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Very interesting documentary. Thanks
Little sad to hear the 130 odd persons receiving posthumous pardons after they were already executed though.
Link to EXONERATIONS BY STATE
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/inno...penalty#inn-st

[Kelseecat65]

[tecumseh35]

They need to bring back the electric chair. The condemned dont suffer enough with lethal injection.

[bigapple147]

I don't believe in the death penalty because murder is murder. I do believe in putting the worst of the worst into bare minimal housing (dungeons) and sustaining their misery on bread and water for the rest of their natural life; no visitor privileges, no phone calls and no t.v...just time to replay their savage crimes over and over in their minds to slow drive them crazy. THAT'S IT THAT'S ALL!

[savi0r]

Really interesting documentary. I'd always wondered about the rules for what is allowed for a last meal; sort've odd to me how so many people had requested burgers. Seems like a bit of an everyday meal to be your chosen as your last. It also shocked me how the death row officer said he'd prefer the electric chair to the lethal injection. Sure it's quicker, but I'd rather go out in a less painful way.

[cupcake725]

Did you ever wonder if it's the same nutjobs outside the prison (begging for the condemned life) as the assholes who convinced scared little girls to keep their babies outside of abortion clinics? You know the type, they can't imagine "killing" someone whether it be a fetus or a murderer -- but you will never find them volunteering or helping during a person's troubled life. Typical.

[BabyJo84]

Originally Posted by bigapple147 ↗

I don't believe in the death penalty because murder is murder.

Can I ask if you support your armed forces though?

It's just I see this all the time with the 'murder is murder/no better than the criminal' argument.

The way I see it, if you apply that logic to capital punishment then you should also apply it to ANY job which is involved in the taking of a human life, which so few anti capital punishment activists do. They wish to apply this logic only to support their feelings on the matter of death row.

Let me argue you this, is the executioner not defending the public from a danger? Much like the armed forces and terrorism? Or do you argue that 'what if an innocent man is killed at the hands of capital punishment?' - surely on a site like this it is obvious that the western army kills more innocent civilians than the use of capital punishment has ever killed in its hundreds of years in existence? However many anti-capital punishment activists passionately and aggressively support this mass murder because it suits their agenda. With the idea that 'few are sacrificed for the greater good'.

Please tell me you also condemn soldiers with the 'murder is murder' ideology, otherwise this viewpoint against the state right to execute criminals is a total hypocrisy. It is a well known fact that the western army ILLEGALLY murders foreign civilians.

Remember, capital punishment is not murder, is belated suicide. These guys know the laws and the punishment but take the risk of carrying it out, knowing fine well that forensic science has advanced to the point of murder being almost impossible to get away with, meaning they will be caught. It is a much lengthier alternative to suicide by shoot out.

[petedeamon]

...I don't think there should be any compassion for these monsters.

[alyjo07]

Awesome post!

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Great doco, saw this one a while back. Very interesting