[adorno]

If we don’t have the balls to execute him, it is despicable to turn the task over to other murderers in prison.

Those "other murderers" would just be the "executioners" in this instance. Our regular appointed executioners would be glad to get a break from their very dark jobs.

BTW, has anybody ever stopped to think about how state or federal executioners feel about their jobs, and how it affects them and their families? Can those people ever sleep well? Sure, some cases demand the death penalty, but, what about the people who are tasked with one of the most mind-bending and dehumanizing jobs in the world. In the middle-east, it may be "cultural" and people there think nothing of it, but, we are supposed to be a bit more civilized.

[dfwgator]

BTW, has anybody ever stopped to think about how state or federal executioners feel about their jobs, and how it affects them and their families? Can those people ever sleep well? Sure, some cases demand the death penalty, but, what about the people who are tasked with one of the most mind-bending and dehumanizing jobs in the world. In the middle-east, it may be "cultural" and people there think nothing of it, but, we are supposed to be a bit more civilized.

That was actually the reason why the Nazis decided to build the gas chambers. Shooting was considered too inhumane, for the shooters. Gassing the Jews was the more "humane" solution.

[Morpheus2009]

The Middle East? Those people feel that killing people saves more lives.

[Morpheus2009]

Inmates in prison for crimes kill other inmates. Jeffrey Dahmer was killed in prison by another inmate who murdered someone for saying no to him getting a job.

[dsc]

“Those “other murderers” would just be the “executioners” in this instance.”

In the absence of a legal sentence, there is no executioner. If someone kills that man, it is murder. The state can *never* condone murder.

“we are supposed to be a bit more civilized.”

And yet you approve of men in state custody being murdered by other prisoners.