Capital Punishment (what do you think?)
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For the families of John Wayne Gacy's victims, his death was long anticipated. The man who tortures and murdered 33 young men and boys during the 1970s was finally executed by lethal injection at the Illinois Stateville Penitentiary. Justice would be served, swiftly and cleanly, as three chemicals were introduced intravenously into his bloodstream. The first drug would knock him out, the second would suppress his breathing, the last would stop his heart - in no more than five minutes. But Gacy took 18 minutes to die. A clog developed in the delivery tube attached to his arm. He snorted just before death-chamber attendants pulled the curtain around him as they struggle to clear a tube. Finally, the two lethal drugs streamed into him. The monster was dead.
On Sept. 2, 1983. Jimmy Lee Gray, sentenced to die for the rape-slaying of a three-year-old girl, entered the gas chamber in Parchman, Mississipi. Executions of this sort are supposed to end with a quick loss of consciousness. But eight minutes after his execution began witnesses cleared the viewing area, repelled by what they were seeing. Gray, suffocating and purple-faced, died slamming his head against a steel pole.
Opponents of capital punishment charged that the mishap again proved that the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. "A lot of people think lethal injection is like putting a dog to sleep," says Kica Matos, research director of the Capital Punishment Project of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people's Legal Defense Fund. (Who is an Appointed Head of U.S. Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies 2009.) "But things still go wrong with all types of executions. It's as gruesome and barbaric as torture."
Which do you think is crueler? life in prison or the death penalty?
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I'm with you Craig! They are the scum of the earth. If you are PROVEN guilty in a crime that warrants death, it should be as bad as it is. These animals do not deserve 24 hours a day of free time, to think, pray, write, dream, eat their three meals, work out whenever they want, and see a doctor regularly. Life in prison might sound like it sucks, but for these psychos it's a comfy solitude. I'd rather buy one bullet to put in his brain, then 3 meals a day and a bunch of physicals for the rest of his life.
thanks for dropping by Mr. Craig and Ms. Estella :)
I wish that our justice system focused more on character restoration rather than simply enforcing the system. There have been people put to death who have later been found innocent. Evidence can be deceiving. And then there has been people who have redeemed themselves and yet still face their execution. Karla Faye Tucker was one such lady. She testified against what she did, and in the eyes of many, she glorified God. In time people can change. I’m against the death penalty for these very reasons. It is not for us to decide who lives and who dies despite our feelings on the matter. That’s God’s call and must be done by his hand alone and in his time of choosing. We are not living under the ancient law are we?
thanks Scott :)
Craig Suits Level 4 Commenter 3 months ago
Cruel and inhuman punishment? In my book there i no such thing when considering what a ten year old little girl must endure being abducted, raped, tourtured, then murdered.
Make these son-a-bitches suffer 100 times more than their victoms did and then shoot them. I don't want to spend one nickel incarcerating these animals