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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Thanks, I had thought I heard their last execution was 1937, turns out to have been 1977. Chapeau!

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Good on 'em.

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Brenda Riese's avatar

The NUMBERS show 10%-20% in maximum security, Federal & State, which means 80%-90% aren't.

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Princess Erika the Radiant's avatar

I was just about ready to block Lord Incel's latest sock - poor kid is still obsessed with me

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Princess Erika the Radiant's avatar

Yes, I sometimes still go with the classics (see comment on the Atom Waffles article)

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Princess Erika the Radiant's avatar

Hey there - what's your plan for telling people where you went to college? Pre DuhSantis or "that was some other UF"?

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Whale Chowder's avatar

Boy, these George Santos jokes are getting old.

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Michael Cramer's avatar

But pain and suffering is the point of the death penalty. Gotta sate the public's bloodlust somehow.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

A couple of my friends, here in a state where it's legal, were terminally ill and picked their own day. One family member who apparently really needed to talk told me that it was a near-instant coma.

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Wookie Monster's avatar

Actually, his cocktail never worked as well as advertised and he switched to carbon monoxide.

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nancy kuykendall's avatar

There in lies the rub. They want them to suffer.

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DDB9000's avatar

I find a lot of people that want Trump to get the death penalty (although for what?). Bu they would just make him a martyr.I think he need to be sent to Guantanamo for life, in solitary.

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Brenda Riese's avatar

DO Not get your info on prisons from movies. Iowa, for example, has 1 prison where inmates are known to get violent, but 8 others that are pretty mellow. 2 1/2 years in the system, and the only fight he saw was caused by an inmate who stopped taking his meds. So, approx. 1400 inmates in maximum security, 7000 in medium/low security facilities.

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DDB9000's avatar

Because the Republicans who kill want their victims to suffer as much as possible - duh!

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DDB9000's avatar

You think THAT would deter them? They'd be lining up for hundreds of miles!

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Brenda Riese's avatar

My youngest thought that county jail sucked, but state prison at a medium security facility was better than being a boot at MCRD, San Diego. The vast majority of any state's prison population isn't in a maximum-security facility.

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