It was a good thing the DC sniper was tried in VA too
“John Muhammad is the poster child for the person who ought to get the death penalty,” said Doug Gansler.
In 2002, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler was the Montgomery County State’s Attorney who headed up the legal team of the sniper task force. He remembers the widespread fear and waiting every day for the next shooting victim.
It’s a good thing they tried Muhammad in Virginia, a state that has the death penalty and actually uses it. Maryland is still stalling on new regulations for the administration of the death penalty since a national moratorium ended. The number of executions since the death penalty was reinstated nationally in the late 1970s is so miniscule in Maryland that they might as well not have it here.
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Awww, Stan, poor little whiny conservative.
Hopefully someday soon the USA will join the rest of the modern world and ban barbaric and idiotic state executions.
Pop quiz, name the only 5 countries that invoke the death penalty more often than the USA. Answer: China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, and Sudan.
Anyone with half a brain and the ability to comprehend simple research and data will tell you that the death penalty is obscenely costly (more so than life w/o parole), completely ineffective as a crime deterrent, and is disproportionatley used against minorities for identical crimes as whites (i.e. institutionalized racism). Unfortunately, Stan, looks like you don’t qualify for that half a brain criteria.
Then again, that’s not terrible surprising, considering you routinely post links to pundits with the critical thinking ability of a potato, like Michelle Malkin!
Have a nice day!
Comment by TGISat — November 5, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
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TGI,
Then again we routinely post press releases from people on all extrenes of the political spectrum without comment as well. Posting a link to Malkin by Stan or by me when Malkin chooses to link to a post here means nothing in the context of your ill-thought out argument.
Comment by Jeff Quinton — November 10, 2009 @ 10:28 pm