John Muhammad "The DC Sniper" Executed By Lethal Injection

[TMF Jeff]

I normally oppose the death penalty, because since we gained the ability to test DNA evidence, something like 30% or more of the people on death rows have been found to be innocent. If we could really be sure, I'd say kill them all, but as Thomas Jefferson wrote, it's better for a hundred guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be punished unjustly.

That said, it's completely established that this is the person guilty for the sniping attacks, and that being the case, the best thing that can be done is to banish him from this world, to do no more harm. Death may not be a fitting punishment, but it has the advantage of being permanent.

 

[Bugman]

I wonder if I'm the only one who's disgusted by the bloodthirsty responses I'm reading in this thread.

You are not the only one, and it has happened in many threads. One would have hoped we had gotten past the "eye for an eye" idea of justice that some here seem to favor. I don't want to live under such a system myself. 🙂

Let's set aside the fact that innocence people are still convicted of crimes they did not commit.

 

[Radiohead 7140]

Lethal injection was far too generous. I would have preferred a firing squad, consisting of relatives of the victims.

John Wayne Gacy is dying to meet him...

Actually, I've heard that lethal injection is no peaceful way out. Apparently the person really suffers but is too paralyzed to express the agony. A firing squad on the other hand seems like a pretty painless death.

ummm.....

 

[MrMacphisto]

^As a Taxpayer I am sick and tired of paying to keep scum like this alive for the rest of their Natural Life.^😡

Well, for what it's worth, it currently costs more to put someone on death row than to keep them in prison for life.

Granted, some appeals reforms would fix that....