Supreme Court says the Constitution does not ensure a painless execution - Polidicks

Its just so blatant that these people get their rocks off on making "undesirables" suffer

Who wants to point out that McConnell delayed SCJ appointments so Obama couldn't appoint anyone?

The death penalty in my eyes is a method I do not want to see abolished. There is some people in this world that do not deserve an easy life of prison where my tax dollars go into housing these criminals to be clothes, fed, and taken care of. Want them to go to a drug dealer or a robber then fine. Want them to go to a child murderer or a murder-rapist, I prefer his ass gets gassed.

Man I'm glad it's not up to you.

That's not necessarily as big of a deal as you make it out to be, it's also not really a sign of religious extremism. Many of MLK's beliefs were rooted in natural law ideas.

Cockroaches screaming about how they want the good old days to return can be squashed flat legally for all i care and the only thing I would feel is indifference. Bipartisanship never did work if the other people refused to cooperate at all.

I mean, at that point they'll just tell you to govern yourself if you want free reign. That's a recommendation I'd make to Borealis.

The Republican party needs to be completely out of power until they completely renounce Trumpism, Gingrich/McConnell obstructionism, and Reaganomics. If they cannot accomplish that they need to go the way of the Federalists.

Death row inmates cost more taxpayer money than regular inmates do, significantly so in fact. Also "easy life" the fuck? Prison isn't in any way easy, you need to stop watching shitty dramas.

I really, really hope that when this cretin dies, it's in a very agonizing and drawn-out way. And before anyone starts getting uppity on me saying that: no, he friggin' deserves it.

I hope he gets incontinence. It would be wonderfully ironic for someone who spent his whole life seizing control over others to lose control of his own bowels. Too bad life can’t be more like an O Henry story or a Twilight Zone episode.

3 revisions of the death penalty in a week because we elected far right knobs to the court.

I'm happy you aren't a judge.

Don't worry, there are plenty of judges with more fucked up opinions than that. Case in point: Kavanaugh.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from a Constitutionalist perspective, doesn't the Constitution literally forbid the death penalty by declaring life an inalienable right that the government cannot deprive you of? I say that as someone who isn't necessarily completely opposed to the death penalty. If the Supreme Court is going to rule on it - well, it's right there in plain text.

Selective interpretation is a bitch.

The eighth ammendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment, which was ruled to forbid the death penalty and then reversed a few years later. That's the closest thing I can think of. Unless you're referring to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", which is in the declaration of independence, not the constitution.

Yeah I misremembered "no person shall not be deprived of life/liberty/property without due process of law" from the 5th as something completely different.

Maybe a piece of paper written nearly 300 years ago isn't gospel and we should get more modern laws for modern times Then don't give them an inch, GOP is a dead party only kept afloat by gerrymandering and backwards institutions like the senate that disproportionately give power to the minority of people in empty states.

Here's a fun tidbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Slaughter_Act The most notable of these requirements is the need to have an animal completely sedated and insensible to pain. This is to minimize the suffering to the point where the animal feels nothing at all, instead losing a consciousness from which they will never awaken. Livestock is required to have a painless death by law in the US, in case you were still unsure of how lowly some people think of criminals in the US.

Oh, I'm not saying someone kill him. Just that when he does inevitably go, that whatever disease or such that does him in isn't too pleasant.

I guess the founding fathers, in their sensible wisdom, who practiced both hanging and quartering, must've goofed really hard then.

It's so small states have equal representation as large states. It was a pretty good compromise at the time given the diaster that was the Articles of Confederation. The senate was meant to directly represent the states rather than the citizens. Senators back then were appointed directly by the state governments instead of the elections we hold now.

Yeah I know lmao but government of men etc. Even the founding fathers didn't necessarily always stick like glue to the principles they put on paper.

Control your emotions you dimwit.