Originally Posted by
dryheat
Interesting point Red. But, shouldn't they have to "suffer" some with those memories? I'm more of a "getter done" voter. Yes, there is the occasional miss. Some poor guy who only committed thirty low key crimes gets sent to the chair. Well, that's the problem with being dumb, uneducated, mean, ugly, ect. There is always going to be a percentage of mistakes. Give them a metal. Write something nice on their grave stone, but it's OK in the end. Fifty thousand Americans died in VN for basically nothing. They weren't even criminals but gave their lives. If 1% of executions were mistakes and 90% of those individuals were repeat offenders, I'd say those are OK numbers.