Judge Argues For Return Of Firing Squad Executions

[Liberal Veteran]

18. Who would have thought it would be so hard to kill someone quickly?

It surely can't be that difficult.

Of course there are alternatives. Life in maximum security without possibility of parole has a pretty good success rate at keeping the very worst of people from being a danger to society. Eventually, Mother Nature takes care of the problem and the rest of us are left without the blood on our hands in the end.

That's the easiest solution. While I am sure some people prefer the dubious catharsis of execution, it seems to me that we can be better than to lower ourselves to the level of a killer. Plus life in prison without parole has the added benefit of being revoked should evidence come to light that exonerates the person convicted. Once an execution takes place, there is no undoing the act (and conveniently, there isn't really much motivation to retry the case of an executed person).