Executions.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/14/attorneys-bartlett-woman-death-row-seek-more-filin/?partner=yahoo_feeds

For the first time since 1820 a woman may be executed in Tennessee soon.

Her lawyers are asking for "more time" to fill out paperwork. Ok I'm sure they knew when her execution date was long ago, so that's suspicious in itself.

Anyway her lawyers claim she was abused and that her original lawyers were not competent.

So I am looking for anyone's thoughts on anything related to this really. Whether or not being abused is even a reason to not get the death penalty. Whether or not it's fair that women get lighter penalties than men usually. And whatever else this may bring to mind.

My feeling is that obviously he did NOT abuse her or it would have been obvious when the first trial happened. But even if he did... you can't kill someone. She didn't kill him herself. She paid a guy to BEAT HIM TO DEATH with a tire iron. So not even just a quick shooting or whatnot either...

This is a complex thing. The way I look at it though is what if many male murderers were abused PSYCHOLOGICALLY or even physically as a kid or something? Should they be executed anyway, but women shouldn't?

I just hate gender double standards so bad. Even if the man benefits from one I hate them all.

wemen are crazie

You ain't, you's HOT!!!

Kill em all...eye for an eye

There have been other women put to death for murders in recent history; One recently in Texas at that. As long as the situation is the same, sure they should be put to death for their crimes.

Considering that people who are in favor of the death penalty have to have a problem intellectually, in my opinion, there is no difference in killing men women or children for them. My opinion of course.

The death penalty makes us barbarians, worse than animals.

We are animals. Just look at our bloody history. We are the top predators. We kill everything and anything. If you eat meat your no different. Just my observation

Worse than animals, I said.

We are the only animals that erroneously believe revenge does anything positive for anyone.

We are the only animals who hunt for sport.

Ect...

Worse than animals.

And the death penalty just shows our stupidity in my opinion. We should be smarter than that.

Interesting. You have reasonable morality on this issue, but you don't see the immorality in supporting a president (Obama) who won't end the unconstitutional war and occupation. You're on the way, but have much room to grow.

I don't know...if someone dear to my heart...my kids or family were killed by some loser, I would want the same punishment handed down to them. Rehabilitation doesn't work so whats the solution...let them live and that's punishment enough??? Not for me

Oh please, you always make me laugh.

My morality is 100% and has been all along.

I have been against the wars since before they started, when it would have made a big difference for us to stop Bush from going to war but people wouldn't listen to me then.

I disagree with extending the wars.

I also know I cannot have everything the way I want it or there wouldn't have been these wars in the first place.

It doesn't do anything positive for anyone even you to have someone killed and be no better than the killer.

If it came to my family, I would personally feel great about it...hell, give me a gun and a bullet and I'll do the job cheap...save the tax payers money

No offense but that is sick.

No amount of murder will bring back my loved one so I will not become what took my loved one from me because of it.

No offense taken but I'd rather be the wolf than the lamb...cheers

Not an accurate analogy to the whole situation at all. A wolf kills a lamb to eat not for vengeance or pleasure.

If you are protecting yourself or loved ones and you accidentally kill someone in the process of protection, that should be considered excusable because the intent to kill wasn't there, just protection.

Outside of that killing other living things except for food should not be considered acceptable in any intelligent mind, in my opinion.

A person pays for their life crimes themselves, others cannot inflict this payment on them regardless to what they do to them.

We feel remorse or we don't. Noone can make us feel it, therefore they cannot make us pay for our crimes in reality.

Now to say that I think society shouldn't keep a punishment system/rehabilitation system for the offenders of our laws would not be accurate either. The system we have is a failure. It doesn't do anything to help or keep offenders from doing their crimes.

The death penalty is a remnant of our ignorance and brutality. It shows how really undeveloped we still are. There is nothing positive to come from state killing. Especially when innocents have been killed by the state at the hands of advocates for the death penalty.

I will respectfully disagree with you. I'm just imagining no death penalty and these people being paroled due to over populating of the prisons and moving right next to me...no thanks. They are all yours