He may be most familiar as Greg Sumner in the nighttime soap, Knotâs Landing, but before that he starred in the TV docudrama about the Cuban missile crisis, The Missiles of October (1974). He can claim a close tie to another U.S. president through his father, who had been a chauffeur for Governor Franklin Roosevelt.Martin Sheen, who would also appear as John F. Kennedy in another film (see below), played Robert Kennedy in this same production.Devane wasnât through dramatizing Kennedy family members, however. He played John âBlack Jackâ Bouvier, Jacqueline Kennedyâs father, in a TV miniseries, A Woman Named Jackie (1991).evane wasnât through dramatizing Kennedy family members, however. He played John âBlack Jackâ Bouvier, Jacqueline Kennedyâs father, in a TV miniseries, A Woman Named Jackie (1991).
Capital punishment is immoral and a violation of natural rights. It is wrong for everyone involved: the prosecuted innocent, criminals, victimsâ families, and our nation.umans, as a species, are famous for their mistakes. However, in the case of the death penalty, error becomes too dangerous a risk. The innocent lives that have been taken with the approval of our own government should be enough to abolish capital punishment.
The death penalty is a waste of taxpayer funds and has no public safety benefit. The vast majority of law enforcement professionals surveyed agree that capital punishment does not deter violent crime; a survey of police chiefs nationwide found they rank the death penalty lowest among ways to reduce violent crime.oreover, the death penalty could be defended on narrowly retributive grounds only for the crime of murder, and not for any of the many other crimes that have frequently been made subject to this mode of punishment (rape, kidnapping, espionage, treason, drug trafficking).