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so........people that have committed such heinous crimes are deserving of a "peaceful" death......to the point where the country goes out of it's way to alter the death penalty procedures?
A man murders and rapes somebody (in that order), and we are worried about how painful his 2-3 minute death might be? Am I the only one who sees the issue here?
No, you aren't the only one. It isn't like people don't know that murder is a crime and what the punishment is. It isn't like people don't realize what drug addiction can lead to. They are personally responsible for themselves.
I would stake him, spread eagle in the desert tied with wet rawhide. I could be negotiable on public hangings. You have to make it real. A lot of people on death row are there being fed, clothed and housed for 20 plus years and probably having access to illegal drugs and the free medical care and many never executed. Scary, not so much considering the life many live on the outside.
Isn't it ironic that some monster feels it is okay to inflict horrendous pain on another human being, yet when he will be punished for it, he wants a peaceful and quick way out? I can't even imagine the horror of being beaten to death with a hammer. This trash has been living off of our tax dollars for the last 21 years (years his victims did not get to have). He should be grateful he had that long instead of whining that he doesn't want to feel any pain.
The point would not be the discomfort to the person undergoing the procedure, but the example being offered to those who might be inclined to follow in his footsteps.
The idea of inflicting pain does not imply that one is taking 'joy' from it.
I would not be completely opposed to bringing back public executions, nor to bringing back things like public whippings for lesser crimes. I don't think the current system is working all that well.
I also think that prison should be a very unpleasant place to be- no libraries, no gyms, no 'yards', no TV, no books, no magazines, no windows, no visitors. Cells should be cold steel or stone, cramped (5' x 5' x 5'), solid doors (no bars); lousy, tasteless, boring 'food'; no communication with the outside world or even other prisoners, they should have absolutely nothing to do but ponder the circumstances of what got them there. At the end of their sentence, prisoners should come out weak and wasted and squinting at the sunlight they haven't seen for years, and a fierce determination not to do anything that will get them sent back there; not muscle-bound and brimming with new ideas for more and better crimes.
For some, it certainly *is*. In fact, I would argue that fear of pain/injury/immediate death is the *only* deterrent/limitation on the scope of their criminal activities.
I agree with everything you said, but am at odds with the bold part.
That kind of treatment leads to insanity (literally) and the released prisoners would not be able to reenter society. They'd be forced into mental words, possibly forever.
The general picture emerges of not much sympathy at all for this condemned fella …
Whatever pain he feels at execution will quickly be over … It's not he's going to have a terrible episode that will traumatize him for years to come ...
A Missouri inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life, claiming the execution drug could trigger severe pain and convulsions due to the remnants of a brain tumor and the damage caused by surgery to remove it.
Ernest Lee Johnson, 55, is scheduled to die Tuesday evening for using a claw hammer to kill three convenience store workers in central Missouri in 1994.
Okay lets put the drugs away and use a CLAW HAMMER to beat him to death just as he did his victims.
They shouldn't even waste the Court's time with this nonsense.
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I don't believe this.
