Dr. Ron Paul on the death penalty?
Submitted by OpenYourEyes on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 01:58I woke up to some news this morning which made me sick, really very, very sick! As one of the very few civilized countries in the world, the USA are still carrying out death penalties on a regular basis. Here is what made mi sick:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26080906-401,00.html
Mr. Romell Broom was the 33rd person to be killed in prison, (yes, I know, it is called "executed") in Ohio in the last 10 years. And as much as I love Ron Paul for just about everything he stands for, and pray to God that he and his followers will be able to restore the USA as I knew it for most of my life, I never asked the question:
Where does Ron Paul stand on the issue of the death penalty? A situation which in my mind for all those years I have loved the USA, has been a painful torn on the side of my love affair with your country.
That said, it gives me one more reason to be anti Barack Obama who sort of is the top man in charge of this awful practice in what used to be number one freedom defending country in the world. It is sad to see what it has become since 9/11, - and even more sad when reading articles like the one I woke up to this morning.
No Federal role
Dr. Paul answers that question at the PBS debate Sept. 27, 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohRGaN1S4aU#t=2m39s
Video goes to the 2 min 39 sec mark when the question is asked.
Capital punishment
is one of the very few issues Ron Paul changed his mind about during his years of being a Congressman. Once in favor of it, he's now against it because it's fiscally irresponsible (it can cost 2-5 times more to have a person put to death than to just keep that person in jail for life), unreliable (sometimes innocents get put to death) and racist (a black person who kills a white person is three times more likely to get the death penalty in this country than a white person who kills a white person).
If my memory serves me correctly
he said in the debates he never use to have a firm stance on it, but he says he now is opposed to it b/c of the advent of dna technology, and i think he also said that we shouldn't play God and decides who lives and who dies but i'm not sure on that last one.