Prosecutor outraged at execution stay for 'worst of the worst'

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[Carry_Okie]

I would like to know how the judges justify lethal injection of sedatives to be cruel and inhuman when people are routinely desperate to raise the money to pay for the opportunity to kill themselves with the same drugs for the sheer pleasure of it.

[vimto]

Curiously, one philosophical reason for the death penalty is that it is kinder than life in behind bars. Having said that, the long drawn out appeals process that prevails today is probably more cruel than execution.

Here in the UK he would get parole by now.....

[BobbyT]

Sure, if prisons were work camps where prisoners had to earn their keep and weren’t give workout equipment and playtime (not to mention Hi-Def TV service!)

Until then, better to get rid of the scum.

[bill1952]

Some people just need dying.

Its not about punishment or even deterrence; its about what is right.

Seriously, some people need to be killed.
Sound too blunt?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Strip him of his Constitutional Rights as a convict, and then release him to the custody of the family.

Problem solved.

[exit82]

A slow rot in prison?

With all of today’s amenities? You have to be kidding!

Why should we pay for vermin to breathe when they denied the same to their victims?

If you are not in danger of losing your own life, then what possibly would restrain a criminal from killing? What’s the downside?

A killer is judge, jury and executioner of another human being. We have a justice system to administer JUSTICE on our behalf.

A killer has no right to act as God over another human being. The state has the authority to act as God over another human being to administer justice.

The judgement against our society is that we agonize over taking the life of a guilty murderer, but have no compunction about aborting an innocent unborn child.

[Publius Valerius]

Allow them one appeal against conviction, one appeal for clemency, and that's it.

You wouldn't be troubled by the innocent people that would be executed as part of the "one appeal" policy?

[SeaHawkFan]

You wouldn't be troubled by the innocent people that would be executed as part of the "one appeal" policy?

This is why I am not as supportive of the death penalty as I once was. Not opposed to it, just wary of dishonest prosecutors. I've read too many stories of DNA exonerating people convicted and prosecutors still arguing that the guy was guilty or claiming that the defendant was too late in providing the evidence that the prosecutor was hiding in the first place. In this particular case, I would do the job myself.

[ASOC]

I did mention sub-contracting the prision out to Peru or maybe the Koreans.....

[ASOC]

I use the comment

“We shoot rabid dogs - don't we?”

I am prolife and am pro-capital punishment. And no, I don't see any dichotomy in the view.....

[dennisw]

Executing stone killers should be common sense.

[John Locke]

Yes, I would indeed be troubled. Especially as we know there are some prosecutors who will do their best to "railroad" defendents - or as we now say, "Nifong" them.

But I think that's another issue; with our present arrangement justice is done to nobody, guilty or innocent. And I also suspect juries will be a lot more cautions in their deliberations if they know that they, and they alone, hold a life in their hands.