Talk of Waco

By Fred

January 14, 2008 6:28 AM | Link to this

Painless execution is an oxymoron. Those who are executed suffer great fear before the axe falls; so to speak. Justice is sometimes cold and harsh. Every execution is….another fall of man.

By jim

January 14, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Death row inmates should be executed as humanely as their victims were executed.

By Kristin

January 14, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Thank you for this editorial. Please note that Texas actually has executed 405 people since 1982, more than four times any other state in the nation.

By Truthsquad

January 14, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Our Judeo-Christian religion is just too convenient. The old testament teaches “An eye for an eye” mentality. The moses syndrone.

The “New Testament” which is all about Jesus, teaches us all to forgive. Those who believe that executing another person for his crime is living in the “Old Testament”. Those who hate death by execution for crimes committed follow Jesus’ teachings.

I prefer to follow Jesus to the “after-life”. You can have your Moses.

By Robert Daoust

January 14, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

If you want revenge or justice for past victims, begin by preventing future victims: do not show everybody that inflicting death and suffering is a reasonable means for revenge or justice. Texas and United States are a shame for wise decent people over the world on this question.

By jim

January 14, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Mr. Daoust How would ending the death penalty stop future murders from occurring? These monsters are not out for revenge or justice when they slaughter a store clerk, a child, a stranger etc.. They are simply evil people with no real conscience. Do you really think by ending the death penalty that these monsters will all the sudden think hey murdering is not the answer? Of course not. As long as there are people there will be monsters among us who should be dealt with swiftly and decisively. My only complaints about the death penalty is that it takes too long to get these monsters into the death chamber and that it is not an automatic sentence for those that kill children. Long live the Texas death penalty.

By Robert Daoust

January 14, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Jim, monsters, like you say, should be put swiftly and decisively out of nuisance not by death but by compassionate seclusion, like it tends to be done elsewhere in the world, with better statistics on murder than in Texas. But most murderers are not monsters or evil people with no real conscience. They are people just like you and me. As far as reducing the number of death is concerned, I think, with all due deference to you, that those who were gotten into the death chamber were probably more educable as persons than the self-righteous Texans with whom they lived.

By Martha

January 14, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this

Not all death row inmates are monsters and most should not have received the death penalty. I think Texas D.A.s are quick to ask for the death penalty.

By jim

January 15, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Mr. Daoust

I believe the fact that most of the death row inmates do not have a high school diploma nullifies your statement on inmates being more educable than Texans that support the death penalty. If you want to put yourself into the same mental capacity of the monsters (which I know you don’t belong) that is your choice. However I have never had the urge to break into a home and murder the occupants nor to do any of the other unspeakable acts that these monsters perform. We live in a country that loves victims whether they are or not. I however believe you sleep in the bed you make. I guess we will just agree to disagree.

By Robert Daoust

January 15, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

How would I dare to agree to disagree with someone who is eager to kill disagreeable fellows? Forgive me but I will have to shout at you, as a French Canadian friend of US-Americans. Wake up from the bed you made! You have become scary. Your practice on death penalty, viewed from afar, is horrifying in itself, and worst even in its consequences. Your death-lover ex-governor and now president mislead you, despite millions of protestors in the civilized world, in an illegal war of aggression that has made now almost a million casualties. Can’t you see that your ‘monsters’ are less dangerous than self-righteous Christians? What is next? Nuking Iran preventively? Now, we, the rest of the world, are apprehensive for you to become like Germans in the forties: “We didn’t know?” I suggest respectfully that you start educating yourself on revenge and justice and monsters (which we all are inside). Please, friend. For your sake and mine and all those we love.

By jim

January 15, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

I’ll agree to disagree. Texas is a conservative state where 75% of it’s residents support the death penalty. Offender information is available at http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm

At this website you can read about what these monsters did that caused a jury to pass down a death sentence. I can’t speak for the rest of the country but in Texas the conservative majority doesn’t care what other countries think about what we do (we leave that to the liberal minority). I honestly don’t see the difference in keeping someone caged up for the rest of their life with no possiblity of parole or just killing them. I can not and will never be able to comprehend the vicitmization of those that murder in cold blood for no other reason than stealing something or simply for the joy of killing, and then ignoring the true victims families and friends.

I’m not clear on where your rant about the war on terror came from but since you brought it up… The vast majority of Texans also support killing as many terrorist as we can (despite what the liberal media reports). We support sending a message to those idiots that if you attack us we will come after you. Afghanistan without question was a terroist controlled country. Iraq was a terrorist safe haven that was controlled by a very very evil man. And yes I support going after Iran and getting rid of their crazy leader who wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth and prays for a “holy war” to kill all the infidels. This is no time for a hippy mentality of “all we need is love”.

By Fred

January 15, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this

Texas executions? Like it or not; they’re laying them down in Huntsville.