Court to consider whether death is fair — or cruel and unusual punishment
SLIDELL, La. - When the news broke last month that a janitor had been arrested and accused of raping boys in the bathroom at an elementary school, the issue of justice and retribution became the talk around dinner tables and baseball fields.
Castrate him, some said. No, let the other inmates deal with him. No, execute him.
Castration and jailhouse vigilantism are out of the question, but putting a child rapist to death is within the bounds of Louisiana law.
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Death Row inmates are considered as ad seg (administrative segregation) inmates. This means that they stay in their cell 23 hours a day with 1 hour of recreation a day, beit outside rec with sports equipment/free weights or dayroom rec watching t.v and such. There is only 1 inmate per house. They eat, sleep, and shit in their house (that's what we call a cell in this business) and are allowed to smoke tobacco for some reason. I guess it is supposed to "allow for a non-stressful environment", whatever the f*ck that means. And the Texas Dept. of Crimal Justice does not allow inmates to have conjugal visits.
D.R. inmates, at least the ones that I have encountered, are ultra-religious. It's funny to me, and not because I'm an atheist, that people turn to religion when it's certain that they're gonna die and see what is really after life. They never want to act this way when they still have an opportunity for a free life.
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fears path, and only I will remain."
-Paul Atreides
How people can be pro death penalty in the way it is practiced in the US is beyond me. I think there should be a vote and only those voting pro death penalty can be sentenced to it. Seems fair.
He's trying to lure you into his ethical ideas....don't be fooled.
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fears path, and only I will remain."
-Paul Atreides
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fears path, and only I will remain."
-Paul Atreides
I guess I'm of the belief that a horrible excuse for a human who rapes adolescent children and destroys their innocence and scars them for life needs to be beaten with rubber hoses, have his penis cut off, and then shot.
Dare I say what we should do with a child murderer? Or any kind of murderer, really.
What exactly do you mean by "way it is practiced in the US", because there are countries who kill for lesser reasons and in less humane ways, if you were indeed saying US = Barbaric.
Gender: Male Location: USA, Oklahoma. Pewpy balls.
Bardock, Impediment feels so strong about this because he was around them AND being a father can change the way you feel about these people. If some a**hole molested or killed one of my children, I would want to personally beat the shit out of that person and maybe even kill them if my child's life ended in a horrible way. According to my religion, it wouldn't be "shedding innocent blood" so I wouldn't get in THAT much trouble with my God for it.
When it gets personal, it becomes harder to think straight or rationally take action. Its easy for me to say, "Put them through the system and give 'em life in prison."
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