Arkansas Blog

We just need to bring back the hangmans noose, or the firing squad and all will be right in the world.

"Terrick Nooner, sentenced to died [sic] in a 1993 murder in Pulaski County, filed a challenge to the procedure last week in federal court in Pine Bluff."

I have to wonder if Nooner's victim got to choose the manner of death in that murder. And, of course, it occurred in 1993 and 13 years later the criminal has not be executed.

Nooner was convicted in the March 1993 murder of Scott Stobaugh, who had the misfortune of being at the Fun Wash on Markham Street (across the street from UAMS) when Nooner happened by looking for someone to rob.

If the state is going to murder someone, why not do it painfully? As a society, we're cruel, and in love with violence and violent death; I expect a high percentage of American citizens would be OK with crucifying convicted criminals. Remember that Jesus was lawfully arrested, tried, convicted and executed.

Just take 'em out back and shoot 'em. Criminently! It ain't that complicated.

I still say they could offer the condemned an overdose of sleeping pills and give them the option of taking that on their own, or having the state prison staff do things the hard way.

Really, only anesthesiologists can consistently put people to sleep painlessly. They are going to have to either pay the big bucks to get a pro to do it, or face continuous lawsuits about various methods being cruel, or perhaps give up capital punishment like the rest of the civilized world.

"Remember that Jesus was lawfully arrested, tried, convicted and executed."

Yeah, but they didn't keep him around for 13 years......

Lethal injection cruel----why don't we just have someone kiss them to death. Unfortunately, there would be some nut arguing that was cruel.

hey Patrick, Pocahontas...Since you are against getting rid of these murdering savages then how about paying my part of the tax money it cost to keep these pieces of human debree feed and housed for years and years.

It actually costs more to murder someone than to keep them in prison for life.

Go figure

Put the executions on Pay Per View ... we could recoup our losses and then some !!

hey Patrick, Pocahontas...Since you are against getting rid of these murdering savages how about paying my part of the tax money...

A. Nope. Not gonna happen. It doesn't work that way. You don't live in your country. WE live in OUR country. We all share the expenses together. In a society we have to learn to compromise and get along with those who don't agree with.

B. Moot issue. I am NOT opposed to capital punishment. If they're guilty of a capital offense they mean nothing to me and I'd pull the lever myself (But let's make SURE they're guilty. Looking guilty doesn't count.)

I'm just afraid they're going to start suing every kind of capital punishment as cruel, because every single method has possibility of something going wrong and suffering resulting. I'm looking for a way to head the lawsuits off to some extent.

I gave three ways to do it above, and I'd be content with any of them, including stopping capital punishment all together. It's causing constant problems and I really have a feeling that when every other civilized country in the world has stopped it and we haven't, maybe the problem is not with them, but with us.

I'm willing to concede the possibility that I may be the one in the wrong when EVERYBODY else does it differently from how I do it.

If all of these methods are cruel than why don't we use the one that has been sanctioned by the state of Florida as not violating cruel and unusual punishment----starving them to death.

Why do so many of you want our government to be in the business of killing people? Why do you want government to act like a murderer did? The death penalty is the most premeditated of all murders, done by appointment set by the governor. Why do you want to kill/euthanize the severely mentally ill, as is the case with Terry Nooner? Where are all my compatriots who believe in the sanctity of life? Why do you want to spend the much greater amount of taxpayer dollars it takes to give a death penalty than to lock somebody up for life without parole?
Why do you want revenge instead of justice?
Why?

For those of you who think that lethal injection is a painless or humane way to murder a human being, you should read the stories about last week's execution in Ohio that took 90 (ninety) minutes before they could suceed in killing him.

Aren't you glad we live in a "Christian" nation? That means that we love the zygote more than the mother, until it is born. Then we examine the mote in our neighbor's eye, until we judge and condemn them to death. But we don't think you have the right to end your own life. It may not seem to make sense, or does it?

â?~In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.â?�
Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, Ms. Wright, I just feel there are crimes one can commit that require their removal from the human race, especially crimes against children. I do not believe the death penalty deters crime. It's an emotional issue, I know, and I do have problems fearing that an innocent person could be executed. I often think a convicted person could be stuck back for life and that would be ok but then the person is often turned loose and commits another similar crime (ala Wayne Dumond), then I swing back to execute the sorry #!*!*!!**.

I just feel in some cases, regardles of gender, it should be eye for eye, tooth for tooth. I just can't help it.

On the topic of crime/punishment: this site is a reminder of the good old days in dealing with the unfortunates:

http://ziza.ru/2006/05/03/kamera-pytok-v-pitere.html

"Aren't you glad we live in a "Christian" nation?"

The Methodist Social Principles are in opposition to capital punishment. Not just for the obvious reasons, but also because when you execute someone you cut off any chance of God working in their life.

As I recall, the eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth business was actually about merciful justice -- someone shouldn't be killed for putting another person's eye out. It falls apart logically and ethically if you use it as a way of assessing punishment. If someone robs a bank, should the bank then rob them? If someone sexually abuses their child, should their child (or society, for that matter) then sexually abuse them?

Roland, since Moses' law came from Hammurapi's code it might best serve you to check into that code to see specifically what Hammurapi wrote in regards and one can better understand where Moses was coming from.

This is similar to the torture debate.

As far as I am concerned, in a civilized society the debate should not be how we should do it, the debate should be whether we do it at all.

Do we go for revenge, or do we go for prevention of future offenses? If we want prevention, life imprisonment without parole and separated from the general prison population will work fine. That would effectively prevent the individual from future crime, and might possibly allow that individual to actually contribute something of value to society.

Besides, what about those that are actually innocent but we don't know it?

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