Posted on 08/01/2005 10:09:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
How about "drawn and quartered"?
DRILL A HOLE INTO THE BASE OF THE SKULL, AND SUCK THEIR BRAINS OUT ( THAT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL RIGHT NOW )
Lol...good one, but I would prefer "chainsawed from privates to head." Not cruel, completely usual.
Absolutely.
The libs don't like injection? Well, lets go back to hanging and electrocution, then.
"I never understood why they don't just reduce the oxygen content in the chamber "
- I've wondered that myself, and then it dawned on me. Punishment is a derivitive of justice and there wouldn't be any justice in the punishment if it involved no pain or suffering. I believe pain is factored in on purpose for that reason. I could be wrong, but that’s my thoughts.
Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done.
There is an aesthetic quality to a hanging or a firing squad that lethal injection simply does not have.
Lethal injection looks like just another medical procedure, too cold and clinical to be associated with the execution of justice.
Accounts of public hangings from the 19th century recall an almost liturgical solemnity to the proceedings.
The gathering of the people to see justice done in their name, the slow procession of the condemned man from prison to the gallows, the recitation of sentence, the last words, the chaplain's prayer for the soul of the condemned, the placing of the black hood over the condemned man's head, right up to the opening of the trapdoor--all of this evokes the seriousness of the matter at hand and impresses a lesson upon those assembled.
Giving a man a needle in some hidden room just doesn't have the same feel of justice being done.
and you can reuse the rope. Execution is an awful but not an evil thing. It is a sad and regretible duty of government, just like incarceration and war.
I got a better idea..........take 10000 of 'em, give them each a dollar, put them on a deserted island, and tell them it takes 10000 dollars to get off the island.....when they have killed themselves off, and 1 guy with 10000 is left, simply say " sorry pal, we lied, here are 10000 more. now it takes 20000 to get off"...............
No flame from me. I know what you mean about life without parole. Hard labor in Alaska, etc. I guess the concern is that someday the sentence could be altered in some way.
And I think that there's some class of criminals, however small, that society has a right to say "you have forfeited your right to breathe our air and live among us." Timothy McVeigh comes to mind. But again that may have been too easy.
I wonder what was considered cruel and unusual in 1789? That might be the best starting point.
Hey, the Founders view on the "cruel and unusual" punishment held that firing squad was OK. Good enough for me. (Come to think of it, in the Revolutionary Navy, you could be keel-haulled for buggery. Hummm....)
Perhaps the most dangerous legal decision of the past century.
DITTO!
How about disembowelment?
I do know the prisoner is supposed to be awake - that would explain it.
In my mind, I too would like to do to the killer what he did to his victims. But I think the quick executions we have now, when they are performed, send the right message: there are those whose actions are so vile that they forfeit the right to live among us. Just destroy them like a rabid dog.
Not something I enjoy, but sadly necessary in some cases. IMHO.
I don't think that you'll get flamed for your opinion.
I'd guess that 30% of Freepers are against the death penalty (in one form or another), and close to 100% of Freepers believe that prisoners are coddled.
Also Clinton and Gore were in favor of the death penalty, so its really not a conservative/liberal argument.
How about they kill every murderer by the same method he ysed to murder his victims? In this town, that would mean tying up the murderer and wrapping his head with duct tape until he suffocates. I'd be cool with it.
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