ZymeAddict on 23/12/2009 at 06:14
I read the first account and agree with Taffer - it's really not all that interesting.
As for the matter of pain with lethal injection: based on this timeline even if the prisoner is in extreme pain it's for less than five minutes, which is in all likelihood a much shorter length of time than his victim(s) had to endure.
PS: lol at the guy who ordered a whole onion for his last meal.
37637598 on 23/12/2009 at 06:22
I say if anything, we get them drunk and slice off the head. Less than a nano-second of pain, and their mental state would render the pain somehow fun. The cleanup would of course be a job fit for other inmates so they see what's coming to them.
I hate the death penalty. I don't think it should be forced on anyone. It should be an 'allowence' rather than a punishment. It should be something the inmate has to agree with.
Volitions Advocate on 23/12/2009 at 07:48
Depending on the mental status of the inmate and how long they've been in prison.. I'm sure that for some of them Death Row may have the same apprehension and/or excitement that being released would have.
Just a random thought that crossed my mind.
daniel on 24/12/2009 at 00:59
Ok, so now I know it's economically dumb to kill people. In other words, a waste of life and money.
37637598 on 24/12/2009 at 01:42
Doesn't cost a thing to make a quick chop to the neck, and it's fun!
I honestly feel more sick to hear that a state murdered an inmate, than when a serial killer murders innocent people. That's a lie, but I would like to think it equally as sick, just in very different ways.
Let's examine: People have been killing people for since the beginning of.. People.
Government type establishments have been killing people since the beginning of... Government type establishments.
The difference?
People killing people is nature. One bad rotten brain born out of a million and a half good ones. Governments killing people = an entire group of normal or civilized people deciding it's okay for them to, as a joined vote, do what the serial killer is doing, to try and show that it's not a good thing to do.. or maybe just to get them out of the money consuming prison space? Reguardless, whoever decides it's okay to murder another human is no better than the human who decides it's okay to murder another human. In the killers mind, it's somehow justified, as it is in the people's minds who agree with the death penalty.
Difference there? I suppose the reason behind it, but reason is something our brains develope. If a serial killer has much worse reason than someone with a normal brain, and the person with the normal brain decides it's okay to kill, then there's really no difference between the two's brains, or reasoning. If however you believe killing has nothing to do with the condition of your brain (which I believe it's both ways depending on the person), and it's the specific person who is just evil and it's okay to kill said person, well that's really you're no different, no matter how you might argue it is. A brain is a brain, a choice is a choice. Different things trigger different choices, but if they lead to the same path's end, then it really doesn't matter how they got there.
Go humanity!
So in a much more understandable context, I look at it like "one crazy" killing a hundred people, or a hundred people killing one crazy. That's how I find it equally as sick.
