[Skybird]

It is disgusting and tells something about the issue when such a profanity gets attention while those defending death penalty do not care a bit about the high quota of judicial errors leading to innocents getting assassinated by the state or perpetrators who committed other crimes of less severity, but not eh crime they get killed for.

It's collective shizophrenia illustrating how to walk over one's grandmother.

I also want to remin d of an old argumenbt of mine. Punishement is a measure that by definition needs the subject to live, and in modern legal understanding this measurement is meant to sanction and alter the (unwanted) behaviour of the subject. Execution does not do that, and statistics have shown often enough that the threat of being caught and sentenced does deter offenders. also, psychology and sociology know and have described sinc ehte early 70s, I think, that especially young males tend to manouver and entangle themselves in situations of conflict and violence from which they cannot retreat without needing to break through a psychological deadlock, and the hormone cocktail of adolescence just stands against that (which is a reflection of our animalistic heritage: in order to impress and attract the young females willing to mate).

Whether a subject sentenced to death gets a last meal or not, is the most unimportant of all questions. Much mor eimportant is why so many people in some countries accept to murder so many later proven innocents just in order to not rethink their desire for revenge.

To me, "death penalty" is a contradiction in itself. I only accept executiuon in some very serious and severe cases as a tool of prevention against future crime - may it be the the subject continues to direct crime from inside or outside the prison, may it be that the subject becomes the motive for others to ciommit serious crimes (in order to ake revenge or to blackmail the state for releasing thre subject). Execution as a tool of prevention, a means of fighting certain serious forms of crime: yes. Execution to please peoples' desire for revenge, or as a legal "penalty": No, that is illogical and self-contradictory.

How absurd the show really is you can see that senetenced subjects often have to wait another youcpole of years, up to twnty years until the executiuon is carried out. And then look at the wholwe ceremonial BS around it while truth is it would be very easy to quickly and painlessly kill a human, if that is what one does want. It all is absurd. And schizophrenic.

Since da pope is in da house and I did some Latin quotes already today, this: "Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - The toughest justice is the greatest injustice." Cicero.