ChaoticGood, September 19 at 2:46 am #

“I am totally opposed to the death penalty.  Death is far too good a fate for those who have decided that it is ok to murder another person.  They deserve a “fate worse than death”.

The killer should be forced to work for a health insurance company in the claims division.  They have shown that their callous disregard for their fellow humans qualifies them to deny aid for the sick and disabled. In fact, they should excel at their new task and relish their power over others.

Their wages should be paid to the victims families and their ruthlessness will aid the “bottom line” at the insurance company.  This system would be a win/win for everyone.”

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Thanks for sharing that witty insight. Brilliant!

However, if they do decide to take the guys life, I think it’s only fair they give him ample time to recover from the previous attempt to kill him. Where’s the fun in killing someone who’s already half dead? Full recovery, then execution. More fun all around.

Actually, the most humane way to execute an individual is to behead, but a “Guillotine” must be used to assure a precise hit.  Using a scimitar, as in some eastern countries, is chancy especially if the executioner has an off-day.  However, since the heart remains beating for several seconds after decapitation—-what a mess!

Sciencehighway, great comments about America making the death penalty seemingly humane to the audience. Actually a bullet to the back of the head would be more humane than the complex systems used which serves to present that the method used is humane because of the complexities used. Now the electric chair was obvious, the about to be executed is going to burn in hell for eternity, so we’ll jump start god’s process by jump starting what god is going to do anyway. This also serves to make electrocution acceptable, even endorsed by Christians, just doing what god does.

I am totally opposed to the death penalty.  Death is far too good a fate for those who have decided that it is ok to murder another person.  They deserve a “fate worse than death”.

The killer should be forced to work for a health insurance company in the claims division.  They have shown that their callous disregard for their fellow humans qualifies them to deny aid for the sick and disabled. In fact, they should excel at their new task and relish their power over others.

Their wages should be paid to the victims families and their ruthlessness will aid the “bottom line” at the insurance company.  This system would be a win/win for everyone.

Nibbling away at the death penalty over semantics such as the ‘cruel and unusual’ nature of lethal injection seems specious. Putting a human to death painlessly is as simple and inexpensive as the morphine overdose discretely employed by caring physicians at the request of their end-stage patients in nearly every hospital in the land. But in the minds of the millions of citizens (and at least three Supreme Court judges) who continue to support capital punishment, the prisoner’s death must be as painful and unpleasant as possible, though not to the point of disturbing the witnesses, hence the substitution of lethal injection for the electric chair. The combination of a short-acting barbiturate such as sodium thiopental and the paralytic agent pancuronium bromide serve to suppress outward physical reactions to the suffocation induced by the paralytic, followed by the intense burning sensation produced by the injection of a concentrated dose of potassium chloride, the heart-stopping third drug in the cocktail. Unlike earlier execution protocols, writhing is internal and largely unseen (thanks to the paralytic), with no messy remains for the prison staff to clean up. However the argument that no animal would be euthanized via such a cruel technique misses the point. It is the punishment that must be outlawed, not the protocol. There are numerous reasons for eliminating capital punishment (as every other civilized country has done) and not a single reason to retain it that holds up to factual debate, but arguing cruelty at the point of the needle is like objecting to the caliber of bullets used by the firing squad for fear of their causing undue pain.

The death sentence provides training for state governors to practice up and refine the techniques used to send men off to war to be killed without remorse for doing so. This would apply to any war but particularly to war invented just for the sake of war. George Bush is a prime example and he has never expressed remorse or contrition for conjuring up the reasons for invading Iraq and to a lessor extent Afghanistan. Then you get to the prosecutors who will withhold evidence for the purpose of winning a capital case which in turn may be used as law and order credentials if running for higher office. Judges, just recently one of our illustrious supreme court justices said just because a convicted person sentenced to death and found to be innocent is no reason not to carry out the death sentence.I won’t even get into the police shenanigans. I’m not necessarily opposed to capital punishment, however in light of the flagrant racism and the attitudes of those involved in executing the death sentence it should be abolished.I won’t even get into juries, having served on a criminal jury is enough to warrant elimination of the death sentence.

Utterly grotesque, the point of the film against the death penalty DEAD MAN WALKING.  Illustrates simultaneously the incompetance and homicidal tendencies of the US power struture.