Military may use capital punishment for first time in 55 years

Sorry to put this in a slogan but after retiring for both SOCOM and a State Police agency it sums it up very well.

I have to say fire up ole smoky. My mother in law has said for years that she believes if we brought back hangings we would probably have less violent crime. Years and years ago when we had hangings in public, people were deterred because they didn't want to get dressed up with a rope necktie. When we started putting people on death row for life or lesser sentences or went to a kinder lethal injection there seems to be less deterrence. I believe you should have up to three years or three appeals..after those are exhausted then plug in ole sparky and get it done. We as taxpayers should not have to pay for an inmate that commited these crimes against our citizens and cannot be reahabiliated. You want to talk about Capital and inhuman punishment...living in a 4x8 room with one hour of yard time a day, eating a protein loaf with no visitors for the rest of your life is more inhumane than death IMHO.

I was in a Courts Martial jury pool for a very gruesome capital murder trial at one of my locations. I saw what the surviving victim and his family had to endure. Justice prevailed and the individual is at Leavenworth but he will be there till he dies. Why should they have to endure the painover and over again with his sentence. What he did was gruesome and someone like that could never be rehabilitated. Maj Marty Hogan
Lt Col Charlie Brown
1stSgt Glenn Brackin
Cpl Craig Marton
SGM Erik Marquez
MAJ James Woods
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
LTC Stephen C.
CPL Dave Hoover
SFC Shirley Whitfield
SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas
SFC (Join to see)
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Sgt Wayne Wood

The UCMJ recommends death for a myriad of offenses, like sleeping while you're supposed to be pulling security. However, for the most part, and more in recent years, the military is more lenient in regards to punishment than the civilian sector would be. With that being said, if you intentionally murder someone, it is my opinion that you should be put to death yourself. If you rape and then murder someone, it should be a slow and painful death.

You say "we" (not sure who you're alluding to however) are not barbarians and that there has to be a better way. I'd like to know what you'd suggest is an appropriate punishment for a murderer and rapist, who has been on borrowed time since his conviction in 1988. Waiting is not a punishment.. He's had 28 years too many and his time is up.

Though the court has elected to use Lethal Injection (first used in 1982 - he's lucky in this account I suppose), there are 5 forms of US Legal Capital Punishments: Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Lethal Gas, Firing Squad, and Hanging.