As much as I oppose the death penalty on principle, I not only favor it for the perp of this, perhaps the most ghastly murder I've read about recently (Warning: awful story, capable of sucker-punching your opinion of humanity in general. You've been warned)...
...but I hope Florida quickly legalizes death by stoning, burning, drawing and quartering, pickaxe, or staking out in the sun covered with honey and a thin film of viscera, in time for this animal's piece of demi-humanoid filth's penalty phase.
I hope "he" it gets shivved nice and slow in the joint. Very, very slow.
Jesus. I'm going to hurl.
Posted by Mitch at April 21, 2005 06:26 PM | TrackBack
Mitch, if there is any crime worthy of the death penalty, this one is it. That's why we have it in Florida.
10-1 he cops a plea and gets life without parole.
Then, he can get shivved, which is not right. If we want to execute prisoners, we should have the guts to do it, not turn the punishment of these pieces of shit over to other pieces of shit.
That's my two cents, anyway. YMMV.
Posted by: Pious Agnostic at April 21, 2005 06:19 PMI don't see a conflict in saying that I oppose the death penalty, but would happily throw the switch on this guy.
Actually, rape him and bury him alive. An eye for an eye and all that.
The death penalty has a number of problems, and opposing it is not wrong. But if we're going to have it, this is the guy to use it on.
Electrocution is too good for this one.
Posted by: Jeff Fecke at April 21, 2005 07:48 PMI don't see a conflict in saying that I oppose the death penalty, but would happily throw the switch on this guy.
Actually, rape him and bury him alive. An eye for an eye and all that.
The death penalty has a number of problems, and opposing it is not wrong. But if we're going to have it, this is the guy to use it on.
Electrocution is too good for this one.
Posted by: Jeff Fecke at April 21, 2005 07:48 PMIt's our fault, you know. We let taxing and spending get too low. Had we been more concerned with taking care of society's most vulnerable, most needy, and most in need of attention, at the early stages of life when intervention is most efficient, we could have ripped out his groin and let him bleed to death when he was twelve, before he wrecked all those other lives. He is blameless - he was probably goaded into this by bad school testing experiences.
Posted by: bobby b at April 21, 2005 11:24 PMMitch, you're being far too kind to the scum. Staked out in the south Florida sun over a fire ant nest. In general I'm opposed to the death penalty, but I think we need it for certain cases. The prison psychologist I know who works with these pedophiles basically said there's no treatment for them: we either need to lock them up forever or put them out of our misery.
Posted by: nerdbert at April 22, 2005 08:19 AMIt is in this instance, where belief in eternal damnation is particularly useful. While the thought of the shiv, the chair, and fire ants are temporally comforting, I'll take the fire of hell any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Posted by: paddy at April 22, 2005 11:43 AMI'm with you on this one... As one who does not generally support the death penalty for a whole variety of reasons there are certain crimes that are so awful that they require it! Timothy McViegh was one... And, yes, this guy too.
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