#1 2008-04-17 01:30:47
"It’s just terrible," said Paris Powell, a convicted killer at the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlester. He added: "It’s like the air has just been let out of a balloon. There’s disbelief that the ruling came so quickly, but it goes further than just right now. It’s now official that the death penalty is here to stay forever, really."
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#2 2008-04-17 01:53:57
This ruling is terrible! As you may remember, I’m opposed to capital punishment because it is too humane. I truly believe life in prison with no possibility of parole is far more fiendishly evil, and therefore preferable to putting the bastards down humanely and quickly as if they were terminally ill pets.
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#3 2008-04-17 03:43:31
Oh, I don't disagree with you, Fnord. I oppose the death penalty because I don't believe the state should have the right to determine whether an individual should live or die. And I agree with you, too, that life without any chance of ever being free again is a far worse punishment.
I just can't imagine the condemned are going to get much sympathy from anyone who didn't oppose the death penalty to begin with.
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#5 2008-04-17 13:03:59
Taint wrote:
"It’s just terrible," said Paris Powell, a convicted killer at the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlester. He added: "It’s like the air has just been let out of a balloon. There’s disbelief that the ruling came so quickly, but it goes further than just right now. It’s now official that the death penalty is here to stay forever, really."
Call the "Waaaaaaaah!!"mbulance.
I still think my deep-hole-in-a-square-state idea has legs.
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#6 2008-04-17 13:06:52
Smith described the car as a gray hatchback, possibly a Datsun. He identified State's exhibit 2, a photograph of a blue Dodge Omni, as the car he saw.
Fuckin' moron. My Kindergartners are better at shapes and colors than that lump of shit when they first hit my classroom.
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#7 2008-04-17 17:27:11
Can you even get a hatchback non-suv car anymore?
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#8 2008-04-18 07:39:40
It's always hard to gauge the level of sarcasm, but I'll play the straight man.
I agree with Fnord and Taint that incarceration for life is worse than death, which is why I support capital punishment. Retribution and revenge are expensive and pointless, the point is to clean up the mess as quickly and cheaply as possible. 9mm is about a dime a shot. As to providing a deterrent, I could care less... in general the more dead people the less they'll breath my air.
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#9 2008-04-18 09:30:39
opsec wrote:
It's always hard to gauge the level of sarcasm, but I'll play the straight man.
I agree with Fnord and Taint that incarceration for life is worse than death, which is why I support capital punishment. Retribution and revenge are expensive and pointless, the point is to clean up the mess as quickly and cheaply as possible. 9mm is about a dime a shot. As to providing a deterrent, I could care less... in general the more dead people the less they'll breath my air.
I much rather give them a fish hook, survival knife, sleeping bag and tent and drop them off on a deserted island in the Bering Sea (St. Matthews Island comes to mind)
A couple of sensors and then let nature take it's course - without any blood on societies hands. Cheap too!!!
I like to call this idea Internal Exile.
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#10 2008-04-18 20:51:35
Has anyone ever considered just doing away with the justice system entirely and let the victim or the victim's family handle the punishment? I think it would make life a bit more exciting and would save us a shitload of tax dollars. Just a thought...............
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#11 2008-04-18 21:19:34
but then we would be imitating the Muslims.... why don't we just follow the native americans example? Remove the skin from their feet and hands, drop them in a desert and say buh-bye!
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#12 2008-04-19 12:54:10
Dirckman wrote:
Has anyone ever considered just doing away with the justice system entirely and let the victim or the victim's family handle the punishment? I think it would make life a bit more exciting and would save us a shitload of tax dollars. Just a thought...............
You know, I had a dream sorta like that my senior year of college. So vivid and lovely I carry it with me to this day...
These two asswipes were torturing a beautiful black lab, eventually taking off one of its legs. I notified the authorities, who arrested them and released the dog to my care. I of course was a witness at their trial, but then the judge cut it short, explaining that there was no law to guide him in their case [I KNOW that's bullshit, it was a dream, stay with me here], but that in his judgment, he would no longer allow the law to protect them. [Kind of a judicial "mark of Cain"]. I said to my friend and the dog sitting next to me in the gallery, "that's just what I wanted to hear." I then chambered a round in my .45, followed the scum to the parking lot where I put slugs in the back of both their heads, then proceeded to finish firing into their bodies everytime they so much as twitched until all 9 rounds were out of the clip, with the three-legged dog and my friend leaning contentedly against me...
Back to Dirckman's idea: Sell the rights to the networks.
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