Posted on 09/16/2022 10:50:17 AM PDT by grundle
My biggest objection to the death penalty has always been that the person might be innocent.
But here’s a video, from Tupelo, Mississippi, that shows a robber shooting a store employee in the head, after the employee had already handed over the money:
Here’s an article explaining that the guy has been arrested, and charged with capital murder. He could face the death penalty:
I hope this guy gets executed.
And I hope it doesn’t take decades.
I hope his execution happens before the end of this year.
A lot of the delay is because of the *means* of execution.
Probably the easiest, cheapest, and hardest to argue against means of execution is the firing squad. It just takes a trip to a hardware store, and any LEO in the state is authorized to pull the trigger on generic deer rifles.
Mount the rifles in stocks, so no aiming is necessary.
Assuming the audience is squeamish, fit the accused with a blood absorbing vest underneath his shirt.
Four of five rifles have blanks. One has a real bullet.
And be careful about accepting ‘video evidence’ or ‘photographic evidence’. There is AI s/w out there that can put you in a video showing you in a location you never visited. Same with photos.
but as far as I know no legislator has ever had the wit (or the courage) to propose such changes to a state’s criminal law.
One of the biggest, IMO, is the straightforward objection on the part of certain individuals over the death penalty in any form. They will grab as tightly as they can for any reed that might present itself to halt the entire practice completely. There are pretty much no tactics they'll avoid including just straightforward lying and other means to obstruct the sentance being handed out.
They've managed to gain quite a bit of traction over the whole concept of 'cruel and unusual' punishments. Sadly, supporters of the death penalty seem to want talking points much more than they want actual sentances to be carried out. This is obvious when they try over and over to bring back the electric chair, firing squads, and a host of other things that will do nothing but throw more sand into the gears of the system, but boy do they keep the conversation and notoriety going.
Frankly I'm tired of the spectacle. By now we should realize that the opponents of the death penalty are not, for the most part, going to just come out and finally be honest about the fact that they oppose it in all instances.
It is way past time to take the method out of the equation. We know by now that there are any number of ways to kill people quickly and painlessly. Most folk focus on drugs and similar things, but that is absolutely the wrong tack to take, in light of the fact that doctors often claim they are to "first, do no harm". Personally, having watched the bastards murdering people wholesale the past year, I think that's a crock of donkey excrement. Nonetheless, lets take those jerks out of this as well. We can also very simply remove any drug companies that might want to not provide drugs for this purpose due to political pressure, or just because they are run by leftists.
The solution is simple, and I've talked about it often here on FR. Build an air-tight room with visible oxygen sensors both inside and outside of the room. Wheel the condemned in on a stretcher. Close the door, ans start pumping in pure nitrogen. Once the oxygen sensor reads 1% for 15 minutes, you vent the room to the roof, and pump in ambient air until you get normal oxygen readings. The condemned won't even know he's dead, as anyone can tell you who has worked in industrial situations where you can have excess nitrogen levels. You just freaking die without even realizing that you are in any danger, because nitrogen does not trigger a feeling in your body that you are suffocating. It can't, because 78% of every breath you take is nitrogen!
This method leaves no toxic residues, because you are not using poison of any kind. As I mentioned, the room can simply be vented to the outside without any danger unless you had a complete moron standing right in front of the vent purposely trying to kill himself.
If you want the death penalty to be actually used, this is the simplest and cheapest way to implement it. It removes all objections except for the one that can't be overcome by anything, and that is a belief that the state shouldn't be able to kill for any reason.
This won't do anything about the delaying tactics built into our system, some of which I agree with. But it will remove all rational objections to the method being practiced.
Because the US Justice System has priorities that come before enforcing the law.
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