News: Capital Punishment In Florida

Commute the Death Sentence of Martin Grossman So That This Case Does Not Make a Mockery of Capital Punishment The Florida clemency board, which consists of Gov. Crist, Attorney General Bill McCollum, CFO Alex Sink and Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson, would do well in commuting Martin Grossman's scheduled execution. Governor Crist's opp

...It’s said by some that capital punishment laws don’t deter murderers. I would say a blunderbuss or a .357 magnum or a Remington 870 shotgun legally in the hands of Floridians would work wonders in convincing lowlives to work in Mickey D’s rather than risk their mortality by criminal acts.Florida enacted legislation legalizing . . .

A Florida House Committee is trying to get a bill passed that would require women to take mug shots of the offending tyke before having them vacuumed out. The idea is that it is unfair to the pictorial process that other capital punishment victims go through to allow these fetuses to ’skirt’ the ordeal.

Pedro Luis Medina was a Cuban refugee who was executed in Florida for the murder of a former teacher; the circumstances of his execution elevated objections to the use of electrocution as a means of capital punishment.

As Florida and California mull their policy on capital punishment (via lethal injection), the topic of the death penalty is reviewed in its political, societal, religious, and even philosophical aspects — including the opinion of J.S. Mill. Do the cases in California and Florida bare some significance to human rights in America? Do they matter?

With executions on hold in California and Florida, it's time to take a look at the whole idea of capital punishment.