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re: Should they bring back public execution?
Posted on 6/5/16 at 3:44 pm to truthteller34
Posted on 6/5/16 at 3:44 pm to truthteller34
The death penalty doesn't make the world a better place, nor will it ever divert people from violent crime, but I have no problem with violent offenders paying with their lives and their carcasses sweltering in a shallow grave. Sitting on death row for 20+ years needs to stop, and we need to make sure we kill the right people.
We're not a civilized society and never will be. Some offenders deserve to be treated as animalistic as their crimes. For many, a bullet to the head would already be getting it easy.
We're not a civilized society and never will be. Some offenders deserve to be treated as animalistic as their crimes. For many, a bullet to the head would already be getting it easy.
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Posted on 6/5/16 at 3:47 pm to truthteller34
I've always stood by George Carlin's suggestion:
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And I'm not talking about soft, American executions, like lethal injection. I'm talking about fricking crucifixion folks! Let's bring back crucifixions. A form of capital punishment the Christians and Jews of America can really appreciate.
And I'd go a little further, I'd crucify people upside-down. Like Saint Peter, feet up, head down. And naked. I'd have naked upside-down crucifixions on TV once a week at halftime on the Monday Night Football game! Halftime! Monday Night! The Monday Night Crucifixions! You'd have people tuning in, don't even care about Football! Wouldn't you like to hear Dan Dierdorf explain why the nails have to go in at a certain angle?
And I'll guarantee you one thing. You start execut- you start nailing one white banker per week to a big wooden cross, you're going to see that drug traffic begin to slow down pretty fricking quick. Pretty fricking quick- you won't even be able to buy drugs in schools and prisons anymore!
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:02 pm to truthteller34
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Texas, which has executed 536 people in the last 40 years, more than the next top six states combined.
This post was edited on 6/5/16 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:02 pm to truthteller34
Let's make a sport of it, take 'em down to South Africa, dress them in a seal suit and tow 'em behind a boat for Great Whites. Pay Per View for mega dollars!!!
Take shark week to another level!!!
Take shark week to another level!!!
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:03 pm to truthteller34
I'm all for public hangings. No need to drag these things out as long as we do. Should be done within a year.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:04 pm to auggie
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On this episode,there was a murder in Tulsa,where a guy was trying to get his bicycle back from the thug that stole it.
When he went to get his bike, the thug just shot him.
Oh shite, hope the deceased wasn't the guy who had his bike stolen on here a few months ago...
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:09 pm to Twenty 49
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our state puts it at midnight, lets in few witnesses, no video, and puts the condemned to sleep with medicine. How pussified and non-deterring.
Regardless of someone's stance on the death penalty, the idea that it is a deterrent is asinine. There are no crimes punishable by death that are being stopped because the criminal is worried about being put to death.
I'm all for speeding up the process, but there needs to be a higher threshold for that type of punishment. DNA evidence or video evidence must be conclusive, or something similar. Putting an innocent man to death at the hands of the state is never okay.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:14 pm to Bad Medicine
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Should be done within a year.
Ehh, not if we maintain our current stats on convictions:
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From 1973 to 2013, 8,466 sentences of death were handed down by U.S. courts, and 1,359 individuals were executed — only 16 percent. Even excluding those who remained on death row as of 2013, only about 24 percent of condemned inmates have been executed. Those sentenced to death are almost three times as likely to see their death sentence overturned on appeal and to be resentenced to a lesser penalty than they are to be executed. Here is a summary of the outcomes:
8,466 death sentences were imposed across the United States from 1973 through 2013.
3,194 were overturned on appeal, composed as follows. For 523, the underlying statute was declared unconstitutional. For 890, the conviction was overturned. For 1,781, the death penalty was overturned, but guilt was sustained.
2,979 remain on death row as of Dec. 31, 2013.
1,359 were executed.
509 died on death row from suicide or natural causes.
392 had their sentence commuted by the governor to life in prison.
33 had some other outcome or a miscellaneous reason for being removed from death row.
Even if you ignore all of the other reasons they're overturned, more than 1 in 10 people sentenced to death were later found not guilty.
That is simply unacceptable if you're going to have the death penalty in the first place, and even more unacceptable if you're going to kill someone within a year of their conviction.
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Posted on 6/5/16 at 4:16 pm to SmoothOperator96
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Artificial selection is just as good as natural selection.
I'm not sure you grasp the concept of either of those terms. If today you killed every person that deserved the death penalty, you willstill have a group of people that deserve it very shortly after.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 5:35 pm to truthteller34
Knife to the throat
Posted on 6/5/16 at 5:39 pm to truthteller34
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Louisiana is # 1 in the country for most incarcerations.
In the most incarcerated country = most incarcerated place on earth.
They should focus on not throwing everyone in jail every chance they can..fricking private prison industry.
frick geo and all that wackenhut bullshite.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 5:46 pm to truthteller34
Considering PEs wouldn't deter crime but cause it to rise the answer is no.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 6:03 pm to GoHoGsGo06
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We should also cut fingers off if caught stealing. If you don't steal, you have nothing to worry about.
There are a few countries that might be more to your liking but pack sunscreen. They tend to be hot.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 6:57 pm to truthteller34
Yes
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:42 pm to truthteller34
I think seeing someone's neck stretched in town square would have a larger, lasting impression than knowing if you kill someone you'll live on a prison farm working, eating 3 meals a day, learn a trade, and have the Monday after the Super Bowl off
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:44 pm to truthteller34
Dats raciss yo
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:49 pm to lurkr
Some barbaric mofos up in this thread. Move to middle east if you're that sick and blood thirsty to want to witness killings in public. I bet most of you consider yourselves Christians too. 
State sponsored killing of its citizens should be frowned upon not just morally but also on the fact that many death row inmates are later exonerated. Bottom line is that the death penalty has no place in a modern civilized society. We're one of the last 1st world countries to continue this practice that doesn't show to lessen crime stats. Public executions are barbaric, plain and simple. They should only remain a distant artifact of a different time in our history.
State sponsored killing of its citizens should be frowned upon not just morally but also on the fact that many death row inmates are later exonerated. Bottom line is that the death penalty has no place in a modern civilized society. We're one of the last 1st world countries to continue this practice that doesn't show to lessen crime stats. Public executions are barbaric, plain and simple. They should only remain a distant artifact of a different time in our history.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:50 pm to truthteller34
I'm 100% down to bring back Gladiators and the collesium.
Everyone convicted of a murder goes into the Gladiator program.
Imagine Death Valley filled on a Saturday night not during football season to watch actual Gladiator fights. And lion fights. And chariot battles.
Who wouldn't want that?
Everyone convicted of a murder goes into the Gladiator program.
Imagine Death Valley filled on a Saturday night not during football season to watch actual Gladiator fights. And lion fights. And chariot battles.
Who wouldn't want that?
This post was edited on 6/5/16 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:51 pm to grif82
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State sponsored killing of its citizens should be frowned upon
So should state sponsored health care, meals, housing, and jobs for serial killers.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:57 pm to Breesus
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So should state sponsored health care, meals, housing, and jobs for serial killers
Nice straw man. Should they do the same for rapists, armed robbers, and arsonist serve long sentences or life? Slippery slope here.
This post was edited on 6/5/16 at 8:06 pm
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