Bush on Death Penalty and the Culture of Life Today

[distressedsister]

In response to a press question pointing out the fact the the United States is out of step with most of the world on the death penalty and referring to his calls for a "culture of life" during the Terri Schiavo congressional action, Bush replied "I am comfortable with my belief that there's no contradiction between the two." and said that the difference is the "difference between guilt and innocence".

These comments are quoted from the press conference following his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (which is still ongoing at 1:51PM EDT).

[teenagebambam]

1. Hmmmph.

Well, I guess he WOULD know a thing or two about guilt.

[Demeter]

2. Talk About Signing Your Own Death Warrant!

Give the man enough rope, please!

[liberal N proud]

3. The difference is:

IN one case they are killing live people and in the other they were trying to keep a live, a brain dead person.

[xultar]

4. So, ALL GUILTY PEOPLE DIE...Including those who can't pay health insurance

so the Hospital can pull da plug.

EXECUTE THE YOUNG CHILDREN who commit crimes.

HOWEVER THERE ARE PENALTIES for the CORPORATIONS WHOSE PRODUCTS KILL.

:crazy:

[modrepub]

5. Eric Rudolph

Am I the only one who noticed the hypocrisy of giving Rudolph a life sentence??? This guy killed a police officer, terrorized a city and advocates killing abortion providers. If this guy isn't deserving of the death penalty, who is? What did we get in exchange for his "lighter" sentence and was he given life because he's views are similar to the radical right? Where's the outrage.

[kliljedahl]

6. Because its *'s base

And according to the DHS, he's not a terrorist



http://www.kliljedahl.net

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. I have no outrage about Rudolph's sentence. Not as long as he

never gets out of prison. This can't be allowed to become his opportunity to write "Mein Kampf", but killing him accomplishes nothing and prevents him from, remote as it may be, having a change of heart and informing of the fascistic forces that supported him while he was hiding out. What are his connections with Christian Identity and the militia movement? When he was picked up he was clean-shaven and had short hair -- who was his barber? There's no way he would not have been recognized if he dropped in at the local mall for a haircut. There was a support network there that needs to be exposed.

Timothy McVeigh might have had a lot to tell us about the deeper movement behind the OK City bombing, but now he won't be telling us anything.

CSI notwithstanding, the information you can get from a corpse is very limited.

[modrepub]

9. I generally agree

but the cynic in me says nobody in Justice is looking for people who helped him and he will shed very little light on the "Christians" who think like him.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. True enough, but maybe he will change his mind when he

discovers that the federal penitentiary system is not the 'three squares and free TV all day' thing that so many on the right would have us believe it is. After he's been raped a couple times he may be begging for a chance to talk, if he can get the protection of a private cell or something.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. A guy like rudolph won't have a problem with getting raped

in prison. He will probably adapt to it nicely like richard speck did.

[Betty]

7. guilt and innocence???

and of course we NEVER make a mistake and execute an innocent person. It's NEVER HAPPENED.

[central scrutinizer]

12. and that's why he

cut his time to review each death penalty case in Texas to less than 15 minutes because he trusted the courts to thoroughly review matters of life and death. Funny how he didn't trust the courts to do the same in the Schiavo case. "Neither drunk attorneys, nor sleeping attorneys, nor IQ's below 70 will keep me from signing this death warrant."

[sinkingfeeling]

14. And what were the hundreds of Iraqi children guilty of, Mr. Dimwit?

[cprise]

13. The culture of liE

It's a wonderful liE.

LiE's too short.

The meaning of liE...


Why does the Culture Of LiE imply:

*** War
*** Execution
*** Extinction
*** Pollution

[Trillo]

15. Major cognitive dissonance.

From original post: Bush said that the difference is the "difference between guilt and innocence".

What about those who were wrongly convicted and set free when DNA proved they were 'not guilty'? Those cases strongly suggest that some 'innocents' in the past have been put to death on the basis of wrongful conviction.