10-29-2002, 04:11 PM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
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?
LoL I do know it is the 8th [img]smile.gif[/img] I am after all the guy whoposted the Bill of Rights on here [img]smile.gif[/img] I have heard that you are correct about hanging if done properly is as near instantaneous as can be arranged. I think it is more cruel to draw the thing out for years and then have to spend hours of preparation for the execution. And I have to ask, since you have much better grounding in Law than I ever will... WHy on gods good earth is it a rule that the person has to be healthy to be executed? Read somewhere that someone who had the flu or something couldnt be executed and why do they sterilize the needes for lethal injection?
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?
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I actualy think you have a good point, (devils advocate or not) a Fully public execution does several things. 1. It removes a miscreant from thegene pool. 2. It allows people to observe just what death is all about, and reminds them of its gruesome aspects. and 3. It also serves to remind other would be miscreants just how fun it is to have to face your mortality for your actions. (by the way, better be careful, someone might decide that by being devils advocate on occasion that your views and facts are invalidated somehow)
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