More than a few people have been "proven" guilty and been put on death row, only to have their cases overturned after a couple of decades because, wonder of wonders, they were innocent. We can do without the death penalty in this country, (like many other civilised countries). It's something politicians and the courts should have taken away from them and never returned. One innocent death is too many. Let people rot in prison and have to think about what they did to get them there every day for the rest of their life, if necessary.
And what is so bad about a long drop and short rope? It's cheap, requires no real training or complex equipment to carry out, and is pretty much foolproof. And it seems like that is one law that EVERY person can obey...the law of gravity will prevail! For those that survive the drop long enough to strangle to death, SO WHAT??? Once someone is convicted of doing something heinous enough to earn the death penalty, there should be zero consideration of that person's comfort level during the implementation of that penalty.
More than a few people have been "proven" guilty and been put on death row, only to have their cases overturned after a couple of decades because, wonder of wonders, they were innocent. We can do without the death penalty in this country, (like many other civilised countries). It's something politicians and the courts should have taken away from them and never returned. One innocent death is too many. Let people rot in prison and have to think about what they did to get them there every day for the rest of their life, if necessary.
From a pragmatic standpoint, I disagree. How many innocent people in jail for life is too many? Do we let the innocent rot in prison and think about why they got framed?
How many highway fatalities is too many?
How many drowning in home pools is too many?
How many dead solders is too many?
There is a clear, justifiable reason for the death penalty. Those that blatant disregard the value of human life shall have their own life taken.
The other issue I see, is them letting people off for insanity. If your truly that insane you probably won't realize what they are doing to you anyway. Saves tax dollars, we know you won't do it again, family gets a small amount of justice, etc......
I wonder how much coin would be saved if we ditched the death penalty altogether and the appeals that go with them, and really incarcerated for life? The number of executions every year really isn't thinning out the prison population.
Likewise, prosecutors and juries who wrongly convict and put to death an innocent man should have their lives taken.
...What we ought to do is stop all the long drawn out appeals. They get one. That's it. If no new evidence can be brought forth to prove their innocence by the next trial then its out back and up against the wall with them. All said and done in just a few years.
That would save money.
It sure would....and cost innocent lives, but who cares, they probably did something, right?
I guess I'm having a hard time understanding your definition of innocent. If they are consecutively convicted twice, are they innocent? If all the evidence points to them as the primary suspect, are they innocent? If within the allotted amount of time they can produce no new evidence to the contrary, are they innocent?
I think the point is that there have been many people convicted, whose convictions were held up on appeals, who later found to actually be innocent.I guess I'm having a hard time understanding your definition of innocent. If they are consecutively convicted twice, are they innocent? If all the evidence points to them as the primary suspect, are they innocent? If within the allotted amount of time they can produce no new evidence to the contrary, are they innocent?
I'm not a lawyer and in no way do I have any training in law other than my limited personal experience (which consists of traffic court and one small claims case) but IMHO If it looks like, acts like, and quacks like a duck its probably a duck. Unless it can prove its a goose. If it can't prove its a goose then its a dead duck.
I may be wrong though, wouldn't be the first time.
Uhhh.... Rubin Carter... wrongfully convicted twice.... later released after twenty years.
Could use the Pit and the Pendulum to make it interesting. Edgar Allan Poe Version.
Rapid fire catapult into a brick wall
make them fight til the death like a gladiator.
Tank of hungry 2lb piranhas. With a lid.
Punishment should not be easy or gentle. It should hurt like hell.
My vote is death by drowning.
For those that survive the drop long enough to strangle to death, SO WHAT???
there should be zero consideration of that person's comfort level during the implementation of that penalty.