South Carolina to Restart Death Penalty, Says 'Painless' Death Not A Requirement

I'll say upfront, I'm usually against the death penalty unless there is a special reason it's needed, like the inmate is so violent that it's not safe for the other inmates or jail guards.

South Carolina hasn't had any executions in 13 years and is going to be starting them up again. They will be by electric chair, firing squad, and lethal injection. The state says the deaths do not have to be instant and do not have to be painless. I understand that many will say that is part of the punishment for the crime committed and that the person doesn't deserve a painless death. But I say that we are supposed to be above that and if it is deemed that the person has to be put to death, then it should be as humane as possible, even if they don't deserve the mercy of a painless (or relatively painless) death.


South Carolina To Restart Executions by Electric Chair and Firing Squad, Says Painless Deaths Not a Requirement

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and the new firing squad method — are cruel and unusual punishments, although the state claims that "painless" deaths are not mandated.

The lawyers for the four inmates also argued that a 2023 law created to allow lethal injections to restart hides too many details about the new drug and protocol used to kill inmates.

This, as 33 inmates sit on South Carolina's death row. There has not been a formal moratorium on the death penalty, but the state has not performed an execution in nearly 13 years after the drugs it used for lethal injection expired and companies refused to sell more to prison officials unless they could hide their identities from the public.

South Carolina purports that all three execution methods are consistent with existing protocols, saying "instantaneous or painless" executions are not mandated by law.

a reply to: FlyersFan

If you did something so heinous that you get the death penalty, it SHOULD hurt.

Their victims went out screaming in fear and pain, so should they.

But I say that we are supposed to be above that and if it is deemed that the person has to be put to death, then it should be as humane as possible, even if they don't deserve the mercy of a painless (or relatively painless) death.

No. Sometimes, you have to out monster the monsters.

a reply to: DAVID64

I'm tempted to agree with you.
But I'm trying not to.

TBH, I think how you killed your victim, is how you should be killed.

a reply to: FlyersFan

38 caliber justice.

/discussion

a reply to: FlyersFan

Kinda odd there’s no modern day lynch mobs or vigilantes, maybe modern man got too, you know, lacking coconuts.

On that note, bring back the drawn and quarters technique, and public hangings.

I digress, 331 million population today vs 50 million back in the Wild West days of 1880’s.

I personally think the guillotine is the best deterrent. It sends a message to the spectators.

originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: FlyersFan

If you did something so heinous that you get the death penalty, it SHOULD hurt.

Their victims went out screaming in fear and pain, so should they.

But I say that we are supposed to be above that and if it is deemed that the person has to be put to death, then it should be as humane as possible, even if they don't deserve the mercy of a painless (or relatively painless) death.

No. Sometimes, you have to out monster the monsters.

Exactly. All this worry about the criminal seems to not do a thing to lessen crimes . Look at 'poor criminal' states and how their crime rates are out of control. Enough said.

I'm against the death penalty, I see death as an easy way out.

Life in prison would be he'll on earth to me, nothing but suffering.

I don't think it should hurt. They should just fall asleep and not wake back up.

a reply to: FlyersFan

The death penalty should be a deterrent to crime. The way it is administered in most states now it takes 20 plus years from conviction to maybe execution, maybe commutation. Yes they should get appeals. I understand that and those take time. But taxpayers footing the bill and 20 plus years waiting to be executed seems like way too long. And then you have BS like "shortages of lethal injection drugs" and some states the only method of execution is lethal injection so if there is a shortage they don't do any executions for a long time. This is not a deterrent whatsoever because the criminals know they've got many many years, decades to live on death row and even then, they still might not end up getting executed even if they are 100 percent guilty as sin.

There are innocent people who are sentenced to death for heinous crimes though. I have read about cases where the only evidence was eyewitness description and positive ID in lineup by eyewitness and the person got sentenced to death and executed and later it turned out via DNA they were totally innocent. I think there needs to be very strong DNA evidence now that we have this technology in order to impose the death penalty.

originally posted by: CataclysmicRockets
I personally think the guillotine is the best deterrent. It sends a message to the spectators.

In all truth, I don't think a more humane method has ever improved on the guillotine. Honestly, they should go to sleep each night on sleeping pills and be put in the contraption to sleep. And one night out of those thirty should be decided randomly by a computer where at that date and time, it descends before you can even wake up from the noise and ends you. My grandfather got the chair...of course, my only complaint was that it went too fast. I think you should have all the time in the world to think of what you have done.

originally posted by: Maybenexttime
I'm against the death penalty, I see death as an easy way out.

Life in prison would be he'll on earth to me, nothing but suffering.

Health clubs for waffle eating pussies.

I dunno what's wrong with hanging, guillotine or firing squad. These are tried and true methods for a quick termination yet are deemed "cruel and unusual". However the agonising, slow, brutal and often botched lethal injection and nitrogen gas methods are fine and dandy!

Real brain scratcher.

originally posted by: theatreboy
TBH, I think how you killed your victim, is how you should be killed.

Hamas.. lower them slowly onto a red hot pole up the azz.

Strange how people can beat people up so bad that they suffer greatly before dying....then it is illegal for their death sentence to have any pain or suffering associated with it. Guys who rape torture and kill a woman should have their balls cut off and then bleed to death. LOL

Am I allowed to have a little sadistic qualities like others do?

What happened to the Emojis?

I think the death penalty should be a choice from the condemned.
/Unpopularopinion

a reply to: sine.nomine

Most prisoners would choose from Old age while being free to roam the country. I do not think that we should ask them myself.

the punishment should fit the crime. if it was some sort of brutal beating, torture, or anything like that that is what they should get.

if the person died instantly then a instant death for them. dot dey forehead.

Why should the murderer have more rights than the person they murdered?