Which State Is Thinking of Abolishing the Death Penalty Outright?
- Posted on April 5, 2012 at 10:53pm by
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP/The Blaze) — After executing just one prisoner in more than 50 years, Connecticut moved Thursday to become the fifth state in five years to do away with the death penalty for good.
But the repeal wouldn‘t be a lifeline for the state’s 11 death row inmates, including two men who killed a woman and two children in a horrifying home invasion supporters touted as a key reason to keep the law on the books. The state Senate debated for hours Thursday about whether the law would reverse those sentences before voting 20-16 to repeal the law.
After the state Senate’s 20-16 Thursday vote to repeal the law, the heavily Democratic state House of Representatives is expected to follow with approval within weeks. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the first Democratic governor elected in two decades, has vowed to sign the same bill vetoed by his Republican predecessor.
The wealthy, liberal state is one of the last in the Northeast to have a death penalty law and would join New Mexico, Illinois, New Jersey and New York as the most recent to outlaw capital punishment. Repeal proposals are also pending in several other states including Kansas and Kentucky, while an initiative to end the death penalty goes before California voters in November.
Like Connecticut, states that have recently decided to abolish capital punishment were among those that in practice rarely executed inmates. New Jersey, for example, hasn’t executed anyone in more than 40 years; Connecticut’s death row population is more than seven times below the national average.
Death sentences and executions are also plummeting around the country as fewer prosecutors push capital punishment cases, often because of new laws that allow life with no possibility of parole as a sentencing option.
The possibility of executing the innocent, driven by the rise of DNA as a tool to exonerate wrongfully convicted defendants, is the biggest overall factor driving states to reconsider capital punishment, said Doug Berman, an Ohio State University law professor.
“That has the most profound and enduring resonance as an argument and one that can never be pushed back,” Berman said.
The Senate debate Thursday focused on how the law could affect the state’s 11 death row inmates, including the two men sentenced to death for the 2007 home invasion attack in the New Haven suburb of Cheshire. They include two men sentenced to death for killing a woman and her two daughters after tormenting the family for hours in the New Haven suburb of Cheshire. The lone survivor of the attack, Dr. William Petit, successfully lobbied state lawmakers to hold off on repeal last year when one of the killers was still facing trial.
“We believe in the death penalty because we believe it is really the only true, just punishment for certain heinous and depraved murders,” Petit said Wednesday. “One thing you never hear the abolitionists talk about is the victims, almost never. The forgotten people. The people who died and can’t be here to speak for themselves.”
Connecticut would become the 17th state without a death penalty. Executions in the U.S. have declined from a high of 98 in 1999 to 43 last year, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. The number of people sentenced to death each year has also dropped sharply, from 300 a decade ago to 78 last year, he said.
Dieter, a leading anti-death penalty advocate, attributed the states’ decision to repeal to “the revelation of so many mistakes,” wrongful convictions exposed by new DNA evidence. Executions have also been delayed in several states as supplies of the drugs used to put inmates to death have become scarce. States such as Ohio and Texas have limited supplies of pentobarbital, used in lethal injections, and have not said what they will do when those supplies run out.
One Connecticut state senator said the possibility that an innocent person could face execution weighed heavily on her conscience.
“I cannot stand the thought of being responsible for somebody being falsely accused and facing the death penalty,” said Sen. Edith Prague, D-Columbia. “For me, this is a moral issue and realizing that mistakes are obviously made.”
A Connecticut state Innocence Project that began reviewing cases in 2005 with new DNA technology has yielded several high-profile exonerations.
Kevin Ireland served 20 years in prison for the 1986 murder of a mother of four in Wallingford, but was freed in 2009 on the basis of DNA tests. Another man was sentenced last month to 60 years in prison for the killing. In another case, Miguel Roman served two decades behind bars for killing his pregnant teenage girlfriend in Hartford in1988, only to be freed in 2008 because of DNA evidence. Neither man had faced the death penalty.
Connecticut has carried out only one execution in 51 years, when serial killer Michael Ross was administered lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeal rights.
Judges, lawyers and victims’ families have blamed foot-dragging by the courts and lawyers and the complexity of the appeal system for delays in executing others. Of the 11 men on Connecticut’s death row, three have been awaiting execution for more than two decades and two others have been on death row for at least 12 years. By comparison, the average time between conviction and execution in Texas is 10 1/2 years.
