Problems Alleged in Execution of Crips Co-Founder

streetgangs.com via LA Times ^ | September 6, 2006 | Henry Weinstein

[Anti-Bubba182]

Why don't we use the Guillotine ?

It is fast and reliable, if a bit messy. It works the same on everyone.

[Condor 63]

Lawyers for another condemned inmate say Stanley Tookie Williams may have felt horrible pain.

How much pain did he cause?

In other words I won't lose any sleep over Tookie regardless.

[Eaker]

Did he do the Tookie Shuffle?

Shame if he did and I missed it.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well,it is all idle speculation until Tookie testifies to what he either did, or did not, feel.

ROFL. I'm sure he'll testify via video conference from somewhere in Hell.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Poor baby.

[bert]

Pain? so what. He has no right and society has no obligation to insulate from pain.

[llevrok]

Stanley Tookie Williams may have felt horrible pain.

Did I miss something in Civilization 101?

I thought the point of prison and the death penalty was to deter crime through being scared sh*tless vs being civil.

This looks like it promoted that theory in spades.
(oops. PC slip up)

[Tax-chick]

Dig him up and execute him again more humanely!

[cripplecreek]

This one goes to -11

[RightWhale]

The old method of cutting off the head with a short knife is still working in varous islamic lands, and the old method of a rifle bullet in the back of the head still works in various communist and emerging former communist states, and can be done by rank amateurs with no training at all.

[LiteKeeper]

Horrible pain while being executed for crimes involving horrible pain for the victim? Sounds like justice to me...the true meaning of "an eye for an eye"

[mass55th]

Punishment is supposed to be swift and just. In my opinion, the pain Tookie Williams put the public through by keeping himself alive through appeals, outweighs any minor discomfort this puke may have felt as he was finally being put out of OUR misery.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Lawyers asserted that executions are] performed by prison personnel with criminal records of misconduct and who lack skill, competence, professionalism, patience, stability, training, qualifications, mental health and the necessary character to perform executions and the tasks associated with executions."

Yeah, but the only people we could find to take the job were all lawyers.

[Enterprise]

So what's the problem here. He got caught and executed. It is, as they say, "the way the Tookie bumbles."

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

Didn't the late Tookie joke to friends about the noises his victim made as he died?

It's good that Tookies gone. Who's next?

Michael Frazier

[robertpaulsen]

I say dig him up and do it again until we get it right.

[mass55th]

"By horrible pain they mean blissful and euphoric right?"

Perhaps they should switch from lethal injection to death by starvation since it's supposed to be such a "peaceful" way to go.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

...which asserts that condemned prisoners may not be properly anesthetized and therefore experience excruciating pain during executions.

And this is a bad thing?

The reason the death penalty isn't the deterrent it could be is the prisoners are all treated like pets being euthanized by a veterinarian while being hidden from the public as they slip off to sleep.

If we showed them screaming and moaning and pissing in terror as they were led to the gallows, the deterrent effect of the death penalty would be fully restored.

As it is, death for criminals who deserve it is so sanitary and abstract that the little idiots on the outside who are told some crimes can get you killed are just too stupid to see the consequences. Show Tookie and his ilk in the full light of day approaching an impending death full of pain and fear and they will be more likely to understand their own mortality.

[robertpaulsen]

I say dig him up and do it again until we get it right.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I remember reading that Tookie looked annoyed at the time it took them to find a vein and administer the injections. What was he thinking, "That's sixty seconds of my life I'll never get back."? My first reaction was that his travail would make a most excellent Snickers ad, "Not going any place soon?"