NAACP to Step Up Maryland Death Penalty Fight

[musicmd]

Did you actually read sigmalady's post? You seem to have missed this part: "Too many people have been exonerated after conviction..."

The man is lead by blind hate.

[Seadog]

If I were killed in an armed robbery, I would not want the killer executed. Too many people have been exonerated after conviction for me to be comfortable with the death penalty.

OK Omaha Beach. On re-reading, I see your point. However, it is obvious that what sigmalady meant to say was she would not want the convicted person to be executed. There have been way too many convictions that were overturned on new evidence, sometimes, after it was too late.

[Omaha Beach]

OK Omaha Beach. On re-reading, I see your point. However, it is obvious that what sigmalady meant to say was she would not want the convicted person to be executed. There have been way too many convictions that were overturned on new evidence, sometimes, after it was too late.

So much for me being led by blind hate huh? Sometimes too late? I hear that all the time but no body has ever been able to point to a specific case where someone, was executed and then proven to be innocent. The Kirk Bloodsworth case that anti capital punishment people cite proves that the system does work as far as keeping innocent people from being executed.

[genghiskhanraven]

OK Omaha Beach. On re-reading, I see your point. However, it is obvious that what sigmalady meant to say was she would not want the convicted person to be executed. There have been way too many convictions that were overturned on new evidence, sometimes, after it was too late.

from what I have read with the innocent project most of what they do is try to get new trials for convicts based on bs procedural errors during the original trials, its not like they find new evidence that proves thug didn't do it
I love it when they say the murderer lost but that must have been because he had a bad lawyer so give him a new trial where half the witnesses are dead or can't remember what happend 30 years ago.
The 5 now on death row are 100 percent guilty, they admit that, theirs no doubt and getting the death penality overturned should really be because of the belief that executing a person who murdered someone is immoral (according to libs)
So if you believe that fine, just don't be a hypocrite and if someone kills your toddler or kills your grandchild flip around and feel the scumbag thug should be executed.
You're either against the death penalty with no exceptions or for the death penality as just punishment

[Seadog]

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct...dence-20121001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital...nt_in_Maryland

Reading the history of the first five men executed in MD in recent history. I have no problem in seeing them gone, especially Thanos, who not only admitted his guilt, but taunted the victims families.

[genghiskhanraven]

Here's the other thing about that group for advancing colored people, if they really want to help thier own communities they should be focusing on trying to keep the thugs who have destroyed their neighborhoods locked up and not focusing on trying to free or save murderers.
Kids can't even go outside and play and be safe in ghetto hoods, churches bus kids into white neighborhoods to trick or treat during Halloween because their own communities are so unsafe at night.
When the average murderer only serves 12 years in the city and we actually had a judge let a "mother" walk with time served for beating to death her baby with a hammer, we don't need an "innocent project" what we really need is a "victims project". The NAACP should help save neighborhoods by working to keep killers locked up, they should expose über liberal judges who don't care about victims, educate jurors that if you don't want to see another black man in chains the consequences are he will put another black man in the grave.

[BlandFood]

That might have saved OJ Simpson the trouble of hunting for the "REAL" killer. In post-acquittal interviews with the jurors, most admitted that they did not understand the DNA evidence presented.

Maybe the most bored 8 hours of my life was watching DVD's of a doctors depositions of back injuries theoretically sustained in an accident. After 20 minutes me and the other jurors were lost, disinterested and wanting to go home because we were without the first clue. I was much more concerned about how far behind my work was getting at my job.

[Norman]

The survival of illegal immigration and gay marriage by popular vote has opened the floodgates in Annapolis. Now they are pushing more of these radical liberal far left laws. How out of touch with all the rest of America must we be??????? Most Americans nationwide support the death penalty.

And Bmore Ken, Marshan Man, Norman, Isabella nad other liberal Democrats here......if YOU were killed in an armed robbery would you NOT want your killer to be put to death?

Who the heck is Isabella?

