Comments on: Briggs cites progress in death penalty vote

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:50:16 +0000

*** Supermax, not Supermarket! Pesky auto-correct.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:44:59 +0000

Look up the story of Cameron Todd Willingham. Then look up Damien Echols and the WM3. Courtrooms don’t always produce just verdicts, so you have to have an appeals process. That, plus the Supermarket cells that the corrections corporations have promoted have made death sentences very expensive for taxpayers.

By: Use the death penalty!

Use the death penalty! — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:59:08 +0000

“We just need to spend more money and press harder and it will be repealed. We’ll come back and do it again, probably in two years.”

Typical, sounds like a demorat. Spend, spend, spend. I’m all for the death penalty actually being used.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:03:27 +0000

Mr Briggs is an idiot as well!! We will spend tons more money with them living in prison for years and years.

Spending:
Average high school student $3500
Average inmate $175,000+
This seems backwards to me.

By: James E.

James E. — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:37:37 +0000

Mr. McVeigh was toasted at his own request. He declined all appeals.

By: Ken Steers

Ken Steers — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:12:21 +0000

Have we executed anyone for 9-11 yet? Didn’t we toast McVeigh in like a week? What’s up with that?

By: DB Smith

DB Smith — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:02:40 +0000

It’s a sad shame that in the 2012/13 budget, California Governor Brown budgeted $1 Billion more for prisons vs. higher education. California prisons spend over $1 Billion per year just to house illegal immigrates.

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:08:56 +0000

Anthony, . China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia are our friends and we must continue our progress forward to eliminate as many differences as possible.Canada, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom with the United States has caused all poverty, hate and violence in the world. We must continue to distance ourselves from them. We cannot adopt anymore of their laws or attitude. We can only speak of Israel in soft whispers behind closed doors because they are the most evil of all countries.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:20:14 +0000

Here is a list of some of the countries where the death penalty is still practiced. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia.

Here is a list of some of the countries where the death penalty has been banned. Canada, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom. In Israel, capital punishment is used only for war crimes, and genocide.

As far as I am concerned, when the company we keep is defined by the first list, and not the second, something is drastically wrong.

By: Dave in Kelsey

Dave in Kelsey — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:21:51 +0000

Mr. Briggs is entitled to his opinion no matter how wrong it is. Why is it we have only executed 13 people? Maybe the lawsuits blocking it? By law, everyone who is sentenced to death has an automatic appeal. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about little front groups for Amnesty International and the liberal agenda. We don’t need to spend millions of dollars on each execution, but they sure as heck make it that way. Bullets are cheap. So is rope. When did we put the convicted’s feelings and lack of pain ahead of the victim’s rights and the will of the people? Bring back the death penalty and start cleaning house on death row.
Maybe it’s Kalifornia’s future. Corrupt politicans, weak on crime, hire taxes, and the will of the people circumvented. Heck, all that is going on now.