Just Another Political Post.

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I have mixed feelings on the death penalty. On one hand, it's death. Cold and final. On the other, it's death. The easy way out. No suffering for your entire life in a cramped smelly cell.

Also, how they die irks me somewhat.

A good while back ago, a man was spared the death penalty because he had a well documented phobia of needles. Panic attacks. The works. He went bat#$%& crazy when he saw needles. A court determined that killing him by lethal injection would have been cruel and unusual punishment. Inhumane. And yet, this guy had killed several folk in the most brutal fashion you could imagine. No thought was given to those people, who probably had a phobia of somebody killing them.

In cases where the death penalty is used, I don't think it should be swift and painless. I think it should be brutal and painful. And a man (or woman) should have some time to think about what they did before they die. Now, I don't mean torture... But they have made the termination process as painless as possible now. Hell, they give the condemned a considerable dose of Valium before the procedure even starts, so they are off in lala land.

I dunno. I think the condemned should either be hung with a short drop so the neck doesn't break and they have to struggle for a while... Or they should be tied to a post or a chair. No blindfold, no smoke. And somebody should come up and shoot them in the brainstem.