Family of Victims Shows No Sympathy at Killer's Execution

Good Morning America via Yahoo! News ^ | 7/24/14 | RHEANA MURRAY

[Envisioning]

Family of Victims Shows No Sympathy at Killer's Execution

Good! Why the hell should they? What's the matter Yahoo? Comments not what you expected? (seem to be disabled)

[Slings and Arrows]

I just tried the comments and they’re active. Not running the way the lefties at Yahoo! expected, though.

[Ezekiel]

Makes perfect sence. Plenty of sympathy for their own kind (the lawless), but no mercy for those of a contrary spirit (the guiltless). Not only showing no mercy, but actively targeting the innocent for destruction. Applies to any policy of the left.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The judge is right: the firing squad is the best way to go.

Rifles and bullets are cheap and ubiquitous. Any LEO can pull the triggers. Appeals about the means of execution are minimal, if any. Death within a half second is almost assured.

Using the firing squad should eliminate between 5-10 years of the appeals process, so justice is more timely.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Now your talking. I would be drinking Dom Perignon in the front row of the family viewing gallery.

[scouter]

Jeanne Brown said Wednesday marked the end of a long, painful journey for her family.

Having been in the same position as Jeanne, I feel very sorry for her, and can assure her that this is not the end of that long and painful journey. I hope she can move beyond the revenge she apparently feels to forgiveness. I've been there and I know that the journey's end is forgiveness, not revenge.

It's so easy to think that the murderer's execution will make you feel better. If it does, it's only for a little while. The pain of your loss never goes away just because the murderer is also dead.

While I still support the death penalty, revenge must have no part in it. It is a matter of justice.

I find these kinds of discussions on FR to be distasteful. They invariably bring out the worst reactions in people. It's common for people to say they would enjoy watching the murderer suffer a most painful death. The more painful, the better, they say. That's a horrible thing to say. The murderer is a child of God. He is someone God loves dearly. And if he goes to hell for dying unrepentant, God takes no delight in that, and neither should we. Could you actually tell God to his face that you want one of his children, someone he loves enough to die for, to suffer a horribly painful death?! While the execution may be necessary for justice's sake and for the protection of society, prison guards, and even other inmates, it is nothing to take pleasure in. It is just another chapter in the whole tragic situation.

Go ahead and flame me. Until youve experienced what Jeanne Brown has experienced, execution and all, and been on that journey to its end, you cannot comprehend. I will not be responding on this thread anymore. I've said my piece and have nothing more to add.

[QT3.14]

Why isn't the media reporting the remorse of the millions aborted?

Never mind......

[QT3.14]

Note to attorney Dale Baich and GMA:

[bgill]

The warden should have given pistols to the victim’s family members and allowed them to finish the job.

Start with his big toe.

[Nowhere Man]

HOWEVER, I do not support the death penalty. It gives the state too much power. Look at how they are abusing Homeland Seurity, the TSA, IRS, etc.

Yeah, in recent years, I have been against capital punishment too, with very few exceptions such as high treason. Because of recent abuses and not having the ability to reverse the mistake, I do question the right/ability of the State to take a person's life outside of wartime or to stop an impending threat to others. In many ways, keeping a person cooped up for life is worse, he/she cannot go anywhere when they want, their lives are 99% regulated and what they can do is limited. Yes, they deserve to be there though but I'm just saying being cooped up is a huge punishment of its own.

[ZULU]

with very few exceptions such as high treason.

I think spending the rest of your life in Fort Leavenworth at hard labor, sharing a cell with Bubba, even if you have Secret Service Protection, is MUCH better.

If you get my drift.

[JoeFromSidney]

Twenty-five years since his crime, and he's only now been executed? Not much deterrence in that.

[Slings and Arrows]

Other states are doing better.

[Zippo44]

If their concern is rapidity of death, I suggest we return to hanging or firing squad. The constitutional requirement to avoid “cruel and unusual” punishment does not mean a complete lack of discomfort on the part of the malefactor. If our judicial system has found an individual to have so egregiously violated the norms of our society that he must be removed from the possibility of future violations we mshould just get it done as expeditiously as possible.

In certain cases, however I think a public feeding into a woodchipper would have a salutary effect on those who evince contempt for our societal norms.

[B4Ranch]

>>The warden should have given pistols to the victim’s family members and allowed them to finish the job<<

by shooting him in the knees.

[B4Ranch]

>>While I still support the death penalty, revenge must have no part in it. It is a matter of justice.<<

When the victim is your family member then I think revenge does enter into the picture. Justice, of course but revenge is the primary emotion in my mind.

[Balding_Eagle]

Whether you support the death penalty or not, it doesn’t matter.

As a practical matter, none of the states have one.