Condemned man's last words as he died by lethal injection: "I feel my whole body burning"

[PeteSelman]

228. A few points of contention.

I don't think a quick, clean execution is cruel and/or unusual.

The death penalty is written right into the constitution. It's the only criminal punishment in there.

A good sharp axe and a clean severing is not in any way similar to drawing and quartering someone. That's ridiculous. Done properly, you feel nothing.

Of course I know some people do not want the perps executed. Their wishes should also be considered. Why would you think I didn't know that?

Capital punishment is only more expensive because of the endless appeals process that patently guilty people take advantage of. Now, that isn't to say I'm against appeals if there is any chance a person may not be guilty. If it isn't clearly cut and dried that a person committed the murder/violent rape/treason or whatever the capital charge is (I know violent rape isn't a capital offense but it should be) then life in prison is fine until the guilt or innocence can be determined matter of factly.

In no doubt about it cases such as with the Boston bomber, the asshole that shot up the movie theater last year, crimes caught on video and the like, they should just take you out back and hang you after sentencing. That's fair to society.

I also think it's time to grow up and realize that there are some crimes so heinous that anything short of death is an injustice. Where's the justice for the civilian woman that works in a prison and is raped and murdered by someone already doing life? You going to add another life sentence? So what, there's no punishment at all in a case like that. If what needed to be done was done originally, something like that can never[\i] happen.