Some of these idiots opposed to execution of murders quote the Ten Commandments. But the actual wording is, "Thou shall not murder". It was changed by one of the English Kings to "Thou shall not kill". Not exactly a slight difference. I go with the original author.

Good job Dennis.

I must say that since Kitzhaber is a democrat I will assume he is pro abortion. People who are pro abortion but anti death penalty strike me as illogical, which in turn tweeks my eye of suspicion.

What personality would accept death to an innocent developing human in the womb, totally defenceless, incapable of eliciting fear and therefore cowardice from a coward, but then would deny the earned death penalty for murder and rape by an animal masquerading as a human who elicits great fear from all, and who elicits cowardice from a coward. First and formost that personality jumps out as, and smacks of, one suffering from cowardice, and that reflects a failure to mature.

Why would a coward want a job that demands courage if they know they are a coward to begin with? Is it time to force only those against the death penalty to pay the life long support of murderers and rapists? Is it time to make those in favor of abortion the only ones to pay for said abortions? Might not it be time to consider the wisdom of preserving the Union at the expense of morality, descency and the financial burden it carries.

The immaturity and insanity of the liberal flock and their democrat sheppards have created an ideology and subsequent agenda which transcends normalcy and begs the question, is the time right for a separating out into two mutually independent countries. Or does an inherent difficulty factor for such a task arise that is to great a burden to bare, that in turn prevents a forsaking of the preservation of the Union at any expense?

I believe I know the two big answers along this line of reasoning. The first is that innocent developing human life in the womb will be murdered, and quilty murders and rapists will live out their lives fully, while their victims lives will be stolen and cut short. The second is we shall remain a Union because the burden to separate out is to much to bare. Thank you.

I assume that the legislature in Oregon had at some time passed, and a governnor had signed into law, a statute that allowed or required the death penalty to be applied to certain criminals. This governor has decided to not enforce that law. If an executive can decide on his own whether or not to enforce a law is that not tyranny? Cannot such an executive then decide to ignore all laws that he does not like and enforce only those that he does?

PDK: John Kitzhaber is all for abortion, government funded no less.

http://www.issues2000.org/John_Kitzhaber.htm

Endorsed by NARAL and Planned Parenthood. (Aug 2010)

Abortions always legally available, & government funded. (Nov 1998)

If a law is passed, it should be enforced. If it is a bad law, then it should be repealed by the legal process provided for that purpose. Selective enforcement by a supercilious tyrant sitting above the law should result in punishment for betraying the public trust. This should be true in America, but since it was democrats who put him into office, American values are naturally nullified.

Surprise, surprise !

Yet another dishonorable politician who doesn't

understand their Oath of Office but make it anyway

for whatever reason. "Monkey see, Monkey do "

A prominent example, which this Governor may be

following is that of our sitting POTUS who made

some mistake during his first attempt at the Oath,

went back and did it over again, and seems to have meant it neither time.

The "sacred honor" to which our Founders refer

is in short supply these latter days, evidently.

Any time an idiot liberal is quoted, Michael Moore would be the perfect brain-dead liberal to quote. A more disgusting individual has never been born. They always manage to quote the ten commandments in spite of the fact that most of them are agnostic, at best, and atheist at the worst.

Richard Ryan

Lamar,Missouri - Birthplace of Harry S Truman

"Former Florida Attorney General Robert L. Shevin succinctly presented the case for capital punishment:

'The human capacity for good and for compassion makes the death penalty tragic; the human capacity for evil and depraved behavior makes the death penalty necessary.'

"The constitutional framers disagreed upon what comprised cruel and unusual punishment. Some of them believed capital punishment itself was cruel and unusual:

'There were some significant voices at the time in favor of abolishing capital punishment. Some argued that the success of the new republic should depend upon the virtue of its citizens and not on their fear of a harsh penal code, which many saw as the hallmark of tyranny. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, declared that “capital punishments are the natural offspring of monarchical governments.” Even a conservative like Alexander Hamilton believed that “the idea of cruelty inspires disgust,” and that the death penalty undermined republican values and behavior.'

"The virtue of capital punishment was settled by Yahweh in His law long ago, but the debate over the death penalty rages on, thanks, in part, to the ambiguity of Amendment 8’s wording."

For more, see "Amendment 8: Bail, Fines and Cruel and Unusual Punishment" at http://www.missiontoisrael.org/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt17.php

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It's encouraging to me in these disparate times to finallt see someone who agrees with what I have advocated for most of my 72 yeras of life. If the penalty for a crime is death or life imprisonment. Simply left those who argue in favor of keeping the prisoner alive for life, pay for all his/her expense of incarceration. When contributions fot the prisoner's mauntenance fall belone the amount required, simply proceed with Plan A, execute. Abortion paid bt pro-choice advocates. No more money, no more abortions. Advocates would be included in a lottery and the next number drawn would pay directly for the next abortion. Maybe I should run for president.

Yet another squishy liberal democrat who has learned well from Obama. Law? What law?

I heard many years ago words that were attributed (quoted by Paul Harvey News) an Arkansas legislator. Seems to me like an unassailable argument: 'No one who ever suffered the death penalty ever killed anyone else'.

When the crime is clearly proven, and I mean clearly, the death penalty should be swift and sure.

The Oregon Govrenor, Mr. Kitzhaber has said that he won't use the death penalty. The detah penalty means what it is supposed to be, death for committing crimes like murder and any other crime that would be a crime punishable by death. By not using the death penalty against those that are sentenced to death for crimes, this shows that as a

state or its elected officials are soft on crime.

I understand there are anti death penalty groups that put pressure on elected officials. This was done in New Jersey. Their thinking is a person can kill another person but the state won't execute the killer. Convicted killers will kept in priosn for the rest of their natural lives. Mr. Kitzhaber is an elected official ands he has the duty to follwo through if the State of Oregon has a death penalty.He should be questioned as to why he isn't going to use the death penalty against those that are already sentenced to death. Soem criminals show or have no remorse for their crimes or for their victims, they are supposed to live their lives in prison while a decent person can only visit their loved at a cemetery? The logic of these people is ridiculuos and absurd. Then I say leat all these anti death penalty people be responsibel 24/7/365

for the criminals they are fighting for. I'm sure many of these anti death penalty people have never been face to face with someone who has killed innocent people in the past. The death penalty needs to be used against those that have committed crimes that are punishable by death. When the stakes rise to the point that committing a crime and the chances of being put to death for that crikme are high maybe criminals will think about what they are doing, and maybe they won't. The death penalty keeps those killers from killing anyone again. Mr. Kitzhaber should resign or be recaleld by the citizens of Oregon for his actions.