Posted on 10/23/2009 8:10:09 AM PDT by La Lydia
As the firing squad.
I think any victims’ family members who want to attend should be allowed to. They could raise money for badly needed transportation projects by letting people buy lottery tickets to see who gets to pull the switch, or push the poison into the tube, whatever.
I vote open-air execution - public hanging!!
Hand each victim’s relative an AR15.
Popcorn AND Junior Mints.
If the families want to watch, fine with me.
The death penalty was and should be used as a deterent for crime. Sure it’s a just punishment in many cases. But for effect, the execution would need to be swift, vulgar and public.
I think Texas is the closest example of the death penalty being used as a deterent. It is no secret to civilians and criminals that Texas uses the death penalty more aggressively. That must contibute to Texas’ criminal homicide rate being where it is in comparison.
I’m a mid-south transplant from Northern VA...I lived through this. This execution should be on C-SPAN!
Bingo ... they can stand (on the firing line) as representatives of all of us who lived in MD, DC and NoVA during that crazy time.
I take it that JAM pulled a McVeigh and eschewed his appeals? 7 years is light speed for an execution.
I don't believe that's gonna work out like he's thinking.
I think the execution should be nationally televised...with a notice to all criminals (particularly those in Washington, D.C.) that "YOU ARE NEXT".
I am proud to report that Virginia, my state, is giving Texas a run for its money. We are second only because we are not as large. I think it has a definite deterrent effect.
If I was a family member of a victim, I would not attend.
I see little use to publically display my bitterness by being present at the execution.
AR15???
If the family memebers have ongoing feelings of hatred, bitterness, a need for revenge and so on....
then these murderers took much more than just the life of their loved one.
“Lee Boyd Malvo, 24, “
IIRC, he wasn’t given the death penalty...should have been.
Another example of the havoc illegal immigration causes.
Tie his hands and feet and throw him into a pit with starving pigs.
Pigs will eat anything even this guy, just hope the pigs will not get sick.
Okay families. Now hold out your hand to the condemned and extend your middle finger.
If it’s by lethal injection, I hope they would mix pig grease in with the lethal solution.
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