Posted on 05/20/2009 7:14:01 AM PDT by I Hate Obama
Depends on how you define “death penalty”. I suspect that some of the “undecided” category just wants a different method of execution. I can suggest 2:
(1) hanged, drawn and quartered and
(2) pitchcapped
Exactly! That’s the difference between killing and murdering, whether they did something that caused them to deserve it.
Have a montly Coliseum Contest. By lot, choose two each month and let each as enters the “Coliseum” only one leave. Good luck, gentlemen. May have to weekly until the herd is culled.
For those who can’t reconcile their “feeeelings” to accepting the death penalty, I offer an alternative on my profile page. No infrastructure required, no need for guards to be endangered or paid, and cost limited to a one-time transport.
That's not murder.....that's justice.
Not my choice of a solution.
The only problem with the death penalty is the FACT that prosecutors,judges,and juries are human and sometimes wrongly convict for reasons of bias,career,poor judgment,and laziness.
Does taking out Obama’s Internal Security Force thugs count as murder, needed killing, or as a public service?
I’ve always felt that the surviving relatives should be able to decide the punishment for murder up to and including the way he killed the victim. If the culprit stabbed the victim to death, then the relatives should have the option of doing the same to the murderer. Certainly no painless lethal injection!
Listen to Obama without his teleprompter.
Who goes back into society? He just gets back into the pool and lives to fight another day. Think of it as life until death.
That would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Total: 7322 votes
The death penalty
[ 85% (6188 votes) ]
Life imprisonment
[ 12% (881 votes) ]
Other
[ 3% (253 votes) ]
Poll ping.
In Texas, we have NEVER had a convicted and executed murderer repeat a crime, any crime.
Total: 7344 votes
The death penalty — 85% (6209 votes)
Life imprisonment — 12% (881 votes)
Too brain dead to decide — 3% (254 votes)
The process involved pouring hot pitch, or tar (mainly used at the time for lighting purposes), into a conical shaped paper "cap", which was forced onto a bound suspect's head and then allowed to cool. Less elaborate versions included smearing a cloth or paper with pitch and pressing onto the head of the intended victim. The "pitchcap" was then torn off taking lumps of skin and flesh with it which usually left the victim disfigured for life.
The torture was usually preceded by the crude shearing of the victim's hair and many accounts report that ears were often partly or fully severed during the cutting. Refinements to the torture included unbinding the victim's feet to allow the spectacle of them running about in agony and in some cases, deliberately smashing their own heads in an attempt to end the torment. Another variation involved adding turpentine or gunpowder to the "pitchcap" when cooled and then setting it alight.
The torture was probably devised as a response to the short "cropped" hairstyle popular in Ireland at the time (hence the nickname "croppy" given to Irish rebels), which was inspired by the French Revolutionary style which was a repudiation of the long hair and wigs of the aristocracy.
The effect on the skull of this controlled form of local boiling somewhat resembles scalping, earlier known from the North American colonies.
Pitch has long, even in antiquity, been used — like other hot liquids, even melted metal — to pour into a victim's orifices. However both those techniques were usually faster and often lethal, so less suitable as torture proper, rather as capital punishment.
>Heck, I would give repeat rapists the death penalty as well.
You give them the benefit of being a multiple offender?
Capital Crimes, IMO:
1 - Murder (mandatory)
2 - Rape (mandatory)
3 - Kidnapping (non-mandatory)
4 - Acting under Color of Law/Office (non-mandatory)
lol - You’re all about cruel and unusual, aren’t you?
LOL
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