Injection of Reflection

The real problem with capital punishment is that it no longer is a deterent to violent crime. These murderous animals get to spend 30 years in jail and get a law degree while the families of their victims suffer. What we should really do is administer capital punishment the way they did in the Old West. If convicted by a jury of your peers for a capital crime.....THE NEXT DAY AT SUNRISE YOU WERE HUNG. This might cause those contemplating the killing of an innocent victim to think twice.

First things first it should be called the wait for death penalty not the death penalty. It takes way to long to get rid of one of these inmates once they get death. The death penalty cases should be priority one and expedite all appeals so that these inmates are not on the row for 30 years. I can???t understand anyone being against the death penalty, the same people want to quote the bible should read a little further in that book. I seem to recall an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, as well as a pound of flesh. As for the inhumane treatment of these animals, where were you advocates of human life when these same animals were out raping and killing our wives and daughters? I see no reason to turn the other cheek that is for weak minded people that have to believe in something so they can keep on living their pathetic lives. A wise founding father of our country once said ??? religions are all alike-founded upon fables and mythologies??? THOMAS JRFFERSON.

Growing discomfort? Its about time. I did an essay ,after much research ,about the capitol punishment years ago when I was in college. That research made me anti-capitol punishment. I read a statement of a death row inmate who was due to be executed soon, and he said, "I can look around me and show you many men who have done worse crimes than mine who will receive life, not death" It is much to do with your lawyers and how much your money can buy as far as defense. Right there it is wrong. Men a fallible.... We don't have the right to make those decisions. When Moses and his followers were being pursued, he didn't say 'Moses, I will give you the strength to murder them. Instead God parted the sea so that they could flee, and it was the hand of God who swallowed them in the sea.

The deliberate taking of a life is not always murder. Killing to defend yourself, loved ones, innocents or in defense of one's country is not murder. Believing that all killing is murder doesn't show enlightenment; it shows stupidity. Execution is not just about revenge; it is also about punishment. It is consequence for one's action. And, it could be practical. People who take lives without good reason (murder) shouldn't live.
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The deliberate taking of a life is not always murder. Killing to defend yourself, loved ones, innocents or in defense of one's country is not murder. Believing that all killing is murder doesn't show enlightenment; it shows stupidity. Execution is not just about revenge; it is also about punishment. It is consequence for one's action. And, it could be practical. People who take lives without good reason (murder) shouldn't live.
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hog wash! 65% of the nation still approve of the death penalty and i do too. so one story about "botched " attempts is not going to change my mind. the plain truth is that the people that these animals killed and raped did not have some bleeding heart advocate there when they died. i see no way that we can't come up with a drink or pill that would put the inmate to sleep then inject them with insulin.

So much hatred can be read in these comments but there is a truism: those that hate their fellow man must in turn resolve to hate themselves.

The law is nothing if not reason without passion. Deliberatly taking a human life as an act of revenge can never be anything but the ultimate act of passion. e.g. deliberatly taking a human life can never be a remedy for any crime under the law. What the increasing discomfort is about is simply this. The deliberate taking of a life is murder. There are no exceptions. When you commit murder when wearing a uniform, any uniform you add the shame of subserviency to your crime of murder. Americans are begining to realize that. Perhaps there is hope for them..

One TEXAN'S answer. Instead of an electric chair we need electric bleachers. That way all the dirty bastards can be FUBARED wholesale. No fuss, no muss. Put it on pay-for-view and the proceeds go to the victim's families. To make sure we don't get in hot water with the PETA folks we can test the system on lawyers. As for criminals suffering, I don't give a DAMN. And harvesting any part of these animals for anything but dog food is a waste of time and money. Having trouble finding people to flip the switch? Five will get you ten that there will be plenty volunteers from the families of victims. Hell, I'll flip the first one just for grins. As for bleeding heart liberals, they can go to he!! too.

One TEXAN'S answer. Instead of an electric chair we need electric bleachers. That way all the dirty bastards can be FUBARED wholesale. No fuss, no muss. Put it on pay-for-view and the proceeds go to the victim's families. To make sure we don't get in hot water with the PETA folks we can test the system on lawyers. As for criminals suffering, I don't give a DAMN. And harvesting any part of these animals for anything but dog food is a waste of time and money. Having trouble finding people to flip the switch? Five will get you ten that there will be plenty volunteers from the families of victims. Hell, I'll flip the first one just for grins. As for bleeding heart liberals, they can go to he!! too.

