Tookie is gone...

[morpheuswakes]

I'm really not sure how I feel about this. I've always fallen more on the side of being pro capital punishment, but something about this particular image is making me rethink my stance on state mandated murder.

Comments

[aiindastorm]

Those things stink. Really can smell Death

[demi_danger]

He actually had to ask the guy injecting him, "Are you sure you are doing it right?"--- yea. that sounds really humane.

[jennb]

I had to do a research project in high school on the issue. I went in very pro capital punishment and came out against it. Electrocution, gas and injection are all horrible ways to die. They are not quick. The person convulses and froths at the mouth for several minutes from poisons that literally set the nerve endings on fire. And they don't always get the dosage right. Also, turns out that the cost of executing an individual is exponentially more than the cost of letting the person live out their days fed and sheltered in a penitentiary by state money.

Now if they'd go back to old fashioned hangings...

[demi_danger]

lethal injection also freezes your diaphram so you suffocate to death.

[amphetima]

I am also against it. completely.

[bollweevil1]

Even if you're pro-death penalty Tookie Williams was not the right candidate. There is still reasonable doubt as to his guilt and if you try to research the history of the CRIPs which stands for "California Revolution In Progress" it becomes clear that his intention in founding the CRIPs was never to create what it became.
He said during an interview with Amy Goodman that starting the CRIPs was his greatest regret.
He was nominated for a nobel peace prize and wrote anti-gang childrens books. This guy was not the right man to kill.