Saturday Six - Episode 232

Patrick Place’s Saturday Six - Episode 232

1. Do you think that capital punishment — as the system now operates — is a deterrent to crime on any level?
OK, you are asking a “Bleeding Heart Liberal” here, how do you think I will answer?
NO! It is not a determent, what criminal thinks he is going to be caught? They are thinking they are going to commit the perfect crime and never be caught. In addition, our legal system is not perfect, it makes mistakes and once you execute a person, you cannot go back and say “Ops, we made a mistake, sorry.”

2. With changes and/or improvements to the justice system designed to better enforce capital punishment, do you think it could be a better deterrent to crime?
No, in the states with the highest rate of executions, their crime rate has not gone down.

3. Should the punishment a man who kills a pregnant woman be worse than the punishment a man who kills a non-pregnant woman faces?
No, I do not see how you can make this work. Suppose the woman does not know she is pregnant and it is only found out during the autopsy, would the murder still get the harsher punishment? Or if the murder didn’t know that she was pregnant would the murder get the harsher punishment or would you have to prove that the murder knew that she was pregnant.
Also, I see this as a way the Right Wing Christian conservatives are trying to get the laws changed to say that life begins at conception.

4. Take the quiz: What Felony Are You?

I didn’t take the quiz because none of the answers applied to me.

5. You stop by a post office to run in and mail a letter, knowing you’ll only be inside the building for 10 seconds. To park close to the door, there are only two options: you can either park in an open handicapped space (and assume you don’t have a handicapped permit) or park illegally in the fire lane. Would you take a handicapped space, park in the fire lane, or park in a legitimate, legal space and walk?
I park in the legal space and walk.
While we are on the subject of parking to run in for a quick errand – turn off you engine! Just the other day here in Connecticut, a guy ran in to get a cup of coffee. He left the car running; the car popped in to reverse and drove backward pinning a woman against a wall, putting her into the hospital.

6. Should police target people who use marijuana when there is no legitimate medicinal need for it?
No, I do not think possessing drug should be a criminal offense. I think that it should be treated as a medical problem and treated as such. Instead of jailing them, offer them drug treatment programs, but still make the sale of drug a criminal offense. I think that an addict should be able to get their fix from the government and they will always have the option to enter a free drug program.
I think that most of our violence in the cities is caused by drugs, take the profit motive out of drugs. If a pusher gets a person hooked on drugs and then the addict can get the drugs for free from the government, the profit motive would go out of the drug business. Look at what happened during Prohibition; gang wars and violence in the streets, once alcohol became legal again most of the violence went away.

OK, so much for my “Bleeding Heart Liberalism”