(May 24, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Elskidor Wrote: Death penalty just doesn't bother me, but I would prefer to keep it fast, cheap and painless. If I committed a terrible crime that gave me either life in prison or death, I would so pick death, and skip all those 7, 9 or 11 painfully long years sitting on death row. If I'm sentenced to death then deliver it to me as fast as possible, even within that week. I think the death penalty, if anything, is a short cut for the criminal, but it also saves the tax payer money. Everyone wins. The guillotine seems cheaper and faster than lethal injection, so why not just use that? I'm not trying to be insensitive to the poor soul that is on death row, but I really don't understand the big deal here and I'm a liberal...I guess I just disagree with the tradition anti-death penalty liberal stance on it.
Uhhhh... did you miss the part about how 4% or more people on death row are innocent?