New Jersey abolishes death penalty

[Sulaco]

If New Jersey and Illinois can ban the death penalty, how can anybody else justify it? If you are going to put up videos of Moslems and Chinese executing people, then put away your pointy finger.

Up here in Canada we finally have come to understand what happens when you trust a jailhouse snitch.

Illinois has not banned the death penalty. Neither has New Jersey. One has abolished it as a method of punishment, the other has placed a moratorium on its use.

Furthermore ,any point you may have has no logical content. Why do New Jersey and Illinois have anything to do with justifications for the death penalty in other states. Are the two states somehow more enlightened? Better exemplars of how to be? New Jersey? Really? Illinois - with its machine politics - that's a state to look up to?

Neither am I sure how the fact that Moslems execute homosexuals and apostates ,after these are rapidly processed through religious court systems, has any bearing on whether Texas executes a man convicted of callously murdering multiple victims.

Finally, what do jailhouse snitches have anything to do with anything. First off - without those who report crimes to the authorities, in any setting - you my friend would live in a far more dangerous society. Reporting criminal offenses is no vice. It can often be a virtue. Your use of the derogatory word is strnage, coming from one who I presume is law abiding.

Do you suggest that offenses committed in prisons should not be prosecuted?

In summation - your argument, if that it what that was - is empty of logical content, confused, and frankly confusing. Care to put on airs some more?

Edited December 19, 2007 by Sulaco

[Higgly]

The problem is not with Thou shalt not kill. The problem is figuring out who was the killer.

Of course the government is always right That's why we have elections!