Milosevic is Dead...

[Katahu]

Even though the term "Capital Punishment" has been used by the US for centuries, I still don't know why they use the term. But then again, I don't care why.

[legoalex2000]

HE's Dead!?!??!

whew load off my shoulders...

so about those [name your sports team here]'s

Ramos

[Hagar]

I still don't know why they call it "capitol" punishment. They don't do it at the Capitol Building, do they? It's not very "capital" for the receiver, is it?

It's Capital punishment. I assume Capital meaning head - loss of.
Latin capitalis, from caput head, a person's life (as forfeit)

[Scorpiоn]

We save American tax dollars that way [Especially the Texans].

Yee-haw!

I never did believe those claims that it cost less to put someone in prison in life than it did to execute them.

[RichieB16]

I never did believe those claims that it cost less to put someone in prison in life than it did to execute them.

My understanding is it does because of all the legal fees for all the appeals and such.  The execution doesn't cost that much, but there is so much paperwork and hearings leading up to the execution that it is more expensive.  At least, thats my understanding.

This is because the inmate and their lawyer will do anything they can to delay and/or aviod the execution.

[C]

This is because the inmate and their lawyer will do anything they can to delay and/or aviod the execution.

Certainly most of the cases we get to hear about over this side of the pond involve prisoners who've been on death row for considerable amounts of time.

The last people to be executed in the UK (in the 50's) were all hung within a couple of months of being convicted...

On a side note I always thought Derek Bentley was infamous for being the last man hanged in Britain - and publications and the web say he was (including the BBC). However looking at the web it appears it was the more internationally infamous John Reginald Christie (of "10 Rillington Place"). Strange that such a blatantly obvious fact can be got wrong. He was even convicted after Bentley had been hanged...

[Hagar]

On a side note I always thought Derek Bentley was infamous for being the last man hanged in Britain - and publications and the web say he was (including the BBC). However looking at the web it appears it was the more internationally infamous John Reginald Christie (of "10 Rillington Place"). Strange that such a blatantly obvious fact can be got wrong. He was even convicted after Bentley had been hanged...

Strange indeed. I would have said that too but according to this it wasn't Christie either. This chap seems to be an expert on the subject & I'm in no position to argue. http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/last_ones.htm

No individual was the last person hanged in the UK, as the last executions took place at the same time but at different prisons: Peter Anthony Allen at Liverpool and Gwynne Owen Evans at Manchester Prisons. Both were hanged on 13 August 1964. Subsequent people were sentenced to death, but they were all reprieved.

[RichieB16]

Certainly most of the cases we get to hear about over this side of the pond involve prisoners who've been on death row for considerable amounts of time.

There is a period between conviction and execution.  Many are on death row for 15 or 20 years before they are executed.  So, thats a lot of the cost right there.  Plus, all the appeals-it is not suprising that it costs more than life imprisionment.

I'm not sure why they remain on death row for so long, but I believe they are usually there for a minimum of 10 years in most states that still have the death penality.

[Radopilot]

Thank God that no good sonuvagun piece o' dirt is dead, hes probably burning in the roasting pit down below

[RichieB16]

hes probably burning in the roasting pit down below

I wouldn't doubt it.  

[Katahu]

Thank God that no good sonuvagun piece o' dirt is dead, hes probably burning in the roasting pit down below

I assume he's being tied to a stick and rotated clockwise by the little devils while being cooked in an open fire.

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

YAY! DEATH! YAY LETS BE HAPPY! I HOPE THAT SON OF A BITCH IS ROASTING! YAY! YAY!

If you said that, then you're just as bad as Milosevic.

Seriously, I  feel sorry for that sad character.

Let us learn from his example. (killing is wrong)


A.

[BFMF]

YAY! DEATH! YAY LETS BE HAPPY! I HOPE THAT SON OF A BITCH IS ROASTING! YAY! YAY!

If you said that, then you're just as bad as Milosevic

How can wanting him to be burning in hell be as bad as someone who commited genocide?

Take Hitler for example. Imo, If anyone deserves to burn in hell, it's him. Does that make me as bad as hitler, a person who was responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people? I think not

[RichieB16]

If you said that, then you're just as bad as Milosevic.

I disagree, I hope he's burning in hell and I'm not as bad as he.

Remember the saying: "what you soe, so shall you reap."  What that basically means is, you get what's coming to you.  

[beaky]

I'd have liked to see him drawn and quartered, but at least we'll be spared any more news about him (eventually)...
I recently overheard a brief conversation between two workmen in an elevator that pretty much sums up the theme of that bewildering conflict in Yugoslavia:
One guy was a Serb, the other a Croat,  both are now living in America, and the younger guy, the Serb, may have been born here. I guess the discussion began over news of Milosevic's death...
At any rate, the part I heard was when the Croat, after shrugging off "Slobo's" crimes, explained that it was all perfectly justifiable, as Serbians are not "people".
When the Serb asked him to elaborate, he said "Simple. They have no culture.".
  Justifications for genocide are always neat and tidy (and false)...