Re: Electric Chair

On 31 Dec 2006 11:46:39 GMT, "David Brown"
<david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:29:15 -0800, John Fields wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:04:09 GMT, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian
<null@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:48:31 -0800, John Fields wrote:

If people had stopped to think, they'd likely not be in the chair in the
first place. And save your anti capital punishment *** for some one
who gives a damn about what you think, ya fucking puke.

Well, killing the criminal is merely revenge.

If you really want to punish him, give him life in solitary, but REAL
solitary - no outside human contact at all. A 6 x 8 cell, with a
comfortable bed, a toilet, sink, and three nutritious meals a day,
delivered by machine.

And a razor to use as he chooses. ;-)

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Mine's a little crueler.

He's given death by gas and made to understand that it could happen
at any time, then he's placed in an airtight, air-conditioned cell
and shown the apertures in the walls through which the deadly gas
will enter his cell.

Unbeknownst to him is that the apertures can be made to hiss without
delivering the gas and that, sometimes, an anesthetic will be pumped
into the cell when he's awake.



That doesn't sound so very different from the lives of people on death row
in the USA. They can spend many years knowing they are condemned to
death, but don't know when it is coming, or if they will get a reprieve.
They get informed of execution dates, and things can get as far as getting
a last meal, before the execution is delayed again.

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All of which is largely happenstance, the system being designed to
prolong the life of the condemned until every last shred of hope has
been exhausted, at which point the execution will proceed.

My example was of deliberate terrorizing of the prisoner.


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