I support the death penalty for Ken Lay

[bluestateguy]

I was out of town and unable to post during the days when Lay was indicted. So here is my statement.

(throat clearing)

Ken Lay is a vicious, violent criminal, an economic terrorist who is every bit as dangerous as any murderer or serial rapist. He constitutes a major threat to society if he walks the street. I consider him to be a terrorist, and as such he should be tried by a military tribunal. Quick, efficient, no paper pushing and no technicalities.

Perhaps more people on our side of the aisle will support capital punishment if there is a very real chance that white male corporate criminals can actually be executed for their crimes.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. I don't support the death penalty under any circumstances

But I'll gladly see him rot away his life behind bars.

[oldhat]

2. ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ken Lay is a vicious, violent criminal, an economic terrorist who is every bit as dangerous as any murderer or serial rapist.

[mvd]

3. I'm against the death penalty, but even if I supported it, I'd..

accept a long prison term. I haven't even been sure it's possible to give him a long term, with all the jury tampering (seems like it at least) and high priced lawyers around. I was pleasantly surprised he was indicted.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. With the stroke of a pen......

Perhaps more people on our side of the aisle will support capital punishment if there is a very real chance that white male corporate criminals can actually be executed for their crimes.<<

More persons have suffered and or died from the effects of a few strokes of a pen... than have died in all the wars that have ever been fought...


Kenny Boy is the mouse... middle class hard earned dollars is the cheese.... better get a bigger helmet.

[Sweetpea]

5. Not for the death penalty

And though he has destroyed lives, I think he would get plenty justice from the shame of life in prison.

[Manix]

8. I'd just like to see him coupled with a 320lb inmate boyfriend.

[Forkboy]

6. You also said you wouldn't care if Bush or Nader supporters got drafted

and killed in Iraq.

You're in the wrong party considering your bloodthirsty nature.

[Cuban_Liberal]

7. The death penalty is morally indefensible, period.

It is a relic of a barbaric past that should long ago have been consigned to the ash heap.

[DrWeird]

9. I say hook electrodes up to his genitals.

The death penalty is too easy an out.

[AlCzervik]

10. The death penalty is to painless for the likes of him

He needs to spend the rest of his time in a maximum security lockup as a prison bitch.

[Deja Q]

11. I agree. He ruined 20,000+ lives.

Yet we want death for Osama who, likely because of those secret energy meetings that probably involved high-end energy companies like Enron, killed only 3,000.

Death or in poverty in a crap economy?

[htuttle]

12. I support the death penalty for Enron

And other corporations found guilty of certain corporate and environmental crimes. By death penalty, I mean immediate liquidation, and yanking their corporate charter. That goes for their corporate officers' assets as well. House, car, stocks -- liquidated. Put them out on the street.

It's obvious that a few years in a country club prison isn't enough deterrent to keep these Capitalist miscreants from stealing a few billion dollars. So I think we need to try turning them into paupers, and see if that gives them pause for thought...