Posted on 02/12/2007 7:47:47 PM PST by Graybeard58
"And, don't call me a surgeon....I know who both my parents are."
Nasty, but very, very good!!!
Heck, I didn't even get to the other option, which is a bigger revenue generator: Roman style (i.e.: slow) executions, on pay per view. Billions for the budget, using flesh that's already condemned anyway, so why not get some fun and cash out of it?
You'd be wrong about the deterrent effect.
Back in medieval Europe, the punishment for counterfeiting was to be boiled in lead, an inch at a time. People counterfeited anyway.
What matters is only the degree to which the criminal thinks he will be caught, or cares. Serial killers don't care if they end up dead. They enjoy the killing enroute. You're never going to deter that.
Likewise street gang killings, and domestic killings done in rage. Nothing will stop the nuts from doing it. They're nuts. You can probably dissuade the rational, cold-blooded killers to a degree, but they're usually professionals and don't get caught.
Caught in the Organ Draft!
Ever read anything by Larry Niven? When we start using death row inmates for spare parts, all of a sudden running red lights becomes a death penalty crime.
Watch out for the organleggers.
1. Surgeons -- $177,690
2. Anesthesiologists -- $174,240
Granted that's MSN... the whole chart is probably wrong.
"When we start using death row inmates for spare parts, all of a sudden running red lights becomes a death penalty crime."
Only if you are a low-status individual.
And it's not as entertaining either.
The entertainment value of public executions, especially if carefully thought out to be visually exciting and horriffic, would be immense. The income to the public treasury from selling live feed on pay-per-view, with the follow-up syndications and spin-offs (imagine the coffee-table Time-Life book "Great Executions", with broadsheet-sized full-color photos of the carnage...now THAT would sell!) would be enormous.
There'd be "REAL Justice League" trading cards sold with bubble gum: "Oooo, Oooo, I'll trade you a Jeffrey Dahmer impalement and a John Wayne Gacy crucifixion for a Unabomber boiling and a Suzanne Smith drowning!"
Think of the boost to commerce and to the general civic respect for law and order! Think of the receipts.
Unfortunately, all of the interesting ways to kill criminals destroys their bodies and makes their organs unusable...WAIT! I have the perfect solution for organ harvesting AND revenue-maximization from gory public executions: Death by vivisection! We execute death row inmates BY extracting their organs for reuse, flaying them for their skin, etc.! That would provide all the screaming and drama anyone could hope for AND would provide good organs for use! Why didn't I think of that before!
"All they need to do that is give them a organ donor card, take them unconscious into a trauma center connected to a transplant hospital at a medical university, and make sure they come late at night."
If you vivisect them while unconscious in the hospital you lose all the cool screaming and pay-per-view revenues, which is where the big profit lies. Since the profit will go to the government and raise massive revenues, it will lower the taxes of us good law-abiding citizens. Anesthetizing and privately executing death row inmates is not tax-efficient.
No, no. It needs to be public, excruciating, slow, televised on pay-per-view, and effective - that's the way to simultaneously maximize revenues, deterrence and health benefits from organ harvesting. Think of the children!
LOL
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