Saturday, December 16, 2006

The murderer suffered. Cry me a river!

From The Washington Post:

MIAMI, Dec. 15 -- Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause.

Gov. Jeb Bush (R) ordered the suspension in Florida after a botched execution in which it took 34 minutes and a second injection to kill convicted murderer Angel Nieves Diaz. A state medical examiner said that needles used to carry the poison had passed through the prisoner's veins and delivered the three-chemical mix into the tissues of his arm.

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"This demonstrates that there is no happy and kind and nice way to execute someone," said David Elliot, a spokesman for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. "Execution is a messy business."

Nor should there be you idiot moonbat. This isn't medieval Europe where you could be hanged for stealing a loaf of bread or burned at the stake for having a cat named Pywackett. In today's America you have to murder someone in cold blood with some special added ingredient of evil in order to merit the death penalty.

I am sick to damn death of people bleeding all over the place for these monsters. I don't give a rat's ass if they suffer; in fact I hope they do suffer. Let the method of execution match the method of murder for the amount of pain and fear inflicted.

I support capital punishment and I am willing to pull the lever on the gallows or pull the trigger on the firing squad or give the lethal injection or drop the pill in the gas chamber or drop the blade on the guillotine or, in the case of people who rape and murder children, spend a couple of days working on them with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

If you oppose capital punishment are you willing to match that level of commitment? Are you willing to personally underwrite the room and board and other incarceration costs of a murderer for life? Are you willing to stand responsible for any harm they may do to to prison employees or fellow inmates while behind bars or any harm to members of the public should they ever escape or con some parole board or governor into letting them go?

If not then shut the frak up. The rest of us are tired of listening to your bleating.