Five states executed prisoners last week, including the 1600th person since 1976. While the crimes were horrific, the question remains: should society decide who deserves to die? With wrongful convictions, uneven sentencing, and flawed science, the death penalty raises serious concerns about fairness, morality, and the risk of killing innocent people.
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First and Last Political Post This Year
My first and last political post for the 2016 election season. Vote No on Oklahoma State Question 776.
Tucker Carlson on Michael Vick
Tucker Carlson wants him executed.
Of Needles, Guns, and Electricity
SCOTUS recently decided to hear arguments over whether lethal injection violates the 8th Amendment’s prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.
Can some good come from his life?
Gregory Scott Johnson was convicted of breaking into of 82-year-old Ruby Hutslar’s Anderson, IN home, beating and stomping on her, then setting a fire to hide his crime in 1985. The state has said he admitted to the killing but changed his story after his conviction. He is scheduled to be executed early Wednesday. What Read More