Reality is Scarier than Fiction

[ZokesPro]

I'm not sure I'd want them executed on the first offence. Castration, on the other hand... using two bricks... that's fine with me. On the second offence, if there is one after the castration, string 'em up.

Hook em up to The Matrix and run a torture program and use the heat from their bodies to create electricity for the soul purpose of running The Matrix and nothing else. You'll never run out of power, never.

[Umfriend]

Still, they'd need feeding and that might be more expensive than other energy sources.

[ZokesPro]

Still, they'd need feeding and that might be more expensive than other energy sources.

Kill a few of em first then run em through the meat grinder to be fed to the others or just crank up the program on the worst ones to accelerate their deaths just like in The Matrix.

[Wombat]

Anyone who doesn't see that the 9th Circuit is the most liberal in the nation needs a pin in their butt to wake 'em up. They don't get reversed so often because of their volume, but because of the content of their decisions. How else do you explain their coverage being only 1/6th of the nation by population but their representation in SCOTUS being almost 1/3rd of its cases?

I'm not sure how you even came to this conclusion. If they were reversed "so often," then their percentage of cases overturned would be high - it's not. Same with their percentage at SCOTUS. Court cases are not solely a function of population. So why so many cases? The 9th covers a LOT of business - tech patents, Hollywood, trans-Pacific imports, corporate headquarters, immigration... they have a lot more cases FILED.

I don't personally care if his speeches or writings (if his) have had a positive effect or not.

Then you're after vengence, not justice. And the death penalty shouldn't be used as revenge.

If they're as good as stated then they'll stand on their own long after he's gone like any other author.

But he's still producing works, he's still speaking to youth, discouraging violence. You want to stop that production.

His crimes are legion and not limited to just those 4 murders, so as far as I'm concerned he's a prime candidate for being turned into worm food.

Oh, so it's okay to kill him because it's "really" for all these other crimes, too? Then why isn't he tried for those? You want to punish him for those things, then find him guilty of those things. Until then, they have no bearing on this situation - innocent until proven guilty.

[TransformX]

Pffft.. Nominations, bleh. Yaser Arafat RECEIVED a Nobel prize for Peace. Worse, this terrorist received a state!

[Brian R.]

@Brian: Do they talk about the child and what became of that child afterwards?

Not yet. I am only 1/2 way finished with the book. I only get a couple hours of reading done each night, so it will take a couple more days to finish.

[paulcs]

Pffft.. Nominations, bleh. Yaser Arafat RECEIVED a Nobel prize for Peace. Worse, this terrorist received a state!

The problem with the Peace Prize, in my opinion, is it is typically given for relatively recent accomplishments. The winner, often a person of privilege and power, always has a chance to embarrass the committee and sometimes does. The science prizes are usually given for accomplishments that took place years before. Sometimes decades before. The literature prize is given for a lifetime of achievement. Look at Pinter. I suspect the work that put him over the top was written in the 70s and 80s.

I have no problem with the Peace Prize going to prisoners of conscience. Immediacy is important in those situations. In other cases, I think it would serve the committee well to wait a few years to make sure the accomplishments have a positive and lasting impact and the recipient doesn't do something really, really stupid.

Paul

[TransformX]

Actually, Yaser Arafat was a bloody murderer and a terrorist much before he received the peace prize.
The murder/massacre in Maalot is just one example.