Thursday’s vote occurred after a debate that lasted more than 10 hours and focused largely on whether death row inmates like Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, convicted in the Cheshire home invasion, could be helped by the law. Critics said they were concerned attorneys would use the law change as grounds for throwing out the sentence in the future.
“For those who say we should execute those 11, but none going further, the only way to keep that promise, the only way to keep that promise, is to keep our death penalty law,” said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, who opposes the repeal.
Preserving the death sentence of those still on death row is fairly unusual, although a similar law took effect in New Mexico. The governor declined to commute the sentences of the state’s two men on death row after the repeal was signed in 2009.
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Comments (103)
campt1
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:42am…and how do they propose to feed all these felons?
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 2:33amThey need to feed these losers a steady diet of lead dressing until cobwebs begin to occupy the empty cells.
Report Post »US Citizen
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:21amWhat amazes me most about Democrats is their desire to save convicted murderers from the death penalty because it’s possible an innocent person may be put to death while they continue to promote abortion which kills millions of innocent lives every year. Am I missing something here?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:53amThat’s right – - – Abolish the death penalty and let the two animals who raped two sisters 17 ahd 11, killed their mom and tied up their dad in the basement then poured gasoline on the two girls and set them and the house on fire continue to live costing the Conn. taxpayers at least $30.000 per year to keep up.
WOW Conn. smart move!
Report Post »Liberal_Teacher
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:37amThere are 11 inmates on death row in Connecticut right now. Feeding those 11 criminals is hardly the largest drain on the state’s prison budget.
And as has been shown time and time again, when you factor in the appeals process, it costs more money to execute a person than it does to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives.
The argument to abolish the death penalty is not merely a moral one, but an economic and procedural one as well.
In any case, it appears the death penalty is on the way out, as juries become more and more worried about applying it and prosecutors prefer to go for the option of life in prison without parole.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:39amNo problem just replace it with Florida’s stand your ground law. Get the criminal types before they have a chance to a defense, you know those who wear a hoddie, and it is faster and cheaper.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:45amThe death penality should be applied as a much faster rate. If someone is convicted of 1st degree or capital murder they should have one week to get thier affairs together and thens it’s “off you”.
Report Post »If violent offender who are in prisoin continue to break the laws and engage in criminal activity while in prison they too should be put down. If they aren’t rehabilitating which is the point of prisons then obvious they will never be fit for society. If the death penalty was used to it’s full potential we would
clean up the prisons,make younger generations see where crime and continual crimianal activity leadfs to,safe hundreds of billions in tax dollars and start the immediately turn this nation around.
One more thing paying 2 million dollars to put someone to sleep is BS. Rope is cheap natural and reusable thus it’s the perfect way for“GREEN” execution. The hanging platforms are made of wood so they’re also “GREEN” and 100% bio-degradable.
omgfolks
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:42amIf they are using DNA to find out people didn’t do the crime, then wouldn’t it seem prudent to use it to confirm they convict did the crime and therefore should be executed
Report Post »SouthSideLib
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:55amI‘m not sure if it’s still true but I read once that with the appeals process and all it is actually more expensive for the state to execute somone than to keep them in prison for life.
Report Post »Perkins
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:49pmWhat I love is the idea that death by old age (life in prison without parole) is not a death penalty.
@LiberalTeacher, What is more, as you point out, they do not get the appeals to make sure they are actually guilty.
In other words, to assuage the conscience, we will just pretend we are not taking innocent lives because “well, we didn’t shoot/hang/electrocute/poison/make-them-die-instantly them,” we only took their ability to control their life. So how is that different than killing them other than the amount of life being taken? (side note, how is that different than government regulations usurping our freewill?) How do the innocent get back the 20+ years they were in prison?
Just like the six-fingered man in the Princess Bride, “I’ve just taken one year of your life away. One day I might go as high as five, but I really don’t know what that would do to you, so let’s just start with what we have.”
What happened to “it’s better to let 100 guilty go free than to punish one innocent”?
No wonder the US is collapsing, we pretend that changing words changes reality. Well, reality is going to catch us sooner or later.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 2:50pm@ lib_teacher
“And as has been shown time and time again, when you factor in the appeals process, it costs more money to execute a person than it does to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives.”
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I believe this is true because it is not being done correctly.
My way: The convict gets one appeal, and if they lose they get taken out back and get a 7.62×51 surgically implanted into the back of the head by any member of the surviving family members. No blindfold, no cigarette.
