Legalities

Why all the fuss... if we are going to murder someone let's save some money and just use a single 45 cal bullet behind the shed... the argument for being "humane" in inflicting death is absurd!@

I wonder if Earl Wesley Berry thought about cruel and unusual punishment while he was killing his victim? I'm so sick of this debate. Fry em and lets move on.

Lethal injection is painless. You can’t get more humane than that. I’m also good with life in prison for this type of scum, but with no TV, books, or workout rooms. Just a slaves life of hard labor for the rest of their days.

Yeah, why is there such a fuss for these killers? They certainly weren't giving their victims any consideration as to whether or not they were inflicting 'pain or suffering'. Total BS! Their punishment should be the same as they did to their victim(s) - and nothing less!

Why are we catering to the wants of these murders anyway? They don't want to hang. They don't want electricution. They don't want lethal injection. I agree with RW.. Bring a .45 to the back of the shed, and be done with it. Give the victims relatives, and loved ones some satisfaction and relief. America can be the police force for the world, but we are afraid to take care of our own scum. Such BS.

Look if they were convicted on solid DNA evidence then they should be executed in the same manner they used in committing the murder.

They need to experience the same pain and suffering they inflicted on their victim. Then maybe others will think twice before then kill someone.

I don't know... I keep thinking that perhaps the ancient practice of death by stoning should be revived - with the absolute requirement that all members of the convicting jury, the trial judge and the prosecutor MUST throw the first stones. Execution should be bloody and ugly and entirely personal - not the sanitized puting-down of a pet.

Every prison in this country is overcrowded; it costs us ~40,000 per year to keep these life sentence prisoners in jail for decades. Anyone who has had a surgery where they were put to sleep while in surgery knows that in a couple of seconds after the Anesthesia has been added to your IV you very gently go to sleep. If the dose were just a bit stronger you would also die.

Tell me how this is an inhumane process???
Every time I have had surgery I have never though it to be an inhumane way to go to sleep.

If hanging was good enough for Saddam Hussein.........

These scumbags did not care what their victims or the families who where hurt thought or felt. We should excute these people 3 days after they have been convicted using the same method that they killed their victims by.

I never have understood why sane people endorse the death penalty. From a religious point of view, it makes a person just as guilty as the murderer. To me, a life behind bars as a slave to hard labor is more just. The person has a long time to think about what they did wrong.

The second problem with the death penalty is the fact that innocent people have been killed only to be found innocent later on. Again from a religious view, the makes people who condone the death penalty just as guilty if no more so.

May GOD have mercy on the people who stoop to the level of a murderer.

Let us not forget the many who are executed who were later found innocent of the crime charged. Our system is NOT perfect. I think to execute someone in such a premeditated way is as heinous as the crime they are charged with. If the person is a monster, then they should be enslaved for the rest of their days with NO comforts. Who knows, a few years down the road, there would be some who would be exonerated of their charges.

Amen...

I believe if there is no doubt of persons guilt than let's "Get'er done". For those bleeding heart liberals who want to save murders from execution for a heinous crime, let them pay for that support for the rest of their natural lives...

If it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt, please stop wasting tayxpayers' money and be done with it. Lethal injection is not "cruel".

Back in early 1989; a young white girl; 15 yrs old; was picked up and raped and then killed by two africans. These two were suppose to die by lethal injection however; its all been put on hold until they make a decsion on this. What about the young girl who was only 15 back in 1989; and these two africans are still eating and breathing; and the taxpayer is paying for it. Service justice and get it done........

if the killed they should die the same way
their victims had no choice

All of you that believe the death penalty recipient should be stoned or tortured should have to be the person carrying out the punishment. You believe you are on higher ground and are more humane than murderers. How many of you claim to be Christians? So much for Jesus' philosophy of turning the other cheek. I believe most of you would be for bringing back lynch mobs since I feel you don't think courts have any role to be played in punishment and conviction. Many blowhards will say, "of course, I would flip the switch or throw the 1st stone," but in reality, I don't believe you comprehend how difficult this would be. You lower yourself to the level of the convict.

Richard, Can you site one instance where someone was put to death and later proven innocent? Because i've never heard of one. Maybe you could sent more of your hard earned money to keep these scumbags locked up with cable tv, ac, basketball, meals. May God have mercy on YOUR soul. Eye for an eye.

Doug, there are at least 200 cases where people on death row have been released based on exoneration, usually through DNA. Only one case has proceeded to verify guilt through DNA after the death penalty was already meted out. In this one particular case, DNA proved the verdict was correct. But with at least 200 exonerated from death row, isn't it reasonable to believe that innocent people have been put to death? One innocent person being put to death in error is one too many for me. We are sometimes so far removed from the parties involved that it is difficult to objectively judge the situation. We should all try to ask the question - "what if this were my brother or sister being put to death, all the while proclaiming their innocence?"