Which one of you Death Penalty advocates want to go "pull the switch"?

i have purposefully not read any of those threads, but the death penalty advocates i know would do it in a second.

So they wrote a new law allowing robots to do the job.

(Just a side note)

:popcorn:

But I have to admit to hypocrisy here because I do eat meat, chicken, etc., but if I had to kill the animal first, I would become a vegan in a nanosecond. This is a really hard argument, because I do feel some people do not deserve to live after what they have done, and my mind always goes back to the little Runion girl in CA who was abducted from her apt, tortured for hours, sexually assaulted, finally murdered and then posed in a sexual manner. Do I think that guy deserves to be put to death? Yes, I do.

I could throw the switch. No deterrence here, just vengeance.

Wouldn't bother me a bit.

onedit: as a matter of fact if you support the death penalty and couldn't pull the switch, you're a hypocrite. Just like W.

death penalty advocate, but I think I could do it if the victim was a family member or if it was Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, Bundy, Dahmer, etc.:dilemma:

for your children?

somehow I dont think its gonna show up on any bestseller list.

"Life in Prison", it's more like a pamphlet though. Really short and hardly informative. I thought I was going to get some good inside information but it really was a waste of money.

399 are?

(being generous and rounding up to 400)

curriculum in the Detroit Public School System. Somehow, I think you may be wrong assuming the book won't be bought for some DUers' children. That isn't the point.

I feel like dispensing some justice! Bring me the Dip!

I don't think anyone for any reason should be executed. But it doesn't mean I also have to feel sorry or guilt for 4 time brutal murderers that deserve nothing but torment and pain the rest of their lives.

No thanks, I don't condone killing and feel no need to pull the switch. But I am allowed to also not feel a thing when a scumbag murdering savage is killed by another murderer.

I can't believe how popular the death penalty is these days. It gives me the creeps.

A vocal group howls for an execution to be carried out, but no one stepped forward to volunteer to personally execute the prisoner. If I remember correctly, answering the question was avoided. Let's see if anyone steps forward here.

maybe a couple of honest answers....

There are three reasons why I'd push the button.

First are the four murders. This individual put a shotgun against the back of a stranger's head and pulled the trigger. It takes a special kind of person to do something like that and walk away. Stanley Williams did it. Most people could justify killing another person under certain circumstances--they're trying to kill you, they're trying to kill someone else, you caught them in the act of raping your spouse. Sure. Get out your gun, kill the malefactor before he kills you. Most people wouldn't have much trouble sleeping at night after doing that. But Mr. Williams? "Oh, that guy needs to die, he looked at me funny."

Second are the unknown murders. Folks, this guy started the Crips, a social organization that's murdered a lot of people. Something tells me Mr. Williams didn't have clean hands--he HAD to have killed more than four people.

And third is his social organization, the Crips. Mr. Williams' group was very much responsible for turning Los Angeles into a war zone. How many people within the Crips and the Bloods were killed in this war? How many innocents? How many cops?

So fuck it, man. I'd push the button. I'd push all the buttons. I'd start the lines, everything. I don't wanna breathe the same air Mr. Williams does.

Correct me if my math is wrong.

I tell ya what. If Stanley Williams rolls over on his homies, I'll reconsider my opposition to his continued ability to breathe air.

Let's look at the term "murder." Homicide and murder are NOT the same thing.

Homicide: the killing of a person by another person
Murder: the unjustified killing of a person

Is Mr. Williams' killing unjustified? I don't think it is. This individual has left a trail of blood behind him that's longer than Governor George W. Bush's, and while it's not nearly as long as pResident George W. Bush's, it's fairly outstanding in its own right. You can call what the state of California is about to do to him "revenge" killing, "retribution," "punishment" or something else...just not murder.

Let's put it this way: if the individual we've been talking about was not Stanley Williams but had put a shotgun blast through the back of someone's head anyway, and the person receiving the shotgun blast was a member of the Crips, Stanley Williams would have killed that person himself.

Stanley Williams really needs to die.

But I still like indoor plumbing.

go eat dinner and get a good night's sleep afterwards, too.