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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I have no trouble with the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes. multiple murders, sexual crimes against Children where death is involved are examples where its time to escort the criminal off of this mortal coil, and only in crimes where you have multiple points of corroboration, DNA, witnesses to the crime, forensic evidence.
In this guys case, for some reason it doesn't disturb me much. The guy was scum plain and simple, and he did his best to twist the knife a little deeper with his final words.
I don't know if he suffered in this death or not, we can talk about how long it took, but he got a massive dose of sedatives and his body fought on.
But if they're going to continue to practice the death penalty they have to find a sure fire way of causing death. using a high speed car crusher would probably do it.
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If you want people to suffer for their crimes, life without possibility of parole is the worst thing you can do to them. Like was mentioned before, I bet many people facing life in prison would opt to die with assisted suicide.
Prison is utter hell, and being inside for decades watching the world go by without you, knowing you will never be a part of it again, suffering the long lonely nights, the horrible people that surround you, this is PUNISHMENT.
Then add in that it costs more to execute people, innocent people die, its a terribly racist system, AND that its barbaric and has no place in the modern world and you have no reason to justify this horrible system that outside the US is only done by backwards nations.
Its not the place of governments to murder its own people, let them rot in prison and truly suffer, thats what they deserve.