82 Years Ago--Last Public Hanging in U.S.

Seemed more effective than the drugs they inject today. Anyone else find it odd, how a dog can be peacefully put to sleep in seconds in a vets office but they continually botch human executions by lethal injection. Guillotine? Kind of messy, and don't know what's going on in a person's head for the next 30 seconds or so...

 

...still a whoooole lot more humane than crucifixion....

They're not even really sure what the cause of death is in crucifixion, depends on the method of crucifixion.

 

If a "life sentence" really meant - until you actually die or are proven innocent then I would oppose the death sentence.

However if the offendor worked while serving his/her sentence then he/she should have a higher quality of life.

 

On one hand, I’m not totally opposed to some punishment during the execution in a justifiable death sentence for the purposes of a public statement toward deterrence. But on the other hand, a display of mercy while ridding society of an evil person and sending them quickly to their Maker to be judged, I feel, is probably the correct response.

After all vengeance belongs to the Lord, so just send them to be judged, but I guess I’m not perfect because I can think of some situations where I might make a case to justify the making of a statement by getting some licks in before sending them on their way.

Celebrating the action would seem to be in defiance of trusting in the end result.

I remember long ago, before I was saved, I saw reporters on TV approach a Pastor and ask him, "Shouldn't you as a Christian pastor want to forgive man who raped and killed your daughter rather than see him get the death penalty?" He said to them, "Let God forgive him, I don't have to!" ...I've thought about the meanings of that statement many times since. Now, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the Pastor was not perfect and understandably unable to forgive at that point and thought it best for the raping murderer of his daughter to be in God's hands. I think I'd probably feel the same...

 

I would be for publically hanging this guy tomorrow.

 

Here you go, Salty:

Jerome "Jerry the Jew" Rosenberg

"In 1967, Rosenberg became the first inmate in the state to earn a law degree behind bars. By his own count, he was involved with more than 200 lawsuits....Famed left-wing defense attorney William Kunstler, who knew him from Attica, called Rosenberg 'a very shrewd guy'....though he failed to convince a judge that he completed his life sentence when his heart stopped during surgery."