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Firing squads are back

For those of you that want a quick and painless method, why not guillotine? Instant death. Or is that somehow more gruesome than shooting someone up with a cocktail of poisons or blowing their face off with a rifle bullet?
 
Blankpage said:
But you do see the family of the victims wanting death for the murderer so families involved cancel each other out and we're left with public opinion.
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Actually there are many instances where families have said they'd rather them rot in prison.
 
Kornholio said:
Actually there are many instances where families have said they'd rather them rot in prison.
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I believe this may be false. I'd need to do some research but they've found most families don't feel vindication from execution. Many of the nuttier ones somehow "forgive" them.

http://deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=56

Death Penalty can prolong families suffering in fact.
 
Perhaps imprisoning someone for life wouldn't be such a big expense if we stopped pissing away money on locking up low-level offenders for so damn long...if at all.

...but I digress...
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Cancelling all of them would stop 100% of wrongful executions.
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And executing a truly evil convict prevents any possibility of escape or parole.

I'm not really sure where I stand on capital punishment. A lot of the time I think we should do away with it, but then there are certain cases... Fundamentally I still think there's a time and place but the bar is set too low on certainty of guilt.
 
Kornholio said:
Perhaps imprisoning someone for life wouldn't be such a big expense if we stopped pissing away money on locking up low-level offenders for so damn long...if at all.

...but I digress...
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Now you are using logic.
 
tzrider said:
And executing a truly evil convict prevents any possibility of escape or parole.
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So does putting them in the proper place...a supermax. Pelican Bay State Prison comes to mind as no one has successfully escaped from the maximum security portion of that prison.

And they already would have life without parole anyway, so obviously that rules parole out.
 
Kornholio said:
So does putting them in the proper place...a supermax. Pelican Bay State Prison comes to mind as no one has successfully escaped from the maximum security portion of that prison.

And they already would have life without parole anyway, so obviously that rules parole out.
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We don't have enough supermax capacity.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
For those of you that want a quick and painless method, why not guillotine? Instant death. Or is that somehow more gruesome than shooting someone up with a cocktail of poisons or blowing their face off with a rifle bullet?
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Apparently not instant.

A french aristocratic scientist resolved to conduct an experiment during the french revolution. He asked his assistant to watch him blinking his eyes directly after his beheading. The assistant recorded 13 seconds.
 
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