in a just society, the killer should be required to feel AT LEAST as much pain as the VICTIM did!!!
Posted on 01/09/2008 5:20:44 PM PST by Kaslin
Death Penalty: The Supreme Court this week heard arguments that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Euthanasia advocates consider it a blessing for the deathly ill. Yet it's cruel for the just plain deadly.<.font> The Supreme Court heard arguments last Monday not on the constitutionality of the death penalty itself but on whether the possibility that a murderer might experience pain if the three-chemical cocktail administered to death row inmates takes too long to do its job. In their brief to the court, lawyers for convicted murderers Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling say the three-part death cocktail and the protocols the commonwealth of Kentucky uses to administer the death penalty are both cruel and unusual, and therefore unconstitutional. They argue "a state violates the Eighth Amendment when its execution procedures create a significant and unnecessary risk of inflicting severe pain that could be prevented by the adoption of reasonable safeguards." Never mind about the compelling interest the state might have in protecting lives through the deterrent effect of the swift and frequent application of the death penalty. (A fact demonstrated, by the way, by a wide number of studies showing that the swift, sure application of the death penalty results in fewer murders.) The adoption of this reasonable safeguard might reduce the risk of severe pain and death being inflicted on the truly innocent. Liberal angst is reserved for a convicted murderer who took too long to die, rather than the victims of these predators who often suffered horribly. We feel safe in saying the victims and their families suffer far more than the alleged victim of a botched IV.
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Another good editorial at:
http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=14280&CHID=36
That’s liberals for ya-they cry crocodile tears over whether an axe murderer feels pain from a little injection, but could care less about the pain to babies in the womb having their heads opened with scissors and their brains suctioned out.
Bring back hangin’’,,they’ll be to scared to feel any pain..
Jesus felt for murderers, even as he himself was dying.
Now, I’m not good like Jesus was and I recognize the need of society to protect itself so that humanity can endure, but I do try to be good.
We could make this problem go away by adding enough morphine to kill any pain. They would still be dead and we would still be free of them.
Give them two choices. The rope or the method they used to murder their victim. When possible, the punishment should be carried out in line of sight of the location of their crime.
The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It does not guarantee a painless execution.
As many have said before, the convicted murderer should suffer the same fate as his or her victim. Poison your victim, you die by the same poison. Slash the throat, you get your throat slashed. Y’all get the idea, the intent of the Constitutional ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” IMHO meant executions such as drawing and quartering. As far as I am concerned, whatever the means justifies the fatal end!
I’ve been trying to find a verse where it says something like, “A starving man who steals a loaf of bread will be looked upon with sympathy but he is still accountable for seven times the amount that was stolen.”
Pardon the bad paraphrase. I can’t remember where, in the Bible, I read it.
I care that they feel pain.... they should feel lots of it.
Hammer them with a lethal dose of heroin if they’re worried about them feeling anything.
>>Hammer them with a lethal dose of heroin if they’re worried about them feeling anything.<<
Exactly. That would cost basically nothing and would make this issue go away.
There is precedent for minimizing pain during executions - from pardons if the headsman took too many chops to mandating a high drop on a hanging so the person didn’t slowly choke.
You're right, but drawing and quartering was a kiss on the cheek compared to some of the execution methods they had invented back in the old Europe the Founders had left behind.
This is absurd! The first drug puts the killer in a coma where no pain can be felt!
Another solution: Use nitrous oxide like dentists use.
Put a mask on, start it slow and increase over a five or ten minute period, when it gets to 100%, keep it there for fifteen minutes.
They would never feel anything, including the needle.
Didn’t they tell us how much fun starvation is when Terri Schiavo was executed? Why aren’t the libs asking us to starve them to death?
in a just society, the killer should be required to feel AT LEAST as much pain as the VICTIM did!!!
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