Let's Hope Biden Brings This Barbarism To An End.

[Canary42]

Mentally ill girl executed.

Denied spiritual adviser while dying.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/lisa-montgomery-final-hours-lawyer-execution-182442353.html

[andy-hughes]

fcc - // As far as i'm concerned "revenge is sweet". //

Occasionally, when I read a post on the AB, I think - I am really really glad I don't know you personally, and you are nowhere near me or anyone I care about.

This is one of those occasions.

[Zacs-Master]

Jeez, AH is on his evangelistic crusade against the eradication of scum from our planet.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs, 'eradication' is a separate issue.

This debate is about the morality of killing by the state.

By all means join in, but it will help if you can stick with the subject being discussed, and don't simply throw in comments that are as rude as they are pointless.

[fcc]

andy-hughes,the feelings mutual,like i have said before criminals love
people like you.

[joko]

the only good thing about the death penalty is that usually the sit in death row for 20-30 years - thats got to be a massive weight over their heads, even if it never happens to them, the knowledge every day that that is the plan for them and it could happen any time, makes those years rotting in a cell far more horrifying for them - also other death row inmates tend to be more likely to hurt other inmates, since they've got nothing left to lose, so that also would add a constant fear for them - id want them to live that fear every single second of every day for the rest of their lives.

[joko]

also NO-ONE is supporting or sympathising with this woman - at all - people are just discussing the situation, when i said she doesnt know whats goign on, i dont mean she just doesnt know shes getting put to death, i mean she doesnt know what day it is, shes utterly out of her mind, totally absent.
not that that makes any difference to anything - she still did what she did.
people are discussing it, not to excuse her actions but just to discuss how she cam to do what she did.
there is literally nothing in the world that cam excuse what she did, no amount of past torment or suffering excuses it - but people are interested in what drives these people to this point, its interesting, and sure, if she had a terrible life of suffering & torment then thats sad for her and she didnt deserve that - but again acknowledging that stuff in her life led her to this horrifying act doesnt mean people sympathise or want to help her or anything

people rarely do ordinary things for no reason, so why would anyone assume they'd do utterly psychotic abhorrent things for no reason?
there are always reasons, always a history, always something pushing them.

but reasons are reasons, not excuses, no amount of reasons make allowances for what she did

[Zacs-Master]

‘ don't simply throw in comments that are as rude as they are pointless’

What like ‘I’m really really glad I don’t know you personally’?

Jeez, Andy, your as bad at debating as you are at moderation.

[ynnafymmi]

I dont want to be a merchant of doom,but i just cant see Biden staying the length of four years.First female president?

[andy-hughes]

ynnaf - // I dont want to be a merchant of doom,but i just cant see Biden staying the length of four years.First female president? //

I think you are far from alone in that assessment.

However fit Mr Biden may be, the sheer strain of that level of commitment and input have to give concerns for his ability to last the course.

We shall see, but I don't think it will be a huge surprise if he is forced to step down for medical reasons, or that the strain may bring his life to a sudden and premature end.