Appaholic wrote:AZGrizFan wrote:
I think both of those would rank above the methods currently used in my book. The more cruel the better. Perhaps THEN it would become a deterrent.
Since Skelly is so concerned with the wording in the constitution, let's make execution whatever the previous year's number one cause of death nationally was....heart attack? we can induce...cancer? we can inject....whatever....seems to me the way we've been executing prisoners (electric chair, lethal injection) are more unusual and therefore, since we don't have the experience or knowledge, more cruel....let 'em experience painful debilitating death (accelerated of course) like most of the rest of the population due to heart disease or cancer....
In the murder trial I was on in '96 (he strangled 4 women, was suspected in up to 8) we found him guilty in 20 minutes, and sentencing to death took an hour.
Where is he now, nearly 15 yrs later? Three hots and a cot on NC's death row.
Pretty chilling read if you have a couple of minutes.
http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%204 ... 02007_.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
