A more humane way to execute prisoners....

[Cooter]

Should be a nationwide law...
whatever you did to cause death, that's EXACTLY how you die.
gun-gun.
stabbing-stabbing
suffocated-suffocated

No more pansy ass whining. Get it done. Put in an express lane. Your convicted and sentenced to death, you get no more than three (3) appeals. No more costing the taxpayers millions for your sorry ass to sit on death row for 15 years.

[FJ5WING]

I don't see why it has to be humane? 

I dont think you can get any cheaper than a piece of rope!

[twodko]

All of us are offending the ultralib, aluminum hat wearing, they can be rehabilitated bleeding hearts.

Poor, poor death row misguided gentle monsters. 

[Chargen69]

.25cent bullet to the base of the brain stem...  BANG, dead, done

[dual fours]

.25cent bullet to the base of the brain stem...  BANG, dead, done

or

[Lord Warlock]

It should be simple to design a computer operated machine to pull the trigger.  Just make sensors on the chair you sit the prisoner on, and as each buckle is fastened it begins an automated countdown, the weight of the prisoner being the one that activates the trigger mechanism, therefore those judged guilty are responsible for killing themselves. 

Relatively little blood to clean up as compared to guillotines, you'd know exactly where the bullet would shoot every time, no slip ups, we just need to remove the guilt feelings of the person who currently has to "flip the switch" or pull the trigger, so that it does not negatively impact the innocent minds not involved in the crime itself or the punishment. 

[Mike DC]

   
Somebody is always going to have to drop the platform, or pull the trigger, turn on the juice, turn on the gas, push the button for the IV chemicals, etc.  That can't be the reason to reject the use of a possible killing method.   


The fact that the system even struggles with this is disturbing.  I just don't think competent people would have much trouble devising practical fast low-pain methods. 
 

[Tilar]

 

There are plenty of fellow inmates on Death Row who could probably pull triggers all day long without guilt.  Have one of them do it.

[flyinlow]

Harvest their usable organs for people who need them.  Bury the rest.

[Daytona R/T SE]

It should be simple to design a computer operated machine to pull the trigger.  Just make sensors on the chair you sit the prisoner on, and as each buckle is fastened it begins an automated countdown, the weight of the prisoner being the one that activates the trigger mechanism, therefore those judged guilty are responsible for killing themselves. 

Relatively little blood to clean up as compared to guillotines, you'd know exactly where the bullet would shoot every time, no slip ups, we just need to remove the guilt feelings of the person who currently has to "flip the switch" or pull the trigger, so that it does not negatively impact the innocent minds not involved in the crime itself or the punishment. 

That sounds to me like something the governmet could spend 40 billion and ten years

Developing and still fuck it up.

A 30 30 Winchester will do the trick for a buck a shot, and at a distance well outside the splatter zone.

Ask for volunteers.

I'll bet there would be a line a mile long.

We could always give the criminal a running start.

Call it a sport.

Televise it.

Give the money to the victim's families.

[Ghoste]

Harvest their usable organs for people who need them.  Bury the rest.

Coincidentally I was listening to a tv program this weekend where an inmate was spared the death sentence because he was dying and needed an organ transplant.  The part that caught my ear the most was that he was denied the organ transplant and some nice woman activist whose heart was bleeding heavily felt angered that the system would dare deny the poor man an organ transplant.
I couldn't help wonder if she would feel so devoted to her cause if the guy had raped and killed her child.  Better yet, I wonder if she had a child awaiting organ transplant and they told her "gee lady, we know your kid should have a chance to live the life that would normally be in front of her but this old murderer in prison had his name on the list ahead of you".  I bet that would close that gaping wound in her heart.

[ACUDANUT]

A 22 bullet is only 5 cents.

[Silver R/T]

Cheap and effective.

[Mike DC]

Coincidentally I was listening to a tv program this weekend where an inmate was spared the death sentence because he was dying and needed an organ transplant.  The part that caught my ear the most was that he was denied the organ transplant and some nice woman activist whose heart was bleeding heavily felt angered that the system would dare deny the poor man an organ transplant.
I couldn't help wonder if she would feel so devoted to her cause if the guy had raped and killed her child.  Better yet, I wonder if she had a child awaiting organ transplant and they told her "gee lady, we know your kid should have a chance to live the life that would normally be in front of her but this old murderer in prison had his name on the list ahead of you".  I bet that would close that gaping wound in her heart.

