This!RoyGBiv wrote:
I have zero sympathy for the condemned.
My only concern is that it really should be done better. We look like idiots. And that further diminishes the dissuasion factor.
Look if it was up to me I would not have the death penalty. Not because I am a bleeding heart, but because I think it is very easy to die. Death comes to us all, some young, some old. To simply be put to death in the same manner as a beloved pet after committing a horrible crime is not justice. For those that there is no question of guilt, that it is obvious they committed a heinous crime with depravity. I'd like to take my revenge out another way.
Right now they get fame and everyone in the state pays attention to them when the day of their death finally comes. The liberal press mourns and says "he was almost a good boy--or some such nonsense." The family of the murdered has to deal with that stuff, and the family of the condemned gets to hold a funeral.
This is what I would like. I would like them to be put in a place of forgetting. Life sentence, no possibility of release ever. Take their life from them one day at a time. Let them live one day after another until everyone they have hurt, everyone who loves them has passed on. Let them live until they are old and gray in a prison, till no one comes anymore for visitors day. Let them be forgotten. The one day when their life expires, they are put in paupers grave. No one to remember them, no one to grieve them, no one to tell stories about them.
Either do the above, or stand them against a wall after a second and third appeal and shoot them like the mad dogs they are.