RE: Dylann Roof sentenced to death
January 12, 2017 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2017 at 12:16 am by Anomalocaris.)
(January 10, 2017 at 11:25 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I was hoping he would fester in prison for 60 years or more.
As it is, he will molder for 20-30 years before the state murder him. I am willing to forgive the state for murdering him in the end if the anticipation and the futile railing against inexorability of the state's delightful crime will torture him psychologically during those 20-30 years.
(January 11, 2017 at 4:24 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(January 11, 2017 at 4:13 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Let's see, I'm for the death penalty so yes. I think I have already made it very clear that when it comes to cold blooded murder I don't think anything short of death is acceptable. For anything less than murder no. I'm not saying rape those that rape or torture someone that tortures animals. This is only about intentional murder.
Why should murderers be killed themselves? What purpose does it serve other than making an emotional, vengeful point? I wouldn't want to live in a system that bases it's law on emotion and revenge.
That's not even considering the facts that the death penalty does not work as a deterrent, has the possibility of executing innocent people, is a horrible violation of human rights, is slow, inefficient, and expensive, and that we are the only western developed nation to still use it.
To delight the part of me I am not proud of, but whose delight is nonetheless at times strangely compelling.