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True or false: Violent, public, televised executions for convicted murderers

Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:37 pm
Posted by Old Sarge
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Member since Jan 2012
58089 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:37 pm
Where there are multiple witnesses or irrefutable video evidence

This is the only thing that will stop shootings in this country

True or false


I say true, hang ‘em high





Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
165001 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:37 pm to
Sounds extremely stupid to be honest
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
65789 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:37 pm to
False
Posted by Abraham H Parnassis
Member since Jul 2020
2617 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:38 pm to
I don't think it would help, to be honest.

Those kinds of people don't care if they live or die, typically.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
38048 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:39 pm to
quote:

Where there are multiple witnesses or irrefutable video evidence

This is the only thing that will stop shootings in this country

True or false



False, we live in the social media hold-my-beer age.
Posted by facher08
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
5087 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:40 pm to
Care to comment on the 8th amendment?
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
19834 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:40 pm to
quote:

This is the only thing that will stop shootings in this country

Did shooting only occur after we stopped doing this, during the depression?
Posted by Stealth Matrix
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Member since Aug 2019
9836 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:41 pm to
I mean, I ain't again' it.
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
10292 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:42 pm to
Even if it isn't a deterrent. I'm form it simply as an act of punishment that fits the crime.

Life in prison can not match the pain and evil of murder and rape. Kill them in a brutal and swift fashion as punishment first. If it's also a deterrent, that's gravy.
Posted by WDE24
Member since Oct 2010
54691 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:42 pm to
I think it is probably false.

By in large, people that are shooting innocent people aren’t logically considering and appreciating the consequences.

Also, public executions are not novel. Do we have any data supporting their effectiveness as a deterrent?
This post was edited on 9/26/23 at 4:44 pm
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
165001 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:44 pm to
quote:

Kill them in a brutal and swift fashion as punishment first.

Right...because the government and your peers would never get things wrong
Posted by CoachChappy
Member since May 2013
33892 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:44 pm to
quote:

Kill them in a brutal and swift fashion as punishment first. If it's also a deterrent, that's gravy.

Bullet in the head, burn the body, dump ashes in a ditch. Make it quick. Prison isn’t a deterrent if all your friends and family are in there too.

Don’t make it a public execution. Don’t make it a show where by the prisoner gains any fame or recognition.
This post was edited on 9/26/23 at 4:45 pm
Posted by idlewatcher
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Member since Jan 2012
86612 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:44 pm to
False. Some people are too intellectually uhh malnourished to know the difference between right and wrong. Not to mention they were raised in violent households so they are fricked from a young age.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
31967 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:45 pm to
quote:

Care to comment on the 8th amendment?


How is this relevant? Executions are legal in this country and have been for its entirety.
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
36512 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:46 pm to
quote:

Violent, public, televised executions for convicted murderers


Better.

Gladiatorial games in tiger stadium from noon til kickoff featuring death row inmates/lifers
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20129 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:48 pm to
quote:

his is the only thing that will stop shootings in this country


You don’t want to hear it, but there is no statistical data to support this.
Posted by DatPelican
TX
Member since May 2018
494 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:48 pm to
I’d prefer a Hunger Games type event. Could generate some serious dinero on PPV or something.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
28417 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:50 pm to
quote:

quote:
Care to comment on the 8th amendment?


How is this relevant? Executions are legal in this country and have been for its entirety.


OP included the word violent which brings in the 8A discussion.
Posted by Philzilla
Member since Nov 2011
2042 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:51 pm to
quote:

This is the only thing that will stop shootings in this country

False.
There is another solution.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21421 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:52 pm to
quote:

This is the only thing that will stop shootings in this country


I think finding the political will to punish criminals is the biggest problem, not punishment.

That said DA's that don't prosecute are just as harmful to the ongoing prevalence of street crime as LEO caught doing dumb things on camera. Neither are helping the cause.
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