This is a tragedy. I sat here on the 'up to the minute' forum for a couple of hours yesterday waiting for someone from the area to post a thread or state something that wasn't in the online news reports.
I will agree with the sentiments expressed here that despite the story about a grudge over money, that these two monsters were no doubt all effed up on drugs. The desperation of living that lifestyle might even have been the fuel that kept that grudge going. I just can't accept that people will murder their own family and children for a paltry debt, especially since
they lived there and could have burglarized the place
and took off with whatever amount of money/goods
they needed to satisfy the money situation. they got all
zotzed up and the girl wanted revenge, and whatever
a girl wants, her boyfriend better make it happen.
While i agree with the sentiment that murderers deserve death, quickly, statistics disagree with the notion that it will prevent anything.
Deterrence: States Without the Death Penalty Have Had Consistently Lower Murder Rates
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Year
1990199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005
2006
Murder Rate in Death PenaltyStates*9.5
9.94
9.51
9.69
9.23
8.59
7.72
7.09
6.51
5.86
5.70
5.82
5.82
5.91
5.71
5.87
5.9
Murder Rate in
Non-death
Penalty States9.16
9.27
8.63
8.81
7.88
6.78
5.37
5.00
4.61
4.59
4.25
4.25
4.27
4.10
4.02
4.03
4.22
Percent
Difference4%
7%
10%
10%
17%
27%
44%
42%
41%
28%
35%
37%
36%
44%
42%46% 40%
Me? i say put all murderers in a big giant room with grinding gears ala saw, and grind them up with no one to fight against or appeal to, just a heartless machine.
cruel and unusual punishment? yes, i believe the constitution should be amended to say that if you deprive someone else of life liberty and pursuit of happiness, and are found guilty of this in court,
your rights are forfeit and the cruel and unusual punishement is merited and totally legal.
~lightwaveryder~
*edit* that chart didn't paste right....it came from here....
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=168#stateswithvwithout