On 24/09/2011 3:20 AM, rosie wrote:
> On Sep 23, 11:55 am, Chemo the > wrote:
>> On Sep 23, 9:40 am, > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 23, 11:35 am, Christopher > wrote:
>>
>>>> On Sep 22, 11:16 pm, > wrote:
>>
>>>>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>>>> All it takes is one jerk to ruin it for everybody.
>>
>>>>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040000
>>
>>>>> They could simply place restrictions on it instead.
>>
>>>> It's Texas. Be grateful that the guy they executed was actually
>>>> guilty.
>>
>>> I look for the day when the death penalty is totally abolished.
>>
>> I look for the day when we don't have to wait years and years before
>> we execute. I suppose if you husband and kids were brutally murdered,
>> you'd still want the killer to get life in prison? Three meals a day,
>> all the sex they want, drugs, tv...
> I think I would be devestated if something of that sort happened.
> However, I do not believe death penalty is the way to deal with a
> crime. We all die anyway, if we can give them life with out parole, it
> can be pretty bad. As for the food, I doubt very much if iit is all
> that tasty. Sex? Well.. I am not sure if it is all that pleasant in
> prison.And on a practical note, it costs more to go through a death
> penalty phase with all the hoopla that goes with it than it does to
> house them the rest of their lives.

Life without parole is a tremendous drain on society. Do you know how
much it costs to keep one prisoner for one year? Do some Googling.

Why should a murderer spend the rest of his or her life as a burden on
society? I think that it should be more like China, none of this twenty
years on death row with endless appeals. In China they sentence them and
carry out the sentence within hours in many cases. The only issue is
ensuring that no one who is innocent get executed. We have the means to
tell whether someone is lying, but as it involves potentially dangerous
drugs, they are not used in the western world. Once a person is found
guilty of a capital crime they could be forcibly tested for truthfulness
and released if it turns out that the verdict was wrong. Executed the
same day if it was correct.