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OK. I mean, if that's what the inmate is requesting, why not allow it. He's gonna be put to death anyway. Personally I don't believe his "praying" will be of any use, in this life or the next - if there is one- because I don't believe in that religious nonsense, or that someone can be "forgiven" for any crime involving murder anyway. But what's the skin off anybody's anus if he wants to be executed this way? That should at least be his decision to make.
The point is cruelty. People are objecting to execution by nitrogen because the prisoner doesn't suffer enough. That's the right-wing mentality in a nutshell. They think torturing someone doesn't make them bad people if that someone "deserves" it.
Good lord. The man probably already lives in a mental hell every single day, what more cruelty does his situation require. Adding more torture to the procedure certainly won't right any wrongs he may have done, and only unbalances the scales in the direction of bringing more cruelty into the situation than already existed.
Right, but for them, it's all about revenge and suffering. They don't care about anything else for anyone in prison. As far as they're concerned (unless, of course, it's one of their own), whatever the judge has ordered, that's what you deserve.
Now I admit, apart from the cases where the death row inmate was exonerated, in general, the crimes they've been found guilty of are particularly horrific and atrocious, but we should be better than them. That's what Republicans don't seem to get. You shouldn't sink down to the level of actual convicted murderers.
That's a great point, and one I've tried to make to people (without much success) many times. If you become as cruel and fueled by revenge or hate as the person who did something terrible, then you've sunk to their level or even lower. Revenge never balances anyone's scales - it just weighs the side with EVIL in it down with even greater weight.
And I'm not against capital punishment, in some ways it seems a little less cruel than giving someone a lifetime sentence in prison. I do agree with you absolutely on everything you've said.