Survey finds death penalty lacks votes among legislators (MN)

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http://www.startribune.com/stories/468/4253249.html">Minneapolis Star Tribune Poll

MINNEAPOLIS - A death penalty bill would almost certainly fail if it were brought to a vote before the Minnesota Legislature now, according to a newspaper poll.

More than half the members of both the GOP-controlled House and DFL-led Senate told the newspaper last week that they oppose reinstating capital punishment in general, the Star Tribune reported Sunday.

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[La_Serpiente]

1. Fix the link

put this in

www.startribune.com/stories/468/4253249.html

and why do Republicans want to kill everyone???

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. "and why do Republicans want to kill everyone???"

Interesting question.

My experience is that the repukes seem to attract that class of people that seem to feel that every transgression against them, or their worldview, can best be remediated by the simple phrase "They needed killin'". I suppose it has something to do with some tragically skewed and misshapen idea of what entails personal empowerment. Perhaps. Or, perhaps that due to to the fact that there is just more people in the USA these days, there is, statistically, more people who would once have been called, before the genesis of the DSM-IV, psychopaths and are now called sociopaths.

Any way you slice it, they seem to be attracted, like flies to a steaming turd, to the repukes. I suspect that is because the repukes reflexively offer the least-challenging, lowest-common-denominator resolutions to some of our society's most challenging questions. In this way, they offer one-size-fits-all empowerment to those who need empowerment most, or crave it most. In truth, it's dominance/submission writ large, without the complicated and hard to care for leather accoutrement.

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3. Hah! Take that, Pawlenty, you opportunistic skunk!

[DemonFighterLives]

4. Forward to the past

First they got the handgun bill passed last year and now this. Soon this will be like the old west. Hang em high! Abolished in 1911. Sheesh, forget about it already.