oh boy, we have another one of the soft-skulled,weak thinking left..
Hey do you have anything more than popmedia sources for your opinions?
Is your experience based on public school and low ranking tours of duty?

Does he need a 'source' for his opinion? Only experience that isn't based on public schools is acceptable? Only certain 'high ranking' tours of duty are honorable? Smug bastard.

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Well, as Upton points out, these two are perfect candidates. In this case DNA isn't necessary, they have confessed.

Even then, I still have both practical and moral reservations with the death penalty.....the world has always had barbaric elements. Examples can be found in the Victorian or any other era. What separates the civilized from the barbaric is not acting as they do.

Like I said in an earlier post, I would shed no tears for these two...

Kinda of ironic to read two of the most adamant "torture is bad" posters calling for the death penalty. One of the arguments used in the appeals are normally how the methods used in the death penalty amount to "torture." But since its just murderers and not al-queda being waterboarded (and living,by the way), I guess its okey-dokey. But I digress.
Have been a death penalty supporter but I'm not sure it really serves a purpose any more. Here in Fl, study after study has shown its cheaper on the taxpayer to house the criminals for life. The expense of seemingly endless appeals is amazing.
There is no deterrent factor in most cases. If there were more death sentences carried out in a timely manner, then I believe there would be deterrence in SOME cases.
I've never really been one for the "mitigating" circumstances crap. If you kill, you die. Simple. Whether John Doe was killed in a "heinous" manner or just killed, makes no difference. John Doe is just as dead and John Does family is just as devastated.
As far as the "confessions", any good defense attorney will attack them first. If they are somehow admitted, the first appeal will be how the first attorney was negligent by not getting the confessions thrown out.
John Couey confessed to burying his victim while she was still alive. Guess what? Confession is inadmissable.
To all those worried about executing an innocent person, DNA should be taken at every crime scene, from every suspect, and processed immediately.
No match, no case. Match? The Executioner will see you now. Simple.

Yes, public school and 20 years military experience. All other western democracies have no death penalty and they have much lower murder rates than the "Christian" USA. Where is your proof that the death penalty is anything other than revenge. My experience is other countries is greater than that of most Americans. Of course, an elitist like yourself, no public school? High ranking tours of duty? may not understand the average American. Nice try at a reply. Are insults your moral high ground? You really do not have to answer that, everyone who can read knows the answer.

Wouldn't be surprised if these killers were using meth. Black garbage bags covering their windows, paranoid, lot of the signs are there.

Neighbors remember couple as paranoid and withdrawn

Boy, that was a disturbing read. I have two young children and couldn't imagine them witnessing such horror before getting shot themselves.

There are no shades of gray in my mind. They are the reason for the death penalty.

I know it seems like hyprocrasy, but what other answer is there in this case?

As for these cases tying up the courts and wasting tons of taxpayer money, we need to change that. It is sickening that people make their living in that way.

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In this particular case, where would they get the DNA?
Prints and ballistics is all they would have, so far as I know...so, bingo, no executioner?

It really isn't simple....I have no sympathy for the murderers, but that does not make it simple....for me anyway, there is a dilemna....

Who are the two posters you are referring to?

Outside of self-defense, if you take a life, you should immediately forfeit your own right to live and your execution should be carried out directly following the evidence showing that there can be no doubt about your guilt.

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The FBI would not have hired someone with Obama's associations.....but he's okay to be our President!....

For all those that think execution is good...please explain that to the family's of these people:

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