Death penalty the day after conviction for anyone who commits crimes like this, and I’m not talking about these humane executions, I want penalty fits the crime executions. Break their fingers one by one, then their arms, then burn them alive. Let the family members of the victim do it. A cold blank stare from a family member while these animals scream from unimaginable pain would be a fitting end to their disgusting existence.
I understand the sentiment, but would be bad policy all around.
First, we need serious criminal justice reforms so that everyone can be confident that conviction actually means guilt - I'm about as "tough on crime" as anyone here, and I'm a strong supporter of the death penalty in theory, but in practice there are way too many sketchy convictions getting overturned these days for good reason. A tiny fraction, to be sure, but still too many.
And then, we need a streamlined appeals process for death row. Because we've already fixed the known sources of false convictions in step 1, we can do an automatic case review in less than a year. Cases with problems would get kicked out for a more in-depth review, but most of them would pass through because (again) we've already fixed most of the problems.
After that, an unemotional blank-faced system will calmly and professionally escort the prisoner to a hermetically sealed medical waiting room for a routine check-up with the prison nurse, the same room and same check-up that he's been getting every month. But this time, while he is waiting, pumps replace the air in the room with nitrogen. The prisoner gets drowsy, falls asleep and dies with no pain, no fear, no panic and no violence. An hour later, ordinary ventilation restores the normal atmosphere to the room and the corpse is carefully watched. After a second hour, assuming that the corpse doesn't resume breathing, prison personnel fetch the corpse and send it to a funeral home chosen by the family (or county).
Death penalty the day after conviction for anyone who commits crimes like this, and I’m not talking about these humane executions, I want penalty fits the crime executions. Break their fingers one by one, then their arms, then burn them alive. Let the family members of the victim do it. A cold blank stare from a family member while these animals scream from unimaginable pain would be a fitting end to their disgusting existence.
I understand the sentiment, but would be bad policy all around.
First, we need serious criminal justice reforms so that everyone can be confident that conviction actually means guilt - I'm about as "tough on crime" as anyone here, and I'm a strong supporter of the death penalty in theory, but in practice there are way too many sketchy convictions getting overturned these days for good reason. A tiny fraction, to be sure, but still too many.
And then, we need a streamlined appeals process for death row. Because we've already fixed the known sources of false convictions in step 1, we can do an automatic case review in less than a year. Cases with problems would get kicked out for a more in-depth review, but most of them would pass through because (again) we've already fixed most of the problems.
After that, an unemotional blank-faced system will calmly and professionally escort the prisoner to a hermetically sealed medical waiting room for a routine check-up with the prison nurse, the same room and same check-up that he's been getting every month. But this time, while he is waiting, pumps replace the air in the room with nitrogen. The prisoner gets drowsy, falls asleep and dies with no pain, no fear, no panic and no violence. An hour later, ordinary ventilation restores the normal atmosphere to the room and the corpse is carefully watched. After a second hour, assuming that the corpse doesn't resume breathing, prison personnel fetch the corpse and send it to a funeral home chosen by the family (or county).