Still think Texas has never executed anyone who was innocent?

From Amnesty International, 2011 executions (via wiki):

Some pretty good company we keep there. And yeah, we edged Yemen, but is this country going to be satisfied finishing behind Iraq, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia? Step it up, prosecutors.

 

So I'll ask again - Deskslave - what is an acceptable punishment for a criminal serving four life sentences, who kills a guard or another inmate or rapes another inmate?

Keep in mind, he is already serving four life sentences.

 

While we're at it, let's use the L.A. Coliseum and have inmates fight against lions. And we can televise it! [/zag]

 

Simple.

I'm tired of criminals being coddled.
I'm tired of criminals being excused.
I'm tired of pinheads who don't believe in real justice.
I'm tired of living in a world where I have to worry about one of my loved ones getting knocked in the head by some degenerate lazy asshole and the fact that there are people who will make excuses for him.

It really is time to start making an example of these fuckers.

 

No need to do that. Just let them kill each other with sharpened toothbrushes in a prison courtyard with only armed guards watching.

 

I'm aware of all that. I was simply responding to the nonsensical (to me) idea that to be for the death penalty means that I can't limit its applicability to circumstances in which the recipient is clearly, absolutely guilty.

 

No. 1, run your prison so these things don't happen. (Start by not privatizing prisons.)

No. 2, stick the guy in solitary.

 

And I'm telling you that the idea that you can prove someone "clearly, absolutely guilty" is nonsensical.

Well, correction: That you can do it in the environs of a flawed justice system.

 

but doc, don't you know logically that this is never going to be possible? Right up until today, Carlos de Luna was one of those guys.

 

So you believe that nobody is guilty in prison?

Or better yet - what percentage of people convicted of violent crimes are truly guilty in your mind?

 

Your powers of logic on display again.

The angry Internet man was clever at the start of the Internet, but it's really a worn-out cliche now.

 

No. 1 - I wouldn't be allowed to run my prison the way a prison SHOULD be run because too many social working lib's like you have ensured that we are country where criminals are coddled.

No. 2 - What if he already is in solitary confinement, got sick and shanked the guard who was commissioned to guard when while a nurse gave him care?

Still deserves to live?