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Burn in hell prick
 
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Author Topic: Should John Muhammad be executed?  (Read 13844 times)
Brandon H
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« on: November 09, 2009, 03:55:24 PM »


Yes.  Found guilty of murder (singular, though he's actually responsible for multiple) under VA law. 

That's one of the things that annoy me about cases involving people who killed multiple persons, such as Tim Mcveigh. Mcveigh was executed for killing something like 10 persons in a federal trial and the other 60 or were state crimes. Muhammad killed multiple persons but is set to be executed for only one.

The death penalty is one thing that I've always been on the fence on. It is used too much, but people who kill multiple persons such as this, child killers, or people who commit other acts such as a rape with a murder deserve the death penalty. But in some ways I wonder if it really accomplishes much. Yes, it eliminates the lower form of human being, but once locked up in prison for life, do they still pose an additional threat to society?

Some killers look at getting executed as martyrdom. The greater punishment would be to deny them that honor and not execute them.

Am I seriously the only one here who sees a possibility for rehabilitation?

We can turn this bastard into our own killing machine! Just lock him in a cold dark room and play this voice claiming to be Allah that commands him to kill whoever Rahm Emmanuel tells him too!

Okay enough sarcasm.
If we employ the use of an extremely well trained psychologist who somehow has the ability to mind control people we can turn this man into a social worker and he coudl plant trees and sh*t along the roads. Come on guys, this is America!

Someone actually mentioned to me we should send these types of people into military combat and tell them they can kill all the people they want.
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Brandon H
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 06:55:04 PM »

Yes, it eliminates the lower form of human being

The idea that most people who commit crimes do so because of moral defects is pretty offensive.

How else to you describe Muhammad's actions?
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Brandon H
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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2009, 01:43:35 PM »


Or better yet, if you want to take a "religious" point of view (sorry Joe), then an eye-for-an-eye is called for.  Have him walk out into one of those firing ranges that are designed to look like a downtown street, and have someone hide in a car and pick him off from 100 or more yards with a high-powered rifle.

A radio show was talking about a different killer but they said that the convicted murder (who shot someone) should walk out in the field and then one day someone shoots them. Don't do it right away. Wait a year or 5 years or something just so the guy is scared that it's coming.
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2009, 10:23:18 PM »

Guess the discussion is over.
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