Why doesn't New York State have the Death Penalty?

Question

New York State needs to stop being Liberal. The Death Penalty needs to be applied there as it is in Texas. There was no reason for a 14 year old to shoot a gun randomly into a bus. For those of you who have not read or heard about this murder see below. Liberalism is a failure. New York State needs the Death Penalty and citizens should be allowed to legally carry Firearms.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/21/bus-shooting-could-have-been-a-massacre/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/brooklyn-dad-shot-dead-bus-leaves-family-dire-straits-article-1.1729428

Answer 1

Here's some of what New Yorkers found out about the death penalty:



The worst thing about it. Errors:

The system can make tragic mistakes. As of now, 143 wrongly convicted people on death row have been exonerated. We’ll never know for sure how many people have been executed for crimes they didn’t commit. DNA is rarely available in homicides, often irrelevant and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.



Keeping killers off the streets for good:

Life without parole, on the books in most states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending the rest of your life locked up, knowing you’ll never be free, is no picnic. Two big advantages:

-an innocent person serving life can be released from prison

-life without parole costs less than the death penalty



Costs, a big surprise to many people:

Most people realize that the death penalty costs far more than life sentences, but not many know why. The legal process is much more complex in death penalty cases, because the punishment sought is irreversible. We know that innocent people were executed in the past (in the US and elsewhere.) The largest costs come at the pre-trial and trial stages and they apply whether or not the defendant is convicted, let alone sentenced to death.



Crime reduction (deterrence):

Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people without a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent. The death penalty is no more effective in deterring others than life sentences.



Who gets it:

The death penalty magnifies social and economic inequalities. It isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. Practically everyone sentenced to death had to rely on an overworked public defender.



Victims:

Like no other punishment, it subjects families of murder victims to a process which makes healing even harder. Even families who have supported it in principle have testified to the protracted and unavoidable damage that the death penalty process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.



The death penalty comes down to retribution or revenge—the only plausible reasons to support it.

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Why doesn't New York State have the Death Penalty?

New York State needs to stop being Liberal. The Death Penalty needs to be applied there as it is in Texas. There was no reason for a 14 year old to shoot a gun randomly into a bus. For those of you who have not read or heard about this murder see below. Liberalism is a failure. New York State needs...

Answer 3

New York Death Penalty

Answer 4

Susan is wrong.



A state appellate court ruled New York's death penalty ststute unconstitional.

Answer 5

I agree with you. But there is a huge misconception on the death penalty in Texas. I have not read the article, but randomly killing someone does not make you eligible for the death penalty in Texas (unless it is a cop, kid, etc.). This would be murder, not capital murder.



To be eligible for the death penalty you must commit murder plus something else. Examples being:

1 killing a cop, kid, etc..

2 killing while committing robbery, kidnapping, arson, etc...

3 killing during an escape

etc

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm#19.03



To those against the death penalty, have a look at these "victims" and do they deserve to live:

The subject took his two children to a creek, where he held them under water until their death. Officers located the victims' bodies in the subject's residence.

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/muhammadnaim.html



In Galveston County TX, the subject stomped on his 3 month old son's head crushing his skull and then choked the victim resulting in his death.

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/mullistravis.html



During the night in Dallas County TX, the subject stabbed a 32 year old black female with a knife and drowned a six year old black female in their home.

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/greengary.html



The list goes on and on.



Juan Salvez Soria, who was scheduled to be executed on July 26, 2000, pulled the arm of 78-year old William Paul Westbrook, a prison chaplain from Livingston, into his cell. The offender tied a sheet around the chaplain's arm and tied the other end to a toilet; Soria began cutting Westbrook's arm with a razor blade. The offender nearly tore Westbrook's arm off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_B._Polunsky_Unit



The US Government is seeking the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused of killing and maiming people with homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line. I don't see protests to save his life. Or is the death penalty ok as long as liberals say it is a really really bad crime?

Answer 6

States without the death penalty welcome violence and the litigation arising

so as to create plenty of work for the professions in the legal industry

Answer 7

One state of Texas is way more than enough.



New York is fine just the way it is.

Answer 8

yes because that's all we need more crazy Americans with guns