firing squad as a legal execution method

[moonangel]

in utah can you believe this its was in the huffington post  that is just crazy. Isnt it??!!

[countrygirl12]

No it is not crazy.  These people commit horrible murders and then want to cry when they are put to death saying it is inhumane.  Or they might feel pain.  Well suck it up.  Their victim probably felt some pain too.  We need a new rule.  However you kill someone is how you will die.  And you will die within 6 months.  Not 30 years.

[moonangel]

i do agree with you however there are way to many people that they are finding out are innocent .

[countrygirl12]

That is true too.  But you have people like the physco who shot them people in the movie theater.  He is guilty.  They know he done it.  They need to kill his sorry butt.  There are a lot of times they KNOW the person is guilty and they get out of it on a mental plea.  That is not right either.

 

[stbernard1973]

No it is not crazy.  These people commit horrible murders and then want to cry when they are put to death saying it is inhumane.  Or they might feel pain.  Well suck it up.  Their victim probably felt some pain too.  We need a new rule.  However you kill someone is how you will die.  And you will die within 6 months.  Not 30 years.

Exactly.  I lost someone to a violent crime and I sure wish the punishment had actually fit the crime in that case.

While there are cases coming out in the news now that are showing that some people have been falsely convicted and are being released (and that's a good thing), there are a lot of cases where is extremely clear that the person or persons charged absolutely did what they were charged with.  DNA evidence backs up evidence.  There is strong evidence proving someone committed a crime.  Some people even confess to violent crimes out of guilt or because they want the stardom that seems to come along with being a monster.

I'm sure everyone remembers the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr in Texas back in 2008.  That was one of the most disturbing and just plainly disgusting cases I've ever heard of.  The way that poor man died was awful.  There was no denying who did it and why.  I think they should have been tied behind a law enforcement SUV and dragged to death the same way Mr. Byrd was.  Absolutely show them no mercy.  Let them feel in their final moments what their victim felt in his. 

If you have the DNA to back up the conviction, you have confessions and solid evidence, I definitely agree with the dead in 6 months thing.  Killers don't let their victims appeal for 15-20 years or more.  They don't allow them to fall through loopholes.

When it comes to murders, rapes and child molesters, the punishments aren't severe enough.  There have always been monsters since the world began and there always will be.  But, make the punishment fit the crime and then just maybe someone might think twice before performing an act of violence on another human being.

[moonangel]

yes 10 years is way to much for us to be paying for them to live is way to long.  i think only if there is absolutely no doubt it is caught on video or camera that they done the crime then yes they deserve what they get.

[BMaston12]

in utah can you believe this its was in the huffington post  that is just crazy. Isnt it??!!

It would definitely but terror in the guilty. Maybe even a deterant to crime. I think that lethal injection is too easy. But there is still the impending fact of the end of life. BMaston12

[killers2]

I am against the death penalty in general, but if it has to be done in a state that allows it, I think firing squad should be an option.  The lethal injection has been ineffective on many occasions not killing the person for hours or at all, or causing them intense pain.  What I would do if you have to have a death penalty is just put the person to sleep first, then kill them by gunshot or whatever....makes sense to me?! lol  But anyways, I cant endorse a death penalty when it's proven we kill innocents sometimes, wrongly convicted. 

[nannycoe1]

I agree that they keep people on death row for too long if they are without question guilty. It looks like they could find another form of lethal injection.

[BlackSheepNY]

No it is not crazy.  These people commit horrible murders and then want to cry when they are put to death saying it is inhumane.  Or they might feel pain.  Well suck it up.  Their victim probably felt some pain too.  We need a new rule.  However you kill someone is how you will die.  And you will die within 6 months.  Not 30 years.

Bravo!  I couldn't agree with you more.  A lot of people think the death penalty (no matter how they put a person to death) is cruel and inhumane.  Do you seriously think these murderers cared how their victims felt?  They weren't thinking, "gee, am I being 'cruel' or is this too 'inhumane?'"  These nuts not only murder someone's loved one and take them away from their families, they leave families devastated for the rest of their lives here on earth.  I already think death row inmates have it easy by spending the next 20-30 years on OUR DIME, and then add insult to injury by putting them to sleep by lethal injection.  How sweet.  Bring it all back - the firing squad, the electric chair, hanging.

[monnee]

Too messy, just go back to old western hanging.

[hitch0403]

Eye for an eye,as long as they are gone.

Let the final judge be God Almighty if they would ever be repentant and live again.

[countrygirl12]

yes 10 years is way to much for us to be paying for them to live is way to long.  i think only if there is absolutely no doubt it is caught on video or camera that they done the crime then yes they deserve what they get.

10 years?  lol.  Most are more like 30 years.  You can also prove something even without a video.
There is not video of the howdy doody freak that shot up the theater but we all know he done it.
There should be NO plea of mental to get out of a crime.  If you are sane enough to shoot a bunch of people you are sane enough to be killed for the crime.

[countrygirl12]

I am against the death penalty in general, but if it has to be done in a state that allows it, I think firing squad should be an option.  The lethal injection has been ineffective on many occasions not killing the person for hours or at all, or causing them intense pain.  What I would do if you have to have a death penalty is just put the person to sleep first, then kill them by gunshot or whatever....makes sense to me?! lol  But anyways, I cant endorse a death penalty when it's proven we kill innocents sometimes, wrongly convicted. 

Who cares if they feel pain.  Their victim felt pain.  If a man raped and beat your young daughter and then poured gasoline on her and set her on fire and watched her die while she screamed in pain would you still say he should not be put to death because he might feel pain?  Oh and this really happened.  In my opinion, he should not even have a trial.  Just give him to the family.

[southernhorizons]

No it is not crazy.  These people commit horrible murders and then want to cry when they are put to death saying it is inhumane.  Or they might feel pain.  Well suck it up.  Their victim probably felt some pain too.  We need a new rule.  However you kill someone is how you will die.  And you will die within 6 months.  Not 30 years.

Very well said. These horrible murderers, if they are executed at all, spend most of their lives pampered and petted in jail, and so they never really pay for their crimes. The worse the punishment is, the more it is a deterrent to other criminals.