Supreme Court killing time

1/07/2008 04:48:00 pm / The truth was spoken by Rich /


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The U.S. Supreme Court is trying to decide at present whether the lethal injection causes excruciating pain for the injectee and thus violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on "Cruel and unusual punishment."

Say what? Surely, even if the cocktail of drugs they use made you feel like you're being soaped up by a French whore and sent you into the arms of Morpheus forever in a lazy state of arousal it's still cruel and unusual.

Last time I looked, strapping someone down and killing them while a bunch of random witnesses looked on was pretty cruel and really quite unusual, isn't it? I think.

The fact that lawyers are able to keep these killer dudes on death row for years and years is cruel in itself, if they end up strapped to that table anyway. If you're gonna have a death penalty at all, then really the most humane way of approaching this sentence, if it's even possible to do this humanely, would be to shoot them in the back of the head when you lead them out of court. Sort of catch them unawares like.

Fair do's you might shoot some innocent people and so on, but that happens anyway. At least this way they don't go mad in their wee little death row cell while they're waiting to die in front of voyeuristic members of the public and you'll be denying defence attorneys - who are actually the ones who deserve to be cocktailed to death - with miwyans of dollars they get for multiple appeals.

Also, with all the miwyans of dollars the state would save from not having to imprison these people for years you could build a nice new hospital and a school and one of those Boardwalk and Baseball places or a nice park. Everyone goes home a winner. Well, not everyone goes home, but you know what I mean.

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