Illinois abolish death penalty

Justice in my opinion, for that kind of crimes is definetly dead penalty, there is no way a rapist or a killer can be part of ANY society.

If that person spend the rest of his life in prison he will have food and shelter because the same people that got harmed by his acts is the same people paying the taxes so he can spend his life in prison.

If he is dead, you can be 100% sure that chances on that person reoffending will always be zero, and nobody has to waste money and time caring about someone that will always be scum.

 

I'm so glad they are abolishing the death penalty. Hopefully other states will follow their lead. I can't believe Oregon is still participating in this.

 

I don't have a problem with the death penalty its self, but the justice system that decides it. To many innocent people in jail period, not to just mention the innocennt men and women on death row. If guilt can not be assured, then no one has a right to claim you deserve to die.

 

There sure are a lot of new people around the forum lately that really don't have a clue what anarchism is all about. 100% against prisons, 100% against the laws that put people in prisons, 100% against the State, so by determined logic, 100% against the death penalty.

 

I've been confused by this too. I don't mind talking to people and telling people why I'm against the death penalty but I can't help but feel that they are on the wrong forum. I'm new to this message board so I don't have much of a clue as to what 'normal' is on this board.

 

Well after you've been here a while longer you'll notice who has a clue and who needs to read a clue into their lives, then there are some who are beyond the capacity of ever having a clue. I try to be really patient with everyone but mostly the younger teens that might like the idea of 'Anarchy' but haven't really read much, or any, theory. Of course there are some very young people that really have their shit together and have made serious dents into the mountain of exceptional writing on Anarchism. In either case their are tons of links on this forum to point them in a healthy direction.

 

And then if he/she turns out to have been innocent all along (as has happened), but evidence doesn't come out until after the execution....then he/she is still 100% dead.

The core of the death penalty is that the state believes they own your life and can take it away as punishment. If you want to be someone's property, then fuck off with the other right-wing "scum" because you are the opposite of anarchist and don't belong here.

 

Agreed. I can't believe that someone joins this forum to make their first post in favour of the death penalty. Not an inquiry, not a cautious 'in some circumstances' but clear advocation. Bizarre.

How many states still have capital punishment? Through its reputation, I imagine it will be a long, slow process of eliminating it in Texas.

 

In Singapore drug traffickers are put on death row. If it's for murder, I understand what the families of murder victims feel...but drug offenders? Which is why I am against the Death Penalty. There's an ongoing "Abolish Mandatory Death Penalty" movement going on, however the government doesn't give a fuck. This guy named Alan Shadrake (a British guy) wrote a book about the death penalty in Singapore and was arrested soon after the book was released. Now he's in trial.

 

California still has it.