Bring back ...

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... the guillotine:

There are other, less dramatic, ways, of course. Hanging and firing squads would probably be quicker and more painless than lethal injection or the electric chair. But the guillotine really seems to solve everyone’s problems: It was designed to deliver an efficient, quick, and painless death. It performs that task admirably. I understand the irony of a reactionary such as myself embracing the Terror’s preferred method of execution, but one must give credit where it’s due.

 The author rightly points out that most of the modern methods of execution are for the publics' benefit, not any constitutional reasons; the public just wants it to go quietly and with no visible blood.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not opposed to the condemned suffering a little (or even an amount commensurate with his victim); I just wouldn't want to bring back medievel torture.

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I'm in agreement with ...

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... almost everyone I know:

Fuck this piece of shit and anyone defending him. I'm tired of the fucking pussyfooted limp wristed no good low life politicians and their opinions. He raped a 19 year old girl and watched her die as she was buried alive! I'm glad his execution was botched! I can only hope he was ass raped daily up to the day he was put down like the dog he was! 

Don't hold back, Fireman!

If you see that the execution isn't going as planned, the backup plan should be employed  - that being a suppressed .22 applied behind the ear.

The 8th amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments ... punishments like the rack or the Brazen Bull. I don't think a bullet to the brain qualifies.

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Two birds, one post

A babysitter helps defend her charge from molestation; oh yeah, she's 74 years old:

The intruder fondled the girl in her bed, but he didn't count on a brave 74-year-old babysitter who bit his arm and fought to get him as far away from the child as possible, said Capt. John Darby, with the Special Victims Unit.

Now there's a hero of the ordinary kind. A citizen, if you will, as opposed to a subject. And that brings me to a related point, and I'll be crass and put it in economic terms.

Chelsea King, 17, was murdered, presumably by a convicted sex offender who was, surprise surprise, not following the rules. The Media are waving their hands about what we're to do about this flagrant abuse of the system.

It seems to me the first failure point is the seriousness society assigns to sexual offenses, and the second failure point is the aftermath of the first conviction.

We, as members of society, need to make sexual offenses a capital offense. Then the punishment needs to be death ....... via 230 grain cranial injection.

That'll be much, much cheaper than the incarceration option, and makes recidivism unlikely.

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