Over 2 dozen murder victims' loved ones call for end to death penalty in Nebraska

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Duggan

LINCOLN — Twenty-five loved ones of murder victims have signed a letter calling for an end to the death penalty in Nebraska.

The letter will be submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the Nebraska Legislature, which is hearing a bill Wednesday afternoon to abolish capital punishment in the state. Legislative Bill 268, introduced by Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, would replace lethal injection with life in prison without parole.

Tricia Moore of Omaha, whose 23-year-old son Jer’ray Moore was murdered in 2013, said the state spends millions of dollars trying to execute the men sentenced to death row. Meanwhile, she said she still owes $1,700 for her son’s funeral.

“If the state is serious about assisting crime victims, we would spend our resources differently,” Moore said Wednesday during a press conference at the State Capitol. “We would ensure that every time a child is lost, that family is given some basic help to rebuild their lives.”

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[samsingh]

1. time would be better spent saving victim's lives than the killers

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Well, that would be a moot point, wouldn't it?

Come to think of it, so would killing the killers.

[samsingh]

7. that would be justice

and respect for the victims

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I don't see how killing a person constitutes "respect" for a third person.

No matter who's doing the killing.

[samsingh]

10. seriously, executing bundy was respecting his innocent victims

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. No, it wasn't.

It was just killing a person, albeit a deeply flawed one.

[samsingh]

16. 'flawed' is insulting - evil incarnate, monster are more representative

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. There's no such thing as an evil incarnate human being.

That assumes a person was born evil. Hell, I'm sure even Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot weren't born evil.

The deeds people do are evil. People are not incarnated from birth as evil.

I never got that primitive thinking, but it's an underlying rationale as why we haven't civilized and abolished the death penalty yet.

Killing the person won't kill the evil.

[GliderGuider]

9. Why not do both? nt

[JDDavis]

2. Good, so many states and most civilized nations have no death penalty

They do just fine. Most states with no DP have lower murder rates.

It costs more to kill someone, with all the appeals and delays, than it does to just sentence criminals to life without parole.

[samsingh]

11. are we talking about cost or justice?

[JDDavis]

12. What part of justice has to do with cost?

You brought up "justice".. can you say how much we benefit because we Americans are legalizing ourselves collectively as worldwide killers of other human beings?

"Justice": a totally vacant word without your defining it.

"Justice" in most nations and states in the USA does NOT involve our collective involvement in killing a human being.

So define it, please.

Then define "revenge".

[samsingh]

13. leaving a murderer in prison because is cheaper is about cost not justice

[Grins]

3. Welcome to Nebraska

“We would ensure that every time a child is lost, that family is given some basic help to rebuild their lives.”

But...but...but...that would be 'soshilism!!!'

Welcome to Nebraska. Or any other true red state.

[Jefferson23]

4. K&R

[duhneece]

6. Celebration Time!!!

We get too tired, too heartsick, too 'burned out', too cynical, too devoid of hope if we don't take time to celerate our human family doing something so good, so gooooooooooooooooood!
Celebrate, dance, love...
at least that's one 64-yr old activist in a very small pond wants for us all.

[Judi Lynn]

14. These people are deeper, stronger, finer people after their own personal traumas, than citizens

who can work themselves up to a frenzy of hatred trying to imagine how he want to kill any and everyone who ever crosses them!

They have looked deeply enough inside, have stepped beyond their own personal desires, selfish interests, and they recognize the truth, even after having been through actually hell on earth.

I respect them, and hope their stand in favor of a better world will win.

Thank you, Omaha Steve.