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

Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:53 pm to
Posted by Boss13
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:53 pm to
Criminals commit crimes because they think they are too smart to get caught. You can make every punishment the death penalty but if they keep seeing ineptitude by law enforcement, they will continue to commit crimes because they think they are smart enough to get away with it.

You want to stop crime? Start going after enter every minor offense and initiate hard labor for 6 months even for petty crimes. When they stop seeing people getting away with it, they will stop.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35397 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:56 pm to
quote:

OP included the word violent which brings in the 8A discussion.


Are hangings and firing squads violent?


quote:

The primary means of execution in the U.S. have been hanging, electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad, and lethal injection. The Supreme Court has never found a method of execution to be unconstitutional, though some methods have been declared unconstitutional by state courts.
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
41164 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:57 pm to
Did public hangings back in the day stop murder?
Posted by gmac8604
Green Bay, WI
Member since Jun 2012
1386 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 4:58 pm to
I think the most peaceful way for criminals worthy of death to spectators is “the boats” method. We only see them, saying “Bon Voyage” at the shoreline.

The Boats
Posted by SteveLSU35
Shreveport
Member since Mar 2004
15051 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:00 pm to
Mandatory community service for everything but rape, assault, and murder. Make prison absolutely awful.

Use the community service to pick up trash, cut grass, and clean up shitty neighbors. If they don’t show they go to stocks, stocks twice then jail. If they service community service still must be paid.
This post was edited on 9/26/23 at 5:02 pm
Posted by Basura Blanco
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:01 pm to
They have this now. Its called Worldstar.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35397 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:01 pm to


The death penalty is a 100 percent deterrent for that particular person. They will never kill again, which should be the goal. We need to execute about 1,000 times more people than we currently do in a much more timely manner.

Not to prevent other people from killing, but to end that person's time on earth.

A small percentage of people commit crimes. The hard part is finding them. However, when we find them, they should fricking pay.
Posted by WDE24
Member since Oct 2010
54853 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:05 pm to
You asked why the eighth amendment was relevant. Cruel and unusual punishment is not elaborated on in the Constitution, so the courts are left to decide. The analysis is very fact specific. When someone proposes violent, public executions without many parameters, an eighth amendment analysis is required. That’s why it is relevant.
This post was edited on 9/26/23 at 5:09 pm
Posted by WDE24
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:13 pm to
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The death penalty is a 100 percent deterrent for that particular person. They will never kill again, which should be the goal.
How many wrongfully convicted innocents executed are acceptable when we start executing many more people? How many public executions of innocents will society accept? What unintended consequences might we imagine?

The flawed legal system full of politicians, lawyers, police and jurors who are subject to both corruption and mistakes at a significant rate makes this untenable for me. If we could exist in a world where guilt was certain without any mitigating factors, I would have fewer reservations.
This post was edited on 9/26/23 at 5:26 pm
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:18 pm to
Extremely false.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134521 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:21 pm to
I mean, I'm for it in some circumstances, but I didn't exactly stop it in Victorian England.

It would stop recidivism though
Posted by Lark225
Member since Mar 2019
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:29 pm to
Trust me if making money from having inmates in jail wasn't a thing. Public executions would happen daily
Posted by rondo
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:30 pm to
So you're saying we should be MORE like Muslims?
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:31 pm to
quote:

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


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Where there are multiple witnesses or irrefutable video evidence


I would say that depends on who you kill?

If you kill the right person in front of people with video evidence...some people would say probation and Community services is just fine.

Check out Ticky-Tok!
Posted by Sterling Archer
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:45 pm to
False
Posted by HooDooWitch
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:51 pm to
Stop no, deter yes. I would think public hangings in the area of the crime or community from where they came would make a young person contemplating a life of crime to think twice.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
26002 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 5:57 pm to
I adhere to the "cull the herd" theory, where private executions work quite well.
Posted by MeridianDog
Home on the range
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 9/26/23 at 7:11 pm to
They could dig the cave of death, several hundred yards into a mountain with multiple corridors and end of life sites inside. Take the prisoner in, chain them securely to a wall and leave them there. Come back and check on them six months or a year later. As they spend their days listening to the other criminals screaming, cursing, howling, and whimpering, they would be able to consider their crime and the certain finality of punishment they were given.
Posted by Squedunk
Texas Hill Country
Member since Jun 2008
879 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 8:17 pm to
Oh no....we need to keep the same system we have because its working so well.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
11880 posts
Posted on 9/26/23 at 8:21 pm to
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Those kinds of people don't care if they live or die, typically.


But from the bravado they exhibit (recent "I'll be out in a Month" from the POS in Las Vegas) public humiliation would bother them and might just get the attention of their social classless friends.

And after humiliation, death.
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