Death Penalty Poll

[nafod]

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content ... onwide.php

There have been 316 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States.

• The first DNA exoneration took place in 1989. Exonerations have been won in 36 states; since 2000, there have been 249 exonerations.

• 18 of the 316 people exonerated through DNA served time on death row. Another 16 were charged with capital crimes but not sentenced to death.

• The average length of time served by exonerees is 13.5 years. The total number of years served is approximately 4,232.

• The average age of exonerees at the time of their wrongful convictions was 27.

It would have to be the ultimate in suck to know you are innocent and be on death row.

[johno]

This rivals your "ultimate suck."

Neiman was forced to watch as Lockett's accomplice, Shawn Mathis, spent 20 minutes digging a shallow grave in a ditch beside the road. Her friends saw Neiman standing in the ditch and heard a single shot.
Lockett returned to the truck because the gun had jammed. He later said he could hear Neiman pleading, "Oh God, please, please" as he fixed the shotgun.
The men could be heard "laughing about how tough Stephanie was" before Lockett shot Neiman a second time.
"He ordered Mathis to bury her, despite the fact that Mathis informed him Stephanie was still alive."

If we could KNOW a murderer was guilty, and complete the execution in a timely manner, I'd favor death by excruciating torture for cases like this.

[nafod]

This rivals your "ultimate suck."

Neiman was forced to watch as Lockett's accomplice, Shawn Mathis, spent 20 minutes digging a shallow grave in a ditch beside the road. Her friends saw Neiman standing in the ditch and heard a single shot.
Lockett returned to the truck because the gun had jammed. He later said he could hear Neiman pleading, "Oh God, please, please" as he fixed the shotgun.
The men could be heard "laughing about how tough Stephanie was" before Lockett shot Neiman a second time.
"He ordered Mathis to bury her, despite the fact that Mathis informed him Stephanie was still alive."

If we could KNOW a murderer was guilty, and complete the execution in a timely manner, I'd favor death by excruciating torture for cases like this.

Ditto

[JamesonBushmill]

This rivals your "ultimate suck."

Neiman was forced to watch as Lockett's accomplice, Shawn Mathis, spent 20 minutes digging a shallow grave in a ditch beside the road. Her friends saw Neiman standing in the ditch and heard a single shot.
Lockett returned to the truck because the gun had jammed. He later said he could hear Neiman pleading, "Oh God, please, please" as he fixed the shotgun.
The men could be heard "laughing about how tough Stephanie was" before Lockett shot Neiman a second time.
"He ordered Mathis to bury her, despite the fact that Mathis informed him Stephanie was still alive."

If we could KNOW a murderer was guilty, and complete the execution in a timely manner, I'd favor death by excruciating torture for cases like this.

I don't back any kind of torture even though it is sometimes really merited. in cases where you know they did it, quick death. turn them off like a light switch.

i would like to see a lottery, where people in high risk / death likely jobs get replaced with criminals, while still drawing their salary. coal miners, Alaska fishermen, oil derrick workers, etc. i don't see a point in sticking someone in a box and nothing coming from it, so i am not behind useless "incarceration". i want to see them worked and provide for society in some capacity. i wouldn't mind drugs being tested on them, using them as cannon fodder and as minesweepers in war. i would also like to see serial killers studied. chop off their heads and study their brains, cat scan them while alive to see what makes them more fucked up than the average bear.

philosophically i want to be against capital punishment, but reality shows some people are too fucked up to be allowed to live and their existence is an affront to human decency.