Executions - Now We're Just Winging It

[michigancat]

Why even execute them? Why not just stop feeding them effective a certain date and let mother nature handle it? Dead is dead, and that would probably save some money.

I mean the notion that we have to feed them and stuff before we murder them because it's the right thing to do is just unbelievably absurd.

[Emo EMAW]

I think the dude should get a bullet to the head from the bailiff as soon as the the judge sentences him to death. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

Why not just let the prisoner choose how they get executed? That would be a whole lot better than some last meal. I think I would choose getting shoved off the top of Mt. Rushmore. Nothing more American than that.

[Emo EMAW]

Would be willing to let them live if we could do some medical testing on them that the FDA wouldn't normally allow for normal people.

[Cire]

anyone watch frontline on solitary confinement?

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think we should give inmates the option of whether they want solitary confinement or to live with the other losers. I would choose solitary confinement as long as I had access to a library and a court chaplain or really any other non-criminal to talk to for about an hour per day.

[michigancat]

I think we should give inmates the option of whether they want solitary confinement or to live with the other losers. I would choose solitary confinement as long as I had access to a library and a court chaplain or really any other non-criminal to talk to for about an hour per day.

well I think what you chose would not be what is considered solitary confinement for most prisons.

[CNS]

Yeah, I mean, I get why we don't have a person shoot them

I don't.

Not a cruelty thing.  not a prisoner thing.  Would be pretty hard to find a hire-able employee that would do that for a living, I would bet.

Have you ever met a cop?  Especially a small town cop.  Love to kill people.

Hire-able

[Benja]

did you know that part of the reason governments moved on from hanging is that people's heads kept popping off?

we popped the head off a guy during the US-supervised hangings of saddam and crew. that was 2007 and we couldn't get the physics right.

link?

[Benja]

I really don't see a huge distinction in giving the government the power to put people in a cage for their whole lives and letting the government kill people. They are both scary dark parts of our society, but nobody has any easier solutions.

[theKSU]

The French already did create a machine to quickly and humanely carry out executions, but it leaves a pretty big mess for the executioners. Also it might make people realize they are killing someone when a head starts rolling around and blood spurts all over the ground. And it's French and gay.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

[puniraptor]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

we also need to put lots lots lots less of people in prison

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

we also need to put lots lots lots less of people in prison

Well, yeah.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

They can afford do this kind of thing because they export .5 barrels of oil per capita per day.

[waks]

Why not just let the prisoner choose how they get executed? That would be a whole lot better than some last meal. I think I would choose getting shoved off the top of Mt. Rushmore. Nothing more American than that.

Pretty sure they do this in Utah. I think it's the only state with death by firing squad as a method of execution.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

They can afford do this kind of thing because they export .5 barrels of oil per capita per day.

Our per capita incarceration rate is more than 10x higher than theirs. Their system producing a recidivism rate below 20% probably plays some role in that.

[Emo EMAW]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

They can afford do this kind of thing because they export .5 barrels of oil per capita per day.

Our per capita incarceration rate is more than 10x higher than theirs. Their system producing a recidivism rate below 20% probably plays some role in that.

You've never been to Norway have you?

[slobber]

Definitley for choose your own method. I would like to jump out of an airplane and aim for a bucket of water. If I lived, then I would want sd to shoot me, because of my deep admiration for sd, it would be fitting end.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

They can afford do this kind of thing because they export .5 barrels of oil per capita per day.

Our per capita incarceration rate is more than 10x higher than theirs. Their system producing a recidivism rate below 20% probably plays some role in that.

You've never been to Norway have you?

No, can't say that I have.

[Emo EMAW]

I think we should model our prison system after Norway's.

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/thread/57405

They can afford do this kind of thing because they export .5 barrels of oil per capita per day.

Our per capita incarceration rate is more than 10x higher than theirs. Their system producing a recidivism rate below 20% probably plays some role in that.

You've never been to Norway have you?

No, can't say that I have.

It's way different than here.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Definitley for choose your own method. I would like to jump out of an airplane and aim for a bucket of water. If I lived, then I would want sd to shoot me, because of my deep admiration for sd, it would be fitting end.

That's a pretty good one. I don't think our shitty prisons would ever bother training you well enough to actually hit the bucket, though.

[Rage Against the McKee]

What if we sent all of our death row inmates to an island and then sold hunting permits to gun owners with a fantasy of killing bad guys? That would be a real money-maker for us, I bet.

The Most Dangerous Game: Con Island.

[CNS]

What if we sent all of our death row inmates to an island and then sold hunting permits to gun owners with a fantasy of killing bad guys? That would be a real money-maker for us, I bet.

The Most Dangerous Game: Con Island.

Would be all for this if all tickets were one way tickets.

[Rage Against the McKee]

What if we sent all of our death row inmates to an island and then sold hunting permits to gun owners with a fantasy of killing bad guys? That would be a real money-maker for us, I bet.

The Most Dangerous Game: Con Island.

Would be all for this if all tickets were one way tickets.

If they shoot more than they have tags for, they have to stay. Most of these people are law abiders, though. I don't think you would encounter too many poachers.