Crime would drop precipitously.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:01pm@perkins
Report Post »Well, at least the man with life to do has the chance of appeal, yes you can still appeal a conviction even if you are convicted, but not if you plead guilty. See, many people, and I mean many have been cleared years after they were convicted, and been released. The death penalty should be converted to life without parole. If you think that life without parole is a death sentence, just ask any lifer what he thinks.
By the way, cost should never come into the equation. That just makes it all evil.
macpappy
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:06pm@TSUNAMI-22
Report Post »Well, thank God we don’t live in your America.
What about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, all that good old jazz.
Be careful when fighting monsters lest you become one.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:45pm@ macpappy
@TSUNAMI-22
Well, thank God we don’t live in your America.
What about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, all that good old jazz.
Be careful when fighting monsters lest you become one.
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In my world, there is no perpetual appeals and BS. You get a fair trial, but if found guilty worthy of the death penalty you get (1) appeal and if you lose – you get executed immediately and inexpensively. Period.
What’s wrong with my world?
Report Post »TheKing101
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:06amPlease read my earlier post of Ambrose Harris. There is evil in the world, and it needs to be ended. Its okay to kill millions of babies in the womb, but its not okay to put pure evil to death. I wish I was as good as Jesus but I am not. Lord forgive me for these thoughts.
Report Post »US Citizen
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 7:57amStill waiting to hear from someone who supports abolishment of the death penalty yet says nothing about abolishing abortion. These babies never committed a crime and never had a trial. If you support abolishing the death penalty you better be prepared to support abolishing abortion.
Report Post »Marsh626
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:36amWe should become more like lefty Norway and treat murderers like royalty. Afterall, murderers are the REAL victims of our racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophopic, right-wing, capitalist, imperialist, unjust society!
*eye roll*
I absolutely cannot stand soft-on-crime leftists. The growing hordes of anti-death penalty right-wingers is also depressing. These stupid fundamentalist Catholics who follow everything the Pope commands and these “liberal conservatives” make me want to puke.
I converted to the Right to escape leftist insanity. Only for their ideological AIDS to infect the Right as well. Son of a…
Report Post »donaldchar
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:30amConvicted of premeditated 1st degree murder? Give ‘em 30 days to prepare to meet God, then let the punishment fit the crime. That’s a merciful extension ending with true justice. Instead of free room and board for life, with free big-screen TV, free full gymnasium, free wardrobe, and free computers & internet, let ‘em be permanently dropped from the taxpayer-funded Life of Riley.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:20amWell they shouldn’t have a death penalty to begin with, they should put criminals on an isolated Island somewhere far away, and even though that‘s the right way to do it they won’t because of greed which is a root of evil.
Report Post »Airgun
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 5:04amUp to a point I agree; either hang them (rope is cheaper) or kick them out of the world for good.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 6:51amI believe somebody tried that already. It is now a highly desired vacation destination called Australia. Why would we want to give convicts a better life than we have?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:23am“ greed” the Left’s code for evil “capitalism .” Wish we could have the Marxists all Occupy an island somewhere. Would soon devolve into Lord of the Flies or Animal Farm ! ( Somethings never change – like looney Left wing 1960′s dreams of Utopia )
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:45amolefrommn<wrote,I believe somebody tried that already. It is now a highly desired vacation destination called Australia. Why would we want to give convicts a better life than we have
Look around ole,prisoners get free room,free food,free climate control,free gym,free cable,free legal access,free medical,free dential,and free clothing. No one on the outside gets anything for free,and in a lot of cases they can't even afford,cable,medical,dential,gyms,or heat or A/C .
Report Post »Thet are already living better lives than those on the outside.
Bodysnatcher
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:05amDon’t stop it, speed up the process
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:01amthe progressive cancer in our society makes all of lifes much more dangerous…progressivism is a mental disorder
Report Post »Predatee
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:47amThis is insane… If they believe in rolling back the law, why don’t they believe in rolling back the existing convictions? And we are now in the age of DNA testing. Newer DNA evidence isn’t going to be showing up 20 years from now. But, as has been already pointed out, it is Connecticut, so we shouldn’t be surprised, or even really care.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:26amPersonally, I’m of the opinion that the most important purpose of jail time and the death penalty is ensuring that those who committed the crime are incapable of causing anymore harm. In this respect, the death penalty and life imprisonment have the same overall effect. It is in regards to justice, the second purpose of such sentences, that the two forms diverge. The problem is that many states that have the death penalty allow for an appeals process that can be dragged on for decades. As much as I might like to see someone executed if they truly deserved it, if I was the victim or the victim’s relative, I wouldn’t want to have to relive the experience continuously for decades just to see the man finally executed. Anyone remember why Mumia had his death sentence commuted? It was because the widow of the police officer he murdered couldn’t bear the continuous appeals. Not only do these appeals take a toll on the victims but they also can cost more than just locking the man away for life. Unless this problem is fixed the death penalty remains problematic to actually enforce.
