If Nebraska has a death penalty, how should it be carried ourt?

I believe in using the death penalty. It is justice and proper justice, in my opinion. I think there are enough check and balances for the condemned to avoid executing an innocent person.
Sen. Chambers just needed to make a grand exit and I can understand that. He is for those he was elected by. It just happens that per capita, he represents a popultion that is hit high in crime. Both victim and perpetrator.
The death penalty is there for a reason and it should be. They say it costs more to execute someone than to have them in there for lifetime. I can't believe that. Besides why should we let them eat the food and breath the air the rest of us do. It comes to mind about being a child and mom said'" think of all the starving people that would love to have that food." So, why should they eat food that someone else could be/
Almost anyone you speak to that has lost a loved one to murder, is all for the death penalty. The few that say otherwise have at least thought about it. I might be wrong but I doubt it.
death penalty for the killing of a police officer, killing of a witness for reasons to benefit the defendant, killing of children, molesting and killing children especially. As long as there is no question as to whether the crime was intentional or not, the death penalty should be sought and enforced. A judge should not be allowed to say it can't be used just because he is not for it.
The appeals courts watch over the sytem to make sure there was adequate council for the defendant and that nothing was left out that would make it possible for a lesser charge to be found guilty of.
In most cases the system works. I will say custody for children in a divorce is suspect though. I have not had to go through that but I know others that have and the outcome has been the wrong one. But that is another topic.
The prosecuting attorneys do enough plea barginning to keep many off of death row. I don't agree with that either but I can't do anything but complain about it.
So to end this, I say yes to Death Penalty when it is called for.

I agree with you 54. The death penalty for heinous crimes is a must, in my book.

The chair has been struck down, and lethal injection is questionable. How about a firing squad? Has that been ruled unconstitutional yet?

I think the injection system is the best,or mabe hanging.

Caged Death Match, To The Death!! People! One death row inmate vs. another!!

Instead of costing the state money maybe we could raise a little via. PPV

I am pro-death penalty as well. I am so tired of hearing about a humane way of killing someone who did not give the same consideration to his/her victims. The lethal injection method seems the most humane. the body is knocked unconcious and that prevents the body from feeling pain. It's time to just get this done. Maybe our senators could learn something from Texas - they don't hesitate at all with this issue.

Eye for an eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a rope and a tree.

Mr. smcrpntr,
so true on every aspect of this,and your comments.
There is far too much worry of violating the constitutional rights of the offender, making sure he/she gets a fair trial. But somewhere along the line, the rights of the victim just doesn't seem to get the same amount of concern.
It's a sad state of affairs when someone who has committed a murder, not giving one damned bit of concern of the torture, he puts his victim through.. is allowed to lay on his a** for the rest of his life,benefitting from supplied healthcare,schooling/learning programs (like they are going to be used),AA, NA, GED, and all the other things that get offered.This is a waste of tax dollars. When this person has been proven beyond all doubt, of his guilt,then his life should cease, as his victims had. Why should the offenders be allowed to live, when the families of victims have to go through the rest of their lives mourning the loss of a loved one, and reliving the torture and pain their loved one had to endure. I know i'll probably catch a lot of flack over this following comment,, but if Nebraska would have the balls to follow through with the death penalty, some,, maybe not all, but some, would be violaters may think twice about comitting the crime. It seemed to work in the "old days" with the public hangings.

They should have never gotten rid of the electric chair, they should have replaced it with a more energy efficient one that only ran on 110 volts.

were it not for the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, i would contend that an appropriate course of action for dispatching with condemned prisoners would be to put them in a room with ernie chambers and force them to listen to his b.s. until they beg to be killed by the most expedient means available. i guess we'll just have to wait for chambers, and his filibusters, to be removed from the legislature by way of term limits. at that time, maybe we can have practical, democratic debate on the matter

Hanging should be the next best choice.

So there is hope of getting rid of Chambers. Otherwise I was going to suggest he try the injection method to confirm whether or not it was painful.
Anyone who has had surgery knows the injection they give you to go out has no pain associated with it and no memory or what happens after that. I personally like the electric chair to maybe make people think twice before committing the crimes that will put them there. However, we know the chair will never make a comeback so injection is the only method we have to consider on this subject. Continue it, at least they will not be costing anyone more money for the next twenty years and there will be no risk of them doing the same thing or worse to someone else.

i think the electric chair should still be used make them feel just a little bit of the pain that victims families and the victim themselves felt. once sentenced to death it should be done the same day as the sentence is handed down none of this living on death row for 12 years. all those currently on death row should be fried one right after the other until the jail is empty. don't shut the chair down until it is glowing red and all the bad guys are dead.

Hey Phreak, i am sure you could get all the environmentalists behind that..."Look, the state of Nebraska has gone green!"

I vote for firing squad personally!

I think they not only need to keep the death penalty, but they need to enforce it more. They also need to rethink the sentencing of some crimes that typically would not get the death penalty and off those people as well. You want to go around beating a baby so severely that that child is no longer going to have a normal life, you deserve to b e hung. I'll donate the rope. Better yet we should let people beat on you for awhile, then we'll hang ya.

