William Quentin Jones scheduled to die today in NC

Here is a link to "The Nation"'s Death Row roll call:

http://www.thenation.com/deathrow/

Anybody care to discuss the death penalty pro or con? Has everyone sent the Governor an email?

...if the accused committed mass-murder (like Timothy McVeigh) under his/her own stable mental state. If the person was crazy or a juvenile, then that's WRONG. If somebody murders one person, then is executed by the state for that crime, then that's WRONG. A sane serial killer (who killed while rationally knowing it), or someone like Tim McVeigh are the only types of people I believe deserve to be executed.

I'm also in favor of a national moratorium on executions until an investigation can be done on the rates of inmates who were innocent when killed. If 20 or so Northwestern University law students prove the innocence of over a dozen people on Illinois death row, and the state never bothered to do that type of investigation in the first place, and at the same time, people are being executed in Texas like flies in a bug-zapper with actual doubt resting on their guilty verdicts, how many of those Texas (and other states) inmates were innocent and given the old sleepy-juice??

On edit: I had a misleading title.

the point of putting people on trial is to keep the rest of the world safe from their crimes...you can keep the world safe from their crimes by locking them in jail.

Killing is immoral. Taking an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. What does this teach the world? That if someone steals from you...you steal from them? if someone beats you up, you beat them up? A higher moral standard must be set even if they people are found guilty or even admit to the crime of murder. This isn't what we should be teaching our children! And we wonder why America is so violent...it is because the majority of americans are bad role models. They look to their gospel or wherever they get this BS...and preach murder!!!

I won't even go into the whole judicial situation concerning this issue for we all know it is unfair when it comes to those of color and class...what a joke.

I plead with everyone here to vote and support Dennis Kucinich for President. he will put a moratorium on the death penalty and bring a dark era of American history to an end.

www.kucinich.us
Dare to Dream

Not totally against it, but certainly a step in the right direction. Perhaps also less likely to enrage death penalty supporters.

http://dfa.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=policy_statement_civilrights_capitalpunishment