I'm against the death penalty for all the same reasons...
...and I want one of those frogs...

pg wrote on 05/06/19 at 12:44:44:


LOL - what the hell do you think?

Why even ask the question?

But to repeat - I've never supported capital punishment.

pg wrote on 05/06/19 at 13:28:50:



Fine by me.

Give them some downers and a bottle of whiskey.
Let them pass out.
Shoot them up with heroin.
Cheap, effective, painless.

And, get drugs off the street!

Now, how to address the wrongfully convicted?
Way too much of that.

We should never have war......either.

When convenience is part of the equation, and society can choose, accordingly, like a mother who decides against the needs of a fetus/baby, because her needs come first, then so can people decide against keeping alive a proven criminal who had no regard for the life/lives, he wantonly took......because the cost, energy, and even his green footprint, is a bad investment.

I am not saying I agree with it, just pointing it out.

You want 100% absolute morality, then you better example, and exhibit it, or your reasoning, and arguments, are nothing more than feelings of self righteousness and based on a lie to begin with.....

BTW, that is 3 cents worth, you owe me a penny   

@T&T, I think you have misunderstood me. Sure Oliver has a position but the show was not a discussion of the death penalty it was a discussion on the horror of the implementation.

This is a debate that has been going on for as long as I can remember and I just wanted to point out that Oliver's team should have done proper research on the subject and if they did they would not have simply been able to point to the botched, inhumane, and cruel problems with the current system but they would have been able to present to a wider audience the absurdity of all this horror when there is a method already available with all the research already done that solves all the problems associated with the current method.

That is deprivation of oxygen is fast, painless, and pleasant. There is mountains of research on hypoxia both for high altitude climbers and fighter pilots. There is a common belief that being placed in a room that was suddenly filled with 100% nitrogen gas would be like having a plastic bag over your head and you'd die a horrifying painful convulsive death.

But this would be incorrect as you or your body would not even notice, there is no mechanism built into the body to detect a lack of oxygen. You just nod off.

So why are States that execute still going through this weird chemical injection route with all the concomitant problems.