As to your psychic abilities about the death penalty...if I was killed in a robbery I would be dead, so how could I care if they executed my killer or not?

My personal views, yes there are some people that should be executed for their crimes....

I guess you're 0 for 3!

[Bloomin Onion]

First of all there is no business for the NAACP, a racist group to be involved in this debate, just like they were in the gay marriage debate.

But if they ARE involved, maybe they should be seeking justice for all the black victims of murder and crime in inner cities like Baltimore City and PG County. Remember the black woman who was chased down and murdered by her deranged ex husband on North Avenue and the man only got 20 years in prison??? If the NAACP really cared maybe they should be pushing for harsher sentences for killers and other criminals that plague black communities disproportionately??? Over 300 murders in the city yearly mostly black and the NAACP is more concerned about killers not being executed? And remember that other drug dealer who ordered the murder of a witness from inside prison and he STILL didn't get capital punishment in the liberal state of Maryland?

If the sniper case had been tried in Maryland, John Allen Mohammed would still be alive living off our tax money. In Norway that terrorist killed over 50 people in his rampage and he will probably only serve 20 years in prison. I don't know why the liberals here want us to be even more liberal than liberal Europe. Actuallly even in liberal Europe there is less tolerance for illegal immigration and less gay marriage.

[Marshan Man]

How do you walk around so angry and crazy all the time?? I'd be miserable.

[Bloomin Onion]

How do you walk around so angry and crazy all the time?? I'd be miserable.

Maybe because I see my country being taken away from me? Because this no longer feels like the America I was born in and have always known anymore???? Not just Obama being reelected but especially Maryland and whats going on in this state. With marriage being redefined, and especially with illegal aliens getting a free ride being approved by popular vote. On another level I feel like the ethnic racists are increasingly powerful and trying to exact their revenge on mainstream America with the Dream Act and in their vote for Obama based on racial reasons.

When I turn on the TV and see one of the illlegal Dreamers, I honestly see a scourage on my country, I see an enemy that must be fought and challenged at every turn. If you ever travel outside of Maryland and the liberal Northeast, you will see views like mine are not out of the mainstream at all.

[Marshan Man]

Maybe because I see my country being taken away from me? Because this no longer feels like the America I was born in and have always known anymore???? Not just Obama being reelected but especially Maryland and whats going on in this state. With marriage being redefined, and especially with illegal aliens getting a free ride being approved by popular vote. On another level I feel like the ethnic racists are increasingly powerful and trying to exact their revenge on mainstream America with the Dream Act and in their vote for Obama based on racial reasons.

When I turn on the TV and see one of the illlegal Dreamers, I honestly see a scourage on my country, I see an enemy that must be fought and challenged at every turn. If you ever travel outside of Maryland and the liberal Northeast, you will see views like mine are not out of the mainstream at all.

Oh please...you're a first generation American so don't act like you have generations of family members in this country to compare your life to, and who the hell remembers what America "felt like" when they were born???

Since you seem to want everyone to think and behave as you do sonds liek you need to go back to one of those Asian communists countries like N. Korea or China. That's the exact mindset you have believe it or not... you wouldn't know freedom if it came up and bit you on the behind...

[Bloomin Onion]

Marshan I never said I don't beleive in democracy. I'm just surprised people in Maryland were THIS liberal to vote for the Dream Act Honestly people here DESERVE to suffer the consequence for what they voted for. I just wish people were smarter than to support all these illegal alien loving, tax-raising Democrats. I have seen different since I have lived in Louisiana and spent a lot of time in the South. You probably don't know what the REST of America is like outside the liberal Northeast. Maryland can learn a thing or two from Louisiana, Virginia, and South Carolina about how to deal with taxes, tolls, and illegal immigration as well as on abortion and gay marriage. We are moving in the opposite direction. I have many friends and family in Virginia.

