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Aurora victim Carli Richards calls for firing squad for James Holmes

Hey, me too! All nuts, actually. Severe anaphylaxis. You got an EpiPen, too, my brotha?

Yeah I got a twinject in my travel bag and another one with me at all times. Only had to use them once. However, I'm terrified of even getting a spoon full of peanut butter. I use to smoke weed and the wife would lock up anything that had peanuts in the house.
 
A lawyer who doesn't actually give a crap about rights? I'm shocked.

This thread is about Obama? But I don't know if he is still a lawyer-he no longer has a current license
 
Yeah I got a twinject in my travel bag and another one with me at all times. Only had to use them once. However, I'm terrified of even getting a spoon full of peanut butter. I use to smoke weed and the wife would lock up anything that had peanuts in the house.

I've never had to use my EP, but I did make the mistake of setting off an expired one. The needle is like two inches long, comes out like a bullet and epinephrine jizzed out about ten feet.

Terrifying. Now I'm freaked out about using it, lol.
 
I'll practice really, really, really hard for a chance at a spot on that squad.
 
Uhhhh no thank you.
Emotions dont equal and justify justice.
Sincerely hope we are a better country than this.

It doesn't take an emotional state to understand that justice for a murderer, is that he forfeits his life.
 
Part of me thinks that a good punishment for murderers and rapists who get LWOP should not be death penalty, but eternal solitary confinement in a straight jacket. That might fall within cruel and unusual punishment, and wouldn't be a good deterrent against true psychopaths, but for your standard scumbag it would be the perfect way to punish them. I probably wouldn't support such a thing since it is unnecessarily cruel.
As far as punishments go firing squad isn't actually that cruel, as long as the shots are good enough so that the executed person doesn't end up dying a slow and painful death. James Holmes doesn't seem like the guy who'd feel sorry once he saw rifles pointed at him either, so I'm not sure what the point would be for such an execution.

Anyone besides me find it odd that we should treat a man who premeditated multiple murders, ala terrorist style, in a manner suitable for reasonable people?
 
If we are aiming for true psychological punishment solitary confinement would be FAR better. Sure it would be kind of hard being packed in with angry thugs, but it wouldn't compare to being denied human contact for the rest of your life. That could drive someone INSANE.

It appears to me that the perp already is insane.
 
It doesn't take an emotional state to understand that justice for a murderer, is that he forfeits his life.

I think he should die, too. Just not in a cruel, torturous way. If you want to put a single round through the back of his head, that's one thing. Shooting out his knees is just wantonly cruel revenge, not justice.

It might be trite, but aren't we better than Mr. Holmes?
 
I think he should die, too. Just not in a cruel, torturous way. If you want to put a single round through the back of his head, that's one thing. Shooting out his knees is just wantonly cruel revenge, not justice.

It might be trite, but aren't we better than Mr. Holmes?

I agree with you on that point. I don't favor cruelty to criminals any more than I favor cruelty to animals going to slaughter. As far as I'm concerned, one quick bullet to the brainstem is the best solution.
 
I'll practice really, really, really hard for a chance at a spot on that squad.

Which is precisely why we have those parts of the constitution: to keep psychopaths like yourself out of due process.
 
Which is precisely why we have those parts of the constitution: to keep psychopaths like yourself out of due process.

I'm not exactly sure how picking civilians as part of a firing squad violates due process, nor where it says that can't happen in the Constitution.
 
Which is precisely why we have those parts of the constitution: to keep psychopaths like yourself out of due process.

It is the psychopaths who plan and murder innocent civilians. Those who can see the difference are not the psychopaths.
 
I'm not exactly sure how picking civilians as part of a firing squad violates due process, nor where it says that can't happen in the Constitution.

Someone who fantasizes about executing the accused individual should not be involved in due process at any step.


It is the psychopaths who plan and murder innocent civilians. Those who can see the difference are not the psychopaths.

Fantasizing about executing someone? I think it qualifies.
 
I'm against the death penalty mainly due to the fact that our justice system isn't perfect and we may execute an innocent person. However, in clearly guilty cases like this (that are also clearly depraved and wretched) I think a firing squad may be alright. Heck, they should poison him and let him die in agony for a week while his internal organs rot.
 
Do I really need to remind the lawyer of "cruel and unusual punishment"?

no.
At one time the firing squad method was not "cruel" nor "unusual". Maybe we should go back to that time for looking at the "law" for this case.

we agree on the one bullet to the head.
 
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The death penalty is an appropriate penalty in this case.
 
no.
At one time the firing squad method was not "cruel" nor "unusual". Maybe we should go back to that time for looking at the "law" for this case.

At one time, a lot of things weren't like the way they are today. So what. That being said, give him the death penality. Not a firing squad.
 
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I'm against the death penalty mainly due to the fact that our justice system isn't perfect and we may execute an innocent person.

Yeah the real CO shooter must have been using a Star Trek hologram to project an innocent person in the theater shooting, and then doctored all the gun buying receipts, and then boobytrapped the same innocent man's apartment he used in his hologram image.
 
Allowing the state to kill its citizens is bad precedent. It also makes murderers of us all.
 
firing squads were eliminated because some people cant shoot,and those who can shoot fail to shoot properly when faced with killing an unarmed man.

this is why lethal injection and old sparky are preferred methods.

It certainly worked on Gary Gilmore back in 1977.
 
I never did understand the penalty for killing someone is killing someone.

When will we make the penalty for smoking a joint smoking a joint?
 
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