Let's Hope Biden Brings This Barbarism To An End.

[Canary42]

Mentally ill girl executed.

Denied spiritual adviser while dying.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/lisa-montgomery-final-hours-lawyer-execution-182442353.html

[andy-hughes]

Jackdaw, it's not 'emotional' in the slightest and I was careful to use the caveat 'state sponsored ' in my description.

[andres]

Good,another so called mentally unstable ,crazy person is removed from the face of the earth. Far better to end her tormented life with a quick injection than to subject her to many more years of 'torture' in prison. At least she is at peace now.

[LadyCG]

Do you think she was at peace when they were strapping her to the bed and prepping her life-ending drugs, Andres?

[MartinMillar]

She committed murder and never denied it but her life was beyond anything most people here could comprehend.
I believe she should have stayed in jail but not executed

[Jackdaw33]

And do you think the victim was at peace when she lay bleeding to death whilst this vile woman ripped the baby from her womb?

[andres]

Well,if people can go abroad and drink a cocktail of drugs to end their lives I don't see why if they can't give an injection then they should use the drink. I was speaking metaphorically of how she is now not how she felt when they gave her the injection. Furthermore ,how do you think that poor pregnant woman felt knowing she was about to die ?Would she not have struggled and begged and pleaded.Was she dead when her belly was ripped open? What was done to her was far,far more horrible.

[andres]

That was to LCG ^^^^
Jackdaw----agree wholeheartedly.

[ynnafymmi]

Huh,the USA is bad for executing people Canary,but look at people friendly socialist countries like China or North Korea or Cuba.The amount of people these countries execute every year makes the Yanks look like beacons of enlightenment.Even the Japanese keep on executing people.

[Paigntonian]

Yes, let's hope that Biden does bring this barbarism to an end. The Democrats don't have a spotless reputation in that regard, however. Remember Billy Clinton and giving the green light for a retarded black man to be executed?

[Paigntonian]

It's either your case that capital punishment is morally wrong or that it is justified. Whether the offender killed twelve girls or murdered four grannies is irrelevant.

[Ellipsis]

There's definitely a political element to this killing.

There are two types of execution in the USA, state and federal (sanctioned at the national level).

Federal executions have seen a huge decline. There had been none under Trump until last summer.

But the majority of Americans support the death penalty, and the election was coming. Suddenly federal executions started again. In the last few months, there have been more federal executions than in decades.

Lisa Montgomery's was a federal execution, sanctioned by Trump.

[Jackdaw33]

I've never really understood the difference between a federal offence and a state one. Perhaps some American jurisprudist can explain.

[ichkeria]

I don’t think a majority of Americans do support the death penalty ellipsis

[Ellipsis]

> I've never really understood the difference between a federal offence and a state one. Perhaps some American jurisprudist can explain.

https://subscriptlaw.com/death-penalty/

> I don’t think a majority of Americans do support the death penalty ellipsis

From the BBC link I posted: "According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore."

[DTCwordfan]

well elipsis is more up to date than me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_debate_in_the_United_States#:~:text=issue%2Doriented%20projects.-,Public%20opinion,in%20favor%20of%20capital%20punishment.

[DTCwordfan]

then ask the question re acts of terrorism or major sedition viz a 'reasonably' normal murder 1......and I bet the figures for pro jump through the roof!

[iluvmargie]

All my sympathy is for the victim, it always is.

[fcc]

Ellipsis you say lisa mongomerys execution was sanctioned by donald trump,but she was foundguilty by a jury,and sentenced by a judge,not by donald trump,people have been executed long before trump came to power.

[Ellipsis]

From the BBC link I've posted twice now...

Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.

However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years

[andy-hughes]

Would the posters who always pile in with the standard - "How would you feel / pretend mental issues / dreadful crime / good riddance ... "and so on, be happier if we stopped using the term 'Execution' and used the term 'Revenge Killing' which is more suited to their mind-set?