Originally sent Oct. 15, 2024
To: LETTERS or OP/ED, National Catholic Reporterbcc: The Catholic Mobilization Network, their
Leadership, Board of Directors & Advisory Council
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RE: After 200th death row exoneration, it's time to end death penalty, OpinionGuest Voices, by Ralph McCloud, Vice Chair of the Board, Catholic Mobilization Network (CMN), National Catholic Reporter, October 10, 2024
Subject: Is The Catholic Mobilization Network a Lying Institution or . . . ?
Method: Sharp is my response to the quotes, in order, from the referenced article.
1) these two go together
a) CMN Editor's note: "Today, Oct. 10, is the 22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty. According to the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP), the
Subject: Is The Catholic Mobilization Network a Lying Institution or . . . ?
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
I will let the readers decide the answer to that subject question.day is "dedicated to challenging the misconception that the death penalty can
make people and communities safer."
b) McCloud/CMN: "After 200th death row exoneration, it's time to end death penalty" " . . . exonerations continue to pile up and the serious risk of taking an innocent life persists."
Sharp: a) For any serious and responsible person, within the death penalty debate, they are aware of the massive frauds within death penalty opponents claims of the "innocent"/"exonerated" from death row. (1). Richard Dieter, from CMN's board, can confirm that, if you are, somehow, unaware and he wishes to tell you the truth. To be sure, visit my fact checking, with all sources, as well (1).
Starting in 1998, ani-death penalty persons told us that only 50% of their claims of "innocence"/"exoneration", from death row, were proven (1). As time went on that fraud percentage has grown to 71-83% (1), depending upon review, which means a 99.6% accuracy rate in guilty findings, with the 0.4%, proven factually innocent released, very likely the most accurate of all sanctions, as one would predict for the only sanction with super due process.
8) McCloud/CMN: " (execution) completely eliminates any possibility of penance and atonement?"
Do you ever hear the anti-death penalty religious say that murderers do that exact same thing to their victims? Of course not. Why? Because they are worried about the murderers, not the innocents murdered (3), as they tell us, constantly (2,3).
9) McCloud/CMN: "even when the flaws are glaring, courts are often loath to redress them."
Sharp: The reality is that the courts, always, address any glaring flaws, but may not resolve them to the satisfaction of everyone, very well known, as detailed, throughout this writing.
10) McCloud/CMN: "The only way to ensure that this country doesn't execute any more innocent people is to end the death penalty once and for all."
Sharp: "Any more"? We MIGHT have proof of innocents executed, as recently as 1915. Big MIGHT. Who are the additional, if any, after you fact check and vet (1), please.
What about these innocents?
Which, knowing that rape, robberies and other assaults are 7 times the number, of murders, we have this . . .
These are just from one country and are the cases which Pope John Paul II called "very rare if not practically non-existent.” . . . utterly absurd, with, seemingly, no concern for the innocents (11) or he, never, would have said it.
Possibly, we MIGHT have proof of innocents executed, as recently as 1915.
Note that Pope Francis wants to end the death penalty, life imprisonment and solitary confinement, meaning even more innocents harmed and murdered, as he must know or
b) McCloud/CMN: "After 200th death row exoneration, it's time to end death penalty" " . . . exonerations continue to pile up and the serious risk of taking an innocent life persists."
Sharp: a) For any serious and responsible person, within the death penalty debate, they are aware of the massive frauds within death penalty opponents claims of the "innocent"/"exonerated" from death row. (1). Richard Dieter, from CMN's board, can confirm that, if you are, somehow, unaware and he wishes to tell you the truth. To be sure, visit my fact checking, with all sources, as well (1).
Dieter, the one time head of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), made this fraud one of the worst deceptions, among many, (1a), in activism history.
What DPIC did was obvious . . . they redefined both innocent and exoneration, as if they redefined lie as truth, and, then, stuffed a bunch of cases into those perverse definitions (1), as you can confirm, right now, easily, on DPIC's website, if you are interested.
This is not in dispute. It is an, easily, confirmable fact (1).
How is it that CMN is unaware of this and for how long?
Can a responsible person, involved in a major public policy debate, not fact check, not vet and not use critical thinking, accidently? Of course not.
b) There are six ways in which the death penalty/executions protect and save innocents
to a higher degree than does a life sentence (2), the expected opposite of what WCADP
stated.
These facts alone should prove the death penalty is necessary, if saving more innocent lives is a concern. Then we have anti-death penalty folks telling us that we must save all murderers lives, even when they know that will sacrifice more innocents (2,3).
