Would any body be interested in hearing audio from Richard Austin, he was a high rolling pool player from Memphis who died on death row after being there 30 years. It's exciting,sad and insightful.
" Conversations from Death Row "
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How do we hear it?
Tommorrow will be the 2 year anniversary of his death.
Austin was sentenced to death in 1978 after a conviction of accessory before the fact to murder in Shelby County, TN. He spent 30 years on death row.
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Austin was sentenced to death in 1978 after a conviction of accessory before the fact to murder in Shelby County, TN. He spent 30 years on death row.
Google is my friend.
Wow, 30 years on death row? They couldn't have put him to death any faster?
I would be interested in hearing it.
I 2nd that.
what a subculture!
Check out this link
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/silence/archives/2007/01/on_death_row_fo.shtml
Check out this link
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/silence/archives/2007/01/on_death_row_fo.shtml
On an "aside thought" You've given me a reconsideration in my views of the death sentence.
I've always (and remain) a conservative thinker and I've always been in favor of the death penalty. But since death puts the offender out of their misery, I reconsidered my thought about the death penalty a while back and decided they would be better off living in prison without being put out of their misery.
But now you have opened my eyes and given me a brand new view, I'm now back in favor of the death penalty, but with the stipulation that they wait a ton of years alive, in prison, and able to fester on their crime and feel the sickening feeling in their stomach every day like the feelings the loved ones of the person they murdered feel every day. Let them feel sickened at the thought they are eventually going to have to face being killed, but don't make it too soon or the beauty of the pain we put them through will be gone. Then, after years go by, when they are so destroyed that they can feel the pain no more .... kill the f$#%s.
Thanks for helping me fine tune my position.
The death penalty & prison time exists to prevent future crimes, not to punish or get revenge. Nothing positive or good can come out making someone suffer about something that can not be changed.
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Your second sentence contradicts your first sentence. (or vice versa).
ie.The greater the suffering imposed for a penalty, the greater the degree
of prevention. That being a good and positive thing even though it came from imposition of a high level of suffering .
Your second sentence contradicts your first sentence. (or vice versa).
ie.The greater the suffering imposed for a penalty, the greater the degree
of prevention. That being a good and positive thing even though it came from imposition of a high level of suffering .
If you say so. I think that is a wise purpose. But of course you are wrong about nothing good coming from making someone suffer. If it makes the family and friends of the loved one they killed feel better watching the scum suffer, then something good came of it. Not to mention I'll bet it would make a pretty fair deterrent.
In my mind the perfect punishment would be to shackle the bastard on the town green and let the family do with them as they wish as often as they wish and rather than pay for their imprisonment, spend the money on a doctor to fix up the murdering bastard so the family can f#$# them up fresh again.
I say torture criminals and broadcast the torture on the 6 o'clock news, re-run the torture on the 11 o'clock news. No, check that, re-torture them for the ll o'clock news. And waddia think about that?
Not to start a debate on this, but I don't think the death penalty is an effective deterrent.
If you are going to kill someone, are you really going to accept life in prison as an acceptable consequence but stop short at death penalty? I doubt there are few people that consider the consequences before they commit crimes worthy of the death penalty.
Maybe I'm wrong, but just throwing out some food for thought.
If you are going to kill someone, are you really going to accept life in prison as an acceptable consequence but stop short at death penalty? I doubt there are few people that consider the consequences before they commit crimes worthy of the death penalty.
Maybe I'm wrong, but just throwing out some food for thought.
Move to a country like north korea or similar your wish may be granted?
Although I would not make any presumptions about your age, I think you look at this from a very young perspective. If I was in the position of the 'family and friends' that you are referring to, I would not take more than a momentary pleasure from watching someone tortured for harming someone I love. Once your rage cools, how would you feel then?
Although I would not make any presumptions about your age, I think you look at this from a very young perspective. If I was in the position of the 'family and friends' that you are referring to, I would not take more than a momentary pleasure from watching someone tortured for harming someone I love. Once your rage cools, how would you feel then?
If I understand your thoughts correctly, I agree, but with the other way around. I do not see either the death penalty or prison sentence as an imposed suffering. I am not denying suffering comes to the imprisoned, but that does not motivate the sentence. prevention motivates it.
i.e mr brown killed mr smith. mr brown is a person very likely to kill again therefore he will be imprisoned for x amount of years, after the duration of which he is very unlikely to recommit.
i.e mr brown killed mr smith. mr brown is a person very likely to kill again therefore he will be imprisoned for x amount of years, after the duration of which he is very unlikely to recommit.
