Death penalty opponents are all over the botched execution in Oklahoma. I say the only problem is that the bastard didn't suffer more than he did. Death by bonfire was called for. You hear about the messy execution but you don't hear about the crime. Check this out....
You never hear about the victims. All you hear about is the guys who are wanting one more day of life after committing a horrendous crime.
You can't ignore the victims if you want to have an honest discussion about this issue. The guy deserved to die. Nuff said.
Almost 15 years ago, on June 3, 1999, Clayton Lockett, 23, Shawn Mathis, 26, and Alfonzo LaRon Veasey Lockett, 17, planned on robbing Bobby Lee Bornt, 23, at his house in Perry, Okla.Read the whole thing here.
They tied up Bornt and beat him. Bornt’s nine-month-old son was present.
Stephanie Neiman, 18, was dropping off her friend Summer Bradshaw at that house, and Lockett and his accomplices tried to take the keys to her new Chevy truck. Neiman, who graduated from high school only two weeks earlier, fought back, and the men covered her mouth with duct tape and beat and sexually assualted her. They also covered her 18-year-old friend’s mouth with duct tape, and beat and sexually assaulted her. Both were abducted, along with Bornt and his son. Lockett and his accomplices drove the four people they kidnapped west of Ponca City. Lockett asked Neiman if she planned to call the police. She would not say no, and Mathis spent 20 minutes digging a grave over which Lockett shot Neiman twice with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, the three other victims later told authorities.
You never hear about the victims. All you hear about is the guys who are wanting one more day of life after committing a horrendous crime.
You can't ignore the victims if you want to have an honest discussion about this issue. The guy deserved to die. Nuff said.
Rabid animals are to be put down.
ReplyDeleteFew things stand more true than the above statement.
you get it. i wonder why so many people don't. its a simple concept. for the good of society the death penalty must be issued.
DeleteI'm against executions. I want them kitted out for parts. KKeep them alive so their parts are fresh.If someone needs a heart transplant, well that is just to bad. With luck, several people will get to live who would have died without those kidneys, lungs, livers, etc. Any potential proceeds should go to restitution.
ReplyDeletei could live with that but the problem will be how do you keep the process to gain organs fair? the rich and the connected will muscle out the poor. then we're on the slope to harvesting organs.
DeleteI may be wrong but I think Chinese are doing that... you can say many things abut them but they are definitely pragmatic.
DeleteYeah, after the "Kids for cash" scandal in 2008, doing anything with the prison system that can provide profit seems like a bad idea.
DeleteWhy they are saying something was wrong with that execution ? Convict is dead ? yep... then execution was successful. I only regret that they use some mambo jambo chemicals and not the old rope, less complicated, one pull and done.
ReplyDeleteI am unsure as to why we use lethal injection anyways? To be more "humane"? What is humane about what the animals who are getting the needle did to deserve it?
ReplyDeleteCall me a simple man, but the walk up those 13 gallows steps, the black bag being placed over your head and the feeling of the 13 knots of that hemp rope being placed right behind your left ear......THAT, my friends, makes a person believe, deep in thier twisted souls, they done f#$ked up.
That or being strapped to the chair with the target placed on your chest. Either way...I am good it.
But the way it has gotten so convoluted these days with all the appeals and draggin out...death ro inmates live for an average of 13 years before they head to the place of their demise. And of course, all these stellar citizens can afford their own lawyers. More cost to us working taxpayers (the few there are out there).
Bring back firing squads.
ReplyDeleteThey are not "Cruel & unusual" as two states still use them.
To keep the errors down, just mount multiple revolvers in bench-rest vises. Then run cables to the triggers. No miss, no muss, no fuss.
The rope is not a simple and guaranteed option. Not only that, but inmate weight is also an issue.
http://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/09/americas-biggest-losers-too-fat-to.html
Captive bolt pistol.
ReplyDeleteWorks every time and when applied by a professional is stunning and if set right kills fast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_bolt_pistol
The monster died which was the plan and the plan worked.
ReplyDeleteI doubt the monster felt any pain.
I mean to say, if the monster dies of a heart attack on the way to the firing squad who cares?
The truly funny part is, the clown who was to be executed next was due two hours after this clown died he for sure heard about the "botched and painful" execution prior to his and I bet he was shaking in his turds. The next clown raped and killed a baby they stopped his planned death when the other fellow died so painfully.
ReplyDeleteBut ya know he was somewhat distressed.
A buddy of mine once had a good suggestion (not saying its the best, but...). Static line 'em out over Afghanistan with nothing more than the clothes on their back. Cheap parachute + cost of fuel = money saved from the taxpayer on years/decade of prison costs. Let the mountains, elements and all the inhabitants deal with them. There are even cheaper ways...I just liked his creativity.
ReplyDeleteToo bad there was no review or outcry or investigation after the botched execution of Sarah Brown. Two attempts at lethal injection left her blind, mute, mentally disabled, and unable to walk. She lingered for five years before her death.
ReplyDeleteShe'd been given no due process: No representation, no trial, no appeal. Her crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Here executioner was "hero" abortionist George Tiller.