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Sunny, were the victims raped and murdered in the most humane way possible? What the heck is wrong with you? Do you have family and friends?
If this happened to a loved one of yours which method do you feel would be the best way to deal with the perpetrator?
Without a soul pulling the trigger, nothing happens, without someone signing a death warrant, nothing happens
I feel that the relatives of the person that murdered should give the Lethal Injection.
Nobody cares about how he dyed , as a taxes payer here, go on with killing the killer however fits
oh, wow, Anderson wants to chop our heads off. Big shock.
What people keep forgetting is revenge is deeply ingrained in the human psyche. We can never remove it from our nature. It's linked with self preservation. If someone is trying to do you harm or kill you, you will inevitably kill/harm him back out of fear for your own life. Now, if we're living in a 'free for all' society, it will be simple, kill or get killed. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on where you stand, we live in a civilized society now so no killing the people who are trying to kill you. Today you need to call the police to apprehend the perpetrators and go through the mumbo jumbo we call 'due process'.
He didn't just kill her, he killed a baby as well. People forget that.
i amย the 6.666 view….
The death penalty is a crime in itself. Though the U.S. makes it evenย more inhumane. Midazolam? Come on, even an amateur can tell you that it is not a substitute for thiopental or pentobarbital. In China they execute convicts by the gun, which is far kinder. Even a correct hanging is kinder. And here you all go on about right and wrong. What did Jesus say oh ye devout Christians? God bless America?
State executions shouldn't be about punishment or justice or revenge. Too focused on the individuals involved, not the big picture. If you wronged someone, that's one thing.
A person should get the death penalty by committing an act so heinous that it is delivered upon them by their peers, and that shouldn't be viewed as the ultimate act of punishment, so much as getting rid of an obvious threat to everyone else.
If, due to their actions, an individual cannot be trusted to act without harming others within the community/society, they cannot be a part of it.
You aren't seeking justice or revenge or punishment upon the garbage when you toss it out, you're getting rid of shit you don't want and/or/because it can hurt you if you keep it around.
Funny how the liberals don't want the death penalty, but yet they promote abortion?
And where was his compassion to the young Mother and her baby who were denied their lives????
Most of the comments below demonstate what a cruel, savage and inhumane culture the USA has. And then Americans wonder about why they have the western world's by far highest homicide and rape rates…
its barbaric to kill people in general you hypocrites
I have an answer to the problem of capital punishment? how about if the criminal doesn't commit the crime he won't have to be executed?
This guy was only sorry and remorseful because he was caught. He would've done it again and again, had he not been. So, according to those who are anti-death penalty, the max penalty for taking one or multiple lives in any unimaginable, unfathomable way should be to put them in a prison where they can spend the rest of their days having three meals a day, healthcare, and a roof over their head, all paid for by the American people? If you can take someone's life than you should be prepared to have you life taken away from you.
The death penalty is nothing else but revenge.
I can't believe someone asked ere in comments "Christians burned people what's the difference "
Spiritual, scientific evolution as a species for starters
What year or century do u live in to ask that
"why executions need to be humane?" Because the country is run by criminals who write the laws in case they get caught.
This will revolt any Christian. ย If it doesn't, you aren't a Christian. ย ย
That is a good question. I say just hang them.ย
i say bring back the firing squad ppl say thats cruel but what the ppl do to get executed in the first place tends to be far more cruel. unusual is every few year comming up with some new weird way to do it lets hang em lets shoot em lets shock em lets gas em lets poison em.
PUBLIC HANGINGS WORK THE BEST.
Reminds me of a movie
An eye for an eye,an tooth for a tooth,shall turn us all blinds.Each time I'm listening to such a discussion,it's like watching some cave-men in aย bio-dome.ย
Thats called Karma……….
How about a cow killer, like the hitman used in No Country For Old Men?
Church run executions were not allowed to spill blood.
Burning at the stake or hanging were bloodless but beheading and bullets spill copious amounts of blood.
I know nothing about the background to this case and if the man was guilty or not, or why this was done 3 decades after the event.
The man was a Christian and believed he was absolved of any sin.
In Russia they take them out back of the jail and Shoot them in the Head!,Short and Sweet!,ย
Bring back the guillotine
The problem with the US is simply that it's citizens are mostly psychos and sociopaths.
http://madamenoire.com/73840/exonerated-after-execution-12-men-and-one-woman-found-innocent-after-being-put-to-death/
The U.S accounts for 25% of world's prison inmates and only 5% of world's population. Police brutality on top10 with countries like Iran or India (also the only 1st world country with death penalty). Read the comments and see for yourself. The disregard of U.S citizens for things like due process or human rights is part of the culture. The United States with drone strikes alone has killed over 200 innocent children and in over 90% of the targets innocent civilians die. War veterans commit suicide over 22 per day.
The United States economy is also founded on bully trough the dollar monopolization of commodities like oil, export of inflation (number 1 export) and retaliations against any financial institution who dares to do something about it (see process opened by Obama against the rating company who downgraded the U.S debt).
Look at the people who have died on Afghanistan or Iran and the way the soldiers who committed atrocities received 0 consequences. The way the U.S threats any free press that shows it's atrocities. The way the U.S supports dictatorships around the world or criminal states like Israel (says the U.N) or guerrillas. U.S citizens are mostly blood thirsty sociopaths and psychos, that's the hard truth.
Is this really an issue? Who cares how they die? What we should do is make a spinning wheel with multiple ways to be executed. That way things would be interesting.Then show the death on national television. Maybe crime just might drop if we were little more brutal.
Is this really an issue? Who cares how they die? What we should do is make a spinning wheel with multiple ways to be executed. That way things would be interesting.Then show the death on national television. Maybe crime just might drop if we were little more brutal.
what is wrong with a firing sq
Oh boo hoo…he would have avoided the DP had he not
raped and murdered a pregnant woman. Doctors put you
under before an operation; why not use those drugs in
excessive amounts? My empathy is for the victim and her
family, not for the murderer.
He got what he deserved. 10 minutes of suffering is nothing compared the the pain her victim (and her family) had to endure. I find it quite amusing that in his last moments, instead of apologizing to his victim's family, he is still dreaming about going to the heaven.ย
i love how they are showing internet comments directly in the video now. most of them are actually better than what the politically correct panel says anyway.
Murder is murder. Doesn't matter who is perpetrating it, it's always profane.
Beheading is the most humane way to execute someone.
god's fucked up if this sicko gets to torment his victim for eternity in heaven.