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17 hours ago, Aj Mick said:

Some of the countries that abolished the death penalty decades ago may be far from civilised, but more are among the most civilised...... and they are certainly far more civilised than any country that retains it, no matter how developed the economy of such retentionist states is. 

Lethal injection is the most merciful means of execution ever devised. Death is not a punishment when you spare them years of misery in a prison environment.

18 hours ago, Chip Allen said:

Lethal injection is the most merciful means of execution ever devised. Death is not a punishment when you spare them years of misery in a prison environment.

Given the long, drawn out preliminaries and process, and the number of botched lethal injections in the country also gave us the gas chamber and the electric chair, one has to have serious doubts about its mercifulness. Albert Pierrepoint,  the British executioner who hanged hundreds, could take a prisoner from breakfast in the condemned cell, to hanged dead with a broken neck within a dozen seconds, arguably far more merciful. But still, in the end he came to have doubts about the death penalty, and expressed his opposition to it.

On 23.10.2017 at 3:30 AM, Aj Mick said:

Given the long, drawn out preliminaries and process, and the number of botched lethal injections in the country also gave us the gas chamber and the electric chair, one has to have serious doubts about its mercifulness. Albert Pierrepoint,  the British executioner who hanged hundreds, could take a prisoner from breakfast in the condemned cell, to hanged dead with a broken neck within a dozen seconds, arguably far more merciful. But still, in the end he came to have doubts about the death penalty, and expressed his opposition to it.

 

protecting the executioner from psychological harm is the most important from my point of view.

 

some posters in this thread also go completely overboard with who they want to be sentenced to death.

I would say it takes at least a murder or willful manslaughter to warrant a death penalty.