Botched Execution - Any sympathy?

[janee]

What a horrid thread...

 

[goldstonegull]

should have shot him in the knee caps first, just to cause a bit of pain, then cut his bollocks off, then administor the drugs an hour later while he's suffering.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

What a horrid thread...

Oh dear----don't read it then---have some more lentils

 

[GingerBeerMan]

If death was really such a terrible punishment for mass murderers etc. why do people kill themselves in prison? Ariel Castro is a prime example, sentenced to his whole life in jail, but prefered to kill himself just a few weeks after starting his sentence. I bet the people who advocate capital punishment were mad he got off so 'easily' by killing himself.

 

[Bold Seagull]

If death was really such a terrible punishment for mass murderers etc. why do people kill themselves in prison? Ariel Castro is a prime example, sentenced to his whole life in jail, but prefered to kill himself just a few weeks after starting his sentence. I bet the people who advocate capital punishment were mad he got off so 'easily' by killing himself.

Harold Shipman, Ian Huntley (attempted suicide), Ian Brady (attempted suicide), Fred West - all fancied death rather than life imprisonment.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Harold Shipman, Ian Huntley (attempted suicide), Ian Brady (attempted suicide), Fred West - all fancied death rather than life imprisonment.

Maybe the death penalty should be painful? Then they won't get off so 'easily'.

 

[Eric Potts]

Maybe the death penalty should be painful? Then they won't get off so 'easily'.

So , you're advocating that people should be , essentially , tortured to death ?

 

[Bold Seagull]

Maybe the death penalty should be painful? Then they won't get off so 'easily'.

Like gauge an eye out, or stick them on the rack like the end of Braveheart? Quarter their bodies and display them at the four corners of the country? Oh yes, we can really take some serious leaps forward as a civilised society. Public hangings like in Iran to pop music? Brilliant. You're a visionary!

 

[Willy Dangle]

Botched?

It worked didn't it.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Like gauge an eye out, or stick them on the rack like the end of Braveheart? Quarter their bodies and display them at the four corners of the country? Oh yes, we can really take some serious leaps forward as a civilised society. Public hangings like in Iran to pop music? Brilliant. You're a visionary!

I'm just playing devils advocate, seems a lot of people are highly against the death penalty but know that life imprisonment causes many to want to be dead, isn't that torture in itself?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

So , you're advocating that people should be , essentially , tortured to death ?

No I'm not but posters are stating death is too easy and criminals should rot in jail, I'm just trying to define which is worse?

 

[fat old seagull]

Maybe the death penalty should be painful? Then they won't get off so 'easily'.

I honestly wish I was nice enough to feel sorry for you mate, but clearly I'm not that nice. Because I don't.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I honestly wish I was nice enough to feel sorry for you mate, but clearly I'm not that nice. Because I don't.

It was a sarcastic post on what others have posted, but don't worry yourself "mate"

 

[Bold Seagull]

I'm just playing devils advocate, seems a lot of people are highly against the death penalty but know that life imprisonment causes many to want to be dead, isn't that torture in itself?

I'm not sure what you are advocating. I think you are somehow suggesting an alternative advocacy for the death penalty is it being more humane than keeping someone alive in prison.

I would hope the likes of Shipman, West etc. were hanging themselves for the shear horror of what they had done, not because they wanted to get out of serving time in prison. The point being, death was an escape, whether avoidance of prison, escape from themselves, inner demons, mental conditions, whatever. Make them live with what they did, and treat them as human beings because they are the monsters, and we are the civilised society with empathy and compassion.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I'm not sure what you are advocating. I think you are somehow suggesting an alternative advocacy for the death penalty is it being more humane than keeping someone alive in prison.

I would hope the likes of Shipman, West etc. were hanging themselves for the shear horror of what they had done, not because they wanted to get out of serving time in prison. The point being, death was an escape, whether avoidance of prison, escape from themselves, inner demons, mental conditions, whatever. Make them live with what they did, and treat them as human beings because they are the monsters, and we are the civilised society with empathy and compassion.

Fair point!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Of course it is utterly deplorable. Not because he did not deserve it but to not at least carry out a state execution correctly makes the state not much better imo. If a higher moral ground is taken which is quite correct the end should be effective and quick. Or else we will be not much better. For the record I am against the death sentance as I feel it bring society down to the level of the murderer.

 

[The Wizard]

You think this is bad? Search the 'Death by a thousand cuts' used by Asian countries as form of public execution really not that long ago. Gruesome. This is wrong though, 2 wrongs don't make a right despite the fact he probably deserved the pain for what he did.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I hate to think what it will be like on here if we don't make the play-offs

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

You think this is bad? Search the 'Death by a thousand cuts' used by Asian countries as form of public execution really not that long ago. Gruesome. This is wrong though, 2 wrongs don't make a right despite the fact he probably deserved the pain for what he did.

I agree or else we are not much better imo.

 

[BadFish]

Well, in my logical point of view, getting them to lie down and go to sleep (forever) is far, far to kind for both of them. I'd like them to wake up each day, consider a shite day ahead digging ditches or some equally arduous task. And think to themselves....... Oh why didn't I stay home that awful day and watch "Bargain Hunt".

Hobson's choice really isn't it.