This one actually was kind of funny.

Amazing how many of these people were executed in Texas...

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Interestingly enough, while Texas has executed the most amount of death row inmates since 1976, California has 667 death row inmates--almost double the amount Texas currently has. Although, California has only killed 13 inmates since 1976, and Texas has killed 439.

My State--Colorado--has only killed one since 1976. And we are so close to abolishing it. So Close!. Oh well, soon enough.

O_o

I would think that the death penalty would be a good thing for the already increasing prison population. Why have these people sit in a cell and be a burden of the State tax payers?

Dead Man Eating

Also lists 'last words', though they don't always match up with the ones here.

Or not


I can't read these. Yes, most of them may be terrible people, but to kill them? That's no better. It certainly won't fix anything.

I can't continue reading their words.

What if they were innocent? That thought breaks me heart.

The one I clicked after your favorite was this one.

James Filaggi

A local murder case for us. I was working EMS that nite when he gunned his wife down.

Dirtbag.

Here is an interesting read on him.

This was my favorite quote:

"Please tell the media, I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know."

—Thomas Grasso, executed in Oklahoma on March 20, 1995

sounds like: why not kill people that are a burden of the tax payers anyway?
1. death penalty isn't a penalty at all, just the waiting time is. no learning effect, no chance of the offender to become a better person, just revenge.
2. i believe that nobody can lose their right to live, no matter what they've done.
3. if they are found innocent after the execution, there's no way of releasing them.

on topic: some of these were really touching :(

Sure, we can do that, but most of them are veteran, homeless, retirees and welfare addicts. All innocent individuals who abide by society's laws (except for the welfare addict; this leach should be put to death IMO)

Incorrect. The death penalty is a Punishment. Would you really like to live in a world with a bunch of rehabilitated killers if it meant that you would be ALWAYS looking over you shoulder at your Killer neighbor with no piece of mind that nothing will ever happen to you? I wouldn't. You know why? Because there is no such thing as 100% rehabilitation, not mental, not physical. You break your leg, even if you heal properly, you will never be 100%; sure the bone mends... but there is the arthritis you develop that you didn't have before breaking your leg.

Try to teach Mr. Manson that killing is wrong. I bet you can't. For some people, killing is just as natural as taking a piss and they think no better of it. How do you make those people learn? How do these people become better persons? It has nothing to do with Revenge, it is about justice for the people that were wronged; which brings me to my next point...


I disagree. There is no reason why the punishment for taking a life that had done nothing to anyone should be to continue to live in the absence of the life that was taken... and in some cases of extremes, perhaps death is too good for these people. Ultimately, sitting in death row is a burden on the Tax payers.

The only reason for these people to be found innocent would be a incredibly strong doubt, a lie that was perpetrated or bad investigation. Of course, nothing is perfect, hence why people are still killing...

the alternative is a life sentence in prison.

yes, but i don't think all death row prisoners are like that.

i hope it stays like that, that an incredibly strong doubt can prevent someone from being executed o_O

Which, YOU, as a tax payer is affording.

No? Then why are they in death row?

I hope not... I rather law enforcement and investigators do their job correctly to, beyond the shadow of a doubt, put a serial murderer where he belongs. My, and your, taxes pay for that as well...