Thread: Shall the criminally insane be put down like a dog with rabies?

Originally Posted by singlewedge

I realize that may offend people, but I will not apologize for my hard line stance. If you murder, rape, or commit crimes against children there should be a 17 panel jury and one trial. No appeal unless a JUDGE rules that there was a mistake of law. If 13 or more people on the jury believe you are guilty, you are. No jury deadlock.

Great. So if the defendant gets a crappy lawyer assigned who botches the trial, or if evidence is being witheld from the defense (yes it happens) or any of the other things that go wrong, then you end up murdering someone who didn't have to be murdered.

This is why the process is as complex as it is now. You are playing with people's lives.

Originally Posted by singlewedge

At the point of a guilty verdict the judge will have 30 days to make the final decision as to mistake of law only and then the person will be taken to a public forum and shot. The family of the offender sent the bill for the incarceration and bullet. Hardcore yes. Will it defer others from going down the same path. Not immediately, but give it six months of this and I guarentee that crime will drop.

Did you ever bother to put some research into this?
They tried this in England, 200 years ago I think (around the napoleonitic wars) public hanging, using the short drop method. They called it the hemp fandango because the drop didn't kill you, and victims kicked their legs until they passed out.

Anyway. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.
Death penalty in the US isn't working as a deterrent now, and no matter how much you step up the pace, it will never do. China executed 15000 people per year. It doesn't work there, and they follow your suggested approach to a T.

Originally Posted by singlewedge

Will we get a few wrong, sure, but with the technology that we have and it is getting better, those numbers will go down.
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would you feel the same if it was YOU who'd sat there, innocent? Or your kid?
Sort of like 'yeah it sucks, but this one is for the team'