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Over the top, Joe. "Vengeance is mine, said the Lord." While there is a legitimate purpose in maintaining the death penalty, inflicting pain and suffering in the process is no measure of moral purpose and destructive to civility.

You and Lord have your opinions, but I am closer to Joe. (Well, actually, I believe the Lord left us a more ambiguous commentary which you are using selectively to claim Him on your side.)

Anyway, I don't quite subscribe to prolonged, deliberate torture, but I do support a more traditional execution method for such cases. Hanging appeals to me. Men with already ruined lives can go to the easy death of the needle with cocky resignation. Hanging is a little terrifying. It not only executes, it jumpstarts the stunted moral imagination of the murder. It gives them something to think about. It gets their attention. Í would like to see Tookie hang.

Anyway, I don't quite subscribe to prolonged, deliberate torture, but I do support a more traditional execution method for such cases.

Precisely my point.

Hanging appeals to me.

It's quick and clean as long as the neck breaks.