uh what are the capital punishment laws in your state
uh they're
or do you have it
uh they're they're the death penalty can be imposed
yeah uh or is it set for a specific crimes uh you know if you're convicted of this then it's the death penalty or or is it kind of just to the discretion under certain cases
uh it's uh murder it it can be
is i think is the only can be tried for you know for
uh capital punishment
yeah
and i firmly believe in it
yes uh i
i'm the same way i feel that capital punishment ought to be mandatory under certain crimes
i do too here in Utah there's been a a person that's been on death row for
i oh seventeen years i think and they just keep retrying and retrying and i just it's just a waste of taxpayers' money and and i really think it would be a deterrent
sounds like he'd grow old and die long before they get to kill him
yes yes
but uh
seventeen years on death row
um-hum uh i think he's that he's the longest one in the nation that and they just keep retrying him and retrying him
well uh
since they reinstated the death penalty was it about seven or eight years ago i think the shortest anybody's waited has been two or three years
i mean death penalty does not seem to be swift for anybody
no is what's the death penalty in Mississippi
i
so that's my understanding they do not have death penalty here right now um
i mean the capital
it doesn't make any sense that they don't but they don't
um
and right now to the best of my understanding there is nothing afoot to get it reinstated
uh
personally i think there should be death penalty for
uh
the death penalty should be available almost any
major violent crime
and mandatory for murder
i i agree with you
they believe
it should be at least available as punishment for rape
yes definitely
i think if it was a serious possible of being executed for doing any of the major crimes that it would be a little less likely for people to commit them
well one thing i can't understand is is these people that uh
uh torture torture children and then murder i mean you know and then they're they eventually kill them
yes
and i definitely think that that should be a death penalty and they get less than than people that have are murdered
yeah
i don't understand that i i just can't see how come a person that has kills a little child can get away with two or three years or five years
five to fifteen
yeah and it
because
i don't know i if i think also they should be
they uh somebody providing drugs to someone that kills the person
yes
that ought to be considered murder and potential death penalty
boy we think alike
i uh
they used to have the death penalty in my home state of West Virginia
oh
and
there it was death by hanging
uh-huh uh
uh but
how old are you may i ask
thirty four
oh uh-huh
and it when they eliminated death penalty all kinds of things changed
yes they do
uh the rate of crime doubled within about about a year or so
um-hum
and at that point when they were still hanging the uh state prison in Mountsville
uh
had a very small guard force and they had very little problems with their their inmates
um-hum
uh after they eliminated the death penalty shut down the gallows
um-hum
um-hum
uh the place has gotten to the point where people who live in that area
are all trying to get moved away it's become a maximum security prison they have had a whole lot more problems with breakouts with uh with violence within the the prison
um-hum
uh
uh just the whole whole tenor of the thing has changed completely
i wonder why i wonder why they don't uh
don't uh see that they need the death penalty then
because haven't you heard that they say that the death penalty does not
uh deter crime
who is it who said the death penalty doesn't deter crime well i'm sure it doesn't much now because the death penalty is very seldom uh given and
used
even then like you say it could be twenty twenty years between the time