Sharp: a) Ineffective?: 1600 murderers have been executed. The death penalty/executions save and protect innocent lives, in six ways, better than does a life sentence (2,3)
c) Racism: "White murderers are twice as likely to be executed as are black murderers. From 1977-2012, white death row murderers have been executed at a rate 41% higher than are black death row murderers, 19.3% vs 13.7%, respectively. "There is no race of the offender / victim effect at either the decision to advance a case to penalty hearing or the decision to sentence a defendant to death given a penalty hearing." For the White–Black comparisons, the Black level is 12.7 times greater than the White level for homicide, 15.6 times greater for robbery, 6.7 times greater for rape; For the Hispanic- White comparison, the Hispanic level is 4.0 times greater than the White level for homicide, 3.8 times greater for robbery, 2.8 times greater for rape; For the Hispanic–Black comparison, the Black is 3.1 times greater than the Hispanic level for homicide, 4.1 times greater for robbery, 2.4 times greater for rape. (all within fn 5).
d) "severe mental illnesses, intellectual disabilities and brain injuries": These are, all. reviewed, objectively and judicially, within pre-trial hearings, within the trial, with experts, on both sides and/or, then, by 4-5 separate layers of both state and federal courts, within appeals, direct and habeas, over a 5-30 year period and, finally, within the executive branch of government which considers pardon, commutation or clemency, with the greatest of protections, at every stage, which has become known as super due process, reviewed in detailed, much more, here (6), inclusive, that to get the death penalty, jurors must answer 36-48 questions against the defendant/convicted party, unanimously, 36-0 or 48-0, 100%, to give the death penalty, with only 1 vote needed, 1-35 or 1-47, 3-2%, in favor of the defendant/convicted party, to avoid the death penalty and get life instead, very likely, the most anti-democratic vote in a democratic republic, with, only, Florida, somewhat, giving democracy a nod, allowing a 9-3 vote to give the death penalty, in the punishment phase, with unanimity still required in the guilty/not guilty stage, meaning an 8-4 vote, still allows a 33% vote to overwhelm the 67% . . . somehow overlooked by McCloud/CMN.
3) McCloud/CMN: "The Catholic Church believes the death penalty violates the sanctity of life, and that every human being is created in the image of God, giving them inherent dignity. According to the church, that dignity is never lost, even if someone commits a serious crime."
4) McCloud/CMN: "Research also shows that nearly 80% of Catholics are open to supporting legislation to abolish the death penalty, believing that today's world offers many ways to address crime and violence without resorting to more killing."
Sounds like an honest presentation. Let's do it. I am ready . . . and you? I know.
5) McCloud/CMN: "Evidence shows the death penalty is no more effective than imprisonment in deterring murder and that it may even be an incitement to criminal violence."
"(Becker) is the most important social scientist in the past 50 years (NY Times, 5/5/14)
b) McCloud/CMN writes, "(the death penalty/executions) may even be an incitement to criminal violence."
The problem is that anti-death penalty folks neglect the entire study (9), which shows that the deterrent effect is much more powerful than the brutalization effect (9), which, likely, surprises no one.
6) McCloud/CMN: "Death-penalty states don't have lower rates of criminal homicide than non-death-penalty states."
Sharp: Untrue. Some do, most don't, presenting the obvious, that gross murder rates is no way to indicate deterrence. For example, if Iceland and its capital Reykjavík have the lowest crime and murder rates in the world, does that mean that no criminals are deterred, by laws, law enforcement and sanctions, in all other countries? Of course not. In all countries, some criminals are and some are not deterred by laws, law enforcement and sanctions, known as society's self-defense. Is CMN unaware?
Sharp: Complete utter nonsense, as known for 24 years. Based upon a neutral source,
2) McCloud/CMN: " . . . the system is also ineffective and costly and is too often
unevenly applied to Black and brown people, as well as those with severe mental
illnesses, intellectual disabilities and brain injuries."
b) Costly?: How does CMN not fact check nor vet for twenty years? Easily,
it seems. Read California, Nebraska, Nevada and Maryland, first, then, move on (4).
As robbery/murders and rape/murders are, by far, the most common death
penalty eligible murders, the multiples will be even greater, as one would expect.
e) deception: What death penalty opponents, often, do is to use only the
murderers side of the case and do not speak of the judicial opinions of the courts. Pay
attention to those opinions and not the arguments put forward by the advocates of either
side or non-judicial third parties.
3) McCloud/CMN: "The Catholic Church believes the death penalty violates the sanctity of life, and that every human being is created in the image of God, giving them inherent dignity. According to the church, that dignity is never lost, even if someone commits a serious crime."
