Roadrunner
Roadrunner
Only your last comment is accurate. I am concerned with the emotional effect on everyone involved with the execution process. A Baptist pastor whom I knew was a death row chaplain. He liked to place his hand on the condemned's lower leg so he could feel the tremors ebbing as life departed. Then he would go home to his family. That is a concern.It is not rife with anything but delay. And it is just a myth that it has no deterrent value; it has not been used with swiftness and certainty in order to test its deterrent value. It sure stops repeat offenders better than anything else.I do not feel the state should have the right to take your life or be in the revenge business. It is clear the death penalty has no deterrent value and is rife with inequity and wrongful convictions so why keep it?Frankly, once you have forfeited your right to life, I don't care if the penalty is a bit harsh and inhumane, or, if a little societal anger is thrown in.There are many compounds that can cause speedy death but pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to sell them for the purpose of killing people. I am against the death penalty as it stands but perhaps the most humane method needs only an airtight cell and a tank of nitrogen.
What I have a problem with is executing some guy thirty years after the crime.
That is getting too wrapped up in it.
Pretty creepy, even.