I don't care how they do it but they should make it available for "pay-per-view" with the profits to go to the family(s) of the victim(s).

GW, I see that you and I agree on the firing squad. One more thing - staff it with the worst marksmen in the state.

GAS EM! SHOOT EM! ELECTRIC CHAIR! LETHAL INJECTION! ANY WAY THE PERSON OB\N DEATH ROW WANTS LIKE INTHE STATE OF UTAH. GIVE EM A CHOICE!

Let's face it, most of these nut cases are not in their right minds when they commit their crimes. Or maybe they've been bullies all their lives. I doubt the prospect of an electric chair, hanging, chopping off their heads or anything else will stop them from murdering. IMO we should lock them up for life just to keep them away from the rest of us. I don't want to agree with Chambers, but why would we, who are presumably in our right minds, murder them? I've never had a family member or friend murdered, and I realize that might make me change my mind.

Do you all have any idea how often our current legal system gets THE WRONG PERSON? I'm not even going into to it because you mouth breathers wouldn't understand.

That said, I think we need to execute people by dropping them out of planes at 35,000 feet.

And eye for an eye? How about "let you who is without sin cast the first stone". I know of only one man that fit this bill.

How about leaving it up to the person that committed the crime? Whatever method they used in their crime is how they would be put to death.

New Idea - i agree!! If that inmate killed a person by shooting them in the head, then shoot them in the head! If they chopped them up into little pieces, you chop them up into little pieces! Do what they deserve!!

You know, I really don't care how the executaion is carried out- JUST DO IT. and within a timely matter. It is crap and a HUGE waste of our money to let those criminials keep appealing year after year. I say-once that judge reads the sentence of death- let it be the next day- just like it used to be wayyyyy back when. These murderers and rapist never allowed their victims to appeal.

I agree with MarWie........

I too, agree with MarWie. We literally have thousands of inmates on Death row. They keep appealing until they finally die of old age in prison and never have their punishment carried out. All the mean while the family of the victims have to live with the fact that any time the court could decide to let them off. The next day..be done with it and let the victim and the family be in peace!

To answer the question what the solution should be to sentenced these people to prison not death. Please read John Grisham "The innocent man". If you do not believe there are bad apples in every profession (includes police, attorneys etc) your beliefs need to be challanged. Some people in authority positions are not honest. That is fact.

I agree,eye for an eye..or..send em all over to Iraq and let them idiots over there kill em off instead of our troops!

Electric Bleachers

tie 'em up
and light all of them on fire.

got any marshmallows?

Thanks for a very good post, More Coffee. I read "The Innocent Man" last year and it really opened my eyes. Before we worry about the exact method of killing people to show that killing is wrong, we need to make the system infallible to eliminate the possibility of an innocent man or woman being executed for a crime that he or she did not commit. That, in addition to being Catholic, is why I oppose capital punishment.

Im sorry but the electric chair should be left alone.

Maybe if Ol' Sparky was brought into the 21st Century, we could still use her. I've known two people accidentally electrocuted and they were both "killed instantly" Maybe we just need to turn up the juice at bit?

As a catholic I can not be pro death penalty. I think our tax dollars could better be spent then on useless appeals. Put them in prison, with NO parole, no cable TV, no outside activities, no visitors, just food and water.....that would be punishment.

To Catholic:

"no outside activities or visitors"? That would be considered inhumane to many Christians. If your preference is to "lock 'em up and throw away the key" as you describe, you're not much of a Catholic. You may be sparing a life, but you'll be killing the soul.

In response to More Coffee's 3/31 post. I'm glad we are now relying on fictional stories to base our reality on.

Reality, bad people do bad things and need to be punished to deter further bad behavior.

Fiction, we all live in a dream world where we all hug and love and no bad things happen.

To Catholic: What do you suppose would happen to those prisoners who were not allowed activities or visitors? They would absolutly go crazy from boredom and take out their boredom on other prisoners or guards or both. I understand where you are coming from, but being a Catholic haven't you ever heard of "idle hands are the devil's playground"?

To ... Your post states relying on fictional stories. The book that I listed is not fiction nor are the numerous other examples of people who were on death row who have now been found innocent. Also you might try to think about this. Do you really really believe that capital punishment deters people who do the unthinkable? I do not nor do most studies with regard to this. Keep this in mind. Normal people obey most laws just based upon normal things like fines, community embarrassment, loss of privledges etc.. The percentage of people who committ the unthinkable acts are not normal people and do not think like normal people. They are not going to be deterred by the death penalty.

I agree with you More Coffee. Too many innocent people have ended up on Death Row. We should require more evidence, especially physical, to take a prisoner's life. There are many cases that are very clear cut.

I also agree that the Death Penalty is not much of a deterrent. For the most part, we are talking about people who care as little for themselves as they do for others.

I simply look at it from a cost/benefit point of view. If we could quickly, and fairly, get through the legal process, and remove these aberrants from society, GREAT! Otherwise, we will babysit them for scores of years, and then pay for the enormous healthcare costs when they become aged. That is a crime against our community all over again.

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