Death on trial today

Justice is as good as the folks who discharge it. Mistakes investigating crimes happens. Malicious prosecution happens. Misjudgment happens.

Even if you find "killing for a killing" morally acceptable, given the troubled history of death penalty cases in our country, you should be concerned that today's justice has been discharged fairly, honestly, without malice or mistake.

Given that doctors pledge to do no harm, you would think that citizens would honor their professional, ethical decision.

There's another way to look at this from a doctor's perspective that I don't think most people consider. Doctors understand the fallibility of institutional systems. They know that even with the best intent, the tightest controls, medical mistakes happen - folks die. I imagine why they might look at our flawed legal system and worry about justice fairly discharged. I imagine that the only way to set aside their pledge was if a greater good was served.

How, though, could they find the certitude to side step that pledge given the known flaws of our legal system, their understanding that even with the best of intentions mistakes happen?

NC's Medical Board should be commended for taking an honorable, thoughtful position counter to the claimed sentiment of NC's populace.

CitizenWill
there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. MLK,Jr. to SCLC Leadership Class

These doctors are there primarily to make sure the procedure is done correctly, to make sure nothing "cruel and usual" happens and to verify death.

The doctors aren't there to KILL anyone.

I recently heard that we could save 2 million dollars by just sentencing folks to life imprisonment. Life without parole...

The death penalty is very very expensive--- in dollars, we will not go into what it costs in mental health, guilt, morality, sin etc..
So why are we spending that kind of cash? It seems like the main reason is that to get elected, candidates who raise up their position on Death Penalty, get votes. It is a great issue, like abortion, for a catalyst for getting elected.

it is code for...a candidate after your own heart.
Two million dollars.
Life without parole is not fun. it is punishment. punishment. and what I like about it is that...if we discover error, we have options.

AND we have recently learned that mistakes are made --- we have seen it in other states. There are enough mistakes that have been uncovered to make us all very uneasy about errors that we may not have discovered yet.

You had your chance to vote for a governor who had the integrity to oppose the death penalty outright, but chances are you didn't vote for him.

The death penalty is just another example of the excessive power and authority of the state.

It's moral for the state to murder, but if you do it, the state will murder you.
It's moral for the state to assault and batter, but if you do it, the state will assault and batter you.
It's moral for the state to kidnap others, but if you do it, the state will kidnap you.
It's moral for the state to steal, but if you do it, the state will... kidnap/assault you.
It's moral for the state to kidnap, assault, and steal from you even if you have never hurt another human being.
After all, how dare you violate the sovereign's (king's) authority by disobeying its (his) edicts?!

Of course, these statements only apply to those of you who have adopted a quasi-religious reverence for the state. You hold it unaccountable to the system of morality that governs the conduct of mere mortals, such as yourself. Is it any wonder how, for the past several thousand years, tyrants were able to get away with committing untold crimes against their subjects? The same continues to this day. Faith-based reverence, obedience, and loyalty to a criminal monopoly blinds people from accepting the truth: you are a slave to the state.