Interesting timing. Someone Will knows is eligible, you think?
Stop right there.
Mr. Will, why should that be unconstitutional?
I mean, unseemly, unwise, OK, I can accept that.
But are you saying that white people cannot evaluate evidence fairly? You say, right in your first sentence, that he is unquestionably guilty.
That's the fact. That's what the jury found.
So, the jury did a good job, white, black, or purple.
What is it, Mr. Will, about white people specifically that makes their presence on a black criminal's jury "unconstitutional"?
We need to get rid of automatic appeals and leave only procedural appeals. that would cut costs dramatically. Healthy squeamishness? I have a healthier squeamishness about leaving murderers alive to kill again. They could escape, kill another inmate, kill a guard,
Also in getting rid of the death penalty, that will be the end of using that as a bargaining chip. If you threaten the death penalty a killer may then enter a plea for life. If life is the ultimate punishment they will try to plead to get out earlier, and then have the opportunity to kill again.
George Will and Bill Kristol are destined for the anals of history.
Not so long as people murder people, some in horrendous ways. The DP puts them to sleep - maybe issue them prison jammies?
How do we resolve the mistake of sending innocent people to Death Row?
We have done that, and will likely do that again.
The death penalty is not about prevention, it’s about punishment.
This idea that an execution should be painless is nonsensical. The pain can be incidental to the execution but must not be gratuitous.
singing “George Will is over the Hill, so give him a Pill and a bowl of Swill”, Will yah?
Will is forward looking to the courts-martial that will soon be sentencing his friends to death. It’s too late, Will. It’s time to organize the firing squads.
George Will weepy on murderers? His transformation into a lib is complete.
Here’s a new fresh topic that has never been examined before now.
Maybe, next time Mr. Will can explain why he was right about President Trump.
Naturally, the idea of fixing the process so that it does not take 30 years to get to the execution does not occur to him.
I have an idea. Restrict execution to cases where the perp has two or more prior violent felony convictions. If the conviction that results in his execution was incorrect, then so what? Treat it the same as if, on one of his prior violent felonies he had met up with an armed victim who blew him away.
If expense is George Will’s argument, that’s an easy solution.
The death penalty should be carried out promptly—condemned murderers shouldn’t be waiting for decades to be executed. And we should do away with “humane” methods of execution. Executions should be by hanging.
In one of the most heinous and infamous crimes in Los Angeles history, William E. Hickman kidnapped and murdered Marian Parker, a teenager, in December, 1927. He was quickly caught and convicted and in less than a year, he was executed by hanging. We need to take the same approach today.
Dementia.
Dementia.
Hell no.
Make it quicker.
And stop worrying about whether or not the murderer feels pain when he’s turned off.
I guess he doesn’t have a child that was murdered by scum
I abolished listening to anything George Will has to say a long time ago.
He looks like he’d enjoy some toe tapping with Larry Craig.