If Ledell Lee's lawyers had succeeded last night in getting a court to stay his execution just half an hour longer, Arkansas's warrant would have expired, and the state would have had to set a new date. Instead, his last appeal ran out at 11: 30 p.m., the lethal injection procedure began at 11:44, and Lee was dead by 11:56.
It would be better if the killer was just locked up and forgotten. The death penalty keeps the case in the news for far longer, delaying closure by keeping everything front and center.
I must agree. Which is why justice is supposed to be blind, and why victims and their loved ones are not in charge of administering same. If someone came after, say, my mother, I could not possibly be objective. So I shouldn't be the one to decide what happens to that person.
But you can be damn sure some choice Irish curses would be made, that day and forever after. And I would not waste one moment worrying about how toxic it was to me. I'd like to think I could be more evolved than that, but we are all on our own path.
Oh, of course. I'm not in any way suggesting that the law should be purely an instrument of vengeance, and I've always been against the death penalty.
It just irritates me when anyone insists that the victim's loved ones have a duty to forgive the murderer. If you want to believe that for yourself, great, knock yourself out. But don't think for one minute that you're entitled to criticize anyone else for not adopting that standard.
Yes, that was actually exactly my point as well. I probably did not phrase it as well as I could have, which is what I get for writing non-comments at work. I didn't detect a pro-vengeance statement from you at all, I was just expanding on the theme of the psychology of being victimized. If something like that did happen to me or to someone I loved, I'd want to carve them up into little votes. And that might be satisfying in the moment, but that is pure ID and not useful to anyone in the long run, least of all the social fabric. But I'd reserve the right to feel that way without judgment.
It would be better if the killer was just locked up and forgotten. The death penalty keeps the case in the news for far longer, delaying closure by keeping everything front and center.
Everything comes from within. Seeking anything externally is an endless chase of nothing.
Also, the automatic appeals. I think it ends up actually costing more money to enforce a death penalty than some say it would save.
Exactly
And we all know: The State is Never Wrong. Don't believe that, but still support the death penalty? There's something wrong with you.
Wait-- a Republican politician is a racist??? GTFOH!!!!!
Some want to see women, some want to semen.
Gawd decides when you come into this world but the State decides when you should leave it. Prolife indeed.
I must agree. Which is why justice is supposed to be blind, and why victims and their loved ones are not in charge of administering same. If someone came after, say, my mother, I could not possibly be objective. So I shouldn't be the one to decide what happens to that person.
But you can be damn sure some choice Irish curses would be made, that day and forever after. And I would not waste one moment worrying about how toxic it was to me. I'd like to think I could be more evolved than that, but we are all on our own path.
Oh, of course. I'm not in any way suggesting that the law should be purely an instrument of vengeance, and I've always been against the death penalty.
It just irritates me when anyone insists that the victim's loved ones have a duty to forgive the murderer. If you want to believe that for yourself, great, knock yourself out. But don't think for one minute that you're entitled to criticize anyone else for not adopting that standard.
Yes, that was actually exactly my point as well. I probably did not phrase it as well as I could have, which is what I get for writing non-comments at work. I didn't detect a pro-vengeance statement from you at all, I was just expanding on the theme of the psychology of being victimized. If something like that did happen to me or to someone I loved, I'd want to carve them up into little votes. And that might be satisfying in the moment, but that is pure ID and not useful to anyone in the long run, least of all the social fabric. But I'd reserve the right to feel that way without judgment.
completely OT but is this B_K_483 a relative of yours?
Eh, that's more a Czech tradition.
The Samaritan hurried over to him to inject the potassium chloride to beat the expiry date!
So a random citizen donated the prescription drug used. Isn't that a federal crime? On both sides of the "drug deal"? Of course it is.
Ha! It was named after me!