The Firing Squad and Ronnie Lee Gardner: In the End, an All Too Typical Tale

This lawyer is so biased in his writings. Poor poor man kills someone its societies fault for this mans murdering ways, typical bleeding heart liberal argument. The people who are willing and accept the fact thats its ok to take another persons life. knows the outcome if they get caught. The problem with at our end of it is that we dont carry out these sentences out sooner. Why do we wait so long to send them to their sentence?I also grew up poor, and had no positve role models in my life, does that justify me going out and commiting murder.

I can't believe how many so called "good people" have so much hate in their hearts for a person they have never even met. May God have pity on all of you.

The state is carrying out the justice of Jesus Christ on this man.

The protesters are crucifying Jesus Christ anew in their hearts as they plead for the life of a Barabbas over justice.

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Sounds very vigilante, PETER MCALEAR, and in this case it sounds really appropriate since we have eye witnesses to rely on.

But if we open that loophole, what if its done to a person who is later declared falsely accused based on so-so evidence and testimony? Probably rarer today in light of forensic science but it still happens. Then what if those people who realized they kill the wrong person go crazy? Or succumb in a deeper depression? Would you like to be held accountable for that since you proposed it?

Again, sounds tempting to agree with but I wouldn't want to open any loopholes that would cause further damage in the future. We have enough of those already.

The injustice is that it has taken this long to carry out the sentence...

stop trying to make me feel bad for criminals. this is long over due

Life in Prison with No Parole is a joke: Richard Speck the notorious killer who raped and murdered 8 nurses was sentenced to life in prison, there was a video tape shown on the news of Speck snorting cocaine while in prison, he had a gay lover, he painted pictures, had 3 meals a day, no financial worries... basically he had a better life in prison than he did outside of prison Justice was not served in his case, he died of natural causes probably with a smile on his face

Of course, I'm sure I'll be attacked (personally or otherwise) about what a horrible American I am for saying this, but the death penalty is barbaric. It accomplishes nothing, costs more than its worth, and is a reactionary response to violent crime. It absolutely doesn't deter it. State-sponsored murder isn't an appropriate response to individual murder.

The truly interesting thing about the whole capital punishment debate is that supporters of it won't even admit that it works, because they can't. They support it because they're outraged by a violent crime...which is completely justifiable, by the way...and want someone to pay dearly for it. Yet they simply REFUSE to admit that treatment works. States that impose the death sentence still have violent crime rates that are roughly TWICE that of states that do not. No one knows why, but I have a feeling that it comes down to respecting life...ALL life (including the lives of murderers).

As abhorrent as what this man did to his victim(s), killing him is not the answer, and it won't solve anything. It most likely won't bring peace to the family of the victim (peace and closure are two completely different things), and it will not deter more crimes from happening, so, ultimately, what's the point?

I was a proponent of the death penalty, until I attended an event featuring Sister Mary Prejean(of Dead Man Walking fame, not Susan Sarandon), she explained that "eye for an eye" was derived from nomadic tribal customs of people who had no understanding of mental illness and no facility for incarceration. I then learned that the only other countries that executed were N Korea, Iran, Saudis Arabia, China, great company huh? The Good Sister then raised the MORAL issue," if it is permissible for a government to kill someone to enforce its will, what precedent does that set? The method is also in question, lethal injection, does not function the way we are told, person does not just fall asleep, a witness to this act in texas described it as "if someone dropped a cement block on his chest" the drugs chemically sear the tissue from within. Victims and the so-called "closure" is a fallacy, attending were family members of those murdered, those that attended executions, were the most compelling, they found no closure no sense of anything positive, to a person, they described the ordeal as another murder. Finally I read/hear a lot of comments along the lines of "its too expensive to house these convicts for life", my question is, "what is the cut off point for funding life?" are we not creating "death panels"? If someone is executed, in our name, and then is found to be innocent, does that not make murderers of us all? There are on record many, many instances of wrongful conviction/execution, so if WE are to take RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS, should we not all be on death row?

I find it interesting that in liberal thinking there is no issue of taking responsibility for your actions. Many people grow up in poor abused circumstances without turning to a life of crime and murder. He made the decision to take another life. He and only he is responsible for his decision. My heart goes out to the families of his victims that this charade has drug on for years of torment. If he has family that loves him, they are equally victimized by his decision to take another's life. An atmosphere of "I'm not responsible for my actions", Van Der Sloop comes to mind, is on continuous display in the courts today. It's all "their" fault. "They" (the victims) pissed me off, took something of mine, tried to cheat me out of my drugs, had something I wanted/needed/took. You don't hear, I made the decision, it's my fault, it's my poor judgement.