longing for the good old days where a rope and a tree would have sufficed.
I don't think she'll get the death penalty, but she certainly deserves it.
After reading Andrea's article (not fit to show the children) I've come to the conclusion Kansas has lost its idyllic Wizard Of Oz innocence. Lisa Montgomery deserves the needle. I've heard of women snatching babies from hospitals but this is the first time I've ever heard of a woman snatching a baby from the womb of another woman. Just when you think you've seen the worst in human nature, depravity reaches another low. Real life is sometimes more horrifying than a Stephen King novel.
I believe in putting insane and retarded killers in the express lane for the electric chair and lethal injections. I could care less about low IQs and crazy motives when it comes to a vicious murder.
Lisa Montgomery, amazingly enough, has managed to surpass even Susan Smith (of South Carolina drowned babies infamy) for unmitigated cruelty and brutality. She has confessed to the crime, I doubt if any serious attempt will be made to try the insanity defense (although one will probably hear the usual arguments about "one would have to be insane to commit such a horrible crime"), and she will hopefully be sentenced to death.
Having said that, I am sick and tired of this trend to sanitized, medically supervised and tranquilized executions, which provide NO deterrent factor whatsoever to other potential killers. How nice it is, to be wheeled in on a gurney, floating comfortably after any number of tranquilizers have been administered so you won't be too anxious about checking out, you get to read a last statement (if you're coherent enough after the tranquilizer), then a minister will say a few comforting words to you as they open the valve for the heart muscle relaxants so you just drift on away into eternity.
Instead of being grabbed by the arms by two burly correctional officers, muscled up a short flight of stairs to a gallows, having your head thrust thru a noose which is then tightened up around your neck "just so", and instead of a nice hazy tranquilized feeling, you are fully aware of your soon-to-be unbeating heart pounding wildly in your chest, because you know you are going to hang, swing from your neck until DEAD. The warden proclaims the death sentence as being legal and authorized by the Governor of your State, he says "may God have mercy on your soul", and that stark feeling of horror grabs you as the floor drops out from beneath your feet, and THEN, at that moment, you pay your debt to society for your crime.
Now THAT is the way the death penalty ought to be administered, the ACLU, the weak sisters and the sad sacks notwithstanding. A death penalty by tranquilized lethal injection is in many cases, a nicer way to go than if someone died of natural causes.
Violent killers deserve a violent, but controlled death.
This concludes your morning MM rant.
Kinda hard to do after a tubal, isn't it?
Let's overlook for a minute how any sentient husband, even one from KansasEven the Post can't refrain from disparaging "fly-over" country.
Hey, I'm just as opposed to Chuck Schumer as the next FReeper. Still, I feel the death penalty is way over the top as punishment for him. Sure, he's a big-time, tax-and-spend, gun-grabbing liberal, but I say, let's deal with him through the democratic process of fielding a stronger opponent next time and defeating him at the polls. Calling for capital punishment is out of . . .
What? The article is about a depraved schemer, not a depraved Schumer? Never mind.
And .. did all the media coverage about the possibility that Conner was cut from his mother's womb plant a seed of thought into the demented Montgomery ..??