[KissOfTheSith]

>Excellent! I love it when criminals carry out their own execution.

You know, that's an interesting thought.

Perhaps every prison should have an array of options available 24/7: painless poisons, gallows, guillotines, shooting squads, etc.

If any prisoner wants to get out of his sentence, he should have ready access to these alternative exits...

(With all the academics out there wasting tax dollars on "studies," I'd like to see how much tax money such a system would save the US by thinning out the prison population along purely voluntary lines...)

-- KotS

[princess leah]

I vote we send in Dr. Death himself to visit those "sick" in prison...I can't think of his name, but he's known as the suicide Dr. (is it Kavorkian?)

[Askel5]

I'd like to see how much tax money such a system would save the US by thinning out the prison population along purely voluntary lines.

Plenty.

But doesn't this fly in the face of having the family enjoy the killer's suffering?

Death's a relief to plenty of these folks. Why not twist the knife with a life sentence of labor and no TV?

[TightSqueeze]

(With all the academics out there wasting tax dollars on "studies," I'd like to see how much tax money such a system would save the US by thinning out the prison population along purely voluntary lines...)

You don’t really think your government would let those newly unoccupied jail cells go empty would you?
No, my naive friend, new laws would be created, and new criminals would be discovered so that these jail cells would never go to waste, remember now prisons are big business for pork barrel politicians, doughnut eating LEOS and crooked lawyers.
Back to the books for you, maybe the academics you so readily scorn might still be able to teach you something.

[SpookBrat]

I think all murderers, rapists and child molesters need to be executed. If the government won't take care of business and protect its citizens, we should not stop criminals from getting the job done.