Amelia
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The fact that the ratio of poor to wealthy people that commit capitol crimes is likely 10,000 to one makes it very unlikely that rich people will be even charged in a death penalty case.
Yes, the wealthy do kill, but it's more likely a Phil Spector type case, where the crime doesn't meet the criteria for the death penalty. The O.J. Simpson case could have met the criteria, but, well his defense team turned the trial into an indictment of Detective Furman and he skated,
Should we make sentences for murder convictions like income tax so that rich people pay at a higher rate. Should we institute an earned income murder credit for killers below the poverty line?
Well, since you ask .... the government taking a person's life is far more serious than the government taking a person's money. Much higher standards should apply. It's obscene that rich people can intimidate DA's into plea deals for crimes for which poor people feel the full measure of the law. Since the gov't has demonstrated that it cannot administer the death penalty fairly, the gov't should not be killing its citizens.
In this citizen's opinion.