Executions - Now We're Just Winging It

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

When you're genuinely upset over killing brutal murderers, I think you've lost perspective. Just my Carry on with your butthurtiness.

[michigancat]

Yeah, death by firing squad or hanging or lethal injection or stabbing all has the same result. You're either for killing people, or against it.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'm wholly against setting up penalties to give people "what they deserve" fwiw. Just remove them from society until they show the ability to contribute. Cut funding to prisons with high recidivism rates.

[puniraptor]

When you're genuinely upset over killing brutal murderers, I think you've lost perspective. Just my Carry on with your butthurtiness.

what about killing a non-zero amount of innocent people in the process?

[Tobias]

what if they killed Adnan and Serial never came to be?

[CNS]

I am not concerned about the how other than cost (huge with injection).

[Kat Kid]

A more efficient and humane way to kill someone is to cut their head off with a guillotine.  It is telling that we don't do that.

[michigancat]

A more efficient and humane way to kill someone is to cut their head off with a guillotine.  It is telling that we don't do that.

sounds icky. No thanks.

[Mr Bread]

Just remove them from society until they show the ability to contribute. Cut funding to prisons with high recidivism rates.

This seems like when yard dog is a deliberate rough ridin' idiot in order to troll.   

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

When you're genuinely upset over killing brutal murderers, I think you've lost perspective. Just my Carry on with your butthurtiness.

what about killing a non-zero amount of innocent people in the process?

If you're really concerned about that, you haven't been following the number of appeals death row murderers get now. I doubt most anti death penalty folks actually believe this though.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

So, if ppl are now ok with execution by bullet, why does it have to be a squad instead of just a machine or something?  I mean, the process can be exactly like the lethal injection, tie them down, give them a huge sedative to make them sleep, except then have a machine or person shoot them in the head rather than injecting them with the killing drug cocktail.

What's hilarious is that you've made a man pulling a trigger compared to a man pushing a button on a machine or squeezing a syringe as an important distinction in your analysis.

At least with a firing squad you don't know who actually killed him, right?

Mrs. Gooch is on the ball!

[puniraptor]

When you're genuinely upset over killing brutal murderers, I think you've lost perspective. Just my Carry on with your butthurtiness.

what about killing a non-zero amount of innocent people in the process?

If you're really concerned about that, you haven't been following the number of appeals death row murderers get now. I doubt most anti death penalty folks actually believe this though.

How many appeals should an innocent person get before it's OK to kill them?

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

If prisons are too expensive we should outsource incarceration to a third world country, like we do everything else.

[bubbles4ksu]

mock executions most of the time but actual executions enough of the time to keep potential offenders on their toes.

[Tobias]

mock executions most of the time but actual executions enough of the time to keep potential offenders on their toes.

you stole that idea from dax in the soccer suggestions thread

[bubbles4ksu]

mock executions most of the time but actual executions enough of the time to keep potential offenders on their toes.

you stole that idea from dax in the soccer suggestions thread

nope, just a fan of mock executions.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

When you're genuinely upset over killing brutal murderers, I think you've lost perspective. Just my Carry on with your butthurtiness.

what about killing a non-zero amount of innocent people in the process?

If you're really concerned about that, you haven't been following the number of appeals death row murderers get now. I doubt most anti death penalty folks actually believe this though.

How many appeals should an innocent person get before it's OK to kill them?

Huh. No troll, you actually believe that our current justice system, with all it's procedural safeguards, is still executing innocent people? Ok. Do you have someone in mind who you think is innocent?

[slobber]

If prisons are too expensive we should outsource incarceration to a third world country, like we do everything else.

This seems like a great idea. Could we have an American on staff in order to insure the prisoners were not being treated inhumanely?

[puniraptor]

When you're genuinely upset over killing brutal murderers, I think you've lost perspective. Just my Carry on with your butthurtiness.

what about killing a non-zero amount of innocent people in the process?

If you're really concerned about that, you haven't been following the number of appeals death row murderers get now. I doubt most anti death penalty folks actually believe this though.

How many appeals should an innocent person get before it's OK to kill them?

Huh. No troll, you actually believe that our current justice system, with all it's procedural safeguards, is still executing innocent people? Ok. Do you have someone in mind who you think is innocent?

Yes, no. Way too many people on death row to keep track of. I recently saw some probably baseless study by some think tank that estimated 4% of people on death row were innocent.

[8manpick]

Can I push the button from my living room?

[puniraptor]

I honestly don't understand how the same people that fear our government turning into a totalitarian regime are always the ones that completely trust the government to kill American citizens.

[bubbles4ksu]

Can I push the button from my living room?

lol

[slobber]

Can I push the button from my living room?

lol

Maybe 8 different people push a button from their living rooms, but only one button does the killing. That way nobody knows who actually killed the person?


Gonna win 'em all!

[Mrs. Gooch]

I understand there isn't any distinction btwn triggers and buttons in that scenario.   I also understand the traditional reason for the firing squad in it providing the ability to not know for sure who killed the person.  What I am saying is that the lethal injection model doesn't allow for a squad of ppl to be unsure and the firing squad method assumes it is acceptable to shoot someone.  Why not simplify it all and merge the two?

How about merging the two by having several syringes (some with lethal injection stuff and some with just saline) and then several guys have to push buttons to inject all the syringes, so you still don't know who really killed him.

[bubbles4ksu]

Can I push the button from my living room?

lol

Maybe 8 different people push a button from their living rooms, but only one button does the killing. That way nobody knows who actually killed the person?


Gonna win 'em all!

And half of the time the convict isn't actually killed they just send him back to solitary after letting him believe that they were going to go through with it.