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Mississippi considers firing squad as method of execution

Why should anyone have to "own" that? Do you honestly think the Democratic Party of the 1860s bears any resemblance to the Democratic Party of today?


Yes in ways, sure, anti-school choice to keep segregation alive as well as racist country club liberals with thier soft racism of lowered expectations.


Demanding someone, as a Democrat, "own" the KKK is akin to demanding that a French person living in 2017 "own" the Marquis De Sade or the Reign of Terror. Um, no. All of the principals in those times are long dead, and times, parties and countries have changed.


But the south and it's evil legacy of racism hasn't. those "Rednecks" are just as racist cause they southern...... that' different somehow.
 
I am proud to be a white, American man whose ancestors came here about 1800, a strong supporter of our Constitution, and a Christian, even if not a very observant one. Anyone who doesn't like that can try to sue me.

I am glad to see that Mississippi is doing this, although I have for a long time thought hanging would be the hardest method of executing murderers to attack on Eighth Amendment grounds. It is hallowed by tradition, being the method used on probably 90% or more of the persons ever executed in this country. That tradition means it falls well outside what was meant at the time by "cruel and unusual punishment." That referred to garrotting, beheading, drawing and quartering, burning at the stake, and other forms of execution which were either novel, or so outmoded as to be barbaric, or otherwise not usual in England in the late 1700's. I think I remember reading that the then new-fangled guillotine was shunned in England because it was French, and therefore foreign and unsavory. And those English views were imported into our Eighth Amendment.



White is a color. I'm a proud 2nd Generation Irish-American who's family immigrated legally to the US. I have no affinity to finnish pride.
 
Thats right...and the Democrats of the South were right wing conservatives....just like you.


See the Solid South

Are you suggesting that democrats like the late Senator Robert Byrd were right wing conservatives?
 
Are you suggesting that democrats like the late Senator Robert Byrd were right wing conservatives?

No. Byrd was not a right wing conservative...and he spent last 70 years of life proving it.
 
No. Byrd was not a right wing conservative...and he spent last 70 years of life proving it.

So you agree that Byrd was never a conservative and may I assume that you know that he was a grand cyclops and Kleagle in the KKK?
 
So you agree that Byrd was never a conservative and may I assume that you know that he was a grand cyclops and Kleagle in the KKK?

I already answered your question. Byrd spent the last 70 years of his life making amends for his right wing conservative past. You should think about doing the same. ;)
 
I already answered your question. Byrd spent the last 70 years of his life making amends for his right wing conservative past. You should think about doing the same. ;)

Nice try, however you are being 100% intellectually dishonest. Byrd was never a right wing conservative in his entire life. He was never anything but a left wing liberal.
 
Really? A firing squad? :doh

quick easy and a bullet only costs about a dollar. way cheaper than lethal injection.

unless you are talking about these guys.

 
Yes because the death penalty isn't supposed to be a torture sentence. The lawsuits are valid and just.

hanging is a better idea-you can use most of the organs of the prisoner for those who need them. Firing squad destroys many valuable organs. Electrocution, lethal injections and gas chambers are even worse. so the proper means of execution would be either hanging or the Chinese one bullet in the back of the head.
 
hanging is a better idea-you can use most of the organs of the prisoner for those who need them. Firing squad destroys many valuable organs. Electrocution, lethal injections and gas chambers are even worse. so the proper means of execution would be either hanging or the Chinese one bullet in the back of the head.

While I am against the death penalty, if I were being executed I would prefer the Chinese method to any of the methods we currently use.
 
While I am against the death penalty, if I were being executed I would prefer the Chinese method to any of the methods we currently use.

yeah except they send a bill to the family of the stiff for the cost of the bullet.
 
While I am against the death penalty, if I were being executed I would prefer the Chinese method to any of the methods we currently use.

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hanging is a better idea-you can use most of the organs of the prisoner for those who need them. Firing squad destroys many valuable organs. Electrocution, lethal injections and gas chambers are even worse. so the proper means of execution would be either hanging or the Chinese one bullet in the back of the head.

Give them the option of organ donation under general anesthesia.;)
 
I'm not outraged at the method of execution, I just oppose capital punishment generally.
 
The whole Dixiecrat myth flies in the face of logic and is something only a leftist would push. The idea that democrats upset over republicans passing legislation they opposed would somehow join that party that passed that legislation they didn't like. It doesn't make any sense. It would be like if republicans who are upset over Obama-care passing deciding to switch to the democrat party especially in a state that is very anti-Obama care.

No, it would be like conservative Democrats that hated the idea of Obamacare, switching parties to the GOP because that party was against it as well. Ask any Southern Republicans when their family started voting Republican and 9 out of 10 times it was the mid-60s.
 
No, it would be like conservative Democrats that hated the idea of Obamacare, switching parties to the GOP because that party was against it as well.
Have any "conservative" democrats switched parties because they hated the idea of Obamacare?

Ask any Southern Republicans when their family started voting Republican and 9 out of 10 times it was the mid-60s.
All that proves is that southerners just just sick of democrat progressives/liberals.
 
Have any "conservative" democrats switched parties because they hated the idea of Obamacare?


All that proves is that southerners just just sick of democrat progressives/liberals.

There aren't any conservative Democrats left. Just like there are no liberal Republicans left. The two parties have long since sorted themselves out.
 
good 4 u mississippi. its ur state rite to vote on these matters
 
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