I heard,,,,,

Idahos governor signed a bill authorizing the execution of pedophiles……by firing squad

Make capital punishment great again….

…. Bet they’re relieved it wasn’t for polygamist lol

The problem with the death penalty is…


They spend 30 years on appeals and waste money before doing what should be done on day one.


Life sentence they die after 30 years in prison with no appeals and wasted extra money.

Death penalty they die after 30 years and millions in lawyer fees and appeals and wasted extra money

Hopefully true

I am a liberal when it comes to the death penalty. I believe it should've liberally applied to most convicted felons. Anything that nets someone more than 5 years should result in a quick, relatively painless death.

Keith

That's Utah

Could auction off the shell casings .....proceeds to victims

… idahos close enough

That’s absolutely insane. So six years for some non violent crime deserves the death penalty?

Insane.

What non violent crimes get 6 years or more?

Keith

Lots of them. Most of them really.


Lots that are “white-collar crimes” or “drug possession”


Cutting a shotgun down?

Not letting the government steal money from you is a big federal one that will get you 10 years.

There's currently a bill to end that act. You have to steal an awful lot of money to get more than 5 years. You have to have an awful lot of drugs to get 5 years too. Judges only give large sentences like that out to the worst offenders.

We have more than enough people. Why keep the worst criminals around? There's no benefit to it. They aren't forced to commit crimes that they can get more than 5 years for.

Keith

Wow. Ok. Whatever you say. Glad you have no say in the legal system.


I do think it needs to be reformed. Lots of things need to be changed.

I think that Idaho adopted the Firing Squad as their means of execution a couple years ago when the drugs required for Lethal Injection were hard to get. You can get 30-30 shells anywhere in Idaho.

Who do you think should get the death penalty, if anyone?

I believe top on the list should be murderers, rapists, pedophiles, burglars, drug dealers, people who violate their oath of office and traitors to the US.

Keith

So what about the mistakes when they find out later the person was really innocent?

Dang you just called out most of Washington D.C.

Couldn't think of a better place to start !

Keith
You've probably committed felonies that could put you away for 5 years or more.
There's alot of insanely stupid laws on the books.

Yep and it surely varies by state.

If Keith has ever been in a bar fight, and just so happened to live in IL when he did... he would be executed by his own standards.

I support the death penalty when it makes sense. Executing someone for punching a dude in a bar that was spending too much time with the guy's wife doesn't make sense. Neither does executing the 18 year old "pedophile" that had consensual relations with his 15 year old girlfriend.