South Dakota Executes Prisoner (Rare), page 1


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Topic started on 13-11-2012 @ 03:56 PM by boncho
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I'm not a fan of the death penalty.

1. I think it's a much harsher punishment for someone to sit and rot in prison than just getting what is a relatively easy way out.

2. The possibility that people are wrongly convicted, which makes the punishment far worse than the crime it was intended to give justice to.

3. The fact that another death will not bring anyone back, or make up for anything that was done.

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Now, even with all that being said, the following story I have little objection to:

South Dakota executes man for murder of girl



SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to buy sugar at a nearby store so she could make lemonade.

Donald Moeller, 60, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls, marking South Dakota's second execution this month in an unusual surge for a state that has carried out just two other death sentences since 1913.

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Moeller initially was convicted in 1992, but the state Supreme Court overturned it, ruling that improper evidence was used at trial. He was again convicted and sentenced to die in 1997. The state Supreme Court affirmed the sentence, and Moeller lost appeals on both the state and federal levels.

Though he fought his conviction and sentence for years, Moeller in July he said he was ready to accept death as the consequence of his actions. He admitted for the first time in court that he killed the girl.


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reply posted on 13-11-2012 @ 04:22 PM by natalia
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Sometimes I feel an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Then I see rape and murder and want to change my mind. But I won't.

Does it deter a killer from killing knowing he will be killed?

Life in prison,no parole.



reply posted on 13-11-2012 @ 05:52 PM by Holidakd
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Yet the taxpayers are paying for him for those twenty years.
When inmates, like him, that are on death row or sentenced to life without parole, they realize that they will die in prison they also realize that they have nothing to lose and it makes them dangerous.
When backed into a corner like that the true animal instinct kicks in and one will do anything to survive.
I'm not saying they're all like this, and I'm sure some realize their mistake and are truly sorry. But what about those who aren't sorry? They're dangerous. The brave men and women who work as law enforcement officers in prisons go to work each day not knowing if they will go home again.


reply posted on 13-11-2012 @ 06:18 PM by boncho
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I'm not saying they're all like this, and I'm sure some realize their mistake and are truly sorry. But what about those who aren't sorry? They're dangerous. The brave men and women who work as law enforcement officers in prisons go to work each day not knowing if they will go home again.



This is a little extreme. For one, some of the laws in the US have condemned people to live when it was nowhere near deserving.

For the ones that are beyond rehabilitation and are serving indefinite sentences, in most cases there are special handling units to deal with them. They are move around by themselves and shackled while still being barricaded in a cell or handling area.

Every country has inmates like this.

As far as general populations the terrible atmosphere in some of these places is conditioning them to be psychotic. It's not a positive atmosphere in any sense. Treating people like animals will turn them into them if they aren't like that already.

If they are, then the long sentence and solitary confinement is fitting.

There is nothing in this person's case that would convince me he could be rehabilitated. Maybe that is a personal opinion, but oh well...

For the 20 years he had to think about it, I say 'good'. Eventually he had to consider some kind of redemption only to realize it was unobtainable. At the core everyone is human.
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