Monday 23 July 2012 - The current hard-line district
attorney for Arapahoe County is likely to seek capital charges for accused mass
murderer James Holmes — but she will be out of office in five months and
Colorado has not executed a single prisoner in nearly 35 years, experts note.
“If they do go for death it will cost tens of millions of dollars at
a time when Colorado is shutting down elementary schools,” said University of Colorado Institute
of Behavioral Science professor Michael L. Radelet, a leading authority on
capital punishment. “If the death penalty were a
deterrent, this guy would not have done (what he allegedly did) in the top
death-penalty jurisdiction in the state.”
If you sentence James Holmes to life
imprisonment it will also be expensive and we have to pay for his medical bills
if he becomes an elderly man. Many death penalty proponents say the study
claiming the costs of the death penalty outweigh implementing life without
parole is prepared by anti-death penalty activists. Some others even say that
even assuming the death penalty is costly or too long to carry out, it would be
better to reduce costs and appeals, rather than abolish the death penalty for
all crimes.
Immanuel Kant, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Alex Kozinski, Chalerm Ubumrung and many others do not fully care whether the death penalty deters or not, they care
about justice and protection. Some crimes cannot be deterred by any punishment,
why don’t we abolish incarcerations too as they do not seem to serve as a deterrent
either. Saint Thomas Aquinas was quoted in his Summa Theologica: "If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it
with disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the
healing and preservation of the common good is to be commended. Only the
public authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by
public judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm
or which are particularly perverted."
The death penalty does not seem to act as a deterrent in Colorado as it
has not been used in 35 years, I wished the cops should have shot him dead on
the spot and it can save us all the mess here. Rather
than speak about your opposition to the death penalty, speed up the execution
of James Holmes, he is guilty beyond any doubt!
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