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I ask the question, 'why should the American taxpayer be victimize to keep some of these sick f***s alive and in jail for the rest of their lives when that money could be used for better things like education for our children?'.
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Liberals' Attack on Death Penalty Backfires
Bleeding-heart liberals' latest attack on the death penalty has blown up in their faces.
"For nearly two weeks, the details of Illinois' most gruesome murders have been replayed for the public in a marathon set of clemency hearings that death penalty opponents now believe may have backfired and hurt their cause," the Associated Press reported.
Lame-duck, scandal-plagued Republican Gov. George Ryan apparently thought he'd redeem himself by issuing blanket clemency and freeing all criminals on death row. But things got off to a bad start when horror stories told by victims' families dominated the hearings, and people became outraged that murderers tried to claim they were too stupid to have to pay for their crimes.
"The pain and passion of these families is deafening," fretted Larry Marshall, a Northwestern University law professor who has led the attack on Illinois' death penalty. "It's so overwhelming that people are forgetting all the problems that got us here."
Chicago's two major newspapers have even urged Ryan to stop the hearings. "Halt the anguish, Gov. Ryan," implored an editorial in the Chicago Tribune. "Ryan's hearings cruel and unusual," headlined an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The public grew furious when the hearings revealed just why those poor little criminals occasionally end up on death row:
A couple shot and killed a woman, cut her nearly full-term baby from her womb, and killed two of her other children.
A man tortured his mute, severely retarded stepdaughter for five years until she died.
Two brothers beat a sleeping couple to death with baseball bats. The husband was struck with such force that parts of his skull "looked like a crushed eggshell."
A man murdered a couple after telling them to have their last kiss.
A man took eight women to remote locations and stripped, bound and murdered them.
"I can't imagine the public has heard such a parade of horrors combined into such a short time period in American history," observed John Gorman, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
AP reported Wednesday: "Family members have transformed the hearing rooms into photo galleries of the dead. They have pointed to the infants in the audience who would never know their grandfathers, the sons and daughters who grew up without parents."
"You could not sit in that room without feeling human and without feeling how vulnerable it is to be human," said Arvin Boddie, a board member who was booted by the left-wing thought police after criticizing the hearings and defense shysters.
Bleeding-heart liberals' latest attack on the death penalty has blown up in their faces.
"For nearly two weeks, the details of Illinois' most gruesome murders have been replayed for the public in a marathon set of clemency hearings that death penalty opponents now believe may have backfired and hurt their cause," the Associated Press reported.
Lame-duck, scandal-plagued Republican Gov. George Ryan apparently thought he'd redeem himself by issuing blanket clemency and freeing all criminals on death row. But things got off to a bad start when horror stories told by victims' families dominated the hearings, and people became outraged that murderers tried to claim they were too stupid to have to pay for their crimes.
"The pain and passion of these families is deafening," fretted Larry Marshall, a Northwestern University law professor who has led the attack on Illinois' death penalty. "It's so overwhelming that people are forgetting all the problems that got us here."
Chicago's two major newspapers have even urged Ryan to stop the hearings. "Halt the anguish, Gov. Ryan," implored an editorial in the Chicago Tribune. "Ryan's hearings cruel and unusual," headlined an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The public grew furious when the hearings revealed just why those poor little criminals occasionally end up on death row:
A couple shot and killed a woman, cut her nearly full-term baby from her womb, and killed two of her other children.
A man tortured his mute, severely retarded stepdaughter for five years until she died.
Two brothers beat a sleeping couple to death with baseball bats. The husband was struck with such force that parts of his skull "looked like a crushed eggshell."
A man murdered a couple after telling them to have their last kiss.
A man took eight women to remote locations and stripped, bound and murdered them.
"I can't imagine the public has heard such a parade of horrors combined into such a short time period in American history," observed John Gorman, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
AP reported Wednesday: "Family members have transformed the hearing rooms into photo galleries of the dead. They have pointed to the infants in the audience who would never know their grandfathers, the sons and daughters who grew up without parents."
"You could not sit in that room without feeling human and without feeling how vulnerable it is to be human," said Arvin Boddie, a board member who was booted by the left-wing thought police after criticizing the hearings and defense shysters.
(Sorry Sasq!)
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