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Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

"The US has carried out the 1,000th execution since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976."

How disgusting and primitive.

Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4490842.stm

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

hack · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

I agree it's disgusting that it took almost 20 years to get rid of that piece of crap. What a waste of taxpayer's money. The mid east has got that part right. Find a guy guilty in the morning-shoot him in the afternoon. No muss, no fuss.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

hack · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

Thanks, guys, for reminding me why I love North Carolina so much.

My question is this: If you are anti-death penalty, shouldn't you be pro-life as well?

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

A statistical blip, I am sure, but of those 1000 killings, 355 took place in Texas.

Texas is 7.5% of the population and carries out 35.5% of the executions.

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:02 am Post subject:

Let's put this into context:

The Chinese Communist government kills 3000 people every year on average.

And that's just the ones we know about!

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

what about SINGAPORE hanging the Australian youngman for being caught with 15ouces of herion,, they hung him today..
and last night the last visit with his mum they wouldnt allow each other to hug! not even a hug and kiss goodbye!
the only touching that was allowed was through the window in the glass door.
then they took the 25 year old man. and hung him from a rope to die!

murder someone yes death penalty in many cases..

carrying 15 ouces which is bascially personally or alittle profit
gets death sentence by hanging!
BRUTAL ..

and not letting his mum give his son a kiss goodbye or a hug!
na man!! thats wrong! sure rules are rules etc.. but not allowing a hug
thats going overboard!

canuckistan · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:

Any country that wants to call itself civilised shouldn't cave in to the more base aspects of human nature like revenge under the guise of being "state-sanctioned". Brutality met with more brutality changes nothing except to debase, in the worst way, the higher office of supposedly enlightened individuals who have sanctioned it. Very shameful stuff, especially when innocent people are wrongly put to death.
The death penalty is a barbaric, knee-jerk reaction of the unenlightened.....and the reality in this country is, as one ex-prison warden in Alabama put it: "the death penalty is a privelege of the poor."

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

I agree with the canukistan. Let em rot in jail in solitary for the rest of their lives. papillon style! I'd like to see murderers spend many agonizing years just like pappy did in the brutal French justice system.

ontheway · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:31 am Post subject:

As evil and deserving of the death penality as this guy and many others in the world may be, we should NEVER give any government the RIGHT to kill anyone.

Who are the biggest death penalty countries? China, Iran, US ?

Just great.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

Too much sympathy for the criminals and too little sympathy for the victims.

Smuggling heroin....where does it go? Does it end up in a schoolyard? In someones home where their kids pay the price for thier habit? He was stupid, he got caught, he died. If you are going to smuggle drugs find a country without death penalties to do it in....if you do and get caught dont go crying to mom, cause they wont let you hug her!

Murderers who confess and where there is suffient evidence to support their confession...crispy fried within a week. Thats justice. Letting them sit on death row for years...thats just cruel.

Who deserves a second chance? How about the family of the victim. Donte they deserve a chance to have a brother, sister, mother, father, grandfather.......etc?

Death penalties may or may not be a deterrent but you can be damn sure that the criminal will never re-offend!

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

The death penalty just seems so uncivilized and it's almost shocking that a country as "progressive" as the USA would still continue to do it.

Is it even effective as a deterrant? I have a feeling that I'd rather die than linger my life away in some overcrowded maximum security hell-hole without a chance of parole.