Lethal Injection Under Fire Again

[Roland]

That point is far from nonsense.  Crime has been shown to correlate with poverty, it is an empirically verifiable statistical fact.

Right... Because impoverished people commit murder because their poor. That truly helps them get ahead in life. It surely puts food on their cardboard table, and blankets over their shoulders.

I love it when someone brings up the connection between poverty and crime, especially in a discussion involving the death penalty. Find me statistical data that proves a significant (hell, ANY) correlation between poverty and murder. Go ahead. Then you can pull that BS argument in this discussion. Until then, it's a straw man. A distraction. A zero value added post.

Stealing is not a crime punishable by death, anywhere in the U.S. that I know of. Murder and rape of some of the only crimes punishable by death. The order of magnitude between the two is so astounding it amazes me you can even attempt to draw a line connecting them.

This discussion is convoluted enough. Let's not make it any worse, ok?