Couey convicted of raping, murdering young girl John Evander Couey could face the death penalty after being found guilty Wednesday of murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was abducted two years ago from her home in Homosassa Springs, Florida. She was found buried nearly a month later within sight of her home. The young girl had been raped before she was buried alive in a plastic garbage bag. Should he be put to death? My opinion - tomorrow would be ok - just make him an organ donor first.
Would I be upset if he met a particularly gruesome demise? No. Should the Government kill him to show that killing is wrong? No. (Anyone want to make bets Dr. Poodle ignores the first sentence of this post when he replies to it?)
Execution sure is an easy way out. Either way, "what goes around comes around". While swift justice seems best, he has what's coming to him either way.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Mar 7 2007, 05:28 PM) [snapback]401901[/snapback]</div> if you want both sides of the argument so be it - at least you are consistent in your thinking - shows someone here has a neutered construct <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Mar 7 2007, 06:01 PM) [snapback]401921[/snapback]</div> Execution is not the easy way out here. In a way i hope he becomes a jailhouse bi**h for a while then gets put to sleep. there are instances in which sharia law makes sense :blink:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Mar 8 2007, 08:22 AM) [snapback]402161[/snapback]</div> Execution IS the easy way out. Chopping his genitals, thumbs, and toes off.. Now, that is punishment. He would live a life of suffering.. whether in a cage or in the general populace. and.. no.. liberals, if this were to happen, we wouldn't let him sign up for welfare benefits. no hand outs for bad guys!
I'm personally torn about the whole thing. I truly would enjoy seeing this guy "loved" in prison every night for the next month and then put to death. No doubt. I have no regret and would not miss him. I also realize that DNA testing has saved some people from death row. In some cases, it's cut and dry. In others, it seems that way only because the admission of guilt was coerced or there was no admission and the evidence was tampered or something. While I like to think that there's got to be something to scare people into not committing crimes, I know that our dolling out of that punishment is not 100% accurate or consistent.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Mar 8 2007, 01:07 PM) [snapback]402289[/snapback]</div> Exactly. If our legal system was 100% foolproof, I'd have no problem with the death penalty. However, I'd rather have 1,000 blatantly guilty creeps get life than see one innocent person be fried. Other people here would rather see 1,000 innocent people be fried than see one guilty person "get away with it", and I am oh so glad they're not doctors In Real Life, what with taking the Hippocratic Oath and all (some of you who don't know what that is - yeah, I'm looking at you, "Berman" - may want to Google that).
Isn't that when the federal government gets even with a state that didn't vote for the party that won the white house by withholding federal tax money for fixing roads? That's what you're talking about isn't it? Capitol punishment? Hello?
No. As much as I might wish that he "accidentally" falls into a vat of acid or something, I don't think the government should be in the vengeance business.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Walker1 @ Mar 8 2007, 03:21 PM) [snapback]402354[/snapback]</div> You didn't see SAW III did you? :blink:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Mar 8 2007, 02:00 PM) [snapback]402331[/snapback]</div> i propose all the guys you dont want to put to death live in your neighborhood
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Walker1 @ Mar 8 2007, 02:21 PM) [snapback]402354[/snapback]</div> There is no justice for Jessica. Revenge does not equal justice. Seriously.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Mar 7 2007, 04:56 PM) [snapback]401883[/snapback]</div> What I find puzzling about the argument is this: the USA appears (at least to an outsider) to be a Christian country with numerous Americans waving the Bible and ostentatiously professing to be Christian. And yet I seem to remember (although I haven't read them for many years) that one of the Ten Commandments quoted by Christians is about not killing. So why are so many Christians apparently in favour of the death penalty? Of course I appreciate that the USA is not alone in this equivocal attitude to ancient religious dogma.
that's because before Christians are allowed to open the New Testament in which they are taught to "turn the other cheek" and "love the sinner" they first have to finish the Old Testament in which they are told to seek "an eye for an eye." Let's face it, loving thy neighbor isn't nearly as much fun as killing him.
