Brandon Bernard executed

Armstronglivs wrote:

Typical of which is the projection of their own unacknowledged flaws onto others. Well done. Still proving Dunning-Kruger.

Did that make sense in your demented brain?

Keep projecting.

And remember, it's all about you! The world revolves about you! Galileo and Copernicus were wrong, the planets orbit you, not the Sun. Planets? The Universe!

Feliz Navidad! wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Typical of which is the projection of their own unacknowledged flaws onto others. Well done. Still proving Dunning-Kruger.

Did that make sense in your demented brain?

Keep projecting.

And remember, it's all about you! The world revolves about you! Galileo and Copernicus were wrong, the planets orbit you, not the Sun. Planets? The Universe!

You really need to see a psychiatrist about your obsession of following me from thread to thread, venting gibberish as you do.

Taliban commander in small cave in Afghanistan wrote:

I am alone in a cave. Is it safe to go for runs at night when there are drones?

You are alone in a basement, fantasising like others here about the execution of someone you have never had any contact with.

It's not surprising that a thread about the death penalty achieves virtually unanimous endorsement here. With its gun homicides and practice of intervening in regional wars around the world America has a fine tradition of killing people. Criminals and law abiding citizens alike - anyone can participate.

This is actually supposed to be about the death penalty at the federal level vs. at the state level but no one seems to be picking up on that.

Before this year, the last federal execution was in 2003.

Armstronglivs wrote:

You really need to see a psychiatrist about your obsession of following me from thread to thread, venting gibberish as you do.

The obsession is yours, psycho.

I have been posting everyday while you took your two week sabbatical from LRC.

Now you are back, posting stuff against America(ns) and calling people dopers, as you do.

But remember, it's all about you.

Feliz Navidad! wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

You really need to see a psychiatrist about your obsession of following me from thread to thread, venting gibberish as you do.

The obsession is yours, psycho.

I have been posting everyday while you took your two week sabbatical from LRC.

Now you are back, posting stuff against America(ns) and calling people dopers, as you do.

But remember, it's all about you.

Only because you make it so. I live rent-free in the vacant space you call a mind.

L L wrote:

This is actually supposed to be about the death penalty at the federal level vs. at the state level but no one seems to be picking up on that.

Before this year, the last federal execution was in 2003.

Federal or state - they are all judicial executions. No other Western democracy still practises the death penalty.

Armstronglivs wrote:

It's not surprising that a thread about the death penalty achieves virtually unanimous endorsement here. With its gun homicides and practice of intervening in regional wars around the world America has a fine tradition of killing people. Criminals and law abiding citizens alike - anyone can participate.

Let's take another example. You have someone very close to you. A wife, a son, a daughter.

They are executed in cold blood.

Now you want to spare the life of the culprit?

It's amazing how people want to say the death penalty is wrong when they have never been connected to a serious crime.

Supporting the death penalty isn't about vengeance. It's about what's just and fair.

If you believe it is unfair, then you seem to forget the initial crime.

There would be no need for the death penalty if everyone was peaceful.

I am not sure human beings have evolved to the point they can settle their differences this way.

Wait.. I know for certain they haven't. So, I don't see the death penalty going away anytime soon.

Runner10287 wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

the state shouldn't be responsible for revenge, only justice. Carrying out vengeance requires an inherent and unacceptable bias.

The Norse way was correct: a murderer was outlawed, i.e. no longer protected by the law. This effectively legalized revenge by whoever wanted to carry it out. Justice by the state, revenge by whoever.

This also led to the discovery of America by the son of the outlaw Erik the Red.

Yeah that’ll work out great in modern times.

And why wouldn't it?

It would work really well against gangs in particular. Outlaw an entire crime family and out they go, bang bang bang, problem solved.

Sally Vix wrote:

Greg wrote:

I briefly skimmed his story, it sounds like she may have been dead prior to the fire. Either way, if you do silly things, you should be prepared to pay the price.

I do see the humanity in people and would have been ok with a life sentence or 50 years or something substantial. But I'm also not cheering for him to have his life spared when he showed the kind of person he was in his criminal acts.

No - she was burned alive. As bad as this was read about christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. The barbaric murders of this Tennessean couple is as bad as it gets

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Haven't they taken all the info about that crime offline?

Not that the MSM reported much about it at the time.

It has in all other Western democracies. So why is the US hanging on to it?

Armstronglivs wrote:I don't see the death penalty going away anytime soon.

It has in all other Western democracies. So why is the US hanging on to it?[/quote]

It has gone in some countries but that doesn't mean it won't return quickly.

Greg wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:I don't see the death penalty going away anytime soon.

It has in all other Western democracies. So why is the US hanging on to it?

It has gone in some countries but that doesn't mean it won't return quickly.[/quote]

Of course it will.

I'm against the death penalty but it is a luxury only civilized and stable societies can afford, and we're becoming increasingly uncivilized and unstable.

I mean it's a luxury not to have it (the death penalty).

Coevett wrote:

I mean it's a luxury not to have it (the death penalty).

To establish my perspetive on the death penalty on this thread for the final time, I want to state that I completely support the use of capital punishment.

I don't think about it as a luxury. I think about it as a pratical measure for justice in civilized, yes I said civilized society.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Feliz Navidad! wrote:

The obsession is yours, psycho.

I have been posting everyday while you took your two week sabbatical from LRC.

Now you are back, posting stuff against America(ns) and calling people dopers, as you do.

But remember, it's all about you.

Only because you make it so. I live rent-free in the vacant space you call a mind.

Greg wrote:

Coevett wrote:

I mean it's a luxury not to have it (the death penalty).

To establish my perspetive on the death penalty on this thread for the final time, I want to state that I completely support the use of capital punishment.

I don't think about it as a luxury. I think about it as a pratical measure for justice in civilized, yes I said civilized society.

So if murderers should be killed I take it that rapists should be raped, thieves should be robbed, abusers should be abused (emotional, physical verbal, depending on the kind of abuse). Yet I don't see it argued by capital punishment advocates outside the crime of homicide that the punishment should be the same as the crime. Strange - and not entirely consistent. Your understanding of the principles of justice has advanced little beyond the Bronze Age.

Feliz Navidad! wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Only because you make it so. I live rent-free in the vacant space you call a mind.

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1572390954i/28372228.jpg

Well, yes you are.