NationStates Jolt Archive

There's two great tastes that go great together: Cruel and Unusual.

With the anticlimactic putting to death of Tookie Williams, as well as the jailing and/or putting to death of a number of other high-profile criminals over the years, there always seems to be discussion by people of how they would have liked to have seen a particular individual put to death.

Well, what are your wishes for deathrow dinner guests of the past and present? Don't hold back. This thread shouldn't be for the faint of heart, nor is it for people who don't believe in capital punishment.

My personal favorite is for all of the child molesters and abusers, as well as rapists and the men who beat women into comas and/or to death:

Public forum, telecast around the globe, non-surgical castration carried out by a person too clinically blind to get a driver's license and using a pair of rusty, jagged edged garden shears that were just used to split some lemmons.

Watch the rates of incidence drop off after that one gets implimented.

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Wow. This thread has been here a whole night and no one has replied? Seems to be a lot of people here in denial of their more vengeful sides.

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ok I'll bite...

personally for any violent crime I would love to see the perp get exactally what he gave.

If he raped some girl and then strangled her to death, then he gets raped and strangled.

If she kidnapps some poor sap and tortures him to death by a bunch of little cuts then that's what she gets.

Of course if you really want to get cruel and unusual....for a rapist...Chinese Water Torture on the genitals, substutiting the water with acid.

None of that for me, thanks. The purpose of a modern justice system is to get revenge out of punishment. Read the Oresteia and you'll see that the Greeks came up with the notion a long time ago.

ok I'll bite...

personally for any violent crime I would love to see the perp get exactally what he gave.

If he raped some girl and then strangled her to death, then he gets raped and strangled.

If she kidnapps some poor sap and tortures him to death by a bunch of little cuts then that's what she gets.

Of course if you really want to get cruel and unusual....for a rapist...Chinese Water Torture on the genitals, substutiting the water with acid.

One side of me says, "BWAHAHAHAH!! Kill 'em all!". The other side says, "Ewww....".

But I would really prefer something cheap, like death by hemlock. No sense in spending lots of money on criminals sentenced to death. Anyone know how much a lethal injection costs?

EDIT: Note that I do not favor the death penalty in most cases, excepting the most extreme. At least I think, I've been very confused about this lately, not sure what I think.