[Andy28 (OP)]

There was a scheduled Electric chair execution in Tennessee. It was set for today but the prisoners lawyer has won a stay.

[Karen W.]

Thats depressing!

Karen

[Andy28 (OP)]

Yes but it's also interesting! As it's not very often you here of the chair being used nowadays. The man is a bit strange because he asked to be fried rather than face lethal injection. Strange character! lol

[Mirage]

Or mentally disturbed, which in theory would get him off a death penalty surely!!

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese

[another_someone]

quote:Originally posted by Mirage
Or mentally disturbed, which in theory would get him off a death penalty surely!!

I would regard about 90% of murderers to be mentally disturbed, but that does not let them off the hook.

George

[ukmicky]

I don't believe in the death penalty , its a let off .

Some one found guilty of a crime which would warrant such a penalty should be placed in a prison for life and made to do hard labour for the rest of it. And of course if during their imprisonment if its found that a miscarriage of justice has occurred then at least their will be someone to release.

Michael

[another_someone]

quote:Originally posted by ukmicky
I don't believe in the death penalty , its a let off .

To a substantial extent I would agree with you - which ofcourse is why people like Ian Huntley choose to commit suicide.

quote:
And of course if during their imprisonment if its found that a miscarriage of justice has occurred then at least their will be someone to release.

While, from the judicial point of view, this is a good thing; for someone who has spent 20 years in prison for a crime they have not commited, the man who walks out of prison is just a shell of a man - he has very little life left (not just in terms of years, but in terms of the trauma of being imprisoned for a crime you did not commit - I have heard this is more difficult than doing time for a crime where you at least know that you are the cause of your own fate - and after 20 years out of circulation, you are unemployable, and will find it generally very difficult to reintegrate into society).

George

[Andy28 (OP)]

Life in prison would be a suitable punishment if it was like living on death row for life. However, lifers at present get a better quality of life behind bars than those on death row. On death row you are completely isolated and do not come out of your cell apart from for 1 hour excersize and family/Legal visits. I would imagine after a few years of that you would be dying to go to the death chamber (so to speak).

[Gaia]

In my opinion the death sentence is nothing but legalised murder! What's also bad is that the people who make the decision then rely on someone else to carry it out.

Gaia  xxx

[Mirage]

quote:Originally posted by another_someone

quote:Originally posted by Mirage
Or mentally disturbed, which in theory would get him off a death penalty surely!!

I would regard about 90% of murderers to be mentally disturbed, but that does not let them off the hook.

George

I see your point.

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese

[Karen W.]

Thats depressing!

Karen

[Andy28 (OP)]

Yes but it's also interesting! As it's not very often you here of the chair being used nowadays. The man is a bit strange because he asked to be fried rather than face lethal injection. Strange character! lol

[Mirage]

Or mentally disturbed, which in theory would get him off a death penalty surely!!

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese

[another_someone]

quote:Originally posted by Mirage
Or mentally disturbed, which in theory would get him off a death penalty surely!!

I would regard about 90% of murderers to be mentally disturbed, but that does not let them off the hook.

George

[ukmicky]

I don't believe in the death penalty , its a let off .

Some one found guilty of a crime which would warrant such a penalty should be placed in a prison for life and made to do hard labour for the rest of it. And of course if during their imprisonment if its found that a miscarriage of justice has occurred then at least their will be someone to release.

Michael

[another_someone]

quote:Originally posted by ukmicky
I don't believe in the death penalty , its a let off .

To a substantial extent I would agree with you - which ofcourse is why people like Ian Huntley choose to commit suicide.

quote:
And of course if during their imprisonment if its found that a miscarriage of justice has occurred then at least their will be someone to release.

While, from the judicial point of view, this is a good thing; for someone who has spent 20 years in prison for a crime they have not commited, the man who walks out of prison is just a shell of a man - he has very little life left (not just in terms of years, but in terms of the trauma of being imprisoned for a crime you did not commit - I have heard this is more difficult than doing time for a crime where you at least know that you are the cause of your own fate - and after 20 years out of circulation, you are unemployable, and will find it generally very difficult to reintegrate into society).

George

[Andy28 (OP)]

Life in prison would be a suitable punishment if it was like living on death row for life. However, lifers at present get a better quality of life behind bars than those on death row. On death row you are completely isolated and do not come out of your cell apart from for 1 hour excersize and family/Legal visits. I would imagine after a few years of that you would be dying to go to the death chamber (so to speak).

[Gaia]

In my opinion the death sentence is nothing but legalised murder! What's also bad is that the people who make the decision then rely on someone else to carry it out.

Gaia  xxx

[Mirage]

quote:Originally posted by another_someone

quote:Originally posted by Mirage
Or mentally disturbed, which in theory would get him off a death penalty surely!!

I would regard about 90% of murderers to be mentally disturbed, but that does not let them off the hook.

George

I see your point.

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese

[Karen W.]

Any one ever thought about the burden this puts on the person having to carry out this kind of penalty!! I could not take anothers life, and to think about what that would do to in my mind would be devastating! To become so hardened that I could do such a thing is uncomprehendable to me? I don't know anyone in that position, but I am sure there must be reprecuccions of mental dilema, wouldn't you think?? So very sad that we as a country would lay that kind of a burden on another human being ...taking another life because perhaps he or she took one... I was always taught that taking any life was not acceptable, and that two wrongs do not make a right!! I believe the older I get the more I believe this to be true!! I agre with you Michael... whats a bit of money and jail for life in comparison to adding this kind of burden to an innocent soul!! Scares the soup out of me!!![][B)][:0]

Karen