Posted on 04/04/2024 11:17:33 AM PDT by Morgana
IMO, neither intoxication nor insanity are legitimate defenses for crime. You can be intoxicated/insane AND guilty. This murderer received a just punishment for his heinous crime. He should have been executed 20 years ago.
I always liked the old method of execution-The electric chair. I often offered to turn my lights off to boost power!
I pray he got right with Jesus because the agony of spending eternity without the Love of God is a truly terrifying thought.
The good news for Dewayne is that by his standards he actually wasn’t executed, because he was so high he didn’t know he was dying.
Good riddance.
And a warning to others.
How did anyone come to the conclusion that electrical shock isn’t cruel or unusual way to kill someone. I’m all for nitrogen saturation, hanging, guillotine or firing squad. Then after they witnessed it still thought it was OK!
I would think that he died a less painful death than the two human beings he shot and killed.
Remember how no one blamed the gun for Kennedy’s assassination?
Was it the sentence or the execution of the sentence that was the issue?
I got the impression it was a “series of bungled executions” on some other death row inmate that compelled the state to put a moratorium on executions, a moratorium that lasted 7 years.
I personally do not understand this kind of thing. Why do they have to have some kind of stupid cocktail of drugs that are hard to get, have different effects on people, blah blah blah.
Here is what they should do. Have the person tied to a gurney. Wheel him into a very small, gas-tight room, close the door, and flood it with nitrogen. The person just passes out and asphyxiates.
Clean. Painless. Easy. Cheap. No screw ups.
I just don’t understand this. All I can gather is that these executions are configured this way to cause them to screw up and result in public outcries.
We don’t need to be cruel. But people need to take responsibility for their actions, which in the case of murder, means losing your own life as well.
Nitrogen works for me.
Not executing folks has more downside than executing them.
The State is just keeping him safe by killing his body so it won't betray him like that again.
I feel very strongly about it. It doesn’t mean we can’t be more diligent in ensuring that only the guilty are punished.
But murder must be punished.
I don’t know how diligent we should be. Or whether capital punishment is the appropriate punishment. However, whatever we decide, it should be administered.
We train dogs by using clear, consistent commands. Good parents have rules for their kids. They don’t let the kids play one against the other. We should be just as consistent with lawbreakers.
There ya go. Reversed applied logic.
Indeed. It was Oswald.All about Lee Harvey Oswald!, the press screamed.
No AR 15 around to blame, at least that I was aware if it was in 1963.
Nope. Different time, different place. Different America.
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