Since the year 1982, there have been nearly fifty 'botched' prison executions in the United States. These execution 'misfires' include every thing from lengthy convulsions of inmates strapped to gurneys to burning flesh before the body succumbs. Personally, I am not an advocate for capital punishment but I respect the States' Rights of 32 American States to have capital punishment. Of course, a quick look at States having and NOT having capital punishment reveals similar lines familiar to Civil War' maps. I suppose that my anti-capital punishment attitude is prompted by the constant Biblical cautionary notes about embracing revenge and taking another life.
My greater anger about capital punishment is the inability of these 'southern thinkers' (States) to terminate a man's life in some human manner, if that logic makes any sense at all!! That said, instead of placing capital punishment convicts on death row for years and years causing great anxiety and tremendous costs, why not sentence those offenders to live in the streets of New Orleans, Detroit or St. Louis, which are the top three homicide cities in America. In light of the NRA having its way with gun control laws in American it would seem that the chances are better for a 'civil' execution occurring in the gang-infested neighborhoods of our country as opposed to a federal prison.
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