Executed Killer Dennis McGuire Gasped And Snorted For 15 Minutes Under New Lethal Drug Combo

[CreekDog]

122. Victims' rights are indeed important, but killing someone gives nothing good to a victim

I'd support doing things that do truly help a victim in a meaningful and positive way.

Money to them or loved ones, especially where the crime has harmed their income or been financially injurious.

Money to them or loved ones also for what they've gone through.

Supporting efforts to reduce crime in ways that work, and the death penalty, costly as it is, invests in something that ultimately doesn't do anything more than life imprisonment to stop crime.

It equates justice with death, which is actually something our society's murder rate shows we should be moving away from, rather than having the state sanction it.

The lowest crime rates are precisely where death is not a penalty.

The problem with killing to solve killing is that it tends to make the rest of us more like the criminal, not less.