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02-24-2009, 04:19 AM
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#1 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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| What we need in BC; Alaska House committee debates death penalty
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JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska lawmakers have begun hearings on a proposal to reinstate the death penalty, a practice abolished even before statehood was granted more than half a century ago.
The legislation, sponsored by House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, would allow execution by lethal injection in cases of first-degree murder.
Public testimony in the first of two House Judiciary Committee hearings scheduled on the bill ran overwhelmingly in opposition to the measure Monday.
An opponent, Phil Smith, of Juneau, said he remembered when the practice was abolished in 1957, two years before statehood.
"I'd consider it to be a tragedy to give ourselves a birthday present after 50 years of returning to the barbarous imposition of the death penalty on anybody," Smith said.
Chenault's bill would give the attorney general's office the option of seeking the death penalty in a particular case. A jury would decide if the punishment was warranted and make a recommendation to the judge, who would decide.
The state Supreme Court would automatically review each death penalty sentence.
Chenault said he considers the death penalty a tool to ensure that the worst criminals never have an opportunity to re-offend.
"While I don't believe personally that it is a deterrent, I believe it should be an option for the justice system to brandish before the most heinous and unremorseful criminals in our society," he said.
According to the Washington D.C. based Death Penalty Information Center, 36 states have the death penalty although two states have not had an execution since 1976.
Critics of the death penalty say it is costly, ineffective and discriminatory.
Juneau resident Bill Pelke, with Alaskans Against the Death Penalty, pointed to statistics that say more than 130 people in the U.S. have been sentenced to death since 1976 for crimes they did not commit.
A death penalty bill was last considered in the Alaska Legislature in 1997. That bill would have authorized a nonbinding advisory vote asking voters if the Legislature should reinstate capital punishment. It passed the state Senate but died in the House Finance Committee.
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02-24-2009, 05:58 AM
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#2 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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no thanks.
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02-24-2009, 06:41 AM
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#3 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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No. We don't need the death penalty.
And the death penalty would be, IIRC, in the federal domain and not provincial.
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02-24-2009, 10:15 AM
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#4 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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i don't think a first degree murder lands you in a provincial jail does it??
in this US it's state by state.....why wouldn't/shouldn't canada be the same way
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02-24-2009, 10:23 AM
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#5 | | DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
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Agreed; we need to implement a newer system of capital punishment,
fuck tradition.
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02-24-2009, 10:37 AM
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An eye for an eye and the whole world is blind.
Part of American tradition is the reason why so many homicides occur there every year. I don't want Canada to get mixed up in this shit.
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02-24-2009, 01:29 PM
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#7 | | Banned (ABWS)
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i'm for a harsher justice system ... but death penalty seems too extreme .... i rather they torture  | |
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02-24-2009, 01:47 PM
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#8 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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you can have a death penalty in CA and it will never get carried out because the Judges wont hand them out.
We should instead have a sentence that double a criminal's tax rate, and if they fail to pay CA can confiscate their Range Rovers 
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02-24-2009, 02:57 PM
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#9 | | How I Mod your mother
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Originally Posted by wouwou you can have a death penalty in CA and it will never get carried out because the Judges wont hand them out.
We should instead have a sentence that double a criminal's tax rate, and if they fail to pay CA can confiscate their Range Rovers | Yes, taking away a filthy rich drug dealer's car will definitely teach him a lesson: You should've driven the Lincoln that day 
I think the justice system just needs to be more harsh, thats for sure
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02-24-2009, 03:14 PM
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#10 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Draft Yes, taking away a filthy rich drug dealer's car will definitely teach him a lesson: You should've driven the Lincoln that day
I think the justice system just needs to be more harsh, thats for sure | They got shoot riding in a Lincoln or a Range Roger, and the RR can handle more bullets
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02-24-2009, 03:56 PM
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#11 | | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by Physixx Agreed; we need to implement a newer system of capital punishment,
fuck tradition. |
I agree, how about :
License to reproduce
This will stop of shit apples before they get to fall from the shit tree.
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02-24-2009, 05:58 PM
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#12 | | Banned (ABWS)
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kill all the hobos.
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