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Originally Posted by liberalguy Once again, you do not listen to what I am saying. There are possibilities that innocents are killed each year. This system should not be up if this is happening. | A doctor will accidentally kill an innocent person this year by making a mistake, better not go to the doctor. Stay away from the medical system...
The problem with the death penalty is that it is no longer a deterent. Under the auspices of the 8th amendment we have made it neat and clean. The prisoner is taken into a sterile room, an IV is inserted, and then drugs are administered that first put the prisoner to sleep and then that stop their heart and stop their breathing.
For the death penalty to be a deterent it needs to be cruel. How many people do you think had a second thought about stealing a horse after seeing that horse thief hung last week? Lethal injection needs to go, it is to humane. Return to the days of hanging, electrocution, or firing squad. Those would be a deterent.
dmk | Not only do I agree with that, but I think it should be publically available to be seen on T.V.
Why should a criminal be given the right to slip peacefully into the darkness? We should make hell look desirable compared to what we do to murderers, rapists, child molestors, and the like. |