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Dmtdust · 2014-01-30 14:57:14

http://news.yahoo.com/u-seek-death-pena … 40895.html

whosasailorthen · 2014-01-30 17:19:26

Happy to see him off'ed.

phreddy · 2014-01-30 17:55:33

whosasailorthen wrote:
Happy to see him off'ed.

You may not live that long. Of the 492 federal defendants for whom the Justice Dept has authorized seeking of the death penalty since 1988, 3 have been executed.

timmylean · 2014-01-30 22:29:15

What a waste of money. Why can't Massachusetts charge him with kidnapping, murdering a cop, and attempted murder of the other cops. Then, when he's in prison, they can give him the old John Geoghan.

timmylean · 2014-01-30 22:34:38

Jim Ross calls the Marathon Bombing.

choad · 2014-01-30 23:02:30

No one emerged from that shitshow unscathed. Not its victims, its fuckwit perpetrators, and especially not its first responders.

I learned only a few weeks ago my baby sister, a marathoner and former squid, crossed the finish line little more than a minute before the bomb blast. She and my backpack wearing nephew were covered in flying gore but otherwise unhurt and subjected to intensive questioning. Their picture is probably on this site's Boston blast thread somewhere but I have no interest in looking.

Does anyone really think this nation's cities will manage the next disaster any better?

whosasailorthen · 2014-01-30 23:22:09

phreddy wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
Happy to see him off'ed.
You may not live that long. Of the 492 federal defendants for whom the Justice Dept has authorized seeking of the death penalty since 1988, 3 have been executed.

Your comment reminds me of a trial my (attorney) brother related to me... the judge gave the defendant 3 consecutive 30-year sentences for his crimes, and at sentencing the the defendant complained to the judge "But your honor, there's no way I'll live long enough to serve all that time!" To which the judge replied "Well, just do your best then."

Emmeran · 2014-01-30 23:24:45

First of all Kathy showed us proof that the bombings were fake. Secondly the death penalty is a massive waste of time and money; my recommendation - dig a deep hole, put a grate over the top and throw in food once in a while.

Realistically the most effective method is to Gen Pop his ass, problem solved.

phreddy · 2014-01-31 11:58:24

I understand the argument that the death penalty is not a deterrent and the costs involved in effecting the punishment are astronomical. However, executions are supposed to be public. A handful of witnesses watching a lethal injection through a window is not a public execution. If executions were truly public and were carried out in a timely manner instead of 20 years after the conviction, I believe they would be a deterrent, and much less costly too. Everything in our culture is much too sanitized. Kids don't know where their food come from, they don't know the horrors of war, and they don't know the ramifications of committing murder.

whosasailorthen · 2014-01-31 13:12:26

Sorry, Phred, but I gotta call "naïve" on this one.

I guarantee you that the one way to absolutely ensure that the death penalty is abolished is to make them truly public events. The images of the first few executions will flood the cable news and internet, and in a matter of days there will be such uproar by screaming, outraged opponents (no matter how many or few) that the political pressure will be overwhelming to prevent it.

Not only that, but tons of foreign countries will use the images like a beating stick against the United States in the public forum.

phreddy · 2014-01-31 13:17:40

whosasailorthen wrote:
Sorry, Phred, but I gotta call "naïve" on this one.

I guarantee you that the one way to absolutely ensure that the death penalty is abolished is to make them truly public events. The images of the first few executions will flood the cable news and internet, and in a matter of days there will be such uproar by screaming, outraged opponents (no matter how many or few) that the political pressure will be overwhelming to prevent it.

Not only that, but tons of foreign countries will use the images like a beating stick against the United States in the public forum.

I agree with you 100%. My comments are completely hypothetical. No way are our politicians going to allow public executions to actually be public.

Emmeran · 2014-01-31 13:47:01

Sorry fellas, even when executions were public events it didn't stop crime. The folks we're talking about executing here don't really think clearly in the best of situations, I'm just not in favor of wasting our time and money this way. More importantly I'm not cool with the idea that we occasionally execute the wrong person. That person could be you or me.

Also, killing ain't cool - no matter what your reasoning or desire for revenge.

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choad · 2014-01-31 14:02:02

Nothing makes you appreciate how we define capital crime more than a story like Toronto’s Mayor Defends Justin Bieber.

Ok, one more time. Why not bootleg China's roving abattoirs - pimped out as mobile clinics or google street view vans or ice cream trucks - and part out the organ harvest to a victims fund?