Re: Death Penalty Poll
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If you want to get revenege, stick them in prison because that is much worse than death.
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I've probably posted this before but maybe not. The last guy executed in New Mexico was a child molestor who killed a 9 year old girl. His name was Terry Clark here's a synopsys of the circumstances of his crime:
Dena Lynn Gore disappeared on July 17, 1986, while riding a bike near her home to a convenience store. Her naked, bound body was found 5 days later in a shallow grave on a ranch where Terry Clark was employed. She had been raped and shot 3 times in the back of the head. At the time, Clark was free on bond pending appeal of his conviction for kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old Roswell girl in 1984.
Do they get any scummier? There was absolutely no doubt that he was guilty as he never denied killing her. Here's the irony, Terry Clark decided that he'd had enough of death row and decided to end his appeals. From newspaper reports, Clark apparently detested his life on death row and preferred to be executed rather than continue his existance that way. In other words Clark actually preferred death to his death row existance. So in the case of punishing Clark anyway, maintaining Clark's existance on death row would have been a much better way to punish him than a lethal injection. Clark was executed in 2001 after dropping his appeals.
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