Sunday, December 07, 2025

Anti-death Penalty Conservatives

Anti-death Penalty Conservatives

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom

Preface

The alleged conservatives supporting death penalty repeal are either not conservative and/or use only anti-death penalty taking points, without fact checking and vetting, or hide that, as fully detailed (1).

So far, that is all I have found. I am happy to consider others.

All anti-death penalty claims rebutted here (1).

I was anti-death penalty until I fact checked and vetted both sides of the debate, for 2 years (1).
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Full Rebuttal: DEMETRIUS MINOR, National Manager, Conservatives Concerned About The Death Penalty (CCADP)

The CCADP is owned and controlled by Equal Justice USA, a well known liberal group, financed by George Soros and is a defund the police group.

Full Rebuttal: Hannah Cox, National Manager, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty

Few Conservatives Embrace Anti Death Penalty Deceptions

Rebuttal to Ron Paul at
Few Conservatives Embrace Anti Death Penalty Deceptions

Rebuttal to Richard A. Viguerie's "A conservative argues for abolishing the death penalty"
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/10/rebuttal-to-richard-vigueries-when.html

More rebuttal to Viguerie in the comment section, as
Dudley Sharp | January 27, 2010 3:32 AM | Reply

(Alleged conservative) Rep. McDugle is a Total Blank on Richard Glossip's "Actual Innocence" - Why?

Conservatives Concerned About The Death Penalty:
Just another dishonest anti death penalty group


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1) 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, or pretend that is the case. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.
 
The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)

600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
http://prodpquotes.info/ 
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Partial CV

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Academic Disaster: Law Professor Corinna Barrett Lain

Academic Disaster:  
U of Richmond, Law Professor Corinna Barrett Lain, U of Richmond Law Review, as other law reviews,  & U of Richmond School of Law: A Compilation
by Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, (pro) death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom

To all at U of Richmond, the book tours, law reviews and all others, as detailed in 1a,b,c, below and many, many more.
        
Preface

         With research, fact checking and vetting, very obvious and easy critical thinking one finds that Lain, only, included that which would promote an anti-death penalty script, which is how she, easily and constantly, left out everything which contradicted her book, as per her book tour and the book reviews. Obvious and, easily, confirmed, as throughout my writings and not rebutted. 
       Classic anti-death penalty FEMS (fraud, error and/or mis-directions), as detailed, the example the University is setting for their students and for academia.

       How did the University make it worse?:

       Instead of condemnation and correction,  The U of Richmond School of Law and Law Review doubled down with a public symposium "Advancing Abolition: Anti-Death Penalty Advocacy in Regressive Times" on Oct 3, 2025 featuring Profs Bergen and Lain, previously rebutted, as well known by those institutions.
     The ethics lesson for students and academia could not be worse. Intentional and obvious.
     Will the University right this ethics ship? By their example, they will sink it.

(If you would like me to rebut and/or clarify the symposium speakers, let me know where you will commit to publishing that, within the university's publications)

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There are a number of  groups dealing with ethics in academia, which I will review, later. I suggest U of Richmond work with them.
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1) Full rebuttal to Lain's book, as per her book tours and the book reviews:

Read, in order

a) edit update
The Untold Secrets of Prof. Corinna Lain
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-untold-secrets-of-prof-corinna-lain.html

b) edit update
Rebuttal of Lethal Injection "Expert", Corinna Lain

c) edit update
Rebuttal: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection

d) Media, Prof. Lain & Dr. Zivot Disaster:
Nitrogen Hypoxia & Scientific American

e) Dr. Joel Zivot - Anti-Death Penalty Activist: A Compilation
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/05/dr-joel-zivot-anti-death-penalty.html

f) Lethal Injection & Nitrogen Hypoxia: Controversies Resolved 

g)  No Pain in Lethal Injection, By Dudley Sharp,  Justice Matters, Dakota Voice, 8/24/2006

h) Veterinary Claims a Distortion of Reality: Human Lethal Injection

2) This, below, will be helpful, if fact checking and vetting is of interest in future death penalty topics and rebuts some of the other, non execution methods, references from Lain's book, book tour and book reviews:

       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, or act as if that is the case. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.  

a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research 
7 pro-death penalty experts included
c) 600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families & 3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history   http://prodpquotes.info/ 
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Partial CV

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Media Disaster: New Times: Another Anti-death Penalty Disaster

