I am personally against the death penalty but I do find it strange how many debate over if it will be ‘painful’ or ‘cruel’. You are executing a person. It’s not going to be pleasant.
Why don’t they use the suicide drug of choice for the plebs and chronically poor - fentanyl?
It has been debated. Many people feel it would be cruel. I don’t. It should be fairly peaceful unless they have some strange intolerance to it.
I would rather see the death penalty removed. I feel it is an old outdated practice and occasionally we get the wrong person. It isn’t justice. It is vengeance.
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8th Amendment of the Constitution explicitly says punishment shouldn’t be cruel.
You are killing someone. No matter what you do, it’s going to be painful to some degree either psychologically or physically.
Debating if Nitrogen is more cruel than hanging, or shooting a person is a stupid exercise to me rather than accepting we are killing someone and maybe we shouldn’t.
I suppose that’s why the Supreme has never invalided a state’s chosen procedure, from fire squads, electrocution, to mechanical failures that screw up the first attempt.
I just find the whole debate strange. Nitrogen gas should he fairly painless. Shooting someone is fairly painless as well. Most methods are more psychological painful than physically painful.
I just think the debate should be why are we executing people especially when most the time it’s 30 years later.
Reportedly, he appeared to have suffered, and nitrogen ipoxia can be painless but can also be fairly painful in some cases
I don’t care if they “suffer”. They are being killed. To me that’s the silliness of it. We want it to look peaceful when we are killing someone.
The whole idea of capital punishment is “as a society we said that killing people is wrong, but some people are tol dangerous and they must be killed”, but at that point you want to do it without any unnecessary suffering, onlt for the good of society. So you either say that capital punishment should bw abolished, or it must be done without suffering. Death penalty with pain means you are the same as the people you are trying to kill because too dangerous
I disagree. It should be abolished because we can’t correct a mistake if you execute the wrong person. I don’t care about the pain aspect. If someone needs to be killed, I’m not overly concerned if it painful.
I do care that we take 50 years to do it and we have executed innocent people. If we can keep them safely for 30+ years then there is no need to execute them.
Focusing on the pain ignores there isn’t a need to even execute the majority of prisoners.
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Huh? I said I’m against the death penalty.
