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Henry0Reilly
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I think we should permit persons accused of capital crimes the option of voluntary overdose, a cup of hemlock, if you will. Some would use this option and save us $ and a lot of hassle.
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Semper Fi
Remember Ruby Ridge.
Experience is the best teacher and usually charges accordingly.
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Even when there is over whelming evidence of guilt captial trials and prison space costs money we could be spending other places. Which is more important, revenge or being done with a given criminal once and for all?
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Remember Ruby Ridge.
Experience is the best teacher and usually charges accordingly.
As to the first question, lump it into the second question and when found guilty let them face swift just justice. As to the third question, we need to be as concerned or even more concerned with what is going on in our own back yard than what could be going on with other nations.
When I was in China there was a man who had no hands begging for money. I went to give him some but my interruptor told me not to! I asked why and she told me that being both hands were cut off and by a brand he had near the stumps of both arms, the man was a person who had committed a horrible crime. She would not or could not explain what the crime was so I did not press the issue! That incident sparked a conversation as to what China does to their criminals. She and her boyfriend (who was a captain in the Peoples Army) told me that most terrible crimes were punished by death. They would shoot the criminal in the back of the head. There is a short appeal process and as they told me some have been released on appeal but it was rare. I did notice that crime was low in Beijing and I reckon the swift justice was a deterrent? While I was there I was able to see a exhibit that most outsiders never get to see. It was about the drug trade and it showed graphicly what they did to people who dealt with drugs in any way. It was an eye opener!
I for one am in favor of swift public executions!
"we are but men... no more, no less..."
"Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
However, regardless of the method ... just get it done. This endless appeals process that costs millions of taxpayer dollars just isn't the way to go.
Have innocent people been executed ... yes I am sure they have, but is the percentage of innocent lives lost anywhere near the percentage that manage to avoid their sentence?
Now the next questions you might ask ... would I feel that way if it were me and I were the innocent person, well you can bet I wouldn't like it, but if the system were changed I wouldn't have a lot of time to onager about it either, would I?
If you only have time to do two things so-so, or one thing well ... do the one thing!
Seems real simple to me. Do the job in a sterile OR. Take him down, remove the organs, leave him down, unplug. Simple, painless, and of inestimable benefit.
It might make the condemned feel that they are doing something as their last act to partially atone for their sins.
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"Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
"I dont care how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides"
"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows.
That stuff is bad, worked in a Mill that Proccessed raw timber to Boards. Get a splinter on day next Morning it was infected.
Give the condemned a thorough medical examination. Make sure his organs are in good condition and that he has no communicable diseases. When it is time for him to die, put him to sleep with an anesthetic that won't harm any organs. While he is asleep, or actually dead, if general anesthesia is used, harvest any useable organs. Then leave him asleep.
I don't really care if this is done with the condemned prisoner's consent.
Seems to me that if a feller had any remorse about his crimes, this would be a way for him to feel as though he had partially atoned for them.
Seems to me that if a feller had any remorse about his crimes, this would be a way for him to feel as though he had partially atoned for them.Why not drain some of their blood every month or so? That fills a need.
And then, when execution time comes, drain it all out and harvest the organs. [;)]
As thee kill, so shall ye be killed.
The idea of killing these people and causing no pain is no deterrant, most of these guys have no real care if they live or die, there only thoughts are to cause as much aggrivation to the familys of there victims as possible, for as long as possible. If we take there life in the same manner that they used, then maybe we would have fewer horrific murders.
I'd be willing to bet that there would be no shortage of people willing to carry out the appropiate punishments.
I guess that means, that I litterly believe in an eye for an eye.
Too easy,, I for one am for stringing em up like they did 50 yrs ago, put the rope around the neck and then hoist em up, no drop to break the neck, just slow squeezing from the rope, dancing a jig as the life is squeezed out of em, sometimes can take up to 10 or 15 minutes.[}:)][}:)][}:)]
And when folks stood on the ground and watched it happen, it put a pretty strong deterant in their minds of committing capital crimes.[;)]
Allow them to volunteer for Cosmetics research, vaccine incubators, medical studies, Insulin production, Bone and Skin Graft Donors, whatever is useful.
Then make fertilizer or fuel out of what is left. Feed the ones awaiting death with the food grown from the fertilizer.
HIV/Aids inmates and those who are not candidated for donation go directly to Fuel Production program, running and maintaining it until they die, then they become fuel.
Hmmm - maybe Soylent Green wasn't such a bad idea - make Soylent Green, and ship it out to those countries that need "Foreign Aid"!
Seems real simple to me. Do the job in a sterile OR. Take him down, remove the organs, leave him down, unplug. Simple, painless, and of inestimable benefit.
What about the un-exorcised deamons inside those organs?
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