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Hanging is pure torture, chair sounds too painful, so lethal injection is the only way to go.

My point of view on the subject is this:

No matter what the form of execution may be, they should be public, and broadcast on TV. Maybe late-night after the kids go to bed. The reason is that then people would be able to see the consequences for commiting serious crimes. My beleif is that this would help to reduce crime and make life easier for the rest of us. Also, I don't think the executions should be all that painless. The people on death row are there because they have cause enormous pain for many decent people. Why should they no suffer some too?

This is my point of view, thanks for reading...
Ausheteru II

Lethal Injection seems to be the least painful. You're still going to be sitting there until the drug takes its effects, thinking about everything that is going to happen to you after you've passed on. But at least your brain will probably stop functioning early on and you won't have any pain as you pass on.

Hanging is a definite no-no. Having to hang in the air, twisting and writhing as your oxygen supply slowly vanishes with every passing moment. You never know how long it'll take to kill you, either. You could be hanging there for seconds or for minutes until you finally die.

Electric Chair isn't all that appealing either. I'd rather not have thousands of volts of electricity running through my body at one time, thank you very much. It's probably the most painful out of the three and definitely the least humane.



Good point. That's what they used to do back in the day, right? They used to have everyone go out into a big square and hang criminals who were often unjustly charged with crimes where everyone could see. It was a sport just to go and attend a hanging.

But future crime-doers are hardly going to be sitting around watching late-night TV, are they? They also know what they're getting into whenever they commit the crime (generally, at least) and they should know the consquences. It's a good idea to have deaths broadcast on TV, but it would invade the privacy of the criminals being persecuted.

And it'd be just another way for our government to scare us into control, wouldn't it? Don't do anything against the law or else you'll end up like this murderer.

Lethal injection is definately the most humane of the three. I don't believe anyone has the right to take another human life. An eye for an eye, no?

I don't see the point in the United States prison system either. They get food, shelter, showers, medical care, visitation, educational opportunities, etc. It's not much different than being grounded. So it sucks being stuck in a cell and only allowed outside behind a barbwired fence. Big deal
Wouldn't dedicating several years or an entire life serving the global community be better? Like AIDs education in Africa and India, or building homes and digging wells in poor villages. Even teaching school aged children if under acceptable circumstances. It would definately educate persons to be more appreciative of life, the things they have, and all the opportunities they have access to at home. 3nodding

But a lot of people in there were never able to fit into the american life and werent able to do anything for themselvs. Obviously they have to be fed but its not like they choose what cloathes they were and stuff like that. Would you really want a guy that could kill you anytime as a neighboor? or a gangster taht gets frequent drive byes through his house to shoot your sister on the way home?

Lethal injection, it's the most painless (well at least from what I hear)
The other two are pretty cruel >_<
But once you think about it, giving a huge criminal (like cereal killers)
a lethal injection is only going to cause there family suffer, I would give them jail for life.....



True, but some people who are put in jail, have to serve like 30 or something hours of community service. And the're probably treated as babies....
I don't think they get a choice of what to wear, or when and what the're going to eat.....
And they do need shelter, food, clothes, medical care, and education if the're like 15 or something....

How does that have anything to do with what I said? Maybe I should clarify: Instead of having them sit around rotting away while eating mac & cheese, why not make them work hard all day repaying their debt to society for being a bad person and having no morals then go back to the jail, eat some milk and cookies, and snuggle up in a nice comfy bed during the entire time of their imprisonment?

I exaggerate, but I'm not talking about letting them run around to do whatever they please after spending the day at the nursing home.

And if you want to get into in, shouldn't one be more worried about the registered sex offender that lives just around the block checking out your little sister and her friends on the way home from school all sneaky like? I'd rather get shot in a drive-by than raped by a pervert any day.

Lethal injection. The quickness and mercy of it acknowledges that you're still human, but the killing shows you've done deeds so horrible you need to die.