Not sure how it works in Colorado. Many states have a trial, and then a separate penalty phase to decide the sentence. In Colorado, does the judge decide the sentence??

However it works, I certainly believe that the DA that tries the case should go for the death penalty.

Of course he should die. Just as anyone found guilty of 1st degree murder. One can't consistently say some people who fall into this category should be put to death and others shouldn't. They're all worthy of death. Not of getting room and board, courtesy of the state, for the rest of their life.

Not sure how it works in Colorado. Many states have a trial, and then a separate penalty phase to decide the sentence. In Colorado, does the judge decide the sentence??

However it works, I certainly believe that the DA that tries the case should go for the death penalty.

I believe the '77 execution was of Gary Gilmore.

Gilmore was executed by the State of Utah. His famous last words of "Let's do it" inspired the advertising agency for Nike to introduce their successful advertising slogan, "Just Do It."

I'm sure Nike has been forking over royalties to the Gilmore estate ever since...

I'm usually dubious about the death penalty. I don't believe it provides a deterrent to murder.

An interesting possibility PB. In fact, a recent study by a leading university noted that residents of Throggs Neck were deterred from committing crimes by just a stern look.

I agree, but I've often wondered if state sanctioned death by torture would be a deterrent. Not that I'd support such a thing (well, in this case I probably would), but I'm just curious.

I'm serious. If you know that you're going to die slowly and painfully over, say, a 72 hour period, would you be as quick to commit murder?

Well, I'm sure it wouldn't deter the true psychos.

I think that the death penalty really become a deterrent when the penalty will be slow and painful, so I might propose impalement, blunt and covered with a pile of fat that enters the body without causing shock and death can arrive even after days of terrible agony.




Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, involves the body of a person being pierced with a long stake. The penetration could be through the sides, through the rectum, through the vagina, or through the mouth. This method leads to a painful death, sometimes taking days. When the impaling instrument was inserted into a lower orifice, it was necessary to secure the victim in the prone position; the stake would then be held in place by one of the executioners, while another would hammer the stake deeper using a sledgehammer. The stake was then planted in the ground, and the impaled victim hoisted up to a vertical position, where the victim would be left to die.

In some forms of impalement, the stake would be inserted so as to avoid immediate death and would function as a plug to prevent blood loss. After preparation of the victim, perhaps including public torture and rape, the victim was stripped, and an incision was made in the perineum between the genitals and rectum. A stout pole with a blunt end was inserted. A blunt end would push vital organs to the side, greatly slowing death.

The pole would often come out of the body at the top of the sternum and be placed against the lower jaw so that the victim would not slide further down the pole. Often, the victim was hoisted into the air after partial impalement. Gravity and the victim's own struggles would cause him to slide down the pole.

What unites the promoters of death penalty and the shooter: Killing as a solution.

The politics of Germany in the 1930s.

i think what they should do to him is the same thing that happened to the circus guy in sons of anarchy that raped the girl

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