October 22, 2025, 7:48 am CST

To: Phoenix New Times  

bcc: retired federal Magistrate Judge David Duncan 
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes 
Gov. Katie Hobbs 
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell 
Arizona Criminal Justice Commission 
Board of Executive Clemency 
Prosecuting Attorney's Advisory Council (and staff) 
Dept. of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry 
media witness Hector Lagunas of Univision 
media witness Briana Whitney of Arizona’s Family 
media witness John Hook of Fox 10 
Department of Corrections deputy director John Barcello 
Arizona Media Association

Subject: Phoenix New Times: Another Anti-death Penalty Disaster  

RE: Arizona kills Djerf in second execution of Hobbs administration The state killed Richard Djerf, who murdered four members of a family in 1993. By Morgan Fischer, Phoenix New Times,  October 17, 2025

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 
832-439-2113, CV at bottom  

Preface  

Can journalists fail to fact check and vet, accidently? Of course not.  

The anti-death penalty movement is, fully, FEMS (Fraud, errors and/or mis-directions (1,2) ), as has been well known for decades, by those who fact check and vet. Sadly, on that topic, FEMS has infected both media and academia (1), as with the referenced.  
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Method: I quote New Times/Fischer and rebut as Sharp.

1) New Times/Fischer: "But death penalty experts warned before Djerf's execution that it could be far more painful than it appears. Both retired magistrate judge David Duncan— whom Hobbs fired before he could issue is final report on Arizona’s execution practices — and lethal injection expert Corinna Barrett Lain noted that prisoners who die by lethal injection with pentobarbital often suffer pulmonary edema while not fully anesthetized, meaning they painfully die as their lungs fill up with fluid."  

Sharp: Ludicrous. Had New Times fact checked, vetted and used critical thinking, there would be no doubt why Duncan was fired nor any doubt as to Lain's nonsense (3).  

2) New Times/Fischer: "Notably, a draft version of Duncan’s report suggested there was no humane and practical way to kill prisoners by lethal injection."  

Sharp: Ludicrous (3). Of course he was fired. ` 

3) New Times/Fischer: "After Wood's brutal death, . . . ". 

 Sharp: Ludicrous.

a) “(Joseph Woods' execution - Az) doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination (the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone),” said Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sibert was speaking on behalf of the California Society of Anesthesiologists." (No "Botched" Execution - Arizona (or Ohio), 
b) "No one who witnessed the execution has said Wood ever woke up. It simply took a long time for him to die."  (The Execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood was NOT botched, EJ Montini, columnist, azcentral.com, 7/24/2014)         
c) "In 1989, (Wood) hunted down and shot to death his former girlfriend, Debra Dietz, and her father, Eugene Dietz." "Debra Dietz's sister, Jeanne Brown, who was at the execution, said, 'Everybody here said (the execution) was excruciating. You don't know what excruciating is. Seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a pool of blood, that's excruciating.'  " (the Execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood was NOT botched, EJ Montini, columnist, azcentral.com, 7/24/2014).

How do articles like the referenced happen? Much compassion and concern for vicious murderers and little to none for their innocent victims, as detailed (4).

In Closing  

Necessary edit (IN CAPS) of the news editor:

News Editor Zach Buchanan: 

"If you value journalism THAT IS FACT CHECKED AND VETTED, please consider making a contribution to support our continued coverage of essential stories and to investigate issues, BOTH OF WHICH REQUIRE RESEARCH, FACT CHECKING, VETTING AND CRITICAL THINKING, WHICH WE WILL RESPONSIBLY APPLY AND DELIVER."  

It would be a major improvement. Therefore it won't happen. 

Nearly 70% of those polled trust media little or not at all. I am surprised it is so low.  

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1) 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, or act as if that is the case. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.  
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents  
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research  
7 pro-death penalty experts included  
Students: Death Penalty Research
c) 600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families & 
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history   http://prodpquotes.info/ 

2)  Partial CV  
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2021/08/partial-cv-dudley-sharp-independent.html

3) Read (and fact check, vet and use critical thinking)  in order:  

a) The Untold Secrets of Prof. Corinna Lain

b) Rebuttal of Lethal Injection "Expert", Corinna Lain

c) Rebuttal: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection

d) Media & Prof. Lain, Dr. Zivot,  Disaster:
Nitrogen Hypoxia & Scientific American

4)  30 Examples:
How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers More Than Their Innocent Victims
AKA - Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments
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