Posted on 01/26/2016 5:43:36 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says his state is too easy on drug crimes, suggesting it should bring back the guillotine for serious offenders.
The Republican governor, known for his controversial statements, was speaking on local radio Tuesday about combating the drug epidemic in his state.
"What I think we ought to do is bring the guillotine back," he told WMOV. "We could have public executions and have, you know, we could even have (guessing) which hole it falls in."
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We are a small rural state of 1.5 million people. We have big-city, domestic-savage filth driving up here, peddling their junk to small town high school kids...many heroin overdose deaths.
LePage is on a massive crusade, gearing up drug enforcement. I'm sure his populist message has a huge following, unlike with you, there is no sympathy for the murdering scumbags.
Abortionists, and rapists. Prison rapists should be executed in the courtyard of yhe prison where they raped.
Ignore cause, continue to suffer. That is YOUR responsibility.
and reusable too.
I tend to not favor public executions on principle. I much prefer expeditious executions as in one appeal and you're done. This idea that these scumbags sit on death row for 20+ years is nonsensical. But, in a capital crime, the evidence needs to be unimpeachable and that the accused is without question the guilty party. If all you have is a circumstantial case...life at hard labor.
But then how do we get “justice” on the other prisoners whose acts we came to particularly scream for vengeance about?
It’s been a long time since anyone in a penitentiary business cared about penitents.
But again you want the quick rush to judgment, just with a different fig leaf.
That becomes impossible with a government that answers to itself, not to God.
The cause is out of state drug pushers...he’s dealing with it.
No the cause is (intermediately before Satan and sin) your OWN consumers, and they welcomed these people. The word pusher is, in most cases, a lie.
No pullers, no pushers.
What...you want me to shoot em?
We are/were a nation of laws, who is supposed to answer to “We the People”. We the People answer to God, not the government.
Hang all the dope-peddling scum from the highest trees. And add the child-molesters alongside them.
Libs are always complaining about overcrowded prisons, well here’s a sure-fire way to solve that problem.
In Maine, we have a tree every square foot.
Paging Donald Trump! Please pick up the white courtesy phone! You have competition!
A lot of CIA heads will roll then.
Idiot.
I live in Maine, and I saw the governor’s comments tonight on TV at a town hall meeting he had here in Maine. He also made the comments on a local talk radio show this morning.
He was half-joking about the guillotine, but he was talking about drug dealers, NOT drug users.
Five young Maine residents die every week from drug use in this state. The governor is very passionate on this issue.
Almost all of the heroin dealers who are caught are from New York City, Massachusetts, or places like New Haven or Hartford. It’s a real problem here and it is getting worse.
A $15 packet of heroin in New York City sells for $150 in Maine.
The drug dealers then buy guns here in Maine and bring them back to New York City.
Again, he is talking about drug DEALERS, not users.
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