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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorth Carolina GOP Lawmaker Calls For Bringing Back Public Hangings, Starting With Abortion Provider
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/By Marie Diamond on Jan 27, 2012 at 3:45 pm
The last legal public hanging in America took place in 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky. The event attracted 20,000 people and turned into such a sickening spectacle that many credit it with ending the practice in the U.S.
But one North Carolina Republican believes that as a country weve grown soft since banning public hangings and is calling for them to reinstated as a deterrent to crime. If Rep. Larry Pittman had his way, abortionists, rapists, and kidnappers would be first in line for the gallows:
Republican Rep. Larry Pittman, who was appointed to the District 82 House seat in October, expressed his views in an email sent Wednesday to every member of the General Assembly.
We need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually carrying it out. Every appeal that can be made should have to be made at one time, not in a serial manner, Pittman wrote in the email. If murderers (and I would include abortionists, rapists, and kidnappers, as well) are actually executed, it will at least have the deterrent effect upon them. For my money, we should go back to public hangings, which would be more of a deterrent to others, as well.
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North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Calls For Bringing Back Public Hangings, Starting With Abortion Provider (Original Post)
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ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)1. Duplicate thread
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)2. Goes with:
"If your death is televised, you haven't died in vain, you've entertained us!"
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)3. Fucking asshole
in Washington State a bill was just presneted to abolish the death penalty...
lumpy
(13,704 posts)4. Thank heavens I live in a state that wouldn't tolerate a politician who would advocate
using public hangings as the death penalty. And some of those people think the Taliban is evil.
Suich
(10,642 posts)5. Really? I missed that!
Good for us!
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)6. Start with that f***** pastor who murdered the cat
string his ass up.