very odd-- cop killers should never get out.
Connecticut also has the death penalty but has not used it since 1960. I think New York last used it around that time.
I support the death penalty because I believe in the saying that "mercy for the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." There are some people who deserve no better than death.
But I think it has to be used very carefully.
I would probably be happy with if killers were given a true life sentence with no possibility of parole. But we can't trust liberal states like New York to keep these people behind bars.
It makes my blood boil that NY state released Kathy Boudin, who participated in the 1981 Brinks robbery in which several policemen were killed. She did only 22 years for those murders, while the families of those killed are effectively serving a life sentence. She should never have been released.
When you're dealing with liberal judges, liberal parole boards and liberal juries, all sorts of outrageous things are possible.