God is a vengeful God...He gave us rules, and we are supposed to uphold them...One of his rules is DO NOT KILL...God gave us government, to rule over us, and protect us from the evils of this world...Killing murderers is one way the government protects us.

Personally, I can't see worrying about how cruel and unusual it is to kill someone who probably didn't care about how cruel and unusual it was for them to kill their victim...I'm all for the death penalty, and I think that the more pain they inflicted on their victims, the more pain should be inflicted upon them. Murderers do NOT deserve pity. It sickens me that America is so full of idiotic bleeding hearts. Let's have some murderers kill your loved ones and see if you think they should live...Don't say that you would be able to do that unless it has happened to you...You honestly don't know what you would do and how you would feel until it happens.

The law is nothing if not reason without passion. Deliberatly taking a human life as an act of revenge can never be anything but the ultimate act of passion. e.g. deliberatly taking a human life can never be a remedy for any crime under the law. What the increasing discomfort is about is simply this. The deliberate taking of a life is murder. There are no exceptions. When you commit murder when wearing a uniform, any uniform you add the shame of subserviency to your crime of murder. Americans are begining to realize that. Perhaps there is hope for them..

commuterdog makes a good point, there is a reason why most sane countries have repealed the death penalty, and that is because we have exonerated more and more people of the crimes they were convicted of all over the world.

The death penalty is NOT necessary to keep people from kiling each other. What is necessary is teaching all children in this world that it is WRONG to kill another person, in ANY situation, for ANY reason, including if you are serving in an 'army'.

People like Thghost scare me, it seems that they are WORSE than the very people who they would want to execute and in most cases, have absolutely no conscience to them.

You people for capital punishment sicken me...Here we are in a free nation, supposedly one of the best and we still denounce killing by killing another person. What happen to our so called "Christian" values? What happen to forgiveness? I thought God said vengeance was his only?! The trust is the constitution guarantees our life, liberty and process against anything except due process of the Law. Until yet we have not seen due process. Sentencing inadequacies, false statements, falsified evidence and simple human error... We shouldn???t be able to take what we can???t give back. And for you "conservatives'" who protect the unborn child but kills the men/ women... you should be ashamed... That's like comparing something nonexistent to a living thing. You would protect the child while it's in the womb but let it die for something like your war in Iraq? Idiot, it's not a double standard it's just simple hypocrisy!!!

You people for capital punishment sicken me...Here we are in a free nation, supposedly one of the best and we still denounce killing by killing another person. What happen to our so called "Christian" values? What happen to forgiveness? I thought God said vengeance was his only?! The trust is the constitution guarantees our life, liberty and process against anything except due process of the Law. Until yet we have not seen due process. Sentencing inadequacies, false statements, falsified evidence and simple human error... We shouldn???t be able to take what we can???t give back. And for you "conservatives'" who protect the unborn child but kills the men/ women... you should be ashamed... That's like comparing something nonexistent to a living thing. You would protect the child while it's in the womb but let it die for something like your war in Iraq? Idiot, it's not a double standard it's just simple hypocrisy!!!

It makes me sick to hear anyone say they are a Christian and then say they support the death penalty. How can anyone be that hypocritical? No-one has the right to kill another, no matter what the crime. We will all be judged one day, and we will be judged by how we judge others. STOP CONDEMNING PEOPLE TO DEATH!

It sikkens me to think of anyone having sympathy for anyone on death row. First of all there are thousands with life sentences that should be there with them. If you were the one that was the actual victim. Would you still feel the way you do. Lets ask the dead? They said kill them and quit crying. Oh and please quit making it so humane. If you are proven to be guilty. There should be no appeals, just death.

What's to discuss? How constitutional was it when these people violated the rules of society to get where they are now? How constitutional was it when someone died at their hands? Do the victims not matter any longer in our world? They couldn't appeal their death as not being constitutional .... so why should the people on death row?