tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4204581716107004836.post1750218956902205394..comments2023-05-22T08:11:05.784-04:00Comments on A Valdese Blog: The Death PenaltyA Valdese Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02303901517157716136noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4204581716107004836.post-21531204605060122082010-09-13T01:50:28.519-04:002010-09-13T01:50:28.519-04:00Very interesting post. I have been uncertain about...Very interesting post. I have been uncertain about the whole issue myself. I had a friend in high school and her sister (Raylene Rice) and two others were brutally murdered in Waco and the man has since been put to death. NOW they are uncertain that they even had the right guy in the first place.<br />http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/25/opinion/the-wrong-man.html<br /><br />Soo, now I don't know if the death penalty is doing what it's supposed to be doing..killing real murderers.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979939882187985994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4204581716107004836.post-32629128566043701082010-09-06T20:39:40.623-04:002010-09-06T20:39:40.623-04:00Thanks for your comments. I honestly don't se...Thanks for your comments. I honestly don't see how it would be possible not to make mistakes, honest or otherwise. I figured it would be more than 138.A Valdese Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303901517157716136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4204581716107004836.post-89678229915921523782010-09-06T10:20:46.182-04:002010-09-06T10:20:46.182-04:00You wrote: But what if a mistake was made? It ha...You wrote: But what if a mistake was made? It has been known to happen.<br /><br />Many, many mistakes have been made. 138 of them in the USA, actually. That's the number of people who were exonerated AFTER being sentenced to death.<br /><br />There's a 139th person who wasn't so fortunate. Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for setting a fire that killed his children. Years after his execution, forensic experts discovered that the fire was not, in fact, arson after all. <br /><br />The investigator of the fire decided, according to an interview, that the man was guilty because there was a restraining order on him to keep him from having contact with his wife.<br /><br />My personal friend, Ray Krone, who grew up in York County, PA, where I now live, was sentenced to death and later became the 100th person in the United States to be exonerated after being sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit.<br /><br />The death penalty system is broken beyond repair. Are any of us willing to be the next innocent person to be executed?<br /><br />KathleenPADPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357633409029079975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4204581716107004836.post-17594381096939827872010-09-05T08:47:38.570-04:002010-09-05T08:47:38.570-04:00If a death penalty would defer murder, I'd be ...If a death penalty would defer murder, I'd be all for it. Trouble is, it appears many murderers want the easy way out of a situation and see that killing someone is easier than dealing with them. So, no death penalty is going to defer stupid thinking. My friend's brother was killed many years ago in Minnesota. He was 18 at the time and worked in a service station. Two men tied him up, robbed the store, then killed him. Terry and her family were devastated because they caught those guys and gave them life at the time, which in Minnesota translated to 18 years. So, when Terry was 40 years old, the murderers were released back into society. She and her family felt that that was not much of a sentence at all. Her brother died at 18 and Terry misses him every day. I never met him, but worked with Terry and remember never seeing her smile again.Patti Annenoreply@blogger.com