Should the US legal system use hangings, beheading and burning at the stake as punishment?

Question

Eye for an eye. Many recent crimes are cruel an unusual, so shouldn't their punishments be? Dead is dead, but wouldn't such retribution be somewhat cathartic for those who suffer from such criminal acts? At least much better than feeding, clothing and trying to rehabilitate the perpetrators for the rest of their lives?

Solitary confinement? Ha! What a waste of taxpayer money! Putting criminals off in cells by themselves so they can revel in their misdeeds is utterly and completely preposterous.

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Answer 1

I say if a person murders another person, they should die in the same way they killed the person. There is no such thing as cruel and unusual when it comes to how we carry out the death penalty. Those who have killed are treated much too well by our prison system, much better than they treated the people they killed.

I say enough. And the punishment should be carried out within 2 years. No more of this 20 years on death row crap.

Answer 2

I think hangings are still used in some states in the US, and i don't think its a bad idea. Probably the reason you don't see the other two is because they are wasteful and messy. Easy to take a person off the gallows, but who wants to deal with bloody heads and charred corpses.
I believe in the death penalty, and i don't see the problem in it being a bad way for the person to die either. But lets not make it too gruesome. I think a balance needs to be found. Lethal injection seems too easy for murderers, rapists etc. But beheading is a bit insane, for instance what person would you get to do it, and would you ever want to met a person who was an official beheader??
Chuck em off the gallows i say, either that or bring back the good old arena...........

Answer 3

Heck if you are at that level were you truly believe that only the guilty go to jail then why not? Heck what is wrong with televised executions? Thursdays can be reserved for beheading, Fridays for Burning, etc. As a Pagan Jew I agree that the truly guilty should be executed and yes it is no more humane to shove a needle in a vein as it is to drop a blade on the neck. If it is catharisim you seek, then have the relatives of the dead beat the culprit to death. However rest assured that life in prison is ounnishment and not as glamorous as you might believe.

Answer 4

Not every murderer needs to be killed for their crime.
But capital punishment should always be an option for the justice system to impose.

It provides closure to the family and friends of the victims and serves as a warning to those who would offend that there are consequences for their actions.

Simple lethal injection or similarly "humane" execution is sufficient. I have no problem with the victims family throwing the switch or whatever.

We do not need to create monsters who get off dispensing cathartic "justice". Executions are not spectator sport and not for revenge.

They are for genuine justice. And on those rare occasions where someone is executed wrongly, the last thing you want is to have tortured them.

Answer 5

it depends on what we want from our justice system.if we only want blood for blood and suffering for suffering than yes. if the end goal is to make a world all want to live in than we have to examine what hurts the society more: the thought that we can change who we are whether we be murderers or simply speeders or the thought of there being someone out there who perpetrated a horrendous act and did not have a comparable act perpetrated on them or theirs. i think in the end that individual victims matter less than the thought of making the entire system party such nastiness. yes i know it sounds insensitive but i do not want live in such a pessimistic world

Answer 6

i do not comprehend. Why did the English monarchs carry close, draw and quarter, drown, and/or burn Catholic clergy and laypeople on the stake? Why were the heads of lifeless clergymen stuck on a pike and displayed for the length of London by using the Protestants? Then there is 'good' Queen Bess who hypocritically had her own chapel, finished with Crucifix and candles, yet were given her dander up after the Pope censured her in a Papal bull. Then it changed into wholesale slaughter or deportation of Catholics after that. would not look like an finished lotta Protestant love happening there, both. traditionally, Protestants do not have a good purchase of room to pat themselves on the again for his or her superb remedy of their fellow Catholic Christians.

Answer 7

Yes. No. No.

The US Supreme Court has upheld hangings. It has ruled beheading and burning at the stake as violating the 8th Amendment (No Cruel and Unusual Punishment).

Answer 8

I say, keep them healthy and live a long, lonely, miserable life in prison.

As for the monetary aspect of keeping prisoners for life; Sheriff Arpaio, Maricopa County, AZ has set the bar for the lowest costs for housing and feeding prisoners under 20cents per meal. There’s something to his methodologies.

Answer 9

little one,
That will not solve the probllems.
Would you like to be in the executive suits with a club on your shoulder on planet earth.
Why not try and find out what makes those crimes tick out there on planet earth.
Instead of just going out and pull the trigger.
Have you notice the miscommunication with misinterpretation and communication failures on planet earth.
Observe the casualties in the slammers and those at the graveyards out there on planet earth.

Answer 10

Are you looking for witches or warlocks? I believe death should come to those who have committed horrible crimes (serial killings, etc), but we shouldn't be a country that uses cruel types of death like that. We used to be a country that retaliates and uses any means but war on another country, but that disappeared thanks to bush declaring war on Iraq. Lets not lose another part of our civility.