Comments on: Lawmakers Quickly Pass Death Penalty Fix http://www.northescambia.com/2017/03/lawmakers-quickly-pass-death-penalty-fix Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:01:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2017/03/lawmakers-quickly-pass-death-penalty-fix/comment-page-1#comment-339023 David Huie Green Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:00:17 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=280071#comment-339023 REGARDING: "GIVE HIM MORE THAN 60 STABS AS HE IS BOUND AND GAGGED UNTIL HE DIES." The problem with this proposal is that you would have to find someone willing to do such a thing in the first place. This would also require all twelve jurors able to think this would be a good idea. Failing that, you might wind up getting a killer released by such cruel punishment. This also brings up the Constitutional proscription against cruel and unusual punishment. You would agree it was cruel when he did it and would be cruel if you did it to him -- in fact that cruelty is your goal. Thus, unless you amend the Constitution, it would be illegal: (Eighth Amendment Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.) Painlessly killing killers avoids constitutional proscription, so if you really want killers dead, fight the desire to make them suffer in the process. A nitrogen/carbon dioxide mixture would be completely painless --not even a needle prick, cheap and fatal. It would also be easier to find people willing to put them to sleep painlessly than to find humans willing to stab other humans 60 times -- or at least I hope it would. David for results, not pain REGARDING:
“GIVE HIM MORE THAN 60 STABS AS HE IS BOUND AND GAGGED UNTIL HE DIES.”

The problem with this proposal is that you would have to find someone willing to do such a thing in the first place. This would also require all twelve jurors able to think this would be a good idea. Failing that, you might wind up getting a killer released by such cruel punishment.

This also brings up the Constitutional proscription against cruel and unusual punishment. You would agree it was cruel when he did it and would be cruel if you did it to him — in fact that cruelty is your goal. Thus, unless you amend the Constitution, it would be illegal:
(Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.)

Painlessly killing killers avoids constitutional proscription, so if you really want killers dead, fight the desire to make them suffer in the process.
A nitrogen/carbon dioxide mixture would be completely painless –not even a needle prick, cheap and fatal.

It would also be easier to find people willing to put them to sleep painlessly than to find humans willing to stab other humans 60 times — or at least I hope it would.

David for results, not pain

]]> By: donna http://www.northescambia.com/2017/03/lawmakers-quickly-pass-death-penalty-fix/comment-page-1#comment-338968 donna Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:53:12 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=280071#comment-338968 THESE CONVICTED CRIMINALS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE SAME TREATMENT AS PUNISHMENT AS THEY GAVE THEIR INNOCENT VICTIMS. LET THEM SUFFER AS BAD AS THE PEOPLE OR ANIMALS THEY HURT OR KILLED! MS. HARRISON WAS A SMALL VERY SWEET YOUNG WOMAN. GIVE HIM MORE THAN 60 STABS AS HE IS BOUND AND GAGGED UNTIL HE DIES. THESE CONVICTED CRIMINALS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE SAME TREATMENT AS PUNISHMENT AS THEY GAVE THEIR INNOCENT VICTIMS. LET THEM SUFFER AS BAD AS THE PEOPLE OR ANIMALS THEY HURT OR KILLED! MS. HARRISON WAS A SMALL VERY SWEET YOUNG WOMAN. GIVE HIM MORE THAN 60 STABS AS HE IS BOUND AND GAGGED UNTIL HE DIES.

]]> By: Mark http://www.northescambia.com/2017/03/lawmakers-quickly-pass-death-penalty-fix/comment-page-1#comment-338961 Mark Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:26:53 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=280071#comment-338961 If these capital cases had gone straight to execution immediately after being sentenced, we would not have to waste more tax dollars retrailing them. Imagine the expense to retrail 400 inmates. I could never understand why they prolong executions. In Texas they fast tract them. If these capital cases had gone straight to execution immediately after being sentenced, we would not have to waste more tax dollars retrailing them. Imagine the expense to retrail 400 inmates. I could never understand why they prolong executions. In Texas they fast tract them.

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