Does anyone think Jessica Lunsford's killer DOESN'T deserve the death penalty?

Question

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Jurors on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for John Evander Couey, who was found guilty last week of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford

Jessica Marie Lunsford was abducted from her Homosassa Springs, Florida, home February 23, 2005. Her body was found nearly a month later, buried within sight of her own home and behind the house where Couey was staying with a relative.

She was found wrapped in garbage bags, holding a stuffed toy dolphin, her hands bound with stereo wire.

Investigators said Couey abducted Lunsford from her bedroom. Jessica died from asphyxiation after being sexually assaulted, according to a medical examiner's report.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/14/couey.sentence/index.html

Answer 1

I favor using outdated means of execution just for cases like this, for example, being hanged, drawn and quartered.

This is a form of execution used in England from the 13th century until 1790.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/18930...

First the prisoner was drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle, a type of sledge. (Originally he was merely dragged behind a horse.) Then he was hanged. Cut down while still alive, he was disembowelled and his entrails burned before his eyes. (Some references, such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, say this step, and not dragging behind a horse, is what is meant by "drawn," but actual sentences of execution don't support this view.) Finally the condemned was beheaded and his body cut into quarters, one arm or leg to a quarter. How exactly the quartering was to be accomplished was not always specified, but on at least some occasions horses were hitched to each of the victim's limbs and spurred in four directions. An assistant with a sword or cleaver was sometimes assigned to make a starter cut and ease the strain on the animals. The remains were often put on display (gibbeted) as a warning to others.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_239.html

Answer 2

If anybody deserves the death penalty, Couey does. He is a monster who committed the most heinous, cowardly and heartbreaking act I've ever heard about. In fact, I agree with many people here who say the death penalty is too easy for him. Hopefully Hell really does exist, because that most definitely is where that scumbag, mental illness or not, is going.
However, that said, I oppose the death penalty on a theoretical basis. Not because I sympathize with those who receive it, but because I strongly believe it's the most hypocritical law of them all. As a civilized society, we're taught that life is precious and sacred, which it certainly is. Yet the state and/or federal government obviously doesn't agree, since they can -- and often do -- take it away. (See George W. Bush, for example.) It's a ridiculous, shameful dichotomy that simply doesn't make any sense.

Answer 3

I think the death penalty is an easy out. People like him get it bad in jail. I would like to see him repeatedly raped by the men in prison. These, uh types of offenders usually get beaten and killed by inmates. A lethal injection would be to easy.

I can't even wrap my mind around what that poor child went through, death penalty is too easy, he should suffer.

Answer 4

Personally, I feel the death penalty is too humane in this case. There is no form of sanctioned killing that will even come close to touching the suffering which she had to endure.

Answer 5

Actually, leave him alone in a sound proof lock room with her father.

Answer 6

he deserves a lot worse treatment than the law can give him

Answer 7

NOT ONLY HIM BUT THE OTHER 3 WHO HELPED HIDE HIM DESERVE DEATH TOO.

Answer 8

he deserves it.