First
of all let me state that, I was middle of the road when it came to
State Sanctioned Executions, yet I leaned more to the side of
abolishing it all together. People like Clayton
Lockett, had no mercy for Stephanie
Neiman,
the girl he shot and buried alive, so I really have no problem with
him receiving the harshest punishment allowed
under the law.


Yet I
also believe that executions in the U.S. are race biased, and in many
cases there is no way to determine if the person being killed by the
government is 100% guilty.
This
is not about Lockett and murdering scum like him, it about us. The
American people.
I recall
when I attempted to read the book "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich",
by William I. Shirer.
I
couldn't finish the book because when I got to the Nazi executions, I
could not stomach reading any further.
That brings
me to the point I am trying to make.
In
1933 Nazi Germany, the Jews were considered "parasitic vermin".
Nazi leaders determined in their infamous "Final Solution"
that a country had the right to rid itself of vermin even if human.
The
problem they had, was determining the best way to execute a large
mass of humans at the same time.
They
began to experiment, first with carbon monoxide poisoning, by
actually putting victims in the back of trucks designed to pump
carbon monoxide into them and then drive the victims around for hours
until they expired.
They
lined up humans in firing squads, that resembled a car assembly
line. They put people in freezers and did mass drownings and other
horrible experimentation, until they finally developed the gas Zyklon
B, to carry out their Legal and authorized executions under
German law at the time.
After
the horrific botched executions, the most recent in Oklahoma, I
couldn't help but draw the comparison. Just like the Nazis, states
that still have the Death Penalty, are having problems with
finding a humane way to carry out state sanctioned killings of human
beings. They are experimenting with drugs, procedures and even companies that manufacture the drugs secret.
Even
though, the reasons and justifications for killing humans for crimes maybe different in The United States of America in 2014, compared to
1933 Nazi Germany, the means to the
end are horribly the same.
For
this reason I have been pushed totally to the side to abolish the
Death Penalty in all 50 States. If they have a problem with doing it
humanely then it should not be done at all.
Bottom
line,for what ever reasons a country deems it necessary to kill
humans with the same regard one has for cock roaches, it is SICK,
SICK,SICK!!!!
I
did say that people like Lockett should get the harshest punishment
under the law. But if there were not a death penalty law that could
be applied I would not it expect it after he had a fair trail. I
would except life in prison without parole.
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