Executions should be allowed
I have been reading for some time now that there is a shortage of drugs for executions because the only company in Italy stopped manufacturing them.
When a murderer brutally murdered his prey, he/she was never looking for an anesthetic first; he or she murdered his or her victims intentionally in the most cruel fashion and giving them the most pain possible. Not only did they cause extraordinary pain to their victims, but also to their families.
Now, all of a sudden, the murderers awaiting capital punishment are so poor, and perhaps never die because of shortage of some kind of medications. People, be sane: murderers are murderers and should die pretty much in the same fashion that they murdered their victims. How about hang them and shoot and kill them as they did so many times to their victims? Why would all of a sudden society be so compassionate and genteel to the most cruel murderers? How about the victims and their families?
Oh, I understand, the victim is already dead, so has no voice anymore, so it doesn’t count anymore. Really? Is this what the modern society should be all about?
Of course, each case must be examined thoroughly and the murderer on a death row must be a legitimate one. Today’s methods and techniques allow forensic specialists to determine such thing with 100 percent certainty, so if the one who is on death row is the one who has to die, he/she has to die and has to die now. Don’t be soft and tender to coldblooded murderers and do not look for excuses that they had difficult childhood and suffered mentally. If someone takes a gun or a knife or any other means of killing and kills innocent people in cold blood, he/she should have to die pretty much in the same fashion and he/she must die just after he/she was convicted of such act, and not in 15 or 20 years.
People who fiercely fight abolishment of capital punishment do it until someone in their family is murdered. Once it happened, they would definitely change the aisle.
Look how many murderers were let loose and how soon they committed another murder? Do not expect cold blooded murderers to suddenly become angels, because they will never be.
Liz Szymanski
Elgin