Prisons And The Death Penalty (16)

Contray to media (and foreign) belief, the death penalty is virtually non existent. (Seach it, if you doubt it, it happens less and less).
When a state does have it, on the books, the laws and exceptions are so strick, that it rarely happens. Even for treason the penalty can be as leanant as 4 yrs (Obama era).
Currently it exists in 29 states. The USA is one of 54 countries that apply it.

Capital punishment in the United States

Death penalty, lethal injections, guillotine | Homeland Security Newswire

Why Did the U.S. Government Purchase 30,000 Guillotines?
– The use of guillotines for “governmental purposes” was lobbied for and passed in the U.S. Congress– The information we received is that 15,000 are currently stored in Georgia and 15,000 in Montana– Are the beheadings by muslims today meant to condition and desensitize us against U.S. Government beheadings in the future? If Georgia was planning to utilize guillotines as a method of execution, how could this be carried out without purchasing guillotines?

Even Snopes site says there are at least 15,000 guillotines in the USA

Number of executions in the United States 2014-2019 | Statista

To my surprise 'the method of execution is optional' and if a state does not have it, a judge can choose a state that does.

SOME THOUGHTS TO PONDER ...

So, when should it be? For what crimes?

Should a convict sit on death row for 7 years and have the right to an appeal?

Should law abiding citizens and taxpapers, pay for their private cell, TV, weight room etc.

Should there be "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?"

Should some or all executions be public? Or optional for the victim's family?

Do you think the death penalty is a deterrent or justice or closure or barbaric?

Should private prisions be abolished?

Should prisoners be released early due to over crowding (and elections)?

Should transvestites and transgenders be "housed" by their choosen "gender"?

Should guards and staff be the same "gender" as the inmates?

Should the law abiding citizens and taxpapers, of each state have more say as to the death penalty and what amenities a convict can have or should it be up to politicians or nationwide?

Should the means of execution only be by "letal injection"?

US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades

The U.S. government on Tuesday carried out the first federal execution in almost two decades, putting to death a man who killed an Arkansas family in a 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.

The execution came over the objection of the victims’ family.

Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, INDIANA

TWO others scheduled later in the week

Oh Gee.. is this why Trump kept tweeting "LAW AND ORDER" .. over and over and over again?

Maybe
The Usefull Idiots. Maybe not.

Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government on Thursday at the Federal Correctional Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, according to a pool report.

Bernard, 40, was one of five gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd Bagley -- who were youth ministers -- in 1999. The gunman, Christopher Vialva, was executed in September, while the other co-defendants were given lesser sentences.

Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. He was the youngest person in the United States to receive a death sentence in nearly 70 years

Via CNN