They don't need rope. (Reply #26) - Democratic Underground

In the discussion thread: Why I utterly reject the death penalty. [View all]

Wed Apr 30, 2014, 02:20 AM

Warpy (101,586 posts)

26. They don't need rope.

A twisted and knotted sheet will do. So will their prison clothes. Shoot, you can make a rope strong enough to support a human body out of TP.

The fact is that few of them want to die although the means are readily available. I would greatly prefer humane incarceration as a public safety measure to make sure they never do it again.

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44 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why I utterly reject the death penalty. [View all]	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	OP
I just knew it would make the whole situation worse	Warpy	Apr 2014	#1
"Every last person living in this nation becomes just as evil". Really?	Jgarrick	Apr 2014	#2
Yes	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#4
Yep, we sink to their level. nt	awoke_in_2003	Apr 2014	#23
I am a murderer.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#7
Since murder is a horrible crime, how long a prison sentence should you suffer?	Jgarrick	Apr 2014	#41
Yes n/t	malaise	Apr 2014	#37
that appears to be the message as harsh as it is	Supersedeas	May 2014	#44
Just as important is the fact that the death penalty	avebury	Apr 2014	#3
Agreed, but that does not alter the point.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#8
You don't have to go to a red state newspaper website to find those types of comments	Major Nikon	Apr 2014	#24
And that is really sad.	avebury	Apr 2014	#27
I agree, but I have numerous other reasons for opposing the death penalty	Major Nikon	Apr 2014	#29
I agree with all of your points. nt	avebury	Apr 2014	#34
Can you support a length of rope in the hands of every incarcerated person?	Loudly	Apr 2014	#5
No.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#6
You are one cold-hearted muther.	Loudly	Apr 2014	#9
It's far more humane than death. eom	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#10
I defy you to spend a week in gen pop and say that!	Loudly	Apr 2014	#11
I have participated in a prison ministry.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#12
Life is suffering in that situation.	Loudly	Apr 2014	#16
No justice is served by allowing a criminal to take the easy way out.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#19
Is that a torture chamber of punishment by assault from other prisoners?	Loudly	Apr 2014	#20
If suicide is the easy way out and life is the punishment	whopis01	Apr 2014	#28
They don't need rope.	Warpy	Apr 2014	#26
I believe in the right to die. I am anti-DP.	morningfog	Apr 2014	#35
Agree, agree, agree	Boreal	Apr 2014	#13
Sadly, you bear responsibility for both.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#14
Nonsense	Boreal	Apr 2014	#15
We all live in a death penalty state: the United States.	morningfog	Apr 2014	#33
I have the same opinion from a different viewpoint....	alittlelark	Apr 2014	#17
It's revenge, not punishment.	flvegan	Apr 2014	#18
My reason is kind of a different point of view of your reason, MohRokTah.	JDPriestly	Apr 2014	#21
I, too, once supported the death penalty...	awoke_in_2003	Apr 2014	#22
Any society which arms its police with lethal force	needledriver	Apr 2014	#25
Your position is not logical.	morningfog	Apr 2014	#30
So what you're saying is it's ok for the state to kill somebody	needledriver	Apr 2014	#42
The only time a use of deadly force is ever justified, by any person, state or otherwise,	morningfog	May 2014	#43
The death penalty is not murder because it is not an illegal killing by definition.	aikoaiko	Apr 2014	#31
By that description, the Holocaust was not murder because it was not illegal.	MohRokTah	Apr 2014	#32
Was anyone charged with murder, per se, in connection with the Holocaust.	aikoaiko	Apr 2014	#36
I'm sure some were, most weren't, but this is nothing but a red herring to your original point	Major Nikon	Apr 2014	#39
+1	Jgarrick	Apr 2014	#40
Exactly.	Tommy_Carcetti	Apr 2014	#38

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