re: What are your views on the following issues?

Do you honestly think 12 random Americans are intelligent or sophisticated enough to determine whether a human being lives or dies? I sure as hell don't and I say that as a practicing attorney. Our Founders took the philosophies of Locke's social contract and Rousseau's will of the people and molded them with Montesquieu's separation of powers to create our current federalist system. If we are to sincerely adopt these philosophies, how can the State, whose existence is solely owed to the consent of the governed, tell the governed that murder is a crime, yet commit murder itself? This isn't even taking into account Blackstone's maxim. Humans make mistakes. You can't right a wrong with the death penalty. The fear of executing one innocent man is enough justification for its complete abolition.

Gay Marriage - Don't care. Let em marry

Abortion - Don't like but it's a lost cause

Gun Control - Against

Marijuana - Pro

Affirmative Action - Against

Death Penalty - Against

Obamacare - Against

Gay Marriage - Don't care

Abortion - Don't care

Gun Control - Against

Marijuana - Don't care

Affirmative Action - Don't care

Death Penalty - For

Obamacare - Against

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Do you honestly think 12 random Americans are intelligent or sophisticated enough to determine whether a human being lives or dies? I sure as hell don't and I say that as a practicing attorney. Our Founders took the philosophies of Locke's social contract and Rousseau's will of the people and molded them with Montesquieu's separation of powers to create our current federalist system. If we are to sincerely adopt these philosophies, how can the State, whose existence is solely owed to the consent of the governed, tell the governed that murder is a crime, yet commit murder itself? This isn't even taking into account Blackstone's maxim. Humans make mistakes. You can't right a wrong with the death penalty. The fear of executing one innocent man is enough justification for its complete abolition.

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The death penalty is capital punishment. Its about punishment for the most inhuman heinous crimes imaginable. It is about elimination of waste product from society so vile that destruction is warranted. I have zero problems with it if the accused is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt according to the law. Your comment relative to the 12 jurors is largely a conviction of of the judicial process of jury selection regarding choosing of a jury of ones peers. These 12 are by no means random. Anybody who has been called for jury duty will tell you that the attorneys vet these people thoroughly for sympathetic reasons. If your client still gets convicted, then the evidence likely is convicting. Not always, but almost always.

My only complaint about the death penalty is the pussification of it. This lethal injection stuff is nonsense. Gary Gilmore got shot. Cheap and Efficient. I like that.

And...Mr. lawyer, it shouldn't take 20 years on death row to execute a convicted killer. The folks in Singapore do it right. You get convicted, they hang you in the basement of the jail on the very next Friday morning. No muss, no fuss.

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The death penalty is capital punishment. Its about punishment for the most inhuman heinous crimes imaginable. It is about elimination of waste product from society so vile that destruction is warranted. I have zero problems with it if the accused is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt according to the law. Your comment relative to the 12 jurors is largely a conviction of of the judicial process of jury selection regarding choosing of a jury of ones peers. These 12 are by no means random. Anybody who has been called for jury duty will tell you that the attorneys vet these people thoroughly for sympathetic reasons. If your client still gets convicted, then the evidence likely is convicting. Not always, but almost always. My only complaint about the death penalty is the pussification of it. This lethal injection stuff is nonsense. Gary Gilmore got shot. Cheap and Efficient. I like that. And...Mr. lawyer, it shouldn't take 20 years on death row to execute a convicted killer. The folks in Singapore do it right. You get convicted, they hang you in the basement of the jail on the very next Friday morning. No muss, no fuss.

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Gay Marriage - Personally opposed, state's rights issue

Abortion - See above

Gun Control - Against

Marijuana - See 1 and 2

Affirmative Action - Against

Death Penalty - ambivalent

Obamacare - Against

Gay Marriage - For

Abortion - For

Gun Control - For

Marijuana - For

Affirmative Action - Against

Death Penalty - Against (it costs much more to litigate these issues rather than just let the offenders rot)

Obamacare - Half (let the seniors and children have healthcare; otherwise, work)

Damn, half of you hardcore conservatives would rather marijuana be legalized than allowing two consenting adults to get married.

And y'all bitch that the left is the sole problem causing body in this country

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Death Penalty - Largely for, but this needs to get back to basics. A bullet or hanging. Forget this lethal injection crap.

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THAT'S.NOT.HOW.THIS.frickING.WORKS.

We don't hang people in the street anymore. We don't gun them down against concrete walls with judicial permission.

God damnit man. God fricking damnit if you actually believe this.

We're no better than China and Iran if you truly desire this outcome for our most violent criminals.

I get that a principle of criminal law is "the punishment must fit the crime," but whatever happened to "you can judge a nation on how the government treats her citizens?"

Could you actually imagine an America where we hung offenders in the streets? Should we make the violent offenders writhe in pain? Should we play God and control the pain they receive? My god. It's not 1880 anymore. Move on.

God help us if people actually believe the things you just typed.

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This is the south we're talking about...

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I've spent the entirety of my life in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Being civilized isn't hard.