[ZULU]

He should have been shot. The execution should fit the crime.

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.

If found giulty, throw them in a real prison for life. If later you find out you have the wrong guy - which happens all too often - it can be corrected.

Check out all those links on this forum on police abuse. Prosecutorial abuse by an ambitious prosecutor/politician wannbe is a lot harder to prove. They are more sophisticated than cops.

[The Bat Lady]

this was NOT a botched execution, this was a successful execution! He died. Success!

Check out "The Green Mile" movie, that is what Tom Hanks said.

If found giulty, throw them in a real prison for life. If later you find out you have the wrong guy - which happens all too often - it can be corrected.

I think the family member who watched him die also watched that man kill his 2 family members. pretty sure they had the right guy.

[Slings and Arrows]

If found giulty, throw them in a real prison for life. If later you find out you have the wrong guy - which happens all too often - it can be corrected.

Which means that they can then murder other inmates and prison staff with impunity, as nothing worse can be done to them.

[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.

[Balding_Eagle]

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

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