IT IS TIME FOR PUBLIC HANGINGS AND OTHER APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT FOR HORRIFIC CRIMES

Vanity | 27 October 2002 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It's time. It is way past time to begin to institute punishment commensurate with the crime committed. It is not outside the bounds of our democracy to make public hanging the punishment for premeditated murder. If some teenager threatens to blow up the school, make him/her break rocks in the blistering hot sun for 15-20 years.

This teen in Oklahoma who killed two innocent people should be tried, and if convicted, hung on public television. The snipers, if convicted, should also be hung publicly. If we fail to begin punishing crimes like these, then more crimes are going to be committed and the government will have the support necessary to confiscate everyone's weapons (which may be why little is being done).

If weapons are confiscated, then we are headed for despotism. Yes, I used a weapon last night. Went out and shot a skunk. You see, skunks kill my chickens and eat the eggs. I have family to feed and they are far more important than that skunk or the way it died. When any animal or person kills outside the law or authorization (i.e. war), it and/or he/she must die. In both situations, everything stinks. Government, please do something right for a change!

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The skunk came to kill,
eating eggs and snuffing life.
Who has more worth, I ask.
The one who produces,
or the one who causes strife?
Solution sought, solution found.
Chickens stay, skunk must go.
World without reason, hope fades fast,
call good bad...call bad good.
Some like the skunk,
some applaud the punk.
Reason return, come with a bang...
It's time to convict, it's time to hang.

[ChadGore]

An interesting vanity, but why should anyone follow the Talibans lead ?

[billorites]

"hung on public television"

Led to the gallows by Bert and Ernie.

Commentary by Bill Moyers?

Catered by Julia Child.

Instead of a last minute call from the Governor, their lives are spared by a Pledge Break. Could work.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

An interesting vanity, but why should anyone follow the Talibans lead ?

It is not following the Taliban's lead. The Bible says, "...cursed is anyone hung on a tree." Case closed.

[sit-rep]

I stand behind this one. It is time.

SR

[I got the rope]

BUMP...I agree.

[XBob]

Before they caught anyone, I was trying to come up with a suitable punishment for the sniper killer, and I came up with an interesting one I thought might be appropriate.

Start by tying him with arms outstretched, and first shooting off his trigger finger, then proceeding inward at one inch intervals until you get to his 'shooting' eye. With one minute between each shot.

[evad]

If we fail to begin punishing crimes like these, then more crimes are going to be committed ..

Is the reason for your support for this punishment based on it's preventative effects?

[Liberty Teeth]

I'm all for it. It should be televised live to a national audience.

[XBob]

I forgot - not all the shooters would be shooting bullets, but only some (with a good number of blanks) and then also intersperse relatives of the victims (those who wished to participate) with marksmen, and be sure to assure that there was good diversity,

and now I have added to include blacks and muslims as the executioners.

[section9]

An interesting vanity, but why should anyone follow the Talibans lead ?

Taliban law was based on the Mullah's interpretation of what the Koran said to the "crime" in question. As usual, when Clerics get involved in a judicial process, the potential for abuse far outstrips our own sometimes runaway courts.

A clerics interpretation of the law could depend on how much the accused's family paid the cleric.

I am in favor of public executions. People who are in favor of the death penalty should be willing to see it in action. Public hanging, especially, was used as a form of public shaming in Federal, Mid-century, and Frontier America. It would have the same salutary effect today.

A potential murderer would not want to go through the experience of a hanging. It would give any criminal second thoughts.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[pageonetoo]

I long advocated building a gallows on the side porch of the White House during the Clintoon years, where we could hang those traitors that desecrated it!
Instead, he just his willy wanked, and we got the shaft!
And the beast became a senator to represent those that got attacked first by the fur'ners... and still, she wants to be our Prez!
I would still like to see their feet kicking, and eyes bulging, as would befit anyone selling out my country!

[backlash]

In addition to public hangings and death by firing squad for murderers and traitors, public canings for lesser offenses would spare the tax-payer the burden of having to foot the bill for more and more prison space. I agree that it's time to re-introduce deterrence into the crime and punishment crisis we now face. JMHO.

[DownWithGreenspan]

Amen - and one of the crimes punishable as such ought to be VOTE FRAUD.

If the ability to fraud the vote is taken away from the Rats, or made sufficiently risky (is it really worth your life to commit vote fraud, liberals?), then the Rats can say hello to permanent minority status in the House and Senate, and will not win a another Presidential elction for decades, if ever.

DWG

[APBaer]

"should also be hung publicly"

*"Hung"*

I am SURE you mean *hanged*.

[LibKill]

Executions should be public. Hiding them behind prison walls says that we are ashamed of what we are doing, and removes any deterrent effect.

[pageonetoo]

Just making the time short (between capture, conviction, and execution) would make the criminal community more aware of consequences to their vile actions.
Why should they be in fear of losing anything when they can spend quite a few years of your life watching MTV, CNN, and the Movie Channel, while puffing on a joint, and raping the undefended. Sure, you are incarcerated, but you can use a state-of-the-art gym to get beefed up, so as to attack others while on the inside, and better take advantage of the decent citizenry on the outside!
Criminals are coddled now, not punished. We should send them back to the rock piles, and throw away the incorrigible. Let God deal with them!!

[Nephi]

I agree. This is the one issue that Phil Donawho has right, but for the wrong reason. Donawho believes public executions would help erode support for capital punishment. I believe public executions would increase the deterrence of capital punishment. The suggestion for public whipping is a timely one, too.

[DonQ]

I disagree. Some of these killers just yearn for 15 minutes of fame ... and being hanged or electrocuted or something on prime time is worth the price (and worth the crime) to them.

On the other hand, guarantee that killers and others died in absolute obscurity. That there won't be any publicity about them - no TV interviews like with Charles Manson, nor print media interviews like with Ted Bundy, nor fan mail - even after they're dead.

I wasn't even comfortable with the business about lethal injection; even though it was touted as humane, I thought the whole ritual was more tedious and stressful on the prisoner than, say, electrocution. Better than that, if you want to make it as painless and stressfree on the prisoner as possible, on an unpredicted night have some one shoot him through the bars of his cell while he's sleeping.