Comments:Condemned US killer to face execution by firing squad

The Government is supposed to protect life, not take it. This ideal is what is supposed to be what separates Western Countries from other places where the government is used as a political tool to end opposition. Every execution - let's say legalised murder - because that's what it is - takes the system one step closer to being able to be used to on ordinary citizens.

What I find disturbing is the fact that they can take away the right of a person to vote in a country. Because by killing a person, they are taking away the right of that person to ever vote again. Clearly inmates - at least while alive - are totally dependant on the government for whatever little life they have left. Someone who is 100% dependant on the government should have a tool other than violence (prison riots for example) in order to change things.

I have no illusions about what these prisoners have done, or the type people that they are. I know that they want to kill.

I would argue, however, that by proctecting the rights of one person, we are essentially protecting our own rights as well.

Perhaps the exception being the guards who have to look after these people. Although even rabid dogs can be taken care of, with the proper equipment.

When the families of the victim sit there and watch the execution, they are taking part in the evil that is a murder. It is blood smeared on their hands, and it shouldn't be there. You cannot on one hand punish someone for taking a life, and on the other hand, take a life. One evil act should not precipitate another.

Death row is an easy out for a criminal. It is much tougher to say: "You have to live for the rest of your life with what you have done." It is also easy for the system, which is relieving itself of the responsibility of rehabilitation. 65.93.161.122 (talk) 04:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm against capital punishment but it's a sliding scale. A bullet is a lot more humane than an electric chair, a gas chamber or a lethal injection. Plus despite the barbarity of both the state and this criminal, you have to admit the guy has cojones to choose bullets. I don't understand the Roman Catholic Bishop complaining about this death contributing to "gun violence". Death is death. Would he protest the same if the death was lethal injection, or is he just a goofy hypocrite who thinks death by bullet is somehow worse than death by poison? I don't know 99.231.130.188 (talk) 20:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)