramatic but I have had experience with these types!  LOL So anyway...talk to me people!

PEACE  

~HUSSY~

 

Okay Terror Twin of mine, this might be one of the few areas we disagree in. I personally am a bit torn. I know you can't really ride the fence on an issue like this, but I, just speaking out of what I feel here...don't believe in the death penalty. EXCEPT...and there is a big EXCEPT here...in the case of anyone who kills a child. But then again, I think they should be thrown to the family and friends of that child and REALLY let justice be served. I've often told Jim that if anyone killed or seriously hurt one of our children...that they would NEVER make it to trial. I think most of the men in prison for life would RATHER die and granting that wish is just..I don't know...maybe more of a reward? Then there is (and I swear I am not a bible thumper you know that) the small fact that if you read the bible, yeah it says an eye for an eye, BUT that was the old testament, before God sent his son down to die so that we were forgiven for our sins. He spoke of forgiveness, so I don't know. Part of me feels, that none of us have went through life without sinning, though murder is totally iunexcuseable and the vast majority of us don't do it. Who are we to say who deserves to live and die? Maybe it should be the choice of the family and not the state prosecutor. What benefit do they really get? Most states will not let the victims family witness the execution. Do two wrongs make a right? These are just my feelings. Maybe OZ and people like Cyril getting executed have warped my perecption. I would probably feel differently if I ever had to experience the pain of having a family member murdered. Though,m I hope I would have the courage to just be content to let that fuck suffer the everyday agony of prison, the rapings, beatings, shankings...and let someone else condemn. I would prefer to go through life without anyone's blood on my hands or conscience...deserving or not.

Heavy topic, that is for sure. A couple of facts about myself before I explain my standpoint. I am absolutely non-religious. I do know a great deal about religions out of pure interest but I don't believe in God.

I live in a country where from 1945 on death penalty is forbidden by the constitution. "Article 102 GG: Death Penalty is abolished" The USA were in fact among the countries that influenced Germany's constitution as it exists today.

Now to my personal opinion on this matter. I am absolutely opposed to death penalty. By no means can I agree with it. Sure, I've never been in the situation that someone I love was harmed by another person and I hope I never will be. I can understand how victims do feel about this but I also do believe that revenge or even self-justice are never a good thing or a solution, because it doesn't ease the pain it only makes the people sink as low as the person who commited the crime originally.

I do believe that no one has the right to say that another person should die, regardless of what they have done, in a modern society this should in my opinion simply be out of question. It's barbaric and if I were a judge having to sentence someone to death, I could never live with this burden because what much better am I? I sentence someone to death, a human being, so am I not also a murderer. I believe that good intentions don't justify anything.

In a way it saddens me that in a modern society like the US there are still 38 states allowing and practicing death penalty, especially after the government of the US were among the ones saying in 1945 that it should be abolished in Germany. I'm sorry, I hope my words aren't too harsh, it's just what I believe. I've had many discussions with my dad upon this and we disagree...but I won't change my mind. Murder is murder, whether it's commited by a person or in the name of the government.

This is a GOOD ONE BF!!! I have to say, I don't like the death penalty. I'll be damned if I think these scum fucks deserve to live on my nickle though. I think if they are absolutely guilty they deserve to ROT IN HELL. I understand B's statement, but think if it this way. All those murdered people are someones child. Someones mother or father maybe. Those people left behind desever some closure. A hell of a lot more that a lot of those KILLERS who get off with manslaughter and are out in less than 10 years. BULL SHIT!!!!!!

I support the Death Penalty plain and simply because you deserve whatever happens to you if you take a life .. and I know .. one life for another isn't much of a trade off but you know what? to me, this people that do these crimes stop being human .. how can a human being do that? some people think that it's barbaric and ancient to impose such things .. but in the way that some of these killers have plotted, raped, tortured and murdered their victims I think it's downright humane how they are put to death ...

I wouldn't care so much if they rot in jail for the rest of their pathetic lives but I DO CARE because it is MY money that is paying for that freaking scum to have computer access, tv, 3(or 2) meals per day, a gym, a library and whatever else they have in those places now-a-days .. now THAT is completely unacceptable to me ...

I don't agree with you regarding the Death Penalty, but I do agree that it is a poetic justice that he is imprisoned where he is. It can only be hoped that he lives long enough to feel remorse/ regret for what he has done.