The execution today in Ohio was a horror show.

[MADem]

13. I heard it took fifteen, but even that's too long. Makes beheading seem humane, as I said in

another thread.

This isn't "the face of America," though. It's the face of one state in America that tried a new drug with disastrous results.

I live in a state that doesn't have the Death Penalty. Many others do, too.

USA executes something under fifty people a year (39 last year) and the number keeps going down as people just don't want any part of it.

If Texas and Ohio would get out of the killing business, they're a good part of the total.


China, by contrast, executes something like 2,000.

Yeah, what they did to this murdering rapist of a woman with a 30 week pregnancy was horrific, but it's done. He's dead. Maybe they've learned something from this failed experiment, and that murdering asshole's life wasn't a complete waste.

I feel sorry for his family who had to witness that, and I feel sorry for the family of his victim, who no doubt miss their loved one very much. I'm having a hard time mustering an overwhelming amount of sympathy for the murderer, though, if it were up to me, I'd simply keep him incarcerated. He's not someone who could have been rehabilitated, I don't think.