Should Ted Bundy have gotten executed?

[Spiderman]

Ted Bundy escaped from prison twice, and then he went to Florida and he proceeded to murder multiple women, as well as bludgeon and sexually assault others who survived, leaving them with permanent PTSD and brain injuries from being beaten over the head, and a lifetime of sorrow for their family and friends!

If we allow such killers (mass murderers) to have a lifetime behind bars, it increases the likelihood of them escaping and hurting other people. Ted Bundy escaped from prison twice, as I said, and the second time he tunneled through the ceiling, got a new pair of clothes, stole a car, and traveled to a different state.

In fact, he went into the Chi-Omega sorority house to kill all of the girls in the house, and he was going to bludgeon a girl who was holding a rosary, and when he saw the rosary in her hand, a feeling of impending doom fell upon him, he felt like he could not advance, he felt like he needed to leave immediately, dropped his weapon and fled, leaving all the evidence that lead to his conviction (unlike his other crimes), and saving the lives of the other girls in the house who were sleeping.

Some people are ingenious at being escape artist, getting out of prison, doing such things. The death penalty can prevent that from happening! The death penalty can also make the relatives of the victims feel more like justice has been served!

So, the death penalty, can actually be better for society, than a full lifespan behind bars, which is extremely costly, and the criminal can actually escape, and hurt more people!

I believe the death penalty is barbaric, but at the same time, it can be the lesser of two evils!

Your thoughts?

 

[Spiderman]

I saw on court TV that it cost more money to keep people locked up for a lifetime than to execute them, but I understand there are people who say differently, so I don't know the answer.

 

[Spiderman]

Also, if I was guilty of such crimes, I would rather be comfortably given a lethal injection, and put out of my misery, than live a full lifespan incarcerated.

I find Life behind bars to be torture, so I would rather be comfortably euthanized then tortured all my life!

 

[JustGeorge]

I didn't pick either, because honestly, I don't know.

It seems safer, yes, but like you say, its a worse punishment to sit behind bars. So, I'm undecided.

 

[SomeRandom]

The emotional side of me says yes, because I mean it’s Ted Bundy.
But that’s an easy and emotional response. Is that logical?
If we kill Ted Bundy how can we claim to be his better? How can we claim that we are not hypocrites for punishing homicide with homicide?

 

[Altfish]

The death penalty for whatever crime is archaic, it should not be sanctioned. All modern democracies have already banned capital punishment.

Also the ability of the police to get the wrong person for a crime (usually a black man) is legendary.

 

[Spiderman]

I didn't pick either, because honestly, I don't know.

It seems safer, yes, but like you say, its a worse punishment to sit behind bars. So, I'm undecided.

I'm not in any way saying it's something to rejoice about. The day Ted Bundy got fried on the electric chair, was the biggest gathering for an execution that I know of.

People held signs "It's Fry day Ted", people were lighting fireworks, people were cheering, and the cops announced with delight "Ted Bundy's dead". People cheered like their favorite team won the super bowl!

They selected a female to execute him to (push the switch).

I don't think celebration of some one dying is good.

But people like him know how to escape from prison, they do, they hurt other people. It isn't good for society , is a threat, to give them a lifetime of thinking about how to escape!

 

[SomeRandom]

I'm not in any way saying it's something to rejoice about. The day Ted Bundy got fried on the electric chair, was the biggest gathering for an execution that I know of.

People held signs "It's Fry day Ted", people were lighting fireworks, people were cheering, and the cops announced with delight "Ted Bundy's dead". People cheered like their favorite team won the super bowl!

They selected a female to execute him to (push the switch).

I don't think celebration of some one dying is good.

But people like him know how to escape from prison, they do, they hurt other people. It isn't good for society , is a threat, to give them a lifetime of thinking about how to escape!

Geez. I think that says more about those spectators than it does Bundy.
Though in fairness the jeering crowds witnessing public executions are not a new phenomenon.
The “peasants” baying for blood. Kind of proves how archaic the death penalty actually is in practice.

 

[Spiderman]

The emotional side of me says yes, because I mean it’s Ted Bundy.
But that’s an easy and emotional response. Is that logical?
If we kill Ted Bundy how can we claim to be his better? How can we claim that we are not hypocrites for punishing homicide with homicide?

Awwww.... you're so precious, gentle, tender, compassionate, sweet and thoughtful!

That is Kali Mamma, in your avatar is it not? Could you imagine what she might have done to Ted bundy?

She has a reputation for war, death, rage, violence, destruction, killing! She wears severed heads around her neck, she runs around naked , clothed with skulls, severed arms, and severed legs sometimes!

I luv Kali!

Something myself and @SalixIncendium can agree on. We are both in love with the same woman. Hehe!

 

[Spiderman]

The death penalty for whatever crime is archaic, it should not be sanctioned. All modern democracies have already banned capital punishment.

Also the ability of the police to get the wrong person for a crime (usually a black man) is legendary.

I'm speaking of a guy who escapes from prison twice to go and kill multiple other innocent girls (Teddy the lady killer). I suppose it's entirely impossible that he could have potentially escaped a third time right?

