Just hope the idiot from Ft. Hood gets the firing squad.

I'm not a death penalty supporter, because, death is too easy a punishment, and also, innocent people have been killed in the past. However, capital punishment should be long life in a Gulag, such as Siberia (if they still exist) or a maximum security prison until they die there. Let these killers spend all life thinking of their crimes and victims. If they won't or can't, at least they'll suffer a long time. According to many so-called "christians", all one has to do is ask for forgiveness and it's done, even for an act like rape and murder. So, if that's the case, then death could be a blessing for him, if one believes in such stuff like "heaven and hell". Death is a very easy way out, in my opinion.

Alan said:

Just hope the idiot from Ft. Hood gets the firing squad.

Yeah! That won't make us as pathetic as him at all!

Al MC Jr. - Yup. Thanks for saying it. Hope Alan pays attention.

Did the teabaggers protest big government killing someone?

Barbaric.

@BigDan - Barack Obama's government killing American citizens! But not a peep from the baggers. Go figure, huh?

(Okay, it was VA's government, but close enough...for government work.)

What a great teachable moment! Killing is an irredeemable sin, except it's OK for the government to do it if the miscreant is deemed sufficiently bad. Kinda like teaching kids that hitting is wrong, except when Mom or Dad is angry enough. Oh well - Sarah Palin will be elected president in 2012 and then the world will end, so I suppose it doesn't matter much...

The death penalty does not appear to be much of a deterrent. Too many innocents have been executed by the state. If someone is deemed dangerous, they should not be released into society.
Most violent offenders are substance abusers or mentally ill. Maybe we should look a lot harder at prevention, since execution is not a deterrent. If someone is a non-violent offender, they should be rehabilitated and released. Seriously, how hard is this?

MsKitty @8

Most violent offenders are substance abusers or mentally ill. Maybe we should look a lot harder at prevention, since execution is not a deterrent. If someone is a non-violent offender, they should be rehabilitated and released. Seriously, how hard is this?

It's not hard at all MsKitty..except the prison industrial complex is so damn profitable. That's why the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate n the world. There's profit in sending non-violent, mentally ill, drug addicted self medicating poor folks to prison.

Privately owned for profit prisons are an abomination to a "free" society.

As far as executing John Muhammad goes...well that will teach the next mentally ill angry person to think about what they may do ... right ?

OH! wait a minute...Fort Hood...Orlando....

When will society learn that killing simply begets more killing. I'm leaning towards Rev Wright's sentiments...."God damn America"

RE: Comment #9

I need to add....

I'm not promoting the source of that video; it's the content that resonates....

Truth tellers get that kind of treatment from the source of that vid.

Dear Bluehawk,
When I watched that whole Rev Wright sermon I thought it was beautiful, brilliant, and simple common sense. What he was actually saying was forgotten/ignored/denied/never heard in the first place by the media and politicians who responded to him with such self-righteous outrage and refutation, including Obama.
Now that I think of it perhaps that(that Obama appeared to turn on his longtime pastor and mentor for political reasons) was a deep foreshadowing of what we could expect from Obama as president--a betrayal of the truths he claimed to stand for and champion.
We're so fucking weird as a nation. Like an insecure, petulant, self-obsessed, completely irresponsible, and deeply neurotic teenager. Don't say anything bad about us ever. And we're gonna kill and demonize all the "others". Where are the adults?
Kucinich is one but he's an elf so must be mocked or at least not taken seriously even as he's found adorable and even highly principled. Bernie Sanders is another but he's a socialist so that's even worse. As far as I can tell those are the two most adult responsible consistently-fighting-for-what-we-say-we-stand-for-as-a-nation members of Congress. An elf and a socialist. In the media it's two comedians, a lesbian, and Bill Moyers. Count me in with the elves, socialists, comedians, and lesbians(and Bill Moyers).(Brad looks a little elfy too, don't you think?)

David Lasagna @11

Count me in too.....

elf-socialist reporting for duty sir!

The Elf-Socialist Party. That does have a nice ring. Our 2012 ticket--Gandalf/Eugene Debs

Well... I am famous for my fairydust leftism, so, I don't know... do elves and fairies work well together?

Comments from victims' relatives who witnessed execution:
(source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/...rginia.sniper.execution/

Bob Meyers, whose brother Dean was murdered, was there. He told CNN's Larry King Live: "It was surreal watching the life sapped out of someone intentionally." Mr Meyers said it represented "probably a point of closure," adding: "But that was pretty much overcome just by the sadness that the whole situation generates in my heart. That he would get to the place where he did what he did and it had to come to this."

"I'd watched my mother die of natural causes, but that was very different."

Muhammad's lawyer:
"The guy is delusional, he’s paranoid. . .the majority of people [on death row] in this country have some mental illness and probably quite a few, up to 40 per cent, have severe mental illness.”

Well, myself, I wish Malvo was right there beside Muhammad," said Moore, whose sister, FBI analyst Linda Franklin, was gunned down in Virginia. "They both committed the same crimes. No, I don't feel any closure. I mean, it's ... it ... nothing changes."

Moore said he had no sympathy for Muhammad and was angered by what he said were sympathetic media reports about Muhammad's children that had aired recently.

"They're talking about Muhammad's children, but Linda left children behind, too," Moore said. "She's got a daughter, Katie, and a son, Thomas, that --- Tommy just got back from his second tour in Iraq in the Army. They're not going to see their Mom. So I don't have any sympathy for his family or for his children."

Meyers said he had forgiven Muhammad for two reasons: "One is that God calls for me to do that in the Bible and the second thing is related to that. If I don't, it rots me from the inside out. It doesn't really hurt John Muhammad or anybody that I have bitterness against."

Now that you mention it David.....Brad does have a certain elfish vibe about him...

It would be good to know if this murderer had been somehow hypnotized, programmed and experimented with by someone. Because, there was too much news withheld when it was happening. Also some of the victims were government employees. Hopefully, the secret will be revealed someday on the circumstances of the "I95 Sniper". It is so pathetic and should not be forgotten.

Creid quoted:

"They're talking about Muhammad's children, but Linda left children behind, too," Moore said. ... "So I don't have any sympathy for his family or for his children."

Well, there you have it. Two wrongs DO make a right, as it turns out. Couldn't be prouder of my country.

BlueHawk #16--Thanks for the validation. With that cigarette he looks like the naughty hardbitten elf detective.

Agent99 #14--Elves and fairies work very well together indeed, when they feel the need. And they're impossible to bullshit. Hard to distract them though from their natural inclination towards play, mischief, and magic. We need to channel that energy as much as we can.

They privatized a juvenile prison in my area, and the Kids for Cash scandal happened:

http://www.colbertnation...ord---the-green-mile

Yeah, that is actually about MY judge here, sadly.

http://www.citizensvoice...om/news/corruption_probe

#9 - I TOTALLY agree that privately owned prisons are an abomination in a free society!