He committed multiple homicide and his decreed punishment was death. It doesn't matter if he is now regretful or what his actions have been since he committed the crimes. He must pay for his actions. Think of it this way: If you're remorseful after you get caught speeding, you still have to pay the fine.
It is a shame he could only die once for the crimes he committed. As much as I am for executing him, I feel that the cost of keeping a prisoner on death row is NOT in the best interest of our tax money. Consequently, I would open up a federal prison in North Alaska (aka Gulag) and keep these low lifes in exile so they can rot or freeze their lives away.
I say execution, at this point, only tells every man in prison that nobody really cares if they attempt to reform themselves. Should he have been executed - for the crimes he committed, I say yes. He wasn't. Now execution sort of seems a hypocracy... which I already know a couple people who have already posted here have no problems with, so I guess I'm not surprised they answered they way they did
We should take away the death penalty so these *&^%&*^%*(&^^^ can rot in prison until they die. The average death row wait is 18 years, why not just keep them until they rot away? Besides, we'll conserve power.
Well, there have been a few "life in prison" inmates escaping from prison lately (read the news). They've been sentenced to prison for violent crimes including homicide, but have gotten out. I don't want them anywhere near me, do you?
i say any crime that gets punishment over 20 years should be capital. i mean whats the point. if your crime is that bad why give them the luxury of life? but is they did get life i would give them all hard labor in waste landfills sorting and collecting recyclables. there would be no such thing as crimes of passion and no leaniency for the mentally impaired. there wouldnt be anymore waiting list for kidney/liver/heart transplants.
i may be young, but i have my ideals when it comes to capital punishment. An eye for an eye, Tooth for a Tooth. Kill anyone who commits murder. Now.... i'm not trying to be harsh or anything but quite honestly and seriously, we shouldnt wait that long to flip a switch. It didnt take them 18 years to kill the person, now did it? I say, no appeals. A death warrant is final. No alternate endings. Carried off from Sparky in a box.:loud::vanish:
I think the death cell should only hold ONE prisoner - if another one shows up the first one is executed .
hah, ron, i like your idea, but i think they should be killed within the next week after their sentencing/ appeal.
My problem with the death penalty as it is handled in the United States is the lawyers. Lawyers become politicians, judges and district attorneys, etc. When the State (lawyers) attempt to get a death sentence, it looks to me like an ego trip. The trial takes on the dimensions of game of personal egos, a contest. The defendent, victim, and the public really don't count much after the cameras start rolling. The whole thing is a stage for lawyers. Television, books, political office, yada, yada, yada. The only way to minimize the involvement of lawyers is to simplify trials. No death penalty, just hard time with no possibility of parole. No multi-million-dollar conrete edifices with laptops and conjugal visits. It would be canvas tents in th desert with mandatory work, absolute discipline and order, no recreation activities, and simple food. No weights. No television. No law library. Just work, subsistence eating, and sleep. The prisoners would be largely responsible for their own up-keep. In a perfect world, there would be no lawyers or ACLU. Juries and lawyers have been wrong in the past, why should we assume that the judicial system will get it right the next time, and the time after that? Trials are little stage plays, and the participants get it wrong often. I say no death penalty, and no more fatal mistakes. Make the lawyers go out and get honest work. Make inmates pay their own way. IMNSHO, we should not kill anybody. Let the communist Chinese and Muslim Arabs do that.
Justice? We have become so concerned with the rights of the criminal that we shame the victims and their families who suffer terrible losses due to people who knowingly commit these crimes hoping or knowing that they can get away with it. There is not enough motivation to care. I think we should execute death sentences thirty minutes after they are sentenced. Especially murder and multipule murder cases. Spend Fifty cents on a bullet to the back of the head and call it a day. Why waste 18 years of money to support very wicked people. Up the anty for crimes such as rapes and murder. Life in jail is still life living. Use the monies saved to feed, clothe and educate innocent children. :bow:
As much as some people would prefer to think otherwise, the primary purpose of prison sentences is punishment, not rehabilitation, not deterrence (though that is a secondary effect, to a degree). I don't think the fact that someone has come to regret his actions later should exempt him from the consequences of those actions. I'm glad he regrets them and has remorse. But his still should pay the price for those actions. The only real problem I have with the death penalty is the risk of someone innocent being executed, but I think that can be resolved by allowing a reasonable number of appeals (say, 3). Once those are exhausted, the sentence should be carried out. If receiving a death sentence, and knowing that it will be carried out in a reasonable amount of time, is a certainty for certain crimes (say murder, at least, the only crime I think worthy of a death sentence) than it will act as more of a deterrent than when it's not likely you'll be executed for at least 18 years. However it's not so much of a deterrent as a message that tihs is a crime society finds so intolerable, that it warrants the most extreme punishment possible.
I think punks, creeps, and homocidal maniacs maight prefer to die through lethal injection than actually having to work the rest of their lives. What could be worse for a person who probably spent most of his life avoiding useful work.
