Comments on: AP: Executions Are Now Too Expensive

By: jrmcdonald

jrmcdonald — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:54:11 +0000

Hush your mouth!

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:32:16 +0000

What we should be doin’ with folks like Bad Bob (The Albino)…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

By: CaliforniaBear

CaliforniaBear — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:31:18 +0000

Let’s not forget to air drop one knife or air drop one gun with one bullet. That should take care of SOME problems.

By: Sharps Rifle

Sharps Rifle — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:37:16 +0000

Two hundred clams for the lumber to build a gallows, and maybe fifteen bucks worth of rope. Cheap enough.

Only fifteen bucks if you string the scum up to a tree…

But I agree with RB: A 9mm Parabellum round is maybe 75 cents, and no gallows or tree is needed. Pop the bastards in the base of the skull and have done with it.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:57:55 +0000

Pay per view comes to mind as a viable source of ridding our nation of undesirables. I’d pay to see child molesterers, rapist, murderers and terrorist put to death on PPV. Capitalism at its’ best and most profitable; for your viewing pleasure!!

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:59:54 +0000

Maybe we could do what Obama’s beloved comrades, the Chicoms do, shoot the bastard & send the bill for the bullet to his family. Problem solved.

By: Helena

Helena — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:00:06 +0000

There are so many great suggestions in here from everyone. Pres BHO should definitely start a taskforce from this group to straighten it all out. The Devil’s Island theme seems to be a popular one – perhaps that combined with the walling off of NY or DC and throwing in the prisoners and the politicians with knives and not quite enough baloney sandwiches and looking back in on them, in say, a year – - what do you think?

By: Helena

Helena — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:52:26 +0000

Excellent, Clarissimus, LOL. But at those prices it would have to be uranium.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:23:58 +0000

I’m with Catie: we’re constantly told what a ‘rich nation’ we are, so let’s buy an island and turn it into a penal colony. Supplies air-dropped in, prisoners air-dropped in, etc. Talk about a great deterrent (and a societal detergent!). And on the bright side, if it turns out that these were just misunderstood souls who were victims of the system, then I’m sure within a few years, they’ll be well on their way to being the next Australia…

By: Liberals Make Great Speedbumps

Liberals Make Great Speedbumps — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:01:49 +0000

A .22 hollow point to the base of the skull is very cost effective. Sure they might flop around for a bit if you’re slightly off the mark, but left untreated the end result is 100% assured. Is my lack of compassion showing again?

By: artboyusa

artboyusa — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:35:02 +0000

“I don’t understand why it costs $37M to execute a prisoner. What are they doing, pouring molten gold down his throat?” – thanks for that, Clarissimus.LOL !

Unusually ( I hope) I was in Cub Scouts and went to high school with a guy who’s now serving a life sentence for first degree murder. We were not best pals or anything, but we were friends. I think about him sometimes and wonder what happened in his life to turn him into what he became and then I stop myself and remember the woman he killed.

My friend didn’t have to do what he did, he made a choice and in making it he crossed a line. Once he crossed that line, he lost any claim to our sympathy and compassion, its the victim and the victim’s family who should have the exclusive right to those things. We owe the murderer nothing except a fair and speedy trial, followed by a swift execution of sentence. Some say that the protracted appeals process, which keeps people on Death Row for years, amounts to torture and maybe it does, but you don’t see too many people volunteering to set their appeal aside and jump into the chair or hop on the gurney – unfortunately.

By: GL0120

GL0120 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:30:57 +0000

Hmm, wall off New York? Interesting idea, can we do it to Washington D.C.? I mean, without throwing any prisoners in.
They live in their own little world anyhow and the country would be so much better off.

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:36:46 +0000

The other cost that is not being considered is what these people do with their lives in jail once they get the “life without parole unless we change our minds.”

Even in a prison life is not in a bubble. It’s not like they get a pass off Death Row and are like “Okay, I’ll just go sit in my jail cell for 40 years, thank you.” These people did something serious to be on Death Row in the first place. The potential is always there for escape, killing or terrorizing other prisoners and guards, and whatever ways they can find to mess around with people on the outside.

Probably the best solution I ever heard of was in that old John Carpenter movie, where they wall off New York City and just toss them in there and forget about it.

By: GL0120

GL0120 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:07:10 +0000

My late Father-In-Law had a wonderful idea on saving execution costs – attach a group of condemned prisoners to a copper pipe and run a high voltage through it.
You’d be getting more bang for your buck and isn’t that what TCO wants?
Seriously, we’re told that executions are barbaric (according to European standards) and that life in prison is sufficient.
Now there’s a movement that believes that life in prison is barbaric.
What should we do to killers, make them write “I will be good” a hundred times or perhaps an essay on the benefits of good behavior?

By: proreason

proreason — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:50:16 +0000

Eliminating punishment for all crimes absolutely eliminates any possiblity of incorrectly imprisoning anybody.

It makes perfect sense.