Politics, Margaret, but then, you know this. As long as we have people who feel better killing people despite what their religion tells them, we will satisfy the most base instincts of the electorate. Sad, isn’t it? I don’t mourn so much for the soul of Dennis Skillicorn-he, along with those whose deaths he was put to death for are better off.

I feel sorry for the politician who cannot do what is morally right because he is more concerned with getting re-elected.

Dennis Skillicorn’s crimes were heinous and disgusting. I’m not sure if I believe in the death penalty, mostly b/c most prosecutor’s and cops are crooked; but if any man deserved to die it was him.
Had he looked into future consequences, (like hurting his wife who he married in jail, she did have some warning), many people would have been spared a great deal of suffering. But shed tears over this man? No way.

Margaret,

Dennis Skillicorn committed a heinous crime, was arrested, indicted, tried, found guilty, and was sentenced. As a defendant convicted of a capital offense, his sentence was automatically appealed and reviewed extensively. After all appeals were exhausted, and a final appeal for clemency was rejected by the governor, he was executed in the method prescribed by law.

This process is known as justice, which is far more consideration than Mr Drummond received.

Just what did Mrs. Skillicorn think might happen when she married a man on death row?

Thank you Margaret.
I have asked the same question many times.
The death penalty is not only imposed on the guilty. Paula Skillicorn counted the hours before her son was executed by the people of Missouri.

Now, I know all the conservative pro-deathers (when they’re not claiming to be pro-lifers) will cry “What about the victims family? They didn’t even get to count the last hours”….But is that what we want as a society. Does it makes us feel any better knowing some [other] innocent mother will have to suffer the agony of watching her son die? Does revenge make us feel comfortable? If it does, how are we any better than the regime of Saddam Huessin. The same neo-conservatives who are willing to sacrifice 6,000 American lives to put a stop to torture and senseless killings have become the same monster they set out to destroy.

Missourians were just exercising their “choice” to exterminate a person that also had a “choice.” Isn’t “choice” what it’s all about Garrison?

Ironically enough, I couldn’t care either way on the death penalty. Execute murders or don’t execute them, wouldn’t bother me a bit.

I don’t believe we should have a choice to kill 40 year old babies.

Kill the unborn that have killed no one vs. kill a 40 year old that murdered another human…..

Whacked out thought process there…..I’m not suprised considering the source.

…blame it on the rain.

Death penalty should only be in the table when there is irrefutable DNA evidence or actual video of the capital crime being committed.

I believe in the death penalty as a punishment, not a deterrent. I believe the family of the condemned, especially the parents, should be forced to watch they have wrought.

I also believe a woman has a right to make her own private choices on her reproductive health without interfence from the government or religous nut-jobs.

On the flip side, I think there should penalties against women who turn themselves into baby factories when they clearly are unable to raise children. Also, men should have to be snipped if they have over a certain amount of kids and they can’t financially take care of all of them.

I believe cannibis should be de-crimialized. I want more police on the streets patrolling/foot beats in high crime areas.

I think parents should be held accountable for the actions of their children when they commit crimes. Financially and if not, they should be incarcerated and the kids given to the state. State can’t do any worse job then the thugs you already raised. Now that would be an incentive for parents to get off their lazy asses and TCB.

I would like any religous nut-job who claims the government is infringing on their religion to give me an instance where an agent of the government prevented them from praying/worshipping inside their home or place of worship or while they were quitely praying in a public place (as long as they weren’t doing so in the process of committing a crime).

Looney….
The unborn are not granted constitutional rights under our form of government.
If you think that’s wacky, move to Iran.