Sharp: For 2000 years, prior, the Church found what God found, that murder violated the
sanctity of life and that it was the murderer, who, threw his own dignity away, with his
own free will. Now, the Church states murderers are, always, dignified.
What is, additionally, hard to fathom is how the Church has been contradicting both fact
and reason, within her own CCC, with both Her 1997 and 2018 amendments, for 27 years
(7a), and still does, with seemingly no awareness, whatsoever. Why and how?
4) McCloud/CMN: "Research also shows that nearly 80% of Catholics are open to supporting legislation to abolish the death penalty, believing that today's world offers many ways to address crime and violence without resorting to more killing."
Sharp: We are all aware how misinformation, like McCloud/CMN's, can sway people,
with CMN, DPIC and many other anti-death penalty groups using that very, very well (8),
for decades, what I call FEMS, fraud, error and/or misdirections, with all of those,
corrected, here (8). The only question is whether CMN has done that knowingly, as the
others, or just with incredibly ignorance, for 20 years.
How would Catholics react if they knew that you had presented
misinformation, you confessed it, with correction and then presented both
sides of the death penalty debate, inclusive of the 7 pro death penalty
experts, below, combined with 7 anti-death penalty experts, of your
choosing.
Sharp: a) Nobel Prize Laureate (Economics) Gary Becker:
“the evidence of a variety of types — not simply the quantitative evidence — has been
enough to convince me that capital punishment does deter and is worth using for the
worst sorts of offenses.” (NY Times, 11/18/07)
Among other proofs (2), Becker was alluding to the, at least, 24 US based studies
finding for death penalty/execution deterrence, since 1997, (2) with those studies more
credible than their critics (2). Have the deterrent effects of the most serious sanctions or
the most severe negative incentives, ever, been negated? Of course not. They cannot be
(2). Nor does anyone doubt that life is preferred over death and that death is feared more
than life. What we prefer more, deters less. What we fear more, deters more. Rationally
unchallenged (2).
Sharp: This, likely, is a reference to the Shepherd study (9), whereby it showed a
brutalization effect, meaning because of the death penalty, there were more murders.
Over the study period, Prof. Shepherd found 1672 net innocent lives were saved by
deterrence, that the number of lives saved would be higher with more executions and
that if we increase executions, in all states, to, at least, one execution every two years,
we will have a huge increase in deterrence, meaning more innocents saved, with all states
having a death penalty deterrent effect and the brutalization effect goes away.
6) McCloud/CMN: "Death-penalty states don't have lower rates of criminal homicide than non-death-penalty states."
7) McCloud/CMN: " . . . most death penalty trials are found to be significantly flawed,
which leads to 68% of death sentences being overturned."
the death penalty overturning error rate, for that period, is 30% and, likely, lower (10).
The 68% study was destroyed, almost instantly, when published in 2000 (10),
24 years ago. McCloud/CMN?
8) McCloud/CMN: " (execution) completely eliminates any possibility of penance and atonement?"
Sharp: Biblically, theologically and rationally misleading and impossible and you are not
even aware?! The religious are aware that no matter what death we may suffer, we must
pay our penance and reach atonement, prior to our death, no matter what our death may
be.
Based upon McCloud's/CMN's bit of nonsense, one would think that the religious
anti-death penalty folks would blame God for taking away our time for penance and
atonement, because we all die because of our sin, which is the logical extension of their
idiocy, where they pick out, only, one death, when all deaths fall under the same cloud,
not understanding that God gives us all the time we need to accomplish what we will,
prior to our deaths, biblically, well known, but not by McCloud/CMN!? Really?
Since 1973:
20,000 ADDITIONAL innocents have been murdered by those KNOWN murderers that
we allowed to murder, again - recidivist murderers (11):
500,000 ADDITIONAL innocents have been murdered by those KNOWN criminals that
we have allowed to harm, again, recidivist criminals (11):
3.5 million ADDITIONAL innocents have been raped, robbed or, otherwise, assaulted by
those KNOWN criminals that we have allowed to harm, again - recidivist criminals. (11).
These are just from one country and are the cases which Pope John Paul II called "very rare if not practically non-existent.” . . . utterly absurd, with, seemingly, no concern for the innocents (11) or he, never, would have said it.
What criminal justice practices condemn the most innocents? Does CMN care (3)? Of
course, they care about the murderers, only (3), otherwise they would have reviewed all
of this, publicly, prior.
based upon EV (1995) and the amended 1997/2018 CCC 2267 maybe he didn't even give it a thought.
