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Originally Posted by dreadnaught
Though I lean a bit toward anti side I'm pretty neutral about the whole issue. I do think killing someone like Alieen Wuornos is just wrong. She clearly had a mental impairment. That kind of thing should factor into the decision making process. I don't think tsarnaev should get the death penalty either. His actions seemed completely puppeted by his older brother.
Also, with the whole injection process, the issue of running out of the drug to execute people with seems to have fizzled out. Anyone know what's going on with that?
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No I do not, and this is news to me, would you be kind enough to link me some info?
I agree with you also Dread, I don't think we should run around executing people who obviously have a mental illness or extenuating circumstances. By all means let them paint in the puzzle factory and make sure they remain medicated the rest of their natural lives receiving therapy. Imo if the death penalty were truly barbaric, we wouldn't give a **** who we execute. But we actually do care, that's why the country is divided and some states don't practice it. I live in a state where we do, and I am happy we have it.
In Wournos's case she was sane enough to know what she did was wrong. And I don't think she should have gotten death. I wouldn't have voted death if I were on that jury. I also wouldn't have given her life either. I would have given her 25. Because what was done to her the events that made her that way, also make her as much of a victim as the men she shot and killed. Don't make what she did right, but it's fair, again imo. I am for death when they aren't sorry, they don't care, and given the opportunity they will re-offend . That is a rabid human being, by my definition and they should be treated accordingly.