In Virginia there is a constitutional ban on gay marriage, billls are being debated to requrie doctors to show a sonogram before an abortion and to bar illegal aliens from state universities at all!!!! Gun laws are much more lax there, alcohol and and cigarette taxes far lower. Tolls are much lower or non existent compared to here. Taxes are raised every year on income, cigarettes, alcohol, gasoline and people here put up with it and refuse to vote against the Democratic Party. And now they want to end the death penalty? Both Louisiana and Virginia juries and judges know to setnence criminals to death. Virginia is the 5th state in the nation in terms of executions and their crime is far lower than here.

Of course you will tell me to move to Virginia or Louisiana. I am just pointing out how we can LEARN from other states/

[Marshan Man]

Marshan I never said I don't beleive in democracy. I'm just surprised people in Maryland were THIS liberal to vote for the Dream Act Honestly people here DESERVE to suffer the consequence for what they voted for. I just wish people were smarter than to support all these illegal alien loving, tax-raising Democrats. I have seen different since I have lived in Louisiana and spent a lot of time in the South. You probably don't know what the REST of America is like outside the liberal Northeast. Maryland can learn a thing or two from Louisiana, Virginia, and South Carolina about how to deal with taxes, tolls, and illegal immigration as well as on abortion and gay marriage. We are moving in the opposite direction. I have many friends and family in Virginia.

In Virginia there is a constitutional ban on gay marriage, billls are being debated to requrie doctors to show a sonogram before an abortion and to bar illegal aliens from state universities at all!!!! Gun laws are much more lax there, alcohol and and cigarette taxes far lower. Tolls are much lower or non existent compared to here. Taxes are raised every year on income, cigarettes, alcohol, gasoline and people here put up with it and refuse to vote against the Democratic Party. And now they want to end the death penalty? Both Louisiana and Virginia juries and judges know to setnence criminals to death. Virginia is the 5th state in the nation in terms of executions and their crime is far lower than here.

Of course you will tell me to move to Virginia or Louisiana. I am just pointing out how we can LEARN from other states/

Uhh.. I lived in Louisiana and please..it was anything BUT paradise. The roads suck.. healthcare can be damn near third world and the cops don't even enforce the drinking and driving laws. Anytime you're ready to go back don't let the MD door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

[Bloomin Onion]

Uhh.. I lived in Louisiana and please..it was anything BUT paradise. The roads suck.. healthcare can be damn near third world and the cops don't even enforce the drinking and driving laws. Anytime you're ready to go back don't let the MD door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

Maybe health care "sucked" there cause you were on Medicaid or something and couldn't afford a good doctor? That goes against your sense of entitlement??? You are probably what Mitt Romney was referring to you feel you are entitled to heatlh care when you should work for it. There are fine doctors in New Orleans and across the state if you can afford it. It is just like MEdicaid recipeitns who demand good service and efficiency. Hello! They are NOT paying any co-pays or premiums. IF I go to Motel 6 I don't expect the same amenities as the Sheraton. Medicaid people are getting things for FREE. As if they are NOT PAYING ANYTHING. Are they really in a position to make demands? They should be lucky that anything is covered.

And I'd rather the cops crack down on illegal immigration than enforce stupid nanny state laws like how many cigarettes I can bring back from out of state or whether there is a crib bumper on a baby's crib. You complain about Louisiana's roads but the gasoline taxes, and gas prices are far lower there and there are not as many urban mass transit projects that the state has to subsidize like in Maryland.

[Marshan Man]

Maybe health care "sucked" there cause you were on Medicaid or something and couldn't afford a good doctor? That goes against your sense of entitlement??? You are probably what Mitt Romney was referring to you feel you are entitled to heatlh care when you should work for it. There are fine doctors in New Orleans and across the state if you can afford it. It is just like MEdicaid recipeitns who demand good service and efficiency. Hello! They are NOT paying any co-pays or premiums. IF I go to Motel 6 I don't expect the same amenities as the Sheraton. Medicaid people are getting things for FREE. As if they are NOT PAYING ANYTHING. Are they really in a position to make demands? They should be lucky that anything is covered.

