Comments on: High Court Upholds Lethal Injections

Justices Reject Challenge To Kentucky's Death Penalty Procedures, Executions Will Resume

[shawnp1968]

Firing squad is faster & cheaper!!! The inmate next in line to be executed should be responsible for any cleanup!!!

[andor3]

mjlewis6 said: "Everyone seems to be a stones throw away from judgment themself. Murder by one or murder by a group is still murder"

yes, well said. and murders are no different from any of us. trying to call them subhuman or different is denial that all of us are potential murderers. the most vocal supporters of the death penalty shout loud to try to drown out that big dark voice inside themselves--that is what they really want to kill.

[harrydoghiny]

4 Justices "agreed with the outcome" but Roberts opinion only garnered 3 votes? ***?

[andor3]

"andor3: If it is "illegal", then what about the actions of the guilty. Are you suggesting that all of the guilty are innocent?"

Cruel an unusual punishment is illegal in the USA, and always has been. It is one of the basic principles of the nation, right there with freedom of speech. Try to grasp this: the government is never allowed to hand out cruel and unusual punishment, no matter what the crime is.

The only question is what is cruel and unusual. But if something is cruel and unusual, it is off limits.

[jackp32]

Let''s get on with it. Time for the scum on death row to meet their maker.

[auntieconnie]

YESSSSSSSSSSS Now lets get it done. I really done care if there is pain. The people that they killed felt pain. So why shouldn''t they feel it. I still say kill the in the same order as they did the victims. And don''t waste time doing it. I know a man in Ga. on death roll. that beat my cousin in the head with a hammer while he was eating cake. He has been there over 20 years. Still waiting for his date. My cousin in cold in the ground.

[consciousnes]

What is the hold up? ALL of these people on death row obviously murdered someone. Did they ask the person if it hurt when they were killing them? Why is it necessary to worry about these people when the victums are not even mentioned?
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE HAVE SO MUCH CRIME ! ! ! !
If they have been convicted and ALL their appeals have been denied, then just do it.
Why does a guilty person have more right than the victom?

[prestongirl]

I am educated, and I am aware, but that doesn''t stop me from believing in the bullet approach. The costs we pay for those to sit in prison is absurd but you go right on ahead and hold those murderers hands and let them be the criminals they are...hey parrot123 maybe you could tell them they are naughty and should never do it again.... because that works so well....hello how many are repeat offenders....could not be a repeat offender if they were dead.
Hey you know what - lifers should be executed as well. Parrot123- you are so right, they cost us a lot money - so line them up too. And you can take you liberal self to a country that doesn''t believe in capital punishment.

[ioweign]

The Chinese use a single bullet to the back of the head and the family pays the bill for the bullet. Compare that to lethal injection, the expense and the failure of it at times and a bullet is the more humane and cheaper way to go.

Posted by kennedy7955 at 10:51 AM : Apr 16, 2008

You should have known it was all about Big Pharma - expensive to live with them and expensive to die with them. And they wonder why there is crime...

[bigot3]

notmudrose, bite me. If Clinton and his gang had done the job correctly back in the 90''s, we wouldn''t be in Afghanistan now and Iraq would have returned to normal 3 years ago. Thanks, Bill. While you were getting blown, Bin Laden got away.

[usbrit-2009]

Yeehaw for the supreme court. Put the murders where they belong. Cruel and unusual punishment is what these animals did to their victims. Lethal Injection is too good for them.

Posted by grandmamu

Murderers are not animals - they''re subhumans, animals are far better then murderers.

Having said that I do not believe in the death penalty. It was abolished in the ''60''s in Britain because of a couple of cases where, in hindsight, obviousl innocent men were hanged. I''m a firm believer in the "It''s better to let 100 murderers go free than for 1 innocent man to be executed."

[beader59]

Sometimes the Federal Government needs to step in and make laws that are consistent throughout the U.S. There are some laws that need this and I think the death penalty and how it is carried out is one of them. I don''t know if the death penalty is really used the way it was intended and I don''t know if it curbs violence, but if we have it, use it and not allow the murderer to live another 20 years while we make sure their rights are not stepped on.

[ioweign]

the innocent murder victims suffered dearly so who cares if the low-lifes who comitted the murders or other heinous crimes against the innocent have to suffer a little!!!

Posted by redpig3 at 12:42 PM : Apr 16, 2008

Yeah - Now Bush can not prolong his trial by appealing. He should like it though - they use drugs...

[snbd1213]

I AGREE THAT THE COURT HAS FINALLY DONE THE RIGHT THING. THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD IS THAT IT NOT WAIT FOR 20 TO 50 YEAR TO DO IT.

[secundus2]

Murder is (for the most part) punishable by the states and it is not the ordinary job of the Supreme Court to overturn the acts of state legislatures.

State legislatures are made up of representatives with the most direct connection to the people. The US Constitution reserves the right to do things such as setting the penalty for murder and choosing methods of execution for murder to the states and the people. Such power is not granted to any branch of the Federal government.

Elect different state legislators, if you want lethal injections outlawed or the death penalty abolished. That way bolsters popular sovereignty and the 10th amendment. Calling on the Supreme Court to do what voters and state legislators won''t do is, with a few notable exceptions, a bad idea.

Many who post here don''t really like or trust representative government.

[grandmamu]

Yeehaw for the supreme court. Put the murders where they belong. Cruel and unusual punishment is what these animals did to their victims. Lethal Injection is too good for them.

[colvinatch]

As a lifelong Kentucky resident I have only one thing to say. Line the lowlife murders up and put the needle in their arm. If that seems cruel and unusual then there is still the electric chair in cellhouse 1 of Eddyville State Prison, give the murdering loosers their choice!

[rushman71]

andor3: If it is "illegal", then what about the actions of the guilty. Are you suggesting that all of the guilty are innocent? They killed innocent lives, leaving behind families and loved ones suffering from their losses. But you would rather give pitty to the inhumane? How pathetic!!!

[andor3]

"As for the cruel and unusual punishment theory, ***! "

Not sure what country you write from, but here in America banning cruel and unusual punishment is a foundation principle of our government, from the Constitution itself. If it is cruel and unusual, it is illegal, period.

[suzieh2308]

These arguements just assult my logical - we did sentence these murders and rapist to the DEATH penelty right?? So why r we all so shocked when we have to follow through on putting them to death? As for the cruel and unusual punishment theory, ***! what ever they did to land them on death row was cruel and possibly unusual - what about the vitcims right to not be killed or raped, oh but who cares, lets make sure these scumbags of society get their rights first - f--- the vitcim! If these people on death row will never be funtioning and contributing members of society - f---ing kill em already, why make them wait 20+ years and cost us, that are good members of society waste billions of dollars so they can have more rights and live better than I do - what a gd hypocrissy!!!