Death Penalty

[fredd bear]

I think sme peope are better off dead, my problem is when they kill the wrong person. If you go to jail and are later found to be innocent you can claim compensation and damages, if you are dead that's it.

I think so too.  However, I don't want to be the person who decides. If I'm unwilling, it seems immoral to me to pass the buck. I'm also acutely aware that US courts seem to get it wrong far too often. (ok, once is once too often for the dead person)

I know, we pass the buck all the time. One of the most egregious examples I can think of is lethal injection: The person is first give an injection to paralyse the muscles. This for the benefit of the witnesses . Seems the process is actually very painful, but the person is paralysed, so suffering does not show on face or body.

Hanging is  instant death if done properly.  The most humane form of which I'm  aware is the Russian system. The prisoner is not told he is about to be executed. He is walked, by a single guard, into a cell, where the guard promptly shoots him in the back of the neck**

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An anecdote: In the army, Singapore, Selerang barracks.  My barracks were about 3 km up the road from Changi prison, where executions take place. At that time, members of the public could get  a ticket to attend. Singapore uses an unusual form of hanging: instead of a drop, it's a rapid lift into the air, at the end of a long beam ,like a catapult, same principle
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One of my mates, a  Vietnams combat vet, decided he'd quite like to see that.  We he returned, his face was an unusual shade of green. All he would say was for no one else to go..

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**from a documentary on Andrei Chikatilo, Russia's most prolific serial killer, with over 50 murders.

There is a also very good telemovie with Steven Rea and  Donald Sutherland, called "Citizen X"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo