Restart the Death Chambers
April 17, 2008
I realize the title of this post is a bit sensationalist, but it got you to read more, didn’t it? The Supreme Court of the United States just ruled that lethal injection is constitutional in the United States. There has been a moratorium on death by lethal injection, but that can now be lifted.
In the Dispatch, Governor Ted Strickland stated:
Gov. Ted Strickland said he had not read the decision but noted that because the Kentucky and Ohio lethal-injection methods are similar, “You would think … that the legal outcome would be similar, as well.” The Democrat supports the death penalty.
What do you think about the death penalty? It has traditionally been a hot button issue in our society. Do you think that it actually works as a deterrent as intended?
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I used to be really pro-death penalty. Now I am not so sure. Not because I can about the rights of murderers - but because I think the death penalty is the easy way out for some of them.
No question in my mind the lethal injection is legal.
I’m a little like Ben. I’m troubled by the risk that an innocent person could be executed.
We also have to answer the age-old question as to whether the dealth penalty is meant to deter crime, or if it’s just retribution.
We’re learning amazing things about the brain/mind all the time. I think the chances are good that there will be ‘cures’ found for many more causes of pathalogical behavior. If that is the case, doesn’t an execution deny the criminal the chance to become normal?
But if execution is simply the most extreme penalty for the most extreme crime, then I’d not necessarily worry about making it easy on the person being executed. Swift yes - neat and tidy - no. In a perverse way, the low-drama lethal injection mode of execution might might it easier for the justice system to order and the public to accept.
Executions shouldn’t be neat and tidy. They should be violent and repulsive, like beheading. Partly to deter the would be criminal, partly to make it pretty difficult to impose the sentence for all but the most terrible of crimes.
PL
Paul & Ben-
I used to be very pro death penalty. Not that I wanted people to be executed just for the sake of punishment, but that it be reserved for our worst criminals.
At this point, I’m not too sure about that position anymore. I feel that those among us that inflict crimes upon our most vulnerable, our children, certainly deserve to be punished very harshly and severely.
But as Paul says, I think it is important to study these monsters. I do not believe that they can be rehabilitated, and furthermore, I don’t think that they deserve a second chance to hurt innocent people yet again. I think it is important to study them and leave them in jail for the rest of their lives for punishment.
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