Report Post »noneed4govthelp
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:20amI used to be for the the death penalty.I am no longer for it and not because I don’t think some deserve it..I don’t have faith in the system to make sure they get the right person.I see to many like Eric Holder in powerful positions and I don’t want to give them the power of life and death.
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:03amwhen restored & renewed America is launched in January, and that rabid communist animal obama has fled to one of his many ‘safe houses’ our Trillions in US tax dollars bought him overseas, America ought to totally clean out all of the Death Rows nationwide simultaneously thru one day by the actual Just sentence: DEATH. === get rid of ALL that vermin who cost us $billions a year to feed and house.
Report Post »JesusLovesAmerica
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:03amOk there crazy.
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:59pmnaturally, if it’s a democrat communist state they will do everything they can to coddle a degenerate murderer or rapist or pedophile.
Report Post »BelieversAreDelusional
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:29amYeah, they couldn’t be:
1) Morally opposed to the death penalty
or
2) Aware of the imperfect nature of the judicial process
It‘s because they’re “Democrat Communists.” What a fool.
Report Post »JesusLovesAmerica
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:04amWhy can’t they kill people like Jesus intended. That’s what he said right? Kill people.
Report Post »usedCZARsalesman
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:24amFirst off it is LAUGHABLE that a Dem is “morally opposed” to ANYTHING. Second, how many “false” death sentences have ever been proved? Like .03% or something? Sorry, I think we should be putting down 10 TIMES as many as we are right now. You kill/rape/molest a child, you die…IF some sort of mistake is made, that would be a horrible tragedy (and God will sort that out for you) but the REAL tragedy is when these monsters are allowed to remain alive and ofter even released to victimize people again and again and again. If ever any one of you that is against the death penalty has a family member raped and murdered and I betting you will be the FIRST ONE to want them strapped to a table…and you would be right and justified in wanted that, too bad they’ll just be released in 15-20 years to rape and murder someone elses family. The left makes me sick.
Report Post »Liberal_Teacher
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:46am@UsedCzarSalesman Depending on the state, anywhere from 100%-18% of death penalty convictions are overturned on appeal (Virginia has the lowest rate). In the great majority of these cases, the appellants are still considered guilty but are given lesser sentences. In about 7% of cases, the guilty verdicts are overturned. Not %.03
These statistics are widely available. Try Google.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:56pmOk, I found me post. Sorry.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:54pmWhere b(s) me last post?
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:48pmGenesis 18:20-33
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:50pm(cont)
And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:58pmThe Meaning of Life, Part 2. Growth and Learning: “And spotteth twice they the camels before the third hour. And so the Midianites went forth to Ram Gilead in Kadesh
Report Post »Bilgemath by Shor Ethra Regalion, to the house of
Gash-Bil-Betheul-Bazda, he who brought the butter dish to
Balshazar and the tent peg to the house of Rashomon, and there
slew they the goats, yea, and placed they the bits in little
pots. Here endeth the lesson.”
Doctor Nordo
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:25pmAs funny as Monty Python is your response is just retarded.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:35pmSo lovely. Now if they , just as easily, could abolish murder. Also interesting that the “social justice / redistribution ” advocates do not seem to have the same feeling toward the victims of crime. Well maybe they do, as they seem to act so that tax payer always gets the shaft while the victim must rely on the “ justice ” of a God whom most of the Big Brother Government Crowd do not even believe in.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:47pmLet one those who want to abolish this death penalty lose one of their children to torture ,mutlilation and murder then watch them go after the guy with both barrels.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:30pmIt’s not my State.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:00amEither a lot of serious felons live there, terrorists or people are spaced out on something. There are prostitutes getting killed by the score out on Long Island sound in NY where the DP is not used for punishment. Someone is doing a number on women. I do not even know the count now. Last time I read which was a few months ago the tally was about 11. Could be more by now.
