DC Sniper, John Allen Muhammad, set to receive lethal injection at 9:00PM

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Originally Posted by DBUCHANON101

IMO id rather see the person executed than use my tax dollars to feed and house him the rest of his life. Just me
maybe if we tightened up on the consequences of these terrible crimes ppl would be less likely to commit them.

Eh, see that's what I dunno about. Retribution is supposed to be a deterrent but it isn't. The death penalty is supposed to be all about, "If you commit serious crimes, you pay the ultimate consequence" but people still go out and do dumb shit and hurt other people. Tightening up wouldn't help, because people would still do it.

Its kinda crazy cause over in Asia in some places they do all that public flogging and stuff for the most minor of infractions and people tend to be pretty straight laced for the most part. I don't think stuff like that would work here. I bet people would just end up desensitized to it and then it'd stop mattering.

I dunno. Maybe we're just effed and all we can do is just go about our lives, not worry too much and be as safe as possible.