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Two death row this month
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Complaining the electric car is cruel.
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Priceless!
Need way more...
With only one appeal allowed.
...Texas has used lethal injection for awhile now...I liked the electric chair better...always figured that, would make the walking dead inmate get REALLY schizo at least a few days before they fried...all they feel with a lethal injection is the prick of the needle...
SC going with firing squad. Just have to figure out how to do it.
This is the way they do it in Yemen. Tie the hands and feet, put them on a rug, get a few guys with AK's to shoot them in the back. Then they roll up the rug and away your go and they do it publicly. These guys raped a young boy and then killed him.
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Refat, 28, and Khaled, 31, were condemned for the abduction, rape, and murder of a young boy who was snatched after playing next to the house of one of the men.
The pair reportedly dragged him into their home and raped him.
When sentencing the pair, It was reported that the judge said: “After the rape, they could not silence the cries of the child who begged for help, one of them grabbed a knife and cracked his neck.”
This took place just a few days ago in Northern Yemen which is controlled by the Iranian backed Houthis.
The electric car is cruel??
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I think the electric chair is kind of cruel. It doesn't bother me thats its cruel but yea I would say its cruel.
Here are my thoughs of capital punishment:
There are a few more I could think of but that is a start.
I think executions should be public, not on TV but public. I think hanging should be brought back.
Capital punishment is final...........who cares if the method is cruel?
Electric chair, firing squad, lethal injection, gas chamber, stoning, hanging, impaling, flailing................what does it matter? It is capital and final.
The convicted person deserves to die according to the law.......and according to the crime committed.....why should the death be EASY?
There is a real easy and cheap method (maybe not with today's ammo prices)................a .22 LR in the temple or base of the skull. Even with inflated ammo prices it would only cost $0.10.
I am not for capitol punishment and it is a shame mankind has to use it.But there are people that have committed crimes against other people that are so horrible that I dont know of any alternative other than capitol punishment.What ever method used is up to people smarter than me.
I could adjudicate the case for $0.06 ..............
In my opinion, the form of capital punishment should fit the crime. If the POS shot and killed someone, he should be shot. If she poisoned her husband, that's how she should go. And there should be a limitation of 6 months between conviction and execution.
Many years ago two 14-year old kids murdered my wife's grandparents and great aunt in their home. They told their friends they wanted to see what it's like to kill someone. That's it. That was their motive.
My late mother in law formed a victims advocacy group and got the law changed so juveniles could be tried as adults, and so victims of crime could be involved in the process. The two youth were examined by psychiatrists and found to have the mental capacity to understand right from wrong, so they were tried as adults. Both received life sentences.
You'd think that would be the end of it, right? Oh no. Not at all. Every time a new finding occurs in the States these two convicts agitate and say it applies to their case, and our wounds are opened again. We have to go to court and listen to the public defenders describe them as upstanding residents of the penal system and how they really should be free.
Then Netflix got wind of them and did a series about Murder Below Zero and tried to plead their case. Again our wounds were torn open.
Every time some new public defender wants to earn their wings and make a name for themself, we go through this again and our wounds are torn open.
Last Spring one of the two was eligible for parole. We started a mass campaign of letter writing to the parole board and the citizens got to respond. But we still had to go to the prison and sit in a room with the man that killed my wife's most treasured Grampa and Gramma and Auntie, and make eye contact with that SOB and do everything in our power to NOT jump over the barrier and kill him with our own bare hands. WE were the ones that had to maintain self control and he will go right on writing complaints and asking to be released, and every fricken time we have to have our wounds torn open again.
Some "life sentence" eh? We are serving it right alongside this waste of good oxygen.
The Innocence Project, & similar initiatives, have shown that many of those convicted of terrible crimes were really innocent. We have too many crooked police, crooked DA's, & jailhouse snitches, who lie to gullible jurors to clear open cases. We have executed too many innocent people to continue using the death penalty.
If you have never been behind prison bars, you can't understand that a life sentence may be greater punishment than the death penalty. You awaken every day to the clanging of steel doors; the prisons I've been in are always cold, from the concrete floors & walls. It's a terrible way to live.
Besides, endless appeals cost the taxpayers millions over the years for each death penalty case.
Neal
You know what's a terrible way to live? Watching your lovely young wife, eyes full of life and hope, happiness surrounding her, collapse into a heap that can't even breathe when she hears that her grandparents were murdered.
To have the trajectory of your marriage completely realigned for the next 30, 40 or more years. Because some punks stole those happy years from your wife, and her torment keeps you awake at night trying to find words to help her understand.
The grandparents that let two kinds into their home "to use the phone" out of the kindness of their hearts.
To know that Grandma was on her knees praying for the girl as she shot her, screaming at her to SHUT UP!!!!!!
To know Grandpa was downstairs and heard all that, his lovely bride being silenced, and the agony he felt as he heard her killer come down the stairs, stand beside him, cock her pistol and place it behind his ear.
To know that the kids left the house and were bragging all over town how they'd killed three old people, just because they wanted to see what it felt like.
To see the front page of the newspaper with a picture of them carrying body bags out your front door, and racing home in desperate hope you could grab the paper before anyone else saw it?
Clanging of steel doors and cold concrete walls and floors? Those are "terrible"??????
You SERIOUSLY need to recalibrate what you mean by "horrible". You haven't SEEN horror.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, gents I'm sorry, I need to apologize. This is not the time or place for me to go off like that. Please accept my apologies.
None needed, Nanuq. You have every right to express your opinion and I agree with you completely.
I am indeed sorry for your loss my friend . During my career in psychiatric medicine , working with teenagers , i encountered more than a few of the kids you decribe .True sociapaths with no regard to others There is no treatment that works other than lock them up forever and throw away the keys
I say the government should high fence a large wilderness areas and release the violent criminals into the wild. Allow family members of the victims to hunt for free, while at the same time auctioning off hunts. Not only would be getting rid of the criminals, but we could also put the money generated from the hunts towards the national debt.
Whoever carries a gun is in favor of capital punishment.
Screw the wilderness. Put a high fence around "their" * holes. I like to hang out in the wilderness.