Painless execution

[Eran of Arcadia]

How about giving them cancer? Or putting them in car wrecks? All of which happen to innocent people. I mean, since most people will eventually die somewhat painfully, if we are going to have the death penalty causing condemned criminals a small amount of pain is the least of our worries. People die all the time.

 

[Dann]

Doesn't China now have these new "execution" busses that travel from town to town and are complete with all the tools needed for lethal injections?

I heard these are supposed to replace the firing squads in a few years.

Now where did you hear that from? Ridiculous.

BTW my grandpa was born during the last years of the Qing. That's why he got to saw beheadings.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I find it quite pathetic when seeing people trying to imagine ways to torture people to death and justifying this by "they were bad people !".

It's an excuse to unleash repressed sadism/need for power/bestial instinct.
At least be honest about it.

Just punishment and unwinding your dark desires aren't exactly the same, you know people...

^^Akka is right^^

 

[T-Money]

What?? I don't see anything wrong with it. Kidnapping is also against the law--yet nobody complains when the police arrest somebody. Which, really, is exactly what the police do every time they arrest somebody: kidnap them and deprive them of their Right to Liberty.

The key point is: it's legal to kill somebody if the law and the court system sez so.

OK......first things first. Kidnapping is against the law, but police arrest people because those people commited crimes. If you're innocent, you might spend a few nights in jail. BFD. But if you get accused of murder you go to the chair. Every American has a constitutional guarrantee that their right to live will not be infringed upon by the powers-that-be. Violation of liberty is minor if you're a suspected kidnapper- would you rather that people who steal kids away be running around loose?- but drawing a parallel between that and the death sentence is apples and bananas.

And yes, you're right: it is legal to kill someone of the court system sais so. But that's not the point. People who murder other people deserve life inprisonment, but not execution.

 

[Drewcifer]

Perhaps the notion of killing criminals is reflective of the violent urges in a society in general. Rightous violence in the hands of the state is not that far down the road from rightous violence in the hands of an individual.

If you must do it, kill them with an overdose of morphine.

 

[BasketCase]

OK......first things first. Kidnapping is against the law, but police arrest people because those people commited crimes.

I think that was my whole point. A person's right to liberty is forfeit if the law says so. So is a person's right to life; put a police officer in jeopardy of his life, and the law says that officer is allowed to kill you.

People who murder other people deserve life inprisonment, but not execution.

This is up to the voters as a whole. Over here in the U.S., the majority of voters support the death penalty. Over here, they DO deserve execution. End of argument.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

People who murder other people deserve life inprisonment, but not execution.

This is up to the voters as a whole. Over here in the U.S., the majority of voters support the death penalty. Over here, they DO deserve execution. End of argument.

Not end of argument. I consider this tyranny of the majority. Although very different events, it is the same tyranny that allowed racial, ethnic and sex discrimation. It took activist federal judges and significant protests to end these. As we become more civilized, we will end this barbarism also.

 

[BasketCase]

Tyranny of the majority has a shorter name: Democracy.

Tough cookies.

 

[Dominik]

I just don't get the death penalty.

"What did he do?"
"He killed someone."
"That's bad."
"Yeah. What say you we kill him for it?"
"Ok."

 

[cegman]

Dominik sounds good to me you want the first shot or should I take it?

 

[romelus]

in cases where guilt is 100% certain. i'd prefer a live burial in cement, oh the fear and agony!

 

[hievery]

How about gladiators? We give death row inmates broadswoards and a grenade belt, throw 'em in a ring, tell em whoever wins gets free, and see what happens. Taxes could go down, b/c they could sell advertising. "root for the Budweiser rapist", or the "Pennzoil petafile"!

I have too many good ideas for this Earth

 

[Perfection]

I have too many good ideas for this Earth

I agree, please leave to a more deserving planet.

 

[hievery]

M'kay just give me a spaceship, m'kay

 

[Sh3kel]

The firing squad works best. If every man is trained to shoot at the vitals, and the squad is made up of 6 men with 4 rounds each - it'd be a pretty sure kill.

 

[Dann]

The firing squad was actually invented to lessen the guilty feelings of the enforcers. Half the rifles issued to the squad are actually loaded with blanks. By shooting in unison no one will know whether a bullet came out of his rifle or not, thus they all can convince themselves the other guys did it, and continue to sleep soundly at night.

 

[Perfection]

M'kay just give me a spaceship, m'kay

I'll seal you up in a Pegasus rocket.

 

[cegman]

Dann I love the sig.

I still wish we had gladiators. Just because it seems the cheapest execution. We could even have the lesser crimes like drug users be the ones who trained the fighters.

 

[Perfection]

I still wish we had gladiators. Just because it seems the cheapest execution.

Full armor + stadium + weapons + staff = cheap

 

[Dann]

It's certainly not cheap. But it has the potential to be turned into a very lucrative industry, which will more than pay for itself.