11) McCloud/CMN: " . . . we can keep society safe while honoring the humanity of every person and advancing forms of justice that enable healing and redemption."
Sharp: a) We know that with the death penalty/executions that we are safer (2) and that today's criminal justice systems sacrifice countless innocents (11), just as Pope John Paul II knew in 1995 (12), just as the Church did in 1997 and 2018 (7), as it is impossible not to know.
The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
In Closing
If the anti-death penalty norm, NCR, CMN and the Church will care, very much, not to let their flock know any of this, as with:
"Rebel Nun" - Dishonest/Dishonorable Sister Prejean Documentary?
BISHOPS HIDE TRUTH FROM THEIR FLOCK: DEATH PENALTY
Catholic Bishops: So Wrong on Death Penalty
FN
1) The Death Row "Exonerated"/"Innocent" Frauds
Well Known Since 1998
1a) Media Disaster: C-Span & The Death Penalty Information Center -
b) we all must be healed and redeemed, prior to any death and expiation, within
execution, may be helpful in that regard, for some criminals, as detailed:
The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
In Closing
BISHOPS HIDE TRUTH FROM THEIR FLOCK: DEATH PENALTY
Catholic Bishops: So Wrong on Death Penalty
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1) The Death Row "Exonerated"/"Innocent" Frauds
71-83% Error Rate in Death Row "Innocent" Claims,
1a) Media Disaster: C-Span & The Death Penalty Information Center -
Deconstruction of DPIC
2a) The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives
2b) Deterrence, Death Penalties & Executions
Deterrence, Death Penalties & Executions
3) 30 Examples: How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers
More Than Their Innocent Victims
AKA - Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments
Death Penalty Opponents Value Murderers More Than Innocent Victims
4) Saving Costs with The Death Penalty
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/02/death-penalty-cost-saving-money.html
2a) The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives
2b) Deterrence, Death Penalties & Executions
Deterrence, Death Penalties & Executions
3) 30 Examples: How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers
More Than Their Innocent Victims
AKA - Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments
Death Penalty Opponents Value Murderers More Than Innocent Victims
4) Saving Costs with The Death Penalty
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/02/death-penalty-cost-saving-money.html
5) RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS
6) Texas Death Penalty Procedures
and
Both the guilty & the innocent have the greatest protections
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-death-penalty-neither-arbitrary-nor.html
7) a) The Catholic Church & The Death Penalty
12 (14) Factual Errors: 2018 CCC 2267 amendment
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2022/02/7-factual-errors-2018-ccc-2267-amendment.html
Religion & The Death Penalty
ProDPinNC: Religion & The Death Penalty
8) Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-death-penalty-justice-saving-more.html
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
Students: Death Penalty Research
600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
http://prodpquotes.info/
9) Brutalization & The Death Penalty: More Support for the Deterrent Effect
ProDPinNC: BRUTALIZATION & THE DEATH PENALTY
10) Liebman's "A Broken System" - A Broken Study
ProDPinNC: Liebman's "A Broken System" - A Broken Study
11) Catechism & State Protection: The Gross Negligence of the Holy See
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/10/catechi-state-protection.html
12) Saint/Pope John Paul II marks the beginning of the Catholic Church's disastrous anti-death penalty run, 1995 forward, intentionally, avoiding the most basic of reason, research, fact checking and vetting, as detailed, throughout and fn 7.
Pope John Paul II: His death penalty errors
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6) Texas Death Penalty Procedures
and
THE DEATH PENALTY: LEAST ARBITRARY & CAPRICIOUS:
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-death-penalty-neither-arbitrary-nor.html
7) a) The Catholic Church & The Death Penalty
12 (14) Factual Errors: 2018 CCC 2267 amendment
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2022/02/7-factual-errors-2018-ccc-2267-amendment.html
b) more here
ProDPinNC: Religion & The Death Penalty
8) Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
Students: Death Penalty Research
600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
9) Brutalization & The Death Penalty: More Support for the Deterrent Effect
ProDPinNC: BRUTALIZATION & THE DEATH PENALTY
10) Liebman's "A Broken System" - A Broken Study
ProDPinNC: Liebman's "A Broken System" - A Broken Study
11) Catechism & State Protection: The Gross Negligence of the Holy See
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/10/catechi-state-protection.html
12) Saint/Pope John Paul II marks the beginning of the Catholic Church's disastrous anti-death penalty run, 1995 forward, intentionally, avoiding the most basic of reason, research, fact checking and vetting, as detailed, throughout and fn 7.
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and South Bend Tribune and AWAKE