And I'd rather the cops crack down on illegal immigration than enforce stupid nanny state laws like how many cigarettes I can bring back from out of state or whether there is a crib bumper on a baby's crib. You complain about Louisiana's roads but the gasoline taxes, and gas prices are far lower there and there are not as many urban mass transit projects that the state has to subsidize like in Maryland.

No, i was not on Medicaid...i moved there for my first job upon receiving my master's degree so I had decent insurance. It sucked because the doctors down there didn't seem to have the most modern training...I'd heard this from other transplants form up north as well.

So what were you and your family doing down there?? You owned one of those corner Seafood/Chinese Food joints?

[Bloomin Onion]

IN fact my father and his family owned a Chinese restaurant in Louisiana. I lived in Louisiana through 7th grade and culturally was very influenced by the South. I also grew up in a Southern Baptist church and listening to country music. Everyone around was conservative. It was a much simpler and more innocent time and place than Maryland today, especially the Baltimore area, today. Where I grew up, people like Pat McDonough and Neil Parrot would be considered mainstream. If you were gay and people knew it it was fine, but nobody would openly promote gay marriage like was done here. If you didn't celebrate Christmas that was fine, but if you insisted on people saying Happy Holidays to you that is when people start having a problem with you. And if you were an illegal immigrant there was no tolerance. Anddd thats the way it should be. This is America. If you come here, respect our laws, at least attempt to be American, learn English, and not demand that we learn your language to cater to you and not demand that you get taxpayer money if you are illegal.

I hear even Baltimore was better in the good ol days. I hear from friends around here about how back in the day parents would take their kids to Lexington Market after an Orioles game. Now the area is filled with thugs and youth mobs day and night.

And speaking of family businesses.....my dad still has friends who own small buinesses many restaurants. Some of them are going to be laying off workers or cutting hours as a result of Obama being re-elected if Obamacare is going to force them to provide health care for their employees. Employers do not and should not have an obligation to provide health insurance for their workers. It can be offered as an incentive to attract employees, yes, but shouldn't be a government-mandated requirement. And dont' get me started on how birth control, something that is NOT medically necessary the way insulin or cancer drugs are, MUST be covered under Obamacare. We actually have to pay taxes and higher premiums so loose women can screw around freely and not pay for their own birth control, while cholesterol medicationss and heart medications are not required to be free!

[OldBay]

Maybe health care "sucked" there cause you were on Medicaid or something and couldn't afford a good doctor? That goes against your sense of entitlement??? You are probably what Mitt Romney was referring to you feel you are entitled to heatlh care when you should work for it. There are fine doctors in New Orleans and across the state if you can afford it. It is just like MEdicaid recipeitns who demand good service and efficiency. Hello! They are NOT paying any co-pays or premiums. IF I go to Motel 6 I don't expect the same amenities as the Sheraton. Medicaid people are getting things for FREE. As if they are NOT PAYING ANYTHING. Are they really in a position to make demands? They should be lucky that anything is covered.

And I'd rather the cops crack down on illegal immigration than enforce stupid nanny state laws like how many cigarettes I can bring back from out of state or whether there is a crib bumper on a baby's crib. You complain about Louisiana's roads but the gasoline taxes, and gas prices are far lower there and there are not as many urban mass transit projects that the state has to subsidize like in Maryland.

You are incoherent and embarrassing yourself with your rantings.

[Bloomin Onion]

Also, while I have always supported the death penalty, I do plan on being heavily involved in this fight with the primary goal of finally dealing a defeat to the Maryland Democrats. I honestly was always agaisnt gay marriage too much not that passionately....but I fought against gay marriage with the primary goal of trying to deal a defeat for the Maryland Democrats to make them pay for raising my taxes and tolls and for their support of illegal immigration. Of all these issues, illegal immigration and abortion are the ones I feel most strongly about. My revulsion toward illegal immigrants cannot be described and extends to all those who harbor and sympathize with them.

[bmore_ken]

I'm just surprised people in Maryland were THIS liberal to vote for the Dream Act Honestly people here DESERVE to suffer the consequence for what they voted for.

You lost dude, get over it