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After nearly 7 months without executing criminals, the United States will resume executions with William Earl Lynd to die by injection at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Executions were on hold as the United States Supreme court heard Baze vs. Rees, a case arguing the death penalty, particularly lethal injection, was cruel and unusual punishment. The supreme court decided lethal injection was constiutuional.

Lynd was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend, Virginia "Ginger" Moore, in Berrien County two decades ago. Prosecutors told jurors that Lynd shot her twice in the head, then later shot her a third time, this time fatally, after he heard her continuing to move in the trunk of the car where he had put her.

"Human rights groups also raise the possibility an innocent person could be put to death. They point to Friday's release in North Carolina of Levan "Bo" Jones, an African-American inmate who spent 14 years on death row before a judge said the evidence was faulty and overturned his murder conviction. The charges have been dropped."



For up to the date information about the death penalty in the United States, visit http://www.deathpenalty.org

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27 responses // US to resume executions

  • kill'em all let god sort'em out.
    kingtsohg
  • If cant do the time dont do the crime
    sharon33
  • If we are all created equal, then what right do we have to take the life of another based on the moral majority's version of 'right' and 'wrong'?

    Check the stone you step onto before you place your weight on it.
    ILiveonaClock
  • that was a very great qoute.but i still think i would like to check the weight of the stone before i study it .
    kingtsohg
  • Not a good guy, but not our place to be taking life on purpose. But that sob to work on somthing, and let his life fade away. Make em' grow his own food.
    rockon
  • As much as I'd like to see people die for their crimes.... it isn't a deterrent for crimes, obviously. The more important issue needs to be an overhaul of our judicial and prison systems - in turn create new methods for dealing with death row inmates and high risk criminals.
    BradH
  • It is amazing the number of people who have been executed and then proved innocent. Thoreau once wrote that if you kill a man without the consent of his conscience than you have went against the liberties that your country claims to be founded on. That you are in action defaiming your country and what it "supposedly" stands for. What gives imperfect humans the right to judge other imperfect humans. I AM NOT DEFENDING THIS MANS ACTIONS. But our killing him will force us to stoop to his level and prove that we too are murderers. Fiona Apple, in one of her songs said that sometimes all of our minds dont shake and shift, so what gives us the right to judge whether other people have the right to live.

    KINGTSOHG, we dont have to kill him to let God "sort-em out".

    --Jade
    addctd2whticnsay
  • maybe most people might understand if they lost some one to a violent crime.child molested then buried alive.do i deserve to support the life of a murderer,so he can lick the panties off the childrens underwear ads for the disney store.
    kingtsohg
  • I'd rather see the killer rot in a jail cell somewhere than have a quick death at the end of the needle.
    NcSchu
  • the problem with letting them rot in jail is this: who pays for all the food, electricity, and heating that they will use? as well as the salaries for the guards and whatnot? I don't feel I should.

    An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth.
    googolplexer
  • It costs more to execute prisoners than house them....
    BradH
  • BradH: you are, in fact, very correct. I did a speech my 7th grade year about the death penalty. I confess, at the time I knew nothing about it. The way it effected our economy, politics, judicial system, etc...so I went into it with a very open mind. What I found was astonishing. I have posted a link below that shows the pro's and con's of the death penalty, and it points out that [the death penalty] "costs 2-5 times more than keeping that same criminal in prison for the rest of his life."

    Now, because of that speech/debate, I am now opposed to it, but, like always, I keep an open mind about everything.

    You can't justify murder with murder.
    Midnight_DevilX
  • http://www.balancedpolitics.org/death_penalty.htm
    there's the link, it wouldn't let me edit it into my comment :(
    Midnight_DevilX
  • Possible mistaken identities aside (our justice system is fucked anyway), I'd never defend cold blooded murderers just for the simple fact that they are human as well. It's called execution when governments do it. You can't label everything as "murder," or you'd be murdering a carrot when you rip it from the ground.

    If lethal injections cost too much, then shoot the sickos in the back of the head. Even the most utopian of societies would do well to lance its boils.
    Humdrum
  • "it's called execution when governments do it"

    I can really tell that you did not read one word on the link I posted. Lethal injections, electric chairs, shooting the "sickos in the back of the head," have very little to do with it, read the link. It will tell you why it costs so much.

    I was gonna give you hell about what I quoted in your text, but decided not to.
    Midnight_DevilX
  • This is a touchy subject, and you have to treat it delicately, just saying that it's alright doesn't make it so, and though you make a good argument Humdrum, I can't say i agree with you, I'm not saying everyone deserves a chance, but the death penalty is more then a little cruel, to know your death is coming is sick and to know that the next time you close your eyes you won't open them again is torture..... Maybe i'm wrong, but that's what i think.
    the_grin
  • Being against the death penalty is not about defending murderers or criminals. It is about defending real justice and humanity.
    JanforGore
  • What good will more death do? Whom does it help?
    benjaminwinters
  • http://www.mindspring.com/~phporter/econ.html
    Adft: You want your numbers. There they are. I'm not going to debate. Like I said, I keep an open mind, but my views are ironclad.
    Midnight_DevilX
  • "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

    A greater man than I spoke those words, and they still hold true today. What seperates execution from murder if the end result is the same? Just because you are what is morally perceived as good that somehow gives you the right to pass judgement on the lives of other people?

    Murderer or not, killing them will not bring the victim back, and neither will it bring them happiness. Let them rot in jail for the rest of thier lives. Don't give them an easy way out by killing them, make them think about what they've done.
    lifestudentno83
  • the only thing that bothers me about the death penalty is that it costs more to us, the taxpayers, than a life sentence. it could cost pennies in the form of a full metal jacket but nay, instead it costs millions upon millions.
    diode
  • I am disturbed by the violence contained in several of these posts. Your zealous hatred of criminals and maniacal support for the death penalty puts your mind very close to the condemned murderers'. Step away from your egos for 10 seconds and realize your humanity.

    Murder is wrong.

    State sanctioned murder is wrong.

    Do not lose your goodness by supporting death penalties.
    recommended by  JanforGore
    uroborus8
  • end the ridiculous amount of appeals. save the tax payers some money and execute these people. i believe in an eye for an eye
    sephig
  • If we live under your rule, sephig, everyone would be blind.
    uroborus8
  • adft,

    Whether the murderer is executed or left to rot in jail a trial is STILL needed, so what would it matter if it was in the statistics because the same cost would be added to both numbers, then they in turn would cancel out. JANFORGORE, I definitely agree. Being against the death penaltry does not mean you are defending injustice, it means that defending humanity.
    LIFESTUDENTNO83, no one could have said it better.

    Open your eyes people whether you are shooting them in the back of the head, poisoning them, or shocking their brains out it is still murder, no matter WHO does it. Just think if someone killed someone you loved, and you in turn killed them. Did they deserve it? PROBABLY. Will you be held guilty as well? DEFINITLY.
    It is no different whether you change the name and who does it.

    --Jade
    PS everyone is entitled to their opinion, but read the facts before attacking other peoples thoughts
    addctd2whticnsay

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