Originally posted by ScriabinPeople prefer the sanitized capital punishment. It's easier on their conscience. If the action of killing
I think the guy and all those convicted of heinous murder should suffer being hanged, drawn and quartered in a public athletic stadium with a capacity of no less than 80,000 people. The execution would be projected on the huge screens in the stadium and simulcast live on HDTV .The condemned prisoner would be:
1 Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to th ...[text shortened]... y, I suggest slowly rotating the condemned over an open fire and cooking him like a chicken --
has the superficial appearance of being merciful, then the result (death) has a muted character.
We can function under the pretense of civility by making the execution painless, but it remains
no less a sport than the suggestions you made, though we blanket it with noble justifications.
We only examine the inhumanity of the method of killing, not of the killing itself.
It's truly a shame that we, in essence, have not risen above this barbaric practice.
Nemesio
Originally posted by ScriabinAnother method is to float the person up into the air in a helium balloon and then open fire on it with an anti-aircraft missile battery.
I think the guy and all those convicted of heinous murder should suffer being hanged, drawn and quartered in a public athletic stadium with a capacity of no less than 80,000 people. The execution would be projected on the huge screens in the stadium and simulcast live on HDTV .The condemned prisoner would be:
1 Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to th ...[text shortened]... y, I suggest slowly rotating the condemned over an open fire and cooking him like a chicken --
Originally posted by shavixmirHere's some links with figures:
Yup. It's still not a deterrent though. Look at the figures.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=167
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?&did=1705#deaths
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=169
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=168#stateswithvwithout
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThere's more than one reason why I personally wouldn't commit murder. The risk of criminal punishment is one reason, but there's also the fact that I wouldn't want to have to live with knowing I'd killed someone.
I thought about that. There are people I'd like to kill assuming I could get away with it. I believe in the system, but something could happen to push me over the edge.
The death penalty itself does not scare me. Death doesn't scare me very much any more. The Death Penalty takes forever to actually kill people, so I'd even have time to do stuff ...[text shortened]... ogically it seems more unpleasant - not the death itself, but the life waiting to die.
Originally posted by der schwarze Ritterif his trial lasts more than 5 minutes, the world is really fuked up.
Richard Cooey, who raped and killed two women in 1986, says he's too fat to be put to death. A lawsuit filed Friday by the 5-foot-7, 267-pound inmate's lawyers says executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could reduce the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080804/world/death_penalty_cooey
Two words: Electric chair.
but then again, when a woman sues starbuck for being stupid and spilling some hot coffee on herself and not only she is not laughed at but she gets a fat settlement, we can safely say that some people have lost their common sense.
i even heard of a dude that scolded is willy in the shower and sued the town hall.
Originally posted by karnachzWell, there you go.
Here's some links with figures:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=167
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?&did=1705#deaths
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=169
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=168#stateswithvwithout
No death penalty = less murder.
It's ludricous to even imagine that committing a murder has any relationship with fear of punishment, if you ask me.
I'm quite surprised that there is a difference in figures. I would presume that if you're in a mind-frame that murder seems a reasonable option or if you're so angry it's your only option, then the punishment is not really an issue.
Originally posted by WheelyThen why is he fighting it? Clearly, he doesn't want to die. Besides, studies show that for every criminal executed, 18 lives are saved:
Yes it will.
However DSR was implying that the death penalty was a deterrent. It plainly wasn´t.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=14648
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterThat's a different question DSR!
Then why is he fighting it? Clearly, he doesn't want to die. Besides, studies show that for every criminal executed, 18 lives are saved:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=14648
He's fighting it because he doesn't want to die. It didn't deter him at the time he committed the murder though did it.
Here you are starting to see the problem I think. Generally criminals are not concerned with the punishment, They are only concerned with the likelihood of being caught. The vast majority of crimes would not happen if it was certain that the perpetrator would be caught. I would suggest that the level of punishment is almost irrelevant.