don't know how you feel about the death penalty...

...but the Christa Pike situation exposes the immoral flaws in killing someone to prove that killing someone is wrong.

I've adapted my position over time. IMO, the death penalty is legitimate if the person in question is a "master criminal" who can continue to direct and inspire evil even while incarcerated in prison for life with parole. Think Osama Bin Laden, a cartel kingpin, a Mafiosi, a domestic terrorist, etc.

Pike doesn't fit those categorizations.

Pike is the first person to survive lethal injection drugs.

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• What we think a person deserves is sometimes falls outside blindness 22:32:03 10/01/26 (1)
  • "death penalty is retribution, not justice" ClockBlocker 15:32:02 10/02/26 (0)
• Here's my view on the death penalty. mh 18:30:02 10/01/26 (3)
  • Hundreds of people sentenced to death have been exonerated Dr.J 20:44:52 10/01/26 (0)
  • And here's mine: BluBlood 19:35:54 10/01/26 (1)
    • I'm fully with you on that blindness 22:35:57 10/01/26 (0)
• When the death penalty failed, what did they do? Copyboy 15:40:32 10/01/26 (21)
  • Reminds me of the failed electric chair execution in SF Dr.J 15:54:56 10/01/26 (20)
    • It should really be by firing squad CoastalBruin 16:56:03 10/01/26 (19)
      • Guillotines seem to have a high success rate. mh 10:05:20 10/02/26 (2)
        • public, no...Pay Per View, oh hells yeah! ClockBlocker 15:23:49 10/02/26 (0)
        • Getting closer ever day CoastalBruin 12:56:09 10/02/26 (0)
      • Would you be willing to kill people for a living? ClockBlocker 21:53:47 10/01/26 (5)
        • Not in a thousand years Dr.J 10:39:58 10/02/26 (1)
          • Doc J *is* Michael Fassbender *in*... ClockBlocker 15:21:39 10/02/26 (0)
        • Yes, if... CoastalBruin 08:24:04 10/02/26 (2)
          • Thanks for the discourse ClockBlocker 10:23:37 10/02/26 (1)
            • +1* CoastalBruin 11:47:10 10/02/26 (0)
      • Historically firing squads were notoriously inefficient Dr.J 17:20:20 10/01/26 (9)
        • I'd like to see an analysis of failure rates CoastalBruin 17:41:05 10/01/26 (8)
          • What happened to the gas chamber? TheHappyBurgermeister 19:47:22 10/01/26 (4)
            • Where's that Zyklon B when you need it? ClockBlocker 21:58:46 10/01/26 (0)
            • Morbid story CoastalBruin 21:10:52 10/01/26 (0)
            • My understanding is that the difference with humans is . . . BluBlood 21:10:12 10/01/26 (1)
              • That's the monstrosity of it blindness 22:43:31 10/01/26 (0)
          • It's deeply, deeply flawed. Copyboy 19:18:27 10/01/26 (2)
            • No one has asked why the SF guy who drove Cable Cars couldn’t… Dr.J 20:29:24 10/01/26 (1)
              • I actually looked up that joke... ClockBlocker 10:26:21 10/02/26 (0)

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