One Problematic Execution (Trees And Things)

JimmyHavok: Re: One Problematic Execution

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:09:48 EST

Your desperate insistence that only the guilty are ever executed shows that at least you have the decency to feel guilty about it, even if you don't have the decency to give up your lust for death.

JimmyHavok: Re: One Problematic Execution

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:56:46 EST

...because, you know, those are the only people who ever get executed.

gerrymander: Re: One Problematic Execution

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:21:49 EST

The next time someone is scheduled to be executed, bring up "potential innocence" as a counter-argument then. But here's a helpful hint: make sure the guy you think is potentially innocent didn't rape a woman, set her on fire while unconscious so she dies

gerrymander: Re: One Problematic Execution

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:16:57 EST

And my point is that if we don't care until it happens to someone innocent, it's already too late.

That's a really poor description of what happens on the road to the death penalty, DEM. Quite a number of people do care, both from within and from

JimmyHavok: Re: One Problematic Execution

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:46:56 EST

The number of of the executed I can see in this case number exactly one

Case closed! I mean, it's not like anyone else is ever going to be executed, is it?

teaweed: Driving the speed limit in the fast lane:

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:22:15 EST

Even if there was a way to ensure only the guilty got their just desserts, I don't want the kind of people who'd want to do the cruel justice, doing it. Torturers creep me out.

skeptic: Re: Oh, Screw it

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:21:10 EST

No, breathing pure nitrogen does not feel like drowning, it feels just like breathing regular air (which is mostly nitrogen) or for that matter, it feels like breathing carbon monoxide, which you favor. Whether you are breathing pure nitrogen or carb

skeeter1: Re: Oh, Screw it

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:04:34 EST

"It is actually easy to kill people painlessly. Put them in a room full of pure nitrogen gas, & let them die of anoxia. Cheap, painless, reliable, non-polluting. No fuss, no muss."

Except that I think anoxia is rather painfu

skeptic: Re: Oh, Screw it

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:57:26 EST

So with the firing squad, we need a group of possibly five highly skilled marksmen who will be penalized if their aim is excessively bad. That seems like an overly expensive, complicated, and difficult method.

From my point of view, the value of e

port1080: Re: Oh, Screw it

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 01:52:19 EST

Indeed...I've always rather favored the firing squad, actually. It offers some last shred of honor to the condemned and it also requires a personal, obvious, intentional act on the part of the executioners. It seems to me that if the state is w

thefadd: Re: Oh, Screw it

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:12:40 EST

At least there's some old style dignity in the firing squad, gallows or guillotine.

skeeter1: Oh, Screw it

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:52:52 EST

Bring back the firing squad, gallows, guillatine, gas chamber, etc. I'm not sorry if death by lethal-injection isn't wonderful. Someone took another one's life. Let them suffer, one way or another. Bring back the firing squad, and I

DEMachina: Re: One Problematic Execution

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:51:17 EST

And my point is that if we don't care until it happens to someone innocent, it's already too late. By that time an innocent person will have already been painfully killed by a botched execution.

What that's saying is that it's worth a botched exec

gerrymander: Re: One Problematic Execution

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:07:34 EST

Why does someone innocent have to suffer just so we can get our vengeance?

The number of of the executed I can see in this case number exactly one, and was performed on a person who was guilty as sin.

DEMachina: Re: One Problematic Execution

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:18:30 EST

Right, which is what I was talking about when I said it was shortsightedness.

Why does someone innocent have to suffer just so we can get our vengeance?

gerrymander: Re: One Problematic Execution

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:48:22 EST

What happens when someone innocent is executed in this manner?

What happens if that occurs is people begin to give a damn. An innocent person suffering the death penalty, bungled or not, is a cause for concern. A gloating rapist, arsonist

DEMachina: Re: One Problematic Execution

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:03:50 EST

Classic case of people not thinking ahead. What happens when someone innocent is executed in this manner?

thefadd: Re: One Problematic Execution

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:28:28 EST

The insertion of John Doe III's personal feelings on the matter is highly disturbing. If we are to put our fellow humans to death we owe that ritual only the greatest reverence.