Murderers ought to be stoned to death within 24 hours of their mandatory appeal. I believe this without reservation and am making this statement as an educated, well-read adult.

Not only is stoning cost-effective, but it involves the entire community. In a real way, it offers the opportunity for that last appeal to one's fellow human beings. The secretive henchman in the black hood is so medieval and absurd. If we are gonna do this thing, "just do it".

As a non-Jew, I recognize that the Jewish culture has survived one wave of persecution after another throughout the generations and they have endured. Where is the Canaanite culture, the Hittite, the Babylonian, etc., etc.? The Jews have outlived all their oppressors and the Jews gave us death by stoning. That socially-organized and embraced brutality did not retard their ability to climb out of the darkness of Earth's infancy.

Western civilization is obviously becoming LESS civilized. We've traded "the Beav" for Bart Simpson and we are going down, down, down. The Pinko tree-huggers, save-the-whale, Earth Day, Gore-loving radicals who do not own the moral authority to kill murderers do not have enough moral authority to have an opinion worth considering.

Rocks are good. They're cheap. Throw them hard. Nice, big half-bricks. Let the convicted murderers die as quickly or as slowly as providence allows.

And bring back the stocks, too. Talk about a deterrent to petty crime!

I couldnt have said it better I agree...they take a life take theres, they take two make there death hurt twice as bad...but be a bit carful bc i love nature and all, but hate killers

You are right on the mark with this! I have agreed with another person on this also. You are right about the stocks and rocks. I like rope also. As a college educated, well-read professional and family man that has traveled throughout the USA and to a number of other countries I see how we have allowed our society to become dumbed-down to such a pitiful level. It is embarrassing, insulting, disappointing, and just plain wrong.

Singapore... Remember when Bill Clinton allowed or relieved the young boy that vandalized cars in Singapore. Caning would have been a good thing for him. Imagine what they would do to a man that cheats(ed) on his wife, has sex with many other women and then lies to everyone about it! Ow! I bet that would leave a mark on a particular body part! Would Hillary override the judgment or would she ignore it and let him get the beating or cane slashing? I bet she would have to think it over for a while.

Japan and Saudi Arabia would put a world of hurt on Bill Clinton for his actions.

"Murderers ought to be stoned to death within 24 hours of their mandatory appeal."
I'm more of an "electric chair" person myself. Although really, I'd say the severity of the death should come down to the crime. For example: that man who beat women to death and managed to get his execution halted? Yeah, stone him or beat him (maybe, as lethal injection isn't humane enough, beating him the way he beat those women is humane in his mind), but such a brutal death probably wouldn't always be the best route (once again: electric chair). Now, one more thing: I'd stretch it to within thirty or fourty hours of the mandatory appeal, but no longer. Part of me says "let them come to terms with it" but the other says "if they truly are guilty, let the horror of their end overwhelm them till the end."
Tish brutal? Most people would say so, but hey... sometimes you have to agree with the Babylonians: "an eye for an eye is the only fit punishment."

"The Pinko tree-huggers, save-the-whale, Earth Day, Gore-loving radicals who do not own the moral authority to kill murderers"
Funny, I was almost agreeing with you until you launched that uneducated tirade.
Let's make something clear: being a socialist, aknowledging symbiosis, admitting that global warming is real (aka: believing scientists and not oil companies on environmental issues), and respecting the fact that someone took a moral stance for a good cause: has nothing to do with the death penalty.

I guess what I'm saying is: I refute your proclamation that "[you are] making this statement as an educated, well-read adult." as you clearly can't differenciate between three political stances, an ecological issue, a scientific issue, and you have no idea what the word "radical" means.

Regardless, you still get an "A" for effort, if only a "B-" for total comprehension of the subject.

jimthecarguy:

Murderers ought to be stoned to death within 24 hours of their mandatory appeal. I believe this without reservation and am making this statement as an educated, well-read adult.

Not only is stoning cost-effective, but it involves the entire community. In a real way, it offers the opportunity for that last appeal to one's fellow human beings. The secretive henchman in the black hood is so medieval and absurd. If we are gonna do this thing, "just do it".

This is exactly why our judicial system places the responsibility of handing out sentencing to judges and not the public.

Not only is stoning cost-effective, but it involves the entire community.

Aw... that's so sweet! Everybody coming together, all races and religions, in a common effort to batter some guy to death. Sort of like a barn raising, only in reverse.

steambadger:

Not only is stoning cost-effective, but it involves the entire community.

Aw... that's so sweet! Everybody coming together, all races and religions, in a common effort to batter some guy to death. Sort of like a barn raising, only in reverse.

Heh heh, kids today, ya know, by cracky, in my day we called that sort of thing a lynchin'. And it was fun, by golly!