And what about all the other sociopaths and criminals who are just as good of escape artists as he is, just as clever monsters, who are going to escape and hurt more people!?

 

[Spiderman]

Geez. I think that says more about those spectators than it does Bundy.
Though in fairness the jeering crowds witnessing public executions are not a new phenomenon.
The “peasants” baying for blood. Kind of proves how archaic the death penalty actually is in practice.

It says a lot about the people. There were old granny ladies with binoculars , on the other side of a fence, trying to get a close-up view, through the window where he was being executed, watching with so much delight like they were seeing a pornographic video or something! It was very sad!

There was even a guy who made a fake Ted Bundy looking pinata!

It was a total circus!

Ted Bundy also got married while he was in prison! He had a daughter named Rose that would visit him in prison!

Could you imagine how that daughter turns out? The issues!

 

[Rival]

It's not about the DP being a punishment, it's about permanently removing incurable evil from a just society. I think it's worse to have him suffer in prison. Just get rid of these non-people. They're demonic.

 

[Spiderman]

It's not about the DP being a punishment, it's about permanently removing incurable evil from a just society. I think it's worse to have him suffer in prison. Just get rid of these non-people. They're demonic.

Amen! Demonic!

Good shall triumph! Light over darkness! Angels over Demons for realz!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Why should we sink to their level? Killing them solves nothing in the end, and it destroys a source to learn from so one day we may be able to intervene and prevent this from happening.

I would rather be comfortably given a lethal injection,

It's not comfortable. You're awake and alert throughout, sedated and paralyzed, it's said to feel like liquid fire being poured in your veins, you feel the pains of the cardiac arrest, and it's often botched because those administering it aren't licensed medical professionals. Sometimes the condemned are more or less turned into a pin cushion before an artery is pierced.

 

[SomeRandom]

It says a lot about the people. There were old granny ladies with binoculars , on the other side of a fence, trying to get a close-up view, through the window where he was being executed, watching with so much delight like they were seeing a pornographic video or something! It was very sad!

There was even a guy who made a fake Ted Bundy looking pinata!

It was a total circus!

Ted Bundy also got married while he was in prison! He had a daughter named Rose that would visit him in prison!

Could you imagine how that daughter turns out? The issues!
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Capital punishment is all about spectacle. All it does is belie our penchant for bloodlust
Uncivilised comes to mind.
Which is likely why most of the civilised world have removed the death penalty from their books.

It’s just emotion fuelled.

 

[Spiderman]

Why should we sink to their level? Killing them solves nothing in the end, and it destroys a source to learn from so one day we may be able to intervene and prevent this from happening.

It's not comfortable. You're awake and alert throughout, sedated and paralyzed, it's said to feel like liquid fire being poured in your veins, you feel the pains of the cardiac arrest, and it's often botched because those administering it aren't licensed medical professionals. Sometimes the condemned are more or less turned into a pin cushion before an artery is pierced.

I'm saying you can give them barbiturates and benzodiazepines that very comfortably put them to sleep and then execute them.

Benzodiazepines and barbiturates are very cheap inexpensive drugs. I have been prescribed them.

I'm saying that we could very comfortably execute them if we wanted to

 

[Spiderman]

Why should we sink to their level? Killing them solves nothing in the end, and it destroys a source to learn from so one day we may be able to intervene and prevent this from happening.

It's not comfortable. You're awake and alert throughout, sedated and paralyzed, it's said to feel like liquid fire being poured in your veins, you feel the pains of the cardiac arrest, and it's often botched because those administering it aren't licensed medical professionals. Sometimes the condemned are more or less turned into a pin cushion before an artery is pierced.

You said it Does not Solve a problem. He escaped from prison twice and killed more people. It can stop people from escaping prison and killing more people

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Just get rid of these non-people. They're demonic.

But they are human. Adding demons lessens the very real reasons behind it, including the genetic predisposition and terrible abuses suffered as a child. Like Ted Bundy, it doesn't excuse him that his childhood was such a nightmare it begins with his father being his grandfather, but it highlights the cycle of abuse and the extremes of what can happen when it the abuse breaks someone.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You said it Does not Solve a problem. He escaped from prison twice and killed more people. It can stop people from escaping prison and killing more people

At least one of those escapes was due to severe negligence on the cops.

 

[Altfish]

I'm speaking of a guy who escapes from prison twice to go and kill multiple other innocent girls (Teddy the lady killer). I suppose it's entirely impossible that he could have potentially escaped a third time right?

And what about all the other sociopaths and criminals who are just as good of escape artists as he is, just as clever monsters, who are going to escape and hurt more people!?

I don't believe that 'revenge' is a sentence that should be delivered by a modern democracy. Should thieves have their hands cut off too?
The fact that the US can't manage to keep their criminals in prison is irrelevant.

In the UK we have sociopaths and despicable criminals that are sentenced and remain locked up.
Just this week it looks like a man that was twice(!) convicted of murder could be innocent, as another convicted murderer has confessed to the murders he was found guilty of....
Levi Bellfield confesses to Lin and Megan Russell murders, lawyer says - BBC News

I don't want state sanctioned murder carried out in my name.