There are three types of people that need to be executed on the spot: serial killers, women beaters, and child molesters. I just couldn't even imagine going though the suffering, constant fear, and pain that their victims had to go through. This is what I don't understand: If someone is convicted of a crime and put on death row, then why does it take years to execute them? Oh! And why does it cost way more money for execution than it does to keep them prison? Beats me. Let's see an example of a famous serial killer in America.
Ted Bundy: I think the most famous of all. Before his execution, he confessed to killing over 30 women between the ages of 15 and 25, but it is believed that he could have be responsible for over 100 murders. Actually, I think he was only convicted of two murders in Florida before he was signed up for lethal injection. I'll have to look that up, but he killed way more than that. Now here's the thing:
He was put on death row in 1980 and wasn't executed until 9 years later in 1989.
Why the wait?
Some say they wanted to keep him alive so that he would slowly reveal where all the bodies were that he killed. Well, we all know that would take forever and why would he want to stay alive in prison forever? I'd say send me to heaven (or hell).
I don't want to give too many examples because it's somewhat depressing and I don't want to expose anyone to too many murder stories in one sitting. (But just wait until my blog about OJ Simpson)
Now, let's look at how China does it:
Yang Xin Hai: Confessed to 65 murders and 23 rapes within a 4 year time period.
Arrested: November 3, 2003
Convicted: February 1, 2004
Executed: February 14, 2004
Notice that there is less than 4 months between his capture and his execution. Much shorter than America does it.
Now hold on. You need to see my view first on the death penalty. I don't believe that everyone needs to be killed within minutes of being convicted of "heinous crime". In fact, I think very few people should be. Sometimes the pulling the "insanity" card in court is a big joke, but sometimes it's legit. Then there are some people that are put behind bars that really didn't commit the crime. For example, the famous Ronald Cotton who was accused and convicted in court of the rape of two women. 11 years later, with DNA testing, he was set free because he didn't do it. People kill in self defense or any other reason. Then there are people that just grew up in a life where there were pimped out starting when they were 4 and they were just messed up after that. I'm not trying to justify people's wrongdoings, but not everyone needs to be put to death. Just free housing in jail. You see my point though?
Hopefully you do, because I don't want to talk about it anymore.
But my point was, if they're on death row, and they obviously did it, just speed up the process like they do in China.
True dat!
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