Thread: Bali Executions

Originally Posted by Looper

The greatest tragedy of the whole thing is that the death penalty actually has great potential if it were reserved for and applied to criminals who truly deserve it.

Trouble is, it's well-known that many criminals have mental illnesses of some type. And some of those are sociopathic or psychopathic. Unfortunately sociopaths and psychopaths have little fear and are not dissuaded from their actions by knowing the possible (or even probable) consequences.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Actually they should have been pumped full of the stuff for 6 months and then locked in a cell without it so they could go through the withdrawal process, with it live on webcam for others thinking of getting involved in it.

That's actually a good idea. I hadn't thought about it as a possibility, but there's a lot of poetic justice in it.