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I am totally against lethal injections or electrocution. And forget claw hammers.
As I've written before on this topic, the best way to handle something like this is on his last day put him in a body bag, take him to the top floor of a tall building and push him off.
A much more simple and civilized way to handle this issue. Cheap too.
My choice would be to release him, without police protection, at an advertised time and place. Then again that's what I wanted for Bernie Madoff.
I'm sure there'll be a least some glint of a smile when he's executed!
1994?
Incarceration costs run, with both direct and indirect costs, $40-50k a year, so we take his 21 years X $45k = $945k, albeit it's more expensive to put some on Death Row, so let's just round it off to $1M, altho' I've heard, in some states, putting someone on Death Row can cost over $3M!
And so whom were also "clobbered over the head with claw hammers" these past 21 years?
Just think what MO could have done with the Million! How about propping up some bridges that were ready to collapse or an old water main ready to burst!
If he did this under the influence of Crack, have mercy!
Shrug. We should endeavor to put these people down humanly. But I suspect this is a lot more about just not wanting to die. In which case....
"Awww what's wrong muffin? Does the mean society want you dead for killing others? Awwww"
We as a country don't torture people. If the death penalty becomes about putting someone to death in the most painful way possible then our government is no better than the murderer being executed.
The blood thirsty lust in this country to execute people painfully like this is really troublesome. What's next? Executing them publicly? Maybe bring back the guillotine? We could draw and quarter them on the steps of the Capitol and live stream it!
I am totally against lethal injections or electrocution. And forget claw hammers.
As I've written before on this topic, the best way to handle something like this is on his last day put him in a body bag, take him to the top floor of a tall building and push him off.
A much more simple and civilized way to handle this issue. Cheap too.
ISIS currently uses that execution methodology. For alleged homosexuals. But they don't use a body bag; the last three I saw were tied to plastic chairs and heaved off the building in front of a crowd that had been instructed to watch.
I was reading yesterday about Socrates's death in 399 BC. In ancient Greece they allowed the condemned man his choice of how he wanted to die. Socrates chose hemlock. That plant contains coniine, which paralyzed his respiratory tract.
Maybe we should do that now, and save the Supreme Court's time. Give the condemned man a choice of five or six methodologies, and then carry out his, er... wishes. Forthwith.
We as a country don't torture people. If the death penalty becomes about putting someone to death in the most painful way possible then our government is no better than the murderer being executed.
The blood thirsty lust in this country to execute people painfully like this is really troublesome. What's next? Executing them publicly? Maybe bring back the guillotine? We could draw and quarter them on the steps of the Capitol and live stream it!
It might be better if more such people died during the arrest.
I will say that I do find it strange that the state uses lethal injection specifically because it is supposed to be a humane way to die, yet there have been reports in the past that the particular drugs involved actually create a lot of pain and discomfort before death. If a humane death is really the motivation behind this execution method, why not use the same drugs they use to put our pets to sleep, or something similar? That tends to be a pretty peaceful process. If we are looking for a painful way to execute people, there are a lot more fun and spectacular ways of doing it than lethal injection.
The blood thirsty lust in this country to execute people painfully like this is really troublesome. What's next? Executing them publicly? Maybe bring back the guillotine? We could draw and quarter them on the steps of the Capitol and live stream it!
Actually, the guillotine is pretty painless and quick.
We do execute most inmates "publicly". There are witnesses there.
Draw and quarter is a bit rough, I'll admit. As is tar and feathering.
I'm not sure why we can't just have a shooting squad - all but one has blanks, so no one knows who really delivered the fatal shot.
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