Don’t worry. Nobody would force you to attend.
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The chances he’s facing a firing squad is real small. Or even being executed. He was scheduled for death 2 years ago and it was postponed.
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Better to let him Rot in prison with a life sentence without parole.
No one would even care about him with that sentence.
Allan
I love the consistency from the “all life is sacred” crowd and them wanting executions to be as painful and gruesome as possible…
The average cost to maintain an inmate in a max security prison is about $60,000 per year. At some prisons, it has grown to $95,000 per year. And the cost is bound to increase. How many executions would that pay for?
And then there is this:
"Over 200,000 people, or about 1 in 7 prisoners in the United States, were serving life or virtual life sentences in 2019. Over 50,000 are serving life without a chance of parole. In 1993, the Times survey found, about 20 percent of all lifers had no chance of parole. By 2004, that had risen to 28 percent.
“As a result, the U.S. is now housing by far the world’s largest and most permanent population of prisoners who are guaranteed to die behind bars. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, for instance, more than 3,000 of the 5,100 prisoners are serving life with a chance of parole, and most of the remaining 2,100 are serving sentences so long that they cannot be completed in a typical lifetime. About 150 inmates have died there in the time period between the years of 2000 and 2005.[37] The United States holds 40% of the world’s prisoners with life sentences, more than in any other country.”
Do not those statistics suggest that we should not be warehousing people who have demonstrated that they are so worthless that they cannot be allowed to live amongst us?
The government shouldn’t be killing people to save money. Seems like a bad precedent.
Execution by firing squad when done expertly, is not painful nor particularly gruesome.
And there is no conflict with “all life is sacred.” The condemned is guilty of taking human life … usually several or many human lives.
It should certainly be a consideration. The government should always consider cost as a factor when spending public money. If they had been following that as a precedent, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
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I disagree, not when it comes to killing people. Our justice system is imperfect, I don’t trust government to get it right every time, and I’m always surprised when small-government conservatives advocate for the death penalty. I don’t morally object to killing murderers if that’s what society wants, I just don’t trust the government to do it.
…if only I could chain their feet to my tow hitch, then drag them down a cement highway for a few miles and lastly toss them into a pool of rubbing alcohol. Their screams would be music to my ears. How about your ears? 
Going all Old Testament are we?
And no it wouldn’t…Im civilized.
I bet diseased Monkey Island has a king.
Ok, ok, ok…how about using an electric sander instead of dragging them? Is that more civilized?
What ever gets you through your day…I just see consistency isn’t your strong suit.
I agree … The system is not perfect. That is the most valid argument against executions. However, there are many specific cases where there is absolutely no doubt that the convicted individual is not innocent of the crimes) they were charged with.
But if not the government, who? A vigilante lynch mob?
That’s been thought of everyone who been executed, or they wouldn’t have executed.
That’s not true at all. Many people have been executed with lots of people knowing they were probably not guilty.
But I repeat … there are many specific cases where there is absolutely no doubt that the convicted individual is not innocent of the crimes) they were charged with.
And with modern forensic science, the doubt in many other cases is melting away as well.
Those that made the decision were sure…
Not necessarily. Not even most likely.
Until we have a perfect system, which might not be possible, I don’t think we should execute people.
