Utah killer executed by firing squad

[CRedskinsRule]

Off topic, and that was a very interesting dialogue on the Death Penalty in society, but here is some interesting details on Hitler's prison time:

New documents surface on Hitler's jail time - Yahoo! News

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Off topic, and that was a very interesting dialogue on the Death Penalty in society, but here is some interesting details on Hitler's prison time:

New documents surface on Hitler's jail time - Yahoo! News

See look how many lives would have been saved if he had been executed.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by firstdown

See look how many lives would have been saved if he had been executed.

Yes, lives would have been saved if Hitler had been killed in 1923. But Hitler was not in prison for first-degree murder or some other death penalty offense. It is not the same thing.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Yes, lives would have been saved if Hitler had been killed in 1923. But Hitler was not in prison for first-degree murder or some other death penalty offense. It is not the same thing.

Well he was in jail for trying to mount a coup, which by our constitution is a death penalty offense (treason). But the German government was not stable enough at that time to try anything more than a minimal sentence. As the link showed, he had at least one top general visiting him for extended periods while he was in jail.

[Trample the Elderly]

Sometimes a life sentence isn't so bad!

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[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Yes, lives would have been saved if Hitler had been killed in 1923. But Hitler was not in prison for first-degree murder or some other death penalty offense. It is not the same thing.

I was joking.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I was joking.

Sorry. We're discussing a pretty serious issue so I didn't get the joke.