State senator defends Cindy Hyde-Smith, says public hangings would deter crime - Polidicks

https://mississippitoday.org/2018/11/26/state-senator-in-defending-hyde-smith-says-return-to-public-hangings-would-deter-crime/ COLUMBUS — A Republican state senator said reviving public hangings could deter crime, just weeks after U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ignited a national firestorm by saying that she would attend a public hanging with a supporter. At a rally for Hyde-Smith on Sunday, State Sen. Charles Younger, R-Columbus, told Mississippi Today he believes Hyde-Smith has sufficiently atoned for her controversial statement. He then added that if public hangings were brought back as a method of execution, “it would deter a lot of crime.” “It’s old news,” said Younger, referring to Hyde-Smith’s remark captured on video Nov. 2 and first published on independent news website The Bayou Brief. “She said something out of jest that wasn’t the most politically correct thing to say but, you know, I bet you nine out of 10 Democrats would vote to execute the young man that killed the nine black people in the church in South Carolina — the African Americans that were killed in South Carolina. I bet you nine out of 10 Democrats would vote to have him executed any kind of way.” Younger was referring to Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who murdered nine African American churchgoers in June 2015. In 2017, a federal jury sentenced Roof to death for the killings, which he committed in an historic black church in Charleston. Hyde-Smith initially declined to respond to the controversy, but later offered an apology, which she delivered last week during a debate with Mike Espy, her opponent in the Nov. 27 runoff for a U.S. Senate seat. Hyde-Smith’s remarks sparked backlash given that more lynchings occurred in Mississippi than any other state. Most of these lynchings were perpetuated against African Americans by white mobs and many were carried out by hanging. Asked the relevance of Roof’s actions to Hyde-Smith’s remarks, Younger said: “Public hanging was an execution style. It wasn’t lynching – it was a public hanging where it had to pass through the courts and it wasn’t a color or a race issue. It was just a means of punishment. And, frankly, if it was back again I think it would deter a lot of crimes.” Mississippi exclusively used hanging as a form of legal execution until the mid 20th century, but a review of records shows a vast racial disparity in how the punishment was carried out. Younger, who has served in the state Senate since 2014, later emailed Mississippi Today stating that he supports Hyde-Smith because she, like himself, is a farmer.

Public hangings would deter crime? Excellent! Let’s start with the dipshit who made that suggestion.

Soooooo public executions for Donald Trump and his entire family when?

We should also cut the hands off of thieves.

No they fucking don't

Then Trump would just "no hands" rather than "tiny hands".

Not even the first Mississippi state legislator to endorse hanging, this guy is even worse. http://time.com/4788005/mississippi-rep-karl-oliver-confederate-symbols-should-be-lynched/

Mississippiman once again reminding Floridaman who is boss

I don't see anything wrong with this, which politicians are we hanging first?

The people calling for it are uncivilized barbarians. They'd get off on it.

Time for drawn-and-quartering to make a comeback.

its the bystanders that don't call them out for that, who don't shame it, who think they could get behind it if that's where things go, those are the people who need to be dragged to the hangings and forced to watch and then asked how they feel about it just like how we marched villagers through the death camps.

They'd cover their faces in shame like when the Nazis looked at the camps in the Nuremberg trials. But they'd still endorse the hangings privately and by voting for Republicans.

oh ya, just like people can get a 40K hospital bill in the mail, cry about it, then go right on supporting the republicans.

Voting Democrat for them is simply as unthinkable as us voting Republican. They've been beaten through propaganda and indoctrination into believing that Democrats will end the world.

Oh yeah, we should totally execute people horribly to deter crime. Let's get some lynchings. Let's do some drawing and quartering. Drag them through the streets on a line. Why not crucify them? It was good enough for Jesus himself, after all!

Ok, lets start with treasonous politicians. We can work from the top down.

Boy does he need to do some reading! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Crimes_and_Punishments

Nah. Bring back The Pear.

Hey everyone, the red states are directly headed to becoming the Fourth Reich! When will they start needing "living space" in us west states?

How about we start with the orange dickhead and see where it goes from there?

Wasn't one of france's last executions a public hanging and the reason they outlawed it is because it excited the crowd which was terrifying? they also had public hangings in the past and people weren't deterred then either

copy pasted this bit into google, got this bizarre article about america's last public hanging https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/weekinreview/the-last-hanging-there-was-a-reason-they-outlawed-public.html

Jesus christ. I don't believe people are radically different from what they were only 100 years ago. I can hope though.

It's certainly curious and it will draw attention. It's kind of hard not to be intrigued. People just need to limit it to intrigue and not turn it into a celebration like a bunch of mindless fucking heathens. That being said, it's 2018, not 1818. We don't need this in our justice system anymore. We have far more effective and efficient ways of killing people. With that being said, stop trying to kill people as a deterrent for crime.