Danny Rolling who brutally killed 5 college students and attempted to kill several others was executed yesterday. He was killed by lethal injection, but he should have been executed by much harsher means. According to the story, he died peacefully so he basically felt nothing. He should have had to feel pain when he was executed, just like his victims.

Here is the story http://www.news4jax.com/rollingexecu...57/detail.html

What do you think about executions? Do you agree with arguements of cruel and unusal punishment? Or do you think they should execute someone by the sames means that they killed their victims or other means such as Electric Chair or lethal Injection?

 

Whew boy this one will stir it up this afternoon. I agree that they should feel a little more of what their victims felt. Here in Texas so many get the needle its like no big deal anymore. Maybe the old electric chair would be a little more of a deterrent than the needle. Course there is always..

 

I say we use this...on the courthouse lawn...

 

I am all for the death penalty but the death penalty isn't a deterrent at all. I assure you that the prisons and especially death row are full of people who thought they'd never get caught. If they dont think they're gonna get caught, they aren't thinking about being executed.......

 

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Public executions COULD make people think twice about doing the crime.


maybe.

 

You are probably right but I think the death penalty would be a bigger deterrent if the sentence were carried out much quicker, say within a few months of conviction. These criminals are usually society's bottom feeders with no home or job or regular source of food. The thought of ten to fifteen years in a warm prison with three hots a day is more important to them than the final outcome. Plus theres always the chance they might win an appeal and get their sentence commuted to life. Then they can really enjoy the free ride.

 

As Ron White says, My State (Texas) is putting in an express lane!

 

I disagree that it is a deterrent. Look back in history in France. You had pick pockets running around the crowd stealing from people gathered to watch the public executions on the guiotine (Have no idea on the spelling and dont feel like looking it up.)

I like the death penalty simply as a numbers game, this country can't afford the cost of the corrections system, need to lighten the load.

 

I agree with executions, our prisons are way over crowded, instead of letting the milder offenders back out into society where they can re-offend, why don't we start executing the ones who have been languishing on death row for years. And I think the punishment should fit the crime, the more brutal and gruesome the murder was the more brutal and gruesome the punishment should be.

I know, I'm a hard *** but I get sick of the cry babies in prison, living on taxpayers money, enjoying cable TV, internet service, 3 squares a day and a roof over their heads (more than a lot of honest people out there have) Then they have the nerve to whine that their "rights" are being violated. Not like they didn't violate somebody else's rights to get where they are.

 

bigger question is why do they sterilize the needle, prior to injection. I say use some broken bottles, to cut a nice gash open, then stick a nice rusted aids infected needle right on in.
-Patrick

 

I think we should take a tip from the Muslims list of punishments and try stoning. The convicted gets burried up to his neck, and let the victim's family have at him. They don't use just any old stones either...too small and they don't hurt enough, too big and he gets killed too quickly. I guess the stones have to be a certain size to inflict the maximum pain for the longest time. They've had centuries to perfect this. Sure it sounds brutal, but if one of my family members was the victim, even this would be too good for the guy.

MR

 

We just put one down here in Ohio this week too. The guy had the nerve to say it was inhumane to execute him because he was obese! He didn't think it was inhumane to lead an entire family into a barn, shoot them and then bury them in a pit. They should have taken a belt sander to him to get him down to a low enough weight where it would have been a humane execution.

 

Time to fire up old sparky (Electric chair) and do not use a wet sponge either. Dry and painful. And let the families pull the switch.