Wow, never heard this story but I'm glad this POS is where he belongs

[Whiskey_Rocka_Rolla]

Texas executes man who lit ex-girlfriend on fire - Houston Chronicle

^^^ He had the nerve to tell his victim's daughter, "I didn't mean to hurt your mama". Then why the hell did you douse her in gasoline and set her on fire? Sounds pretty damn hurtful to me.

 

[dbgun]

He did this in 1994. The state took too long. just my $.02

 

[Whiskey_Rocka_Rolla]

He did this in 1994. The state took long. just my $.02

Yeah that is definitely not what I call "swift justice". If it was determined back then that he set her on fire like that, that he was guilty of this act beyond any reasonable doubt, he shouldn't have seen the sun set that same day.

 

[Charlie]

"I never meant to hurt your mama..." He said Jesus is his vehicle ................. wrong! the devil is his vehicle! They should have doused him with gasoline and set him fire many years ago.

 

[RetArmySgt]

We need to go back to quick and public executions, thats they only way the death penalty is ever a deterrent. Letting some one live 30 years with 3 squares a day, free internet and cable. and a chase to get a degree they will never use all on the tax payers dime isnt a deterrent.

 

[Glockster69]

They don't have free AND unfettered cable/internet but otherwise I agree with you. Public executions for the most heinous of criminals should be brought back, even if just to "study" the effects for 50 years or so.

 

[Bithabus]

Executions of murderers should be swift and certain but not public.

 

[Glockster69]

Why not public? What better way to show the beginner criminal if their habits escalate so will the justice including shame on their family, if that matters to them.

 

[mantawolf]

Because you turn it into a spectacle by giving them a world wide stage. And we should not revel in death even of someone so heinous. The death of even an evil person is the death of lost potential in a world already full of lost potential.

 

[Doc Roe]

Because you turn it into a spectacle by giving them a world wide stage. And we should not revel in death even of someone so heinous. The death of even an evil person is the death of lost potential in a world already full of lost potential.

"lost potential"? Really? Is that the best you can come up with? What "potential" does a serial rapist/murderer or a child abuser have to offer the rest of society?

No, seriously, I want an answer. I can understand not "reveling in death", but to claim that this sort of fucking scum has any potential to be beneficial in a society that sees that sort of crime as one of the worst imaginable offenses is outright retarded.


I'd give my full opinion on the issue, but I'm pretty sure I'd be seen as a nutcase if I did. I will say that I'm in favor of public executions, though, but -only- if there is undeniable, rock-solid evidence that the person is guilty of the crime(s) he or she is accused of. If someone is caught in the act of such a crime, then I'd go so far as to say I'm alright with whoever finds the bastard killing him/her on the spot.

 

[Bithabus]

Why not public? What better way to show the beginner criminal if their habits escalate so will the justice including shame on their family, if that matters to them.

Public executions increase violent behavior in a society

 

[deemus]

Executions of murderers should be swift and certain but not public.

I agree. Private, out of the public eye. That would be more attention they dont deserve.

 

[Vaquero]

I disagree. Public executions such as hangings should be brought back.
Last words can be uttered in a cell or hallway.
My opinion only.

 

[Doc Roe]

I agree. Private, out of the public eye. That would be more attention they dont deserve.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that the biggest issue with public execution(s) is giving the person one last chance to insult/degrade/attack someone, or in the case of radicals to spew their inane/insane rhetoric.

Simple solution: Gag them. Just stuff a rag into the person's mouth and slap some tape over it. Fifty cent solution to a potentially lethal problem.


Barring that, at least let the families of the person's victims attend the event. Hell, maybe let them take a vote on how the person dies if they want to, give them a chance at some satisfaction/revenge as well as closure.

 

[Bithabus]

, at least let the families of the person's victims attend the event. Hell, maybe let them take a vote on how the person dies if they want to, give them a chance at some satisfaction/revenge as well as closure.

I agree with this. All executions would take place by firing squad and the family of the victim would get first choice to man the squad.

 

[Doc Roe]

Firing squad is too quick, IMHO. I prefer taking a few pages out of a Tom Clancy book (specifically out of his book The Teeth Of The Tiger). Massive heart attack caused by an injection of succinylcholine. Extremely painful, undetectable, and impossible to survive unless you happen to get injected in the middle of a fully-equipped emergency room with a bunch of highly trained doctors and nurses surrounding you. On the ground in thirty seconds, brain-dead within three minutes, completely dead within five to eight, depending on how much of an oxygen reserve the person has.

And while all that's happening, you're trapped inside your own body, unable to move, unable to speak, you can't even blink.


Inb4 "you're sadistic" response...

 

[Bithabus]

That's a juvenile response.

 

[Doc Roe]

What, the sadist quip? I've been called a -lot- worse for having said a lot less.

 

[Bithabus]

What, the sadist quip? I've been called a -lot- worse for having said a lot less.

No, everything before that

 

[Doc Roe]

Mind explaining why you think that? I don't really see wanting someone who has committed a horrifying crime to suffer an equally horrifying death as juvenile, I see it as human nature.