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Originally posted by MagiK:
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Originally posted by DragonMage:
And who can forget No Escape with Ray Liotta? 
This is an old conversation that my family has been having for years. I would be all for such an arrangement. Make the punishment fit the criminal for once. Since we can't go back to public executions,
Why not? [img]smile.gif[/img] ok, ok, it was a joke. no hate mail please
this would do the trick to get them out of society without such a high price. And would go a long way toward dissuading youngsters from getting started on the road to criminal behavior.
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Im still thinking that there is some kind of ACLU/Bill of rights interpretation about "cruel and unusual" punishment. I mean it is considered cruel right now if they don't get both plain AND chunky peanut butter.[/QUOTE]It's called the 8th Amendment, and efforts to use it to defeant the death penalty in many states has resulted in a line of caselaw that makes it largely ineffectual today. Death - not cruel and unusual. Certain kinds of death are - like the public hanging. But, IIRC, if a hanging is done right, you snap the neck - viola, pretty instant, no?
Me, I'm for the public execution thing if you're going to do it. Let people see - vengeance on the wrongdoer is morally wrong, but the effect it has on discouraging others is redeeming. But, all that aside, some day I'll post a thread on why you cannot justify the death penalty.
Or maybe it'll be an argument as to why any civilized society absolutely must have a death penalty.
Oooops, am I letting slip the secret that my views are more Devil's Advocate than any thing else?