Cruel? Nitrogen asphyxiation is probably one of the most painless, gentle ways to go.

Your trigger that you can’t breathe is a buildup of carbon dioxide. But as you can still exhale, you feel no panic. You just slowly drift unconscious and die. I’d take it over most causes of death.

You know what else is cruel? People killing other people. And the former continuing to live despite their cruelty.

The only rub against execution to me is the risk of executing the innocent. But that is not the concern here. There is no dispute this guy is guilty.

Capital punishment is government sanctioned killing. Outside of war, the government should not have the power to kill anyone.

Let them rot in prison. It’s cheaper anyway.

Abolish capital punishment.

Except them rotting in prison is cruel and unusual punishment. No, they get shelter, 3 meals a day, healthcare when they need it, and even recreation.

And I’m anti-war. It’s ok for innocents to fight and kill each other, but not to kill murderers?

The government shouldn’t be sanctioning killing. Period.

Other than Japan, the US is the only Western country left with this primitive, revenge-based way of looking at crime and punishment. Yet, the US continues to be the most violent country of them all and the murder capital of the Western world.

Usually, when something doesn’t work, we try something else. Time for the US to try something else.

The US is likely more violent due to a combination of corrupt capitalism and lead poisoning.

We do need to try something else, but that something else is in terms of economics, infrastructure, and healthcare, not punishment.

do need to try something else, but that something else is in terms of economics, infrastructure, and healthcare

I definitely agree there, especially in healthcare. What an awful mess in the US when you look at how successful other countries are with universal healthcare.

But I will just never accept capital punishment. It’s such an awful way to seek revenge. It’s especially surprising that conservatives love the concept of government power extending to killing its own citizens. And evangelicals who are commanded by Jesus himself to turn the other cheek and seek forgiveness. I know they are backward on many things, but this seems particularly egregious.

See, you are assuming it’s about revenge. No, it is just acknowledging that what is done is so awful, you have to take the consequence to the next level.

And while I get wanting to call out evangelical hypocrisy, the Bible should have nothing to do with policy. Besides, the most famous supposedly anti-death penalty account was likely added years later: en.wikipedia.org/…/Jesus_and_the_woman_taken_in_a…