Report Post »B4REALITY
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:27pmDeath will come to us all. I’m old enough to know that no one is perfect – and that people make mistakes — lot’s of mistakes! Parents make mistakes, kids make mistake, friends make mistakes – human of all kinds err – oh yes, to err is human! But to take a woman out of her home at gun point to the bank to empty the family bank account, to tie up her teenage daughter and the youngest daughter – and abuse them mercilessly, and beat the father so that he can’d defend his family, and tie him up so that he might be able to hear the screams. Yes, this happened in Connecticut just a few short years ago, maybe four…and then to not submit these beasts to the death penalty is cruel to the lone victim survivor – the father – who escaped as the house was burning. To be kind to the cruel – will lead to a society that is cruel to the kind. We must not allow these wackadoodles take our freedom from us so that can waste it on the horrible.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:50pmCan you imagine what it must be like to be a guard at these prisons ? Talk about punishment.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:27pm“The possibility of executing the innocent, driven by the rise of DNA as a tool to exonerate wrongfully convicted defendants, is the biggest overall factor driving states to reconsider capital punishment”
Only God can be sure.
… although what this tells me is “Arm yourself! If you’re in danger, shoot to kill!”
Perhaps the laws of the US are against the laws of God :-/
Report Post »usedCZARsalesman
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:28amholy crap LOCKED, you said something that made sense!!!
Report Post »TheKing101
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:25pmIn New Jersey, Gov Corzine ended the death penalty. If anyone has a chance look up Ambrose Harris, and Kristin Huggins. Please explain to me why this “thing” should not be put to death. I met Kristin two weeks before her torture and death, and she was one of the sweetest and kindest people I ever met.
Ambrose Harris is pure evil, and needs to be put to Death!
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:07amah, yeah…… Ambrose Harris, murderer, another one of obama’s beloved ”sons”!
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:19pmI’m for the death penalty … Charles Manson wouldn’t be alive if it were up to me … But … I don’t live in california or connecticut … so … what do I care ? … Let each state decide what they want to do … Hear that obama ? … Let the states decide what they want to do in their state
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:10pmThis story will shock and outrage anyone who has no understanding of the United States Constitution. This is PRECISELY the kind of right that It reserves to the states. Glenn Beck hasn’t done any of you would-be Constitutional Conservatives any favors. He’s just taken your money. Suckers.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:08pmI guess their hearts are in the right place. But the ones who commit these horrific crimes of violence will now know they won’t die. Great message, NOT
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:21pmand we as hard working law abidding citizens get to pay for their health and welfare the rest of their lives…….where is the justice
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:08pmIf they are so pious they should welcome all of the other states death row inmates? Send them all to their lovely states…..imagine the savings we would save and the relief from thousands of death row inmates? Surely, it would even give these pious idiots a great feeling to be saving some dirt bag’s life while their tax payers live in the glorious after glow of knowing they are paying for this dirt bag for the rest of his life!! After all I’d say the “average” death row inmate is on death row for over 20 years….they normally die of old age before they die by chair, injection, bullet or hemp rope with 13 knots……
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:01pmIf someone was to rape,torture severely and slowly kill your kids Connecticut…..I’m sure you will be sorry if you no longer have the death penalty…JUST THINK ABOUT THAT…
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:14pmThey don’t care Indy…it’s all in how they “feel”……Connecticut was once a great state until liberals infected it!!
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:20pmGee….Good thing I didn’t post that in Arizona….I might just be on my way to jail…
Report Post »Paul
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 10:58pmConnecticut The Dump.
Didn’t even read it.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:01pmBut ! In their defense… ahh nevermind….
I got Nothin !
Report Post »black9897
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:04pmHmm…I wonder if someones daughter was raped, beaten and murdered what would they like to see happen to the person who did it? Life in prison? Eating 3 meals a day, time outside, time to read and interact with others. Yeah, that sounds fair.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:15pmPAUL, perhaps you would “have something” if you “did your own research” (as Glenn Beck suggests, but knows you will not) and actually read the United States Constitution.
Report Post »JesusLovesAmerica
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 1:12amDump? It’s really nice there. Every state that leans Dem gets called communist and a dump on here. Such simple stupid minds.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:17am@JESUSLOVESAMERICA
Report Post »Yes, It’s very nice there. Like most very wealthy, white, liberal enclaves Connecticut prices the minorities out – except for small groups of Hispanics they treat like pets to do their lawns. Yes, it’s very nice there. It’s a utopia.