That really is messed up. 


There's no limit to the absurdity of people out there.  The activist in that story doesn't surprise me. 

But . . . what JUDGE would decide that an inmate needing an organ-transplant was a valid reason not to execute him?

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That sounds to me like something the governmet could spend 40 billion and ten years developing and still fuck it up.

LOL, so true. 

[Mytur Binsdirti]

But . . . what JUDGE would decide that an inmate needing an organ-transplant was a valid reason not to execute him?

There is just no level of stupid absurd rulings that comes from sitting judges.....



http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/health/massachusetts-sex-change-surgery-inmate/

[Patronus]

Should be a nationwide law...
whatever you did to cause death, that's EXACTLY how you die.
gun-gun.
stabbing-stabbing
suffocated-suffocated

No more pansy ass whining. Get it done. Put in an express lane. Your convicted and sentenced to death, you get no more than three (3) appeals. No more costing the taxpayers millions for your sorry ass to sit on death row for 15 years.

I couldn't agree more. Like the last asshole that raped her and then buried her alive. That's the way he goes too. Thats it, done. Obviously there's no deterrent. No real penalty. Some people kill and are out in months. Thats the problem, people who kill aren't afraid to kill. Why should they be? Let the criminals come up with the crime and the punishment.

[nvrbdn]

this just happened in missouri.

   a convicted murderer set to die had his execution held up because he has an illness and they had to decide if the shots would cause him discomfort while killing him.

    are you serious?  did he care about the discomfort of the person he was killing?

heal him so we can kill him?  he is getting ready to die. that will take care of the illness!!!!!!!!

[ACUDANUT]

What we need in Mo/Ks is a express lane for convicted murders. Just like TX. 

[Mike DC]

I couldn't agree more. Like the last asshole that raped her and then buried her alive. That's the way he goes too. Thats it, done. Obviously there's no deterrent. No real penalty. Some people kill and are out in months. Thats the problem, people who kill aren't afraid to kill. Why should they be? Let the criminals come up with the crime and the punishment.

Execution will never serve as much of a deterrent anymore.   Not unless we go back to carrying out the executions very quickly after the crime.  But we stopped doing that partly for good reasons.  The fast trials & executions people used to do 150 years ago are pretty reckless in terms of getting the wrong man.

Besides, too many of the convicts aren't going to be deterred/punished for other reasons.  Sociopathic, mentally or emotionally retarded, masochists, guys who just feel badass knowing they're getting executed, etc.  Death row is not representative of the normal population.   Capital punishment is a deterrent/punishment for some of the death row population but not nearly all of it. 

[Tilar]

I couldn't agree more. Like the last asshole that raped her and then buried her alive. That's the way he goes too. Thats it, done. Obviously there's no deterrent. No real penalty. Some people kill and are out in months. Thats the problem, people who kill aren't afraid to kill. Why should they be? Let the criminals come up with the crime and the punishment.

Execution will never serve as much of a deterrent anymore.   Not unless we go back to carrying out the executions very quickly after the crime.  But we stopped doing that partly for good reasons.  The fast trials & executions people used to do 150 years ago are pretty reckless in terms of getting the wrong man.

Besides, too many of the convicts aren't going to be deterred/punished for other reasons.  Sociopathic, mentally or emotionally retarded, masochists, guys who just feel badass knowing they're getting executed, etc.  Death row is not representative of the normal population.   Capital punishment is a deterrent/punishment for some of the death row population but not nearly all of it. 

From my perspective it doesn't matter if it is a deterrent to them or not they still die. Hang them in the street and you can charge money to watch it on Pay-Per-View for all I care, Get them out of the system and stop feeding the pricks on our dime.

[Mike DC]

From my perspective it doesn't matter if it is a deterrent to them or not they still die. Hang them in the street and you can charge money to watch it on Pay-Per-View for all I care, Get them out of the system and stop feeding the pricks on our dime.

And that is why I don't object to capital punishment.  The system is a mess, but still, hardly anyone ends up on death row these days without doing something pretty friggin' bad.  Some things just cannot be tolerated.