to what end??

SunMo · June 09, 2006, 10:55:50 AM

and if you don't put the lotion in the basket, you get the hose. the facts of life here people.

MadMarchHare · June 09, 2006, 11:35:38 AM

Back when I was in school in Philly, we got to sit in on a "court preparation" with the assistant DA and the coroner. A guy came home and found his wife banging another guy. So he shot her over 20 times --- with a bow and arrows. They had pictures. After we left, I couldn't stop laughing about it.

reese125 · June 09, 2006, 11:38:56 AM

then you went home and kicked your dog too?

rjs246 · June 09, 2006, 11:41:37 AM

Quote from: MadMarchHare on June 09, 2006, 11:35:38 AM
Back when I was in school in Philly, we got to sit in on a "court preparation" with the assistant DA and the coroner. A guy came home and found his wife banging another guy. So he shot her over 20 times --- with a bow and arrows. They had pictures. After we left, I couldn't stop laughing about it.

That's intense. And rather awesome.

MadMarchHare · June 09, 2006, 11:55:52 AM

Hard to argue crime of passion there. I'd think some where in the teens, when your arms are getting tired, you have to start cooling off a little, right?

Father Demon · June 09, 2006, 12:58:16 PM

I'd like to point out that if somehow, someway I do something so dastardly, so vicious, so wicked and immoral, and there is a chance I could be sentenced to death, I'll choose poison in the arm over life in prison everyday of the week. I don't want to have to live through a life of incarceration. Give me the few minutes of fear rather than a life of being a prisoner.

I fear prison a hell of a lot more than I fear death.

Phanatic · June 09, 2006, 02:04:59 PM

That's the beauty of it. These guys get 20 years of waiting on death row before it actually happens...

stalker · June 09, 2006, 02:21:58 PM

I have been watching that Dateline show on NBC. The one where the predators are talked to online and showup at houses where the parents are out and a child is supposedly waiting. Anyway, I am in favor of the death penalty and feel these guys should take a bullet in the temple immediately, right on TV. Why not? You have them on video. You know they will do it again. Just kill them right there. That is the only way you can guarantee that they won\'t do it.

Father Demon · June 09, 2006, 02:38:24 PM

That sixth grade teacher dude has some serious issues.

I'm sure they'll all be worked out in prison.

PhillyPhreak54 · June 10, 2006, 02:24:33 AM

One other thing that needs to be said...

Like in the other thread, you never hear about the other side of the people who accept what they did and accept the punishment.

I remember the first time I had to escort an inmate from Ellis Death Row (DR is now in Livingston at the Pollunksy Unit, by the way) to The Walls Unit. The Walls is where they perform the executions. The inmate who was going to die that day had killed a police officer. He shot him in the face and head several times.

I had to ride in the back on the van with him. And after he politely asked me to slide over so if he vomited it wouldn't strike me (he hadn't been in a car in 16 years and was getting motion sickness) told me that he was glad the day had come. He was ready to pay his price and move on. He said he was sorry for what he did but sorry would not bring back that officer to his family. He understand that he deserved to die.

The worst part of working on DR was the day an inmate was scheduled to die. He got his final visit with his family from 0800-1200. And at 1200 one of us had to go into the visiting room and take him from the cage, handcuff him and remove him from the room. They were not allowed contact visits. It was them in a cage behind the glass and the family on the other side.

When the family would see us coming the screams, sobs and sheer terror was tough to deal with. Especially when there was kids there.

stalker · June 10, 2006, 04:38:57 PM

Wouldn\'t it make more sense to use Country Joe Stalins method?

Sgt PSN · June 11, 2006, 11:37:50 AM

Quote from: stalker on June 10, 2006, 04:38:57 PM
Wouldn\'t it make more sense to use Country Joe Stalins method?

Only if we can start with you.

Geowhizzer · June 11, 2006, 11:40:21 AM

Quote from: stalker on June 10, 2006, 04:38:57 PM
Wouldn\'t it make more sense to use Country Joe Stalins method?

Will he be singing the "Fixin' to Die Rag?"

Diomedes · June 11, 2006, 12:11:38 PM

[russian]And it's a one two three
What am I dyin' for?
Don't tell me I don't give a damn.
Next stop is the gallows, man.[/russian]

stalker · June 11, 2006, 12:21:09 PM

Quote from: Sgt PSN on June 11, 2006, 11:37:50 AM
Quote from: stalker on June 10, 2006, 04:38:57 PM
Wouldn\\\'t it make more sense to use Country Joe Stalins method?

Only if we can start with you.

I have never broken a law Sargent Silly, so I wouldn\'t be executed. I was referring to guys caught on videotape. No gallows, just a quick bullet in the temple. Get it done. No budget to house or feed them, just the cost of one bullet.

And Geo, I think you are referring to Country Joe MacDonald.