2/9/21

Republican former South Dakota judge would restrict state's ability to kill

How is the price of putting people to death either conservative or sustainable? The litigation costs of trying capital crimes persuaded Nebraska to rethink state-sponsored killing. 

A state-ordered lethal injection isn't criminal justice; it's suicide by cop and it’s the view of this progressive that anyone convicted of any felony requiring incarceration should be able to ask for a death with dignity rather than living a life of Hell in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. 

My youngest daughter worked in the law office of former judge now Republican South Dakota State Senator Art Rusch. Sen. Rusch wants the depraved South Dakota Legislature to consider imposing capital punishment only when public safety officials are murder victims. He knows the death penalty doesn't deter criminals from committing murder and serves only as revenge. 

Pope Frank, the head of the Roman church even released a diktat stating that sect's revulsion of capital punishment putting Attorney General, Joe Boever's killer, former altar boy and suspected incel Jason Ravnsborg's soul at risk to eternal damnation.  But $20 says Jason would just love to dispatch a handcuffed death row inmate with a shotgun blast to the abdomen just like someone did for Rich Benda. 


1 comment:

larry kurtz said...

Update: "The South Dakota Senate voted down a bill that aimed to restrict the use of the death penalty in the state.

Senate Bill 98 would have limited the sentence to cases of first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, corrections employee or firefighter while in the line of duty."