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POPSLife Prison Terms for Children? What are we thinking!? What we are thinking is that county prosecutors get elected in the counties they serve in and "being tough" is generally the only qualification people run on. Often the same distinction is used by state legislators to get elected and re-elected. News media outlets all compete for attention, to sell advertising and make a profit. "DA seeks life to teen rapist!" "DA may seek life for young sex criminal!" "Jury may sentence serial hoodlum to life in prison!" Here's the real question - is a particular case about the victim and perpetrator, or is it about someone seeking power and/or money at the expense of someone who may then spend life in prison whether it is really justified or equal justice.
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POPSYou Can't Take Back Executing an Innocent
Long past time in Ohio to end the death penalty and in the other states and the Federal government - why? Think about all the headlines over the past few years about the mess in Illinois over people on death row or in for life who were proved innocent. This has been repeated in a number of other states due to the effort, in part, of the Innocent Project. But they cannot be everywhere nor investigate all cases. Here's the point: If you sentence someone to life and find later on a mistake was made, the solution is to release the person and look for the real offender. If you execute an innocent, there is no way out. Across the country, people who have been accused of nearly the same kind or type of murder get death penalty specifications in once jurisdiction and not in another. We are not just talking about one state versus another state - the variation exists within states, county to county. That means no equal justice for the accused or the relatives and friends of the victims. W
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POPSOhio's Execution Round One Ever wonder what it would be like to be executed and have it botched? Ohio has 88 counties, 88 elected District Attorneys, several hundred elected common pleas judges who can preside over death penalty cases, 88 elected coroners, hundreds of police departments. None of the elected criminal justice officials in Ohio's 88 counties have to have any specific training to run or be elected to office. Do you think there could possibly be equal justice for either the accused, the victims, or friend and relatives of either party?
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POPSPetition to commute an Ohio death sentence We, unfortunately, have a number of executions scheduled in Ohio in coming months. Many who were given death sentences since the death penalty law in Ohio was rewritten to comply with US Supreme Court rulings have exhausted their court appeal opportunities and are now being scheduled for executions for crimes committed in the 1980s and 1990s. The current system considers each case only on its individual merits and it is left to us, citizens, to determine whether we really want to continue executing so many people when we are unsure whether all of the executions or even just one execution makes us any safer, merciful, or just. Additional factors to consider are that if we seek the end of all executions: 1. Errors in justice can be righted. 2. Justice in the form of life imprisonment for the most aggravated homicides will be more likely imposed and more speedily determined (the time between sentencing and execution is often more than ten years because of time needed for jus
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POPSDeath Row Error Rate: Can You Live With It? When most serious studies show that taking the life of a murderer does not have any measurable impact on the number of homicides - Doesn't it just make sense to use the life without parole sentence for the most heinous cases - just in case the person turns out to be innocent?
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POPSRead Why Death Penalty Cases Can Be So Difficult Justice for the accused (family and friends of the accused) and for the victim's family and friends is never easy. Read about one such case and why Ohio should probably just end the death sentance or at least order a moratorium and spend the time it needs to figure out how to make the system more just for all concerned.
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POPSForgotten Victims: Families of People on Death Row The Old Testament tenet: Do justice, love mercy, and humbly walk with your God describes much of 83-year old Celia McWee's life; visiting her son on death row before he was executed gave her meaning to her life for 13 years.
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POPSDeath Penalty too expensive for Illinois - Lawyers say Illinois was state that first discovered that it's death penalty or capital crimes cases were hugely flawed over the years - so this recommendation comes from real experience with many who were wrongly accused and sentenced to death or life imprisonment.
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POPSNebraska of Two Minds Over Death Penalty State Senator Utter says he is for the death penalty for the most heinous crimes or criminals. How do you define most heinous, average heinous, not-so-much heinous, not heinous? He does not say. I am sure the US Supreme court and his own state supreme court would say - too vague, Utter!
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POPSIndiana and US Supreme Court on Collision Course The US Supreme Court has already said that it is unconstitutional to execute someone who is mentally ill or retarded. A new law is being proposed in Indiana to get the state to comply but in meantime, the state seems bound and determined to kill a mentally ill inmate for killing his brother while in a delusional state.
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POPSAnti-Death Penalty Editorial "It's a shame that America is almost the last pro-death democracy, ranking alongside brutal dictatorships such as China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the like. America was tainted, for example, when former Texas Gov. George W. Bush set an all-time record of putting people to death - and mocked one woman about to be killed." From Editorial
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