For those who read here, you know that I remain opposed to the death penalty. Not because killers don’t deserve it, but because I don’t trust our legal system not to execute the innocent. Still, the left wing press (redundancy alert) is up in arms because today is the day that Florida executes an 80 year old man. The press is claiming that it’s cruel to execute a disabled 80 year old.
He wasn’t 80 when he was convicted and sentenced 50 years ago. The man has delayed his punishment with appeal after appeal for five decades. While I am opposed to the death penalty, what we have now is a farce, with inmates spending 30, 40, and even 50 years abusing the court system. The government can abuse the legal process, but so can criminals.
If you are going to have a death penalty, there should be a limit to the number of appeals. Put all of your appeals into one motion that must be considered and ruled upon at once. Five year limit.
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Joe blow · July 29, 2026 at 5:55 am
One of the reasons I determined it was best for me to relocate myself and mine to a place more ‘to our liking’. It became apparent the shift, so be it, why swim up-stream. Crime/punishment was also a factor in our old home in WNY. When I came down to ETN to lay eyes on the area, I stopped at a local diner for breakfast, reading the article about a break-in that was published in the town paper (yes, they have one! https://www.thedailytimes.com/ ). B&E at 2 AM through the kitchen window, home-owner shot and killed intruder half in/out of the window, no charges would be filed. Two old-timers hit the bench behind me and started chatting.
“You see there’s a shooting over on Blockhouse road?”
“Musta been a .45, police report said only one bullet.”
“Cackle cackle chuckle…”
… yeah, this is the place for me. That was when I decided.
Tom Hyland · July 29, 2026 at 3:46 pm
Aww shucks, Joe. I found Blockhouse Road in Maryville and I’ve scoured the local paper but I want to read about that breakin’ ‘n enterin’ thang.
Joe Blow · July 30, 2026 at 7:15 am
I’m not gonna share all the particulars, for obvious reasons. I don’t live in Blount County (though its very nice for you people that like suburbia, looks just like everywhere else now).
ghostsniper · July 29, 2026 at 6:42 am
What has that piece of shit cost the taxpayers?
It’s a crime that the authorities allows these criminals to lounge around rather than forcing them to work for their maintenance-sustenance.
Yes you can get blood from a turnip, the IRS does it every single day.
oldvet50 · July 29, 2026 at 7:27 am
The 8th amendment protects us from cruel AND unusual punishment. There are some that deserve the wood chipper but that violates that protection. I propose we start doing it often so it becomes ‘usual’, therby negating that compound requirement. Duckett, that cop that raped and killed the little 11 year old girl, would have been a good one to start with, but they gave him the injection yesterday instead.
Elrod · July 29, 2026 at 8:24 am
I, like you, are unalterably opposed to government imposition of the death penalty, for any offense whatsoever. I agree that government, in its many manifestations, is so incompetent and corrupt that despite whatever evidence may be presented, there is no circumstance that justifies imposition of ending of a life by the thoroughly incompetent and corrupt.
I do, however, fully and completely, and without any reservation whatsoever, support the imposition of the death penalty, or whatever degree of it may be readily attainable, at the scene of the crime by the intended victim, and that any restriction or conflict applied by government to restrict or subdue such imposition constitutes prima facie proof of such a degree of incompetence and corruption as to disallow any trust whatsoever in it.
rick · July 29, 2026 at 12:23 pm
Appeal, singular.
One appeal only.
Also, gaurentee of trial, and appeal, by jury. None, zero, prohibited, punishable by law, any monkey business by judge excluding evidence, or prohibiting or limiting testimony, or overruling the jury, or seeking a mistrial, or a hundred other legal tactics.
Tom Hyland · July 29, 2026 at 12:24 pm
I like when the Romanians tried Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife they were sentenced to death, walked them out to the courtyard and stood them against a wall a couple minutes later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMY-Qr31qLU
Steve · July 29, 2026 at 3:54 pm
I used to be opposed, with limited exceptions. Now I’m to the point of making a few more exceptions, like those who did so on security cameras, knowing the whole thing was being recorded, or those who selfie their own acts of rape or murder to post on social media. That worthless pile with multiple felony convictions that executed that girl on the bus in Charlotte(?), or the other even more worthless pile that set that woman on fire in Chicago(?).
Neither would even make decent fertilizer. I’d be fine with executing them publicly, slowly, and as painfully as possible, then use their bodies to chum the north Atlantic.
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