In Iowa, life means life.. period...no death penalty

[Peacetrain]

We do not have the death penalty in Iowa, and when a person is sentenced to life imprisonment.. it means life, there is no getting out in 20 years for good behavior.

I think that is why it works for us, the life sentence. The other side, the party of death, cannot use someone who did a heinous crime and only served 12 years etc.

Also, as we have seen so much in recent years with DNA analysis, many people on death row, were innocent.

The party of death, the republicans, love the 28 cells of a fertilized egg, but hate a human being, and want to kill someone when heinous events happen. Even the innocent. They are the party of irrational emotion, and overreaction.

The problem always with their stance, is that the death penalty means, many times, the guilty go free to murder again and again.

Even in our state, of life means life, a person, has the opportunity to prove their innocence in another time if the science permits.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. this is true for 13 other states, as well

Only about 3/4 of the states have a death penalty, and many of those states don't actually execute anyone. Death penalty opponents should really be focusing on the 2-3 states where the vast majority of executions occur.

[Peacetrain]

2. In the states with the highest execution rates, they also have the

highest rates of crimes of mortality and violence. The death penalty is not a deterrent at all, in fact if you looked at the stats, it is the opposite.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I suspect part of it is exactly the circumstance you related -

when an innocent is expeditiously executed, the actual killer is free to kill again. It only makes sense that were justice is swift and sloppy it would result in a higher crime rate overall.

[SidDithers]

3. No death penalty and gay marriage?...

Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa. :)

Sid