re: Fedex driver, Tanner Horner, sentenced to death.

Eh, he’s just going to sit on death row for 20-40 years before dying of natural causes. That’s how the death penalty usually works. Regardless of whether you want to hear it.

If anything the isolation of death row will increase his lifespan by preventing other inmates from getting to him.

Much higher “success” rate in Texas

Texas might execute 1% of the people it sentences to death, vs 0.1% in other states. Still not much of a chance of execution.

too quick. Mongolian box for a week, followed by impaling, followed by the Pyre.

Yeah, death penalty is all solitary confinement. That can be tortorous of and in itself (hence the whole "death row syndrome"), but it'll protect him from violence.

Where are you getting your figures? Quick searches suggest you are way off with Texas.

And your statement has changed from most die of natural causes and now most aren’t executed.

I understand my Catholic Church is against the death penalty, but in cases like this I find myself having no sympathy for the criminal.

that is correct...the jury was only deciding if he would get life or the death penalty...

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sentenced to death.

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Good, execute him tomorrow

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Our justice system sucks

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All we have is a legal system. There is
No mechanism we have that would remotely qualify as justice for this.

He really should be brutally tortured, and people should know about it to discourage the next guy.

Even then, it’s not justice. That little girl is still gone. It’s hard to even wrap my mind around this as a father.