This is what habeas corpus reforms pushed down our throats in the 90’s has done. I am opposed to the death penalty, because the criminal justice system is flawed, and there will always be a chance that a person convicted of a capital crime is not guilty of the act. There are certainly a few crimes for which death is an appropriate punishment.

Omelettes are fine and dandy, as long as you’re the chef or the consumer. They are hell for the suckers whose heads are getting cracked upon the side of the bowl, and poured into the mix. Barr is responsible for this travesty of justice, and it is good he has spoken out against it, but he is a weasel to avoid accepting responsibility for its existence.

Also, I fail to see how one could justify the death penalty with the non-aggression principle. Sure, killing a murderer (or would-be murderer) while the crime is in progress is self-defense. How is the death penalty self-defense, at all? It’s not self-defense to punch a man in the nose seven years after he kicked me in the shins, and it’s not self-defense to execute a man seven years after he kills someone.

The death penalty is not compensation. It is not libertarian.

The only possible exception is if one agrees to be bound to the death penalty via a contract. And I’m not sure how that would work out.

But not by the state.

No death penalty while the monopoly government still exists.

You have no problem that this is not considered to be evidence worthy of another trial? If this is true, you may be pro-death penalty, but you are hardly a libertarian.

Perhaps Barr’s enthusiastic support for the death penalty will explain why he may have signed a check paying for his former wife’s abortion. There, too, the one paying the penalty was innocent. Say it isn’t so, Bob.

WAMMY!

Still he should be a REAL conservative about it, apologise to Amerioca for his past transgressions, and accept the blood on his hands if Davis is executed. Until he does, he’s just a contemporary conservative who still has not yet tossed every scrap of his soul into the bottomless pit of moral relativism in my book.

It is the gutting of habeas appeals written into this law that has caused the travesty of justice in the Troy Davis case.

This provision, though simple, Mr. Chairman, in my proposed amendment will strengthen that study that is required currently by H.R. 2703. With regard, Mr. Chairman, to what I consider the linchpin of this legislation, and that is habeas corpus reform, it is important to recognize that the proposed amendments in H.R. 2703 to our Federal habeas corpus laws strike a very appropriate balance between Federal and States’ rights that is not currently in place. The reforms contemplated by H.R. 2703 will stop the endless, pointless, and abusive delays currently available to those in our State court system to avoid the carrying out of a death sentence.

Bob Barr, Congressional Record: March 13, 1996, GPO DOCID:cr13mr96-94, Page H2168

Barr politicised habeaas corpus, as a part the GOP’s Contract On America in the 90’s. He rammed through the legislation which is the cause of exculpatory evidence being denied for procedural grounds in the Troy Davis appeals.

Engineer Bob Barr was driving the train that railroaded Davis. Why won’t he at least admit his mistake, and his henious assault upon habeas corpus?

Hell, Bob Barr has changed his mind about a whole lot of things… maybe the death penalty is next. Perhaps the Troy Davis case will push him over the edge. Perhaps Mr. LaBianca and other LPers could send him well-reasoned and persuasive arguments against the death penalty to help him see the light.

I am against the death penalty. I am voting for Barr.