Absolutely appalled by Kenneth Eugene Smith's execution

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Appalled is too soft a word. I feel physically sick and angry.

What a sick world we live in.

I am against the death penalty. One person wrongly convicted and sentenced to death is too many. This particular case sounds like torture, and to use what the Nazis used on millions, its just disturbing on so many levels.

I keep thinking about it. But what can we do? I'm in UK, and expect any activism will be happening in US.

What will happen to the state of Alabama? Surely something must be done. This was not human.

Thank you for responding and explaining, I see the point you were making now.

I've not been patronising at all. Gave my opinion.

"I'm willing to kill for free so long as its quick"

Nice slogan

So, what should be the punishment for brutally murdering somebody? 3 meals a day and a PlayStation? An isolated cell? Hard labour? What?

As did I...

Assemble a few parents whose children have been murdered and I'm pretty sure they would be happy to end the fucker in the most painful way possible

@BMW6 so who would you have clean up at your guilotine scene? Who are you proposing retrieves the body part etc?

“She had been stabbed, and beaten with a fireplace implement, in what investigators would soon conclude was a murder-for-hire paid for by the pastor and staged to look like a home invasion and burglary.”

About his victim, by the way. If you really feel sorry for this man you’re frankly strange. I truly hope his last moments were utterly grim.

Your false imprisonment analogy self-evidently doesn't work. The clue is in the word "false".

This kind of sounds like you’ve misunderstood what “false imprisonment” normally means

Some previous posters have said there's a difference between justice and revenge. Should there be? Is revenge a bad thing?

If only you knew!!

Should the entire sentencing system be built on the revenge instincts of victims and their relatives?

If I was the victim of a minor burglary and decided I wanted the perpetrator to be tortured to death, am I entitled to expect the prison system to do that?

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I just don't think it matters. He paid the consequence for being the kind of person who killed a woman in cold blood. If he hadn't done that, he wouldn't have been punished.

Most people think from the perspective of "I'd want to see my loved one's killer punished". Never "if my loved one killed someone, this is how I'd want them punished".

No, he didn't.

I'm opposed to the death penalty full stop, and horrified by the fact that this has been done as basically a human experiment.

But I am also, like you, very confused as to why it appeared to have been so apparently distressing and have taken so long. My understanding was similar to yours: that nitrogen is an inert gas, that is doesn't result in a build up of carbon dioxide in your blood and therefore shouldn't result in the distressing sensation of suffocation. But it clearly did from the eye witness accounts. It feels like this can't have been adequately planned; I guess it may be hard to get suitably scientifically trained people to plan such horrid things maybe.

Doesn't the Bible say an eye for an eye?

Not painless for the poor execution staff who would develop PTSD from witnessing and having to clean up people's chopped off heads though

Not for money.

But if someone murdered my child, my life would be over anyway, I would have absolutely no issue with taking that person’s life- as slowly and painfully as possible.

Oh gosh yes, I think of that little boy often and wonder how he’s doing.

Agree with you. And frankly don’t understand what the point of prison is if you’re going to be treated in a gentle and lovely manner while you’re there. I mean what’s the punishment?

i mean if you’ve gone to jail for a parking ticket or something fair enough but these guys beat a woman horrendously and savagely to her death and everyone’s sitting here feeling sick and sad for him? It’s strange.

On the other hand would I be able to order that killing or administer the fatal dose? No.

it’s so conflicting

Some people do get job satisfaction.

You can think the crime he committed was abhorrent and also find his punishment abhorrent. They're not mutually exclusive.

This.

I'll save all my sympathy for the real
Victim, you know , Elizabeth Sennett, the mother of two he brutally stabbed and beat to death for money . Her death wasn't a pleasant one so why should his be.

There was a time when people were happy to join in stoning others to death for being members of the wrong religion. There was a time when people happily gathered round whilst others were burnt alive, or placed under heavy slabs and crushed until they suffocated. Sadly, we still have some of these primitives around. That is cause for regret, not justification for state torture.