| The Life Penalty curtis kekoa III September 29, 2004 Once again, the justice system did it - or didn't do it, actually. In today's "news," admitted rapist and murderer, Richard Paul White, led investigators to a body they should have found without the scum of the earth - White - leading the way. He admitted to the following: murdering (not killing) his friend as well as raping and murdering two other women. The "news" says White "is suspected of sexually assaulting and killing three other women since 1998" and that "he agreed to help investigators find the bodies." Unfortunately and as usual, the broken justice system arranged for a guilty-plea from White in exchange for a life sentence in lieu of being put down like a rabid dog under the death penalty. What a shame. The investigators should have found these bodies the old-fashioned way by beating the information out of White short of ending his life. It's a solid bet the investigators wanted to "question" this scum the old-fashioned way, but were thwarted probably by some God-hating Denver prosecuting attorney (or a group of 'em). Such should be disbarred and flogged at least, but that's for another post. So under the auspices of laziness and a severe lack of the knowledge of justice, another psychopathic murderer is allowed to live by a kinder, more humane justice compared to the rapes and murders of the White's victims. And I'll wager other murderers - present and future - are shaking in their blood-stained boots right about now. I mean, if one wanted to murder someone, a life-sentence would be the perfect deterrent, wouldn't it? A murderer's flesh would crawl when faced with warmth in the winter, air-conditioning in the summer, education, free health care and recreation for the rest of his life, all at the expense of suckers like you. What a bargain, huh? Really, is it a good idea for the government to usurp the authority of God concerning the death penalty by not implementing the death penalty at all? The Bureau of Justice Statistics (B. J. S.) tells the whole story about murderers and their victims: - - In 2002, 71 murderers were executed in probably a way much "nicer" compared to the death screams of their murder victims' last few moments. In the same year, 2002, there were approximately 16,204 murders. That is about 1 execution per 228 murders. Less than .5% of all murderers - for 2002 only - were executed. What a system. This next batch of stats is for the folks who think the death penalty isn't a deterrent and that it should be abolished. A note for all public school junkies: The death penalty was suspended approximately in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court of Kangaroos and reinstated in 1976 by the same worthless Court. (It is ironic that the Supreme Court during the same time period decided the notorious Roe v. Wade [1973] which "legalized" the murders of millions of children - 40+ million by 2004 - at the altar of selfishness by the hands of their own parents without penalty.) Again, the B. J. S. tells the story: - - From 1961-65, 122 murderers were executed. During the same time period, there were 45,230 murders, about 9046 murders per year (mpy). - - From 1966-70, only 3 murderers were executed with about 67,840 murdered, or about 13,568 mpy. - - From 1971-75: 0 executed, 97,310 murdered, which comes to 19,462 mpy. - - And, finally, 1976-80 saw a whopping 3 executed, with only a mere 101,960 murdered, about 20,392 mpy! Analyze these stats: from the first-half of the sixties to the last-half of the seventies, there was a 125% increase in the murder rate - more than double! This is severely disproportionate to the increase in the population which grew only 26% from 1960-80, nowhere near double. To allege the increase in the murder rate as proportionate to the increase in the population is wholly inaccurate. Remember, the death penalty was applicable in the fifties and the eighties but suspended from the sixties to the seventies, the period which beheld this "spike" in the murder rate! There were no "spikes" in the fifties and eighties similar to the "spike" from the sixties to the seventies. For all you public schoolers, here is what these numbers mean: The death penalty deters people from becoming murderers. God wasn't messing around when He established the death penalty (Genesis 9:6) and gave governments the responsibility to carry it out (Romans 13:4). The murder rate finally leveled-off in the mid-nineties, and actually decreased after that, but not because of the death penalty (or lack of one) - no more than 100 executions per year is hardly a deterrent. The incarcerations of most murderers along with a broken seeking plea bargains which convict for less than murder, i.e. "manslaughter," and arrange for life sentences account for the decrease in "murders." But the decrease won't last long as the "rehabilitated" will leave their prisons in an exodus in the next decade or so and start living next to you. Their propensities to rape and murder you, your wife and your kids - your whole family - combined with new skills learned in prison such as extortion, stealing, drug-running, etcetera, as well as how to get away with their crimes, is a recipe for disaster. Plus, all the car thieves, drug dealers and rapists now know how to murder, and probably know how to avoid the death penalty, too. Also, it is well known that prison does wonders for a person's emotional and spiritual health necessary to function in a civil society. Just ask most repeat offenders. Look out, grab your guns if they're not outlawed in the near future. There's a crime epidemic on the horizon, worse than the one we're in right now! And please thank your local prosecutors all across the country - not to mention anti-death penalty morons - for creating a saturnine situation for us and our kids. One supposes such a transgression seemed a good idea to these loser prosecutors and anti-death penalty folks at the time - to let murderers live when the evidence against them could easily convict them ten-fold with the death penalty a certainty. One of those murderers is Richard Paul White. But why confuse with facts or common sense? God said it best: "When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong" (Ecclesiastes 8:11). How true, and it explains flawlessly the life penalty. Therefore, let us stop mocking God by enforcing the death penalty upon those who deserve to die. Let us return to a safe, civil and godly society. |