US executes inmate with single drug

[PegLeg45]

I vote for a Gibbet......works like a Guillotine, but with a blunt edged blade.


http://www.guillotine.dk/Pages/gibbet.html

[fightingquaker13]

I vote for a Gibbet......works like a Guillotine, but with a blunt edged blade.


http://www.guillotine.dk/Pages/gibbet.html

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Vengeance is MINE says the Lord". I'm Anglican, not Catholic, but I do come fairly close. John Paul II said in his Encycilcal "Pro Vita Sum" that God gave us permission to use the death penalty, just like he gave us permission to divorce in cases of adultery (which broadly defined, means neglect and abuse as well, as they all represent a betrayal of the wedding vow), the point is that neither are pleasing to God. If we can find an alternative to execution, we should. If we can't, do the deed, but do it quick and clean and let God worry about punishment. We are aren't dealing with justice, just self defense as a society. Some people simply need to go, and sooner rather than later. God can deal with them later at His pleasure. Our task is merely to protect the innocent.
FQ13 Who will immediately stop preaching, but thought this needed to be said.

[tombogan03884]

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Vengeance is MINE says the Lord". I'm Anglican, not Catholic, but I do come fairly close. John Paul II said in his Encycilcal "Pro Vita Sum" that God gave us permission to use the death penalty, just like he gave us permission to divorce in cases of adultery (which broadly defined, means neglect and abuse as well, as they all represent a betrayal of the wedding vow), the point is that neither are pleasing to God. If we can find an alternative to execution, we should. If we can't, do the deed, but do it quick and clean and let God worry about punishment. We are aren't dealing with justice, just self defense as a society. Some people simply need to go, and sooner rather than later. God can deal with them later at His pleasure. Our task is merely to protect the innocent.
FQ13 Who will immediately stop preaching, but thought this needed to be said.

You post is based on fallacy FQ.
You are working from the flawed assumption that the death penalty is an act of revenge by society, it is not. It is part of the age old contract between an individual and his society. If you work hard and pay your taxes and uphold the law the community will treat you as a valued member, if you murder, rape, rob, or steal, the community will expel you from the human race.
It is no different than a speeding ticket, You go fast, you get a ticket, you murder, you die.

[1911 Junkie]

FQ13 Who will immediately stop preaching.........

I call BS.

3641 posts preaching at us and you think we are going to believe that you are going to stop now.  I think all death row inmates should be counseled by you. After 10 minutes they would be requesting to go to the chair.

 

[fightingquaker13]

I call BS.

3641 posts preaching at us and you think we are going to believe that you are going to stop now.  I think all death row inmates should be counseled by you. After 10 minutes they would be requesting to go to the chair.

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the chair is fine. I just want it quick and clean and with one mandatory appeal 'cause I don't trust the government. I defy the most conservative member of this board to call BS on this.
FQ13

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[Johnny Bravo]

Guillotine at halftime of Monday Night Football !!!

[twyacht]

Still in most Prisons. Let's the condemned have just a few seconds to realize....THIS is what you get when you are a monster in today's society. August 6th, 1890, America's invention "the chair" was used to execute wife murderer, William Kemmeler.


Well crafted oak chair..

OR,.... another oldie but a goody for scumbags



Cyanide pellet into a simple tub of chlorine, basic chemistry. 100% effective. 

We are a nation of laws that have consequences. The more serious and horrendous the crime, the consequences should match the lethal nature of the convicted.

Although, Public hangings for drive by gangsters that kill innocent bystanders and children in the crossfire, in THEIR neighborhood would maybe send a message. Firing squads always get the thumbs up for capital crimes.

But we're a "kinder, gentler" nation.

[tombogan03884]

Old Sparky is to expensive, rope or a bullet to the back of the head. That "Gibbet" thing works for me though.   How does it differ from the Guillotine ?

[PegLeg45]

Old Sparky is to expensive, rope or a bullet to the back of the head. That "Gibbet" thing works for me though.   How does it differ from the Guillotine ?

Narrower blade which is basically a piece of 1 1/4" thick steel with a blunt edge. It mashes the head off instead of cutting. There was a show about them on the History channel a while back where they built a replica. It really did some damage to the stand-in head.

[JdePietro]

I am a religious man but not of the more contemporary variety, I do believe that we as people and not as the devine must take care of our own. Crime is nurished by the compassion of society, whereas I hold no compassion for crime I do feel we must distinguish ourselves from the accused. Further more I feel we have allowed to much to oclude our judgements and far to often an innocent man is charged for a crime he did not commit. I do stand by our method of judgement but I feel it is in need of alteration.

I  feel that when the accused have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to infact be guilty of a hanious act that they should be exicuted publicly. Further more I feel that the way in which said criminal is exicuted should be decided and carried out by the person most connected to the initialy harmed.

I guess I feel that I have no right to commit somones soul to rest if I have no connection to the crime.