Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 13:39     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:This is not a great issue for Democrats. Even in the most liberal cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, people are done with progressive DAs and judges and equity and restorative justice and letting violent criminals walk free. As always, the pendulum will swing in the other direction. I think most voters - even in blue states - are perfectly fine with the return of some Old Testament justice for the worst and most heinous criminals. If you look at the suffering inflicted by Death Row inmates, it's impossible to feel sympathy for them. They are genuinely horrible people.

My quibble would be about the fairness of the process. But we've been talking about that ever since OJ. Rich people don't get the death penalty. In any event, if I were a Democratic strategist I wouldn't touch this issue at all. A reflexive anti-death penalty stance is a terrible look for Democrats today. Not unreasonably, most people feel Democrats are much more sympathetic with violent criminals than they are with their victims. It's one more reason the Democratic "brand" is garbage these days. As for a firing squad, it's definitely more humane than the incompetently administered cocktail of drugs that are typically used.


I can recall right wingers vigorously defending Brock Turner, George Zimmerman, and Derek Chauvin, not to mention Trump pardoning J6ers and inviting Andrew Tate to Mar-a-Lago. Spare us the tired tropes about who’s soft on crime.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 13:25     Subject: Death by firing squad
Firing squad sounds far preferable to frying in the chair.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 13:23     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The death penalty is completely barbaric.

Plus, it doesn't seem to be much of a deterrence.


Because it's not used enough, life in prison shouldn't be an option
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 13:00     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I didn't even know this was still a thing. https://people.com/man-executed-by-firing-squad-for-first-time-in-us-since-2010-shared-final-plea-11693513

I think once Trump gets word of this, he's going to make this the default death penalty method, on live TV.

The comment section of that article is eye-opening. I guess people are really on board with the government having the discretion to be barbaric.


What’s barbaric about putting to death someone who killed two innocent people? He chose his own method of execution.


You are murdering someone for murdering someone.

You, like the criminals, think violence is the way to solve a problem.

Civilized people think differently.


So you agree that imprisoned murderers are not civilized people.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 11:37     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I didn't even know this was still a thing. https://people.com/man-executed-by-firing-squad-for-first-time-in-us-since-2010-shared-final-plea-11693513

I think once Trump gets word of this, he's going to make this the default death penalty method, on live TV.

The comment section of that article is eye-opening. I guess people are really on board with the government having the discretion to be barbaric.


What’s barbaric about putting to death someone who killed two innocent people? He chose his own method of execution.


You are murdering someone for murdering someone.

You, like the criminals, think violence is the way to solve a problem.

Civilized people think differently.


Until their seven year child and 14 classmates are killed by a bus deliberately driving into them in a park
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 11:35     Subject: Death by firing squad
^^dementing
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 11:35     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The death penalty is completely barbaric.


And extremely inefficient since it costs millions to keep people on death row appealing their sentences and verdicts for 20 years. It does not deter violent crime.



Especially when a cementing person commutes the sentences of many.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 11:34     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:The death penalty is completely barbaric.


Barbaric is slicing people apart with knives or axes, or beating them until they exsanguinate. Shooting someone directly into the heart is what countries allow their soldiers to do. If you are sentenced to death make your own choice as this person did.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 11:30     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who cares honestly. This guy beat his In-laws parents to death with baseball bat. I don’t particularly care if this persons death painful barbaric. They should have thought about that before they beat two peoplwto death with a baseball bat. Dems really need to just be quiet about this one. Most Americans are supportive of the death penalty for murderers. Don't die on a hill over fringe issues that imapct very few people, but alienate large numbers of voters.


Most GOP and Christians, particularly evangelicals, are supportive. Dems and independents are not. That number has also fallen per other studies.

So, no. Dems do not need to step down. LOL re fringe issues…Trumpsters are obsessed with trans people’s business.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/07/19/10-facts-about-the-death-penalty-in-the-u-s/


Again, the Trumpsters voted based on economy and immigration. Trans issues are just another side show for them as they seem to be for you.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 10:34     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:May not sound related but it is - we're the only developed country to still feel death penalty is justified, not offer a universal health care nonprofit system to our citizens nor offer any real support to parents - it's the same mentality of egotistical ideology that says basically we only watch out for ourselves. No other developed country is so selfish in the way they set up their systems. Makes me so sad.


Perhaps we are not a "developed" country.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 10:09     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:This is not a great issue for Democrats. Even in the most liberal cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, people are done with progressive DAs and judges and equity and restorative justice and letting violent criminals walk free. As always, the pendulum will swing in the other direction. I think most voters - even in blue states - are perfectly fine with the return of some Old Testament justice for the worst and most heinous criminals. If you look at the suffering inflicted by Death Row inmates, it's impossible to feel sympathy for them. They are genuinely horrible people.

My quibble would be about the fairness of the process. But we've been talking about that ever since OJ. Rich people don't get the death penalty. In any event, if I were a Democratic strategist I wouldn't touch this issue at all. A reflexive anti-death penalty stance is a terrible look for Democrats today. Not unreasonably, most people feel Democrats are much more sympathetic with violent criminals than they are with their victims. It's one more reason the Democratic "brand" is garbage these days. As for a firing squad, it's definitely more humane than the incompetently administered cocktail of drugs that are typically used.


The two options are not slaughter people or let the skip away.

I believe in jailing violent criminals for long times (including life). And I would apply and enforce punishment for all crimes. Including fareevasion, shoplifting and those committed by rich people.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 10:07     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I didn't even know this was still a thing. https://people.com/man-executed-by-firing-squad-for-first-time-in-us-since-2010-shared-final-plea-11693513

I think once Trump gets word of this, he's going to make this the default death penalty method, on live TV.

The comment section of that article is eye-opening. I guess people are really on board with the government having the discretion to be barbaric.


What’s barbaric about putting to death someone who killed two innocent people? He chose his own method of execution.


You are murdering someone for murdering someone.

You, like the criminals, think violence is the way to solve a problem.

Civilized people think differently.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 09:57     Subject: Death by firing squad
This is not a great issue for Democrats. Even in the most liberal cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, people are done with progressive DAs and judges and equity and restorative justice and letting violent criminals walk free. As always, the pendulum will swing in the other direction. I think most voters - even in blue states - are perfectly fine with the return of some Old Testament justice for the worst and most heinous criminals. If you look at the suffering inflicted by Death Row inmates, it's impossible to feel sympathy for them. They are genuinely horrible people.

My quibble would be about the fairness of the process. But we've been talking about that ever since OJ. Rich people don't get the death penalty. In any event, if I were a Democratic strategist I wouldn't touch this issue at all. A reflexive anti-death penalty stance is a terrible look for Democrats today. Not unreasonably, most people feel Democrats are much more sympathetic with violent criminals than they are with their victims. It's one more reason the Democratic "brand" is garbage these days. As for a firing squad, it's definitely more humane than the incompetently administered cocktail of drugs that are typically used.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 09:20     Subject: Death by firing squad
May not sound related but it is - we're the only developed country to still feel death penalty is justified, not offer a universal health care nonprofit system to our citizens nor offer any real support to parents - it's the same mentality of egotistical ideology that says basically we only watch out for ourselves. No other developed country is so selfish in the way they set up their systems. Makes me so sad.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 09:13     Subject: Death by firing squad
Anonymous wrote:The death penalty is completely barbaric.


And extremely inefficient since it costs millions to keep people on death row appealing their sentences and verdicts for 20 years. It does not deter violent crime.