Average time on death row is what? 15 years? 20 years? Too Damn long. Justice should be blind and swift. But the biggest reason is, I could not drop the trapdoor, trigger the guillotine or start the drip. Too cold blooded. I just do not think I could live with my self after wards.
Death penalty opponents have basically eliminated the practice. Only a few states practice it, and those use lethal injection. When it isn’t carried out absolutely perfectly, the idiots then come with their main point, that their pets shouldn’t be executed at all.
At no point is justice for the victims considered. Liberals are pure evil, and defend evil. At no point are they more hideous and deranged than when defending murderers.
My reaction to this death sentence issue is: so what?
The objective is that he die.
“Inert gas asphyxiation is a form of asphyxiation which results from respiration of inert gas in the absence of oxygen rather than atmospheric air (a mixture of oxygen and the inert nitrogen). The experience is painless, as it is caused merely by lack of oxygen, and not due to carbon dioxide buildup up in the bloodstream, which is the cause of pain in suffocation.”
It’s what should be used.
There are worse things than death. Put at hard labor for life and any surplus they generate be paid to the victim’s families.
Once again, let me advocate for states to adopt the firing squad as an alternative means of execution. Huge advantages.
1) Inexpensive and technologically easy and cheap.
2) Very hard to appeal on grounds of “bullet failure”.
3) Write the law so that if there is a “substantial appeal” against using another means of execution, without any further hearings the state can vie for the firing squad. This would actually make *other* means of execution more viable and defeat their opponents tricks.
Imagine the heads exploding if some conservative state decided that “In light of the great efforts and organizations devoted to finding proof of innocence for prisoners sentenced to death, The great state of (fill in the blank) has decided to make those efforts applied to not just the few prisoners sentenced to death, but to every prisoner convicted of rape or murder, and sentenced to life in prison. Therefore all such life sentences will be converted into death sentences, since the ultimate outcome no different, and it is a travesty to deny lifers the